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Forward to North American Union, for Europe's Sake
Washington wants Europe to come to grip with its problems, and to be less obsessed with its own internal wrangling and more outward-looking. Priceless.
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Washington wants Europe to come to grip with its problems, and to be less obsessed with its own internal wrangling and more outward-looking. Priceless.
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A look at a couple of the year's most worthwhile offerings.
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Will the cure actually exacerbate the disease in the economically reeling continent?
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Illiberal democracy seems to be catching on, and Venezuela now looks like a classic case.
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If getting good people in the right jobs counts for something, the outlook for India has improved in the past several days
A conversation about what lies ahead for Europe, with possible scenarios ranging from gloomy to gloomier
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The proposal for eurobonds with conditions is no silver bullet, but still I think Europe's best way out of the present mess.
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Further to my previous post, here's a novel take on Greece's options by Jacob Funk Kirkegaard at the Peterson Institute.
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Larry Summers and Christina Romer both argue--convincingly, it seems to me--that Europe's pursuit of creditworthiness through fiscal austerity is failing.
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In Madrid this past week I've been surprised and impressed to find little resentment towards the European Union and the powers (Germany) that direct its policy.
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Where I am, not many people need that advice.
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So it's Kim after all. Amazing.
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Jim Yong Kim, the White House nominee to lead the World Bank, has been so busy meeting privately with governments that, unlike the other candidates, he hasn't been able to explain his views on development to anybody else.
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Obama has bungled the World Bank succession. The choice has had a better press than it deserves.
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It might have been have a mistake to read Bill Easterly's review of Acemoglu and Robinson on "Why Nations Fail" before I finished reading it myself, but Easterly is not to be set aside.
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Britain's experiment with "expansionary austerity" has failed.
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I arrive in London in time for tomorrow's budget to find that private finance for public investment--roads, in this case--is back on the UK's political agenda. What does it take to put this perpetual fiscal gimmick to rest?
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