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A glow from the east : A slow fuse still burns on eastern Europe’s foreign-currency debts
AFTER firefighters extinguish a blaze they usually look carefully for glowing embers before rolling up their hoses and heading off. With the worst of the banking crisis now receding in ...
Eastern Europe, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Europe, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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Washed up : The misery shows no sign of abating, even as waters recede in some places
PAKISTAN’S floods are looking ever more monstrous. In the south waters continue to rise, eating up new areas and swamping districts such as Jaffarabad, in Baluchistan province, a full 100km ...
Pakistan, Indus river, Baluchistan, Feeble flood-protection infrastructure, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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A tamer casino : Germany’s biggest bank is trying to make investment banking boring. The latest in our series of profiles of financial institutions after the crisis
JOSEF ACKERMANN, the head of Deutsche Bank, combines a silky manner with blunt words. When the German government set up a bail-out fund to stabilise the country’s banking system, he ...
Deutsche Bank, JOSEF ACKERMANN, Bank, Deutsche Postbank, Investment bank, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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Wiggle room : The IMF offers indebted governments some reassurance
ONE consequence of the deepest recession since the Depression has been the biggest peacetime build-up of public debt the rich world has ever seen. Some reckon that the debt position ...
International Monetary Fund, America, Britain, Greece, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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Maybe he Strauss-Kahn't : What looks obvious to outsiders is not clear to France’s Socialists
FRANCE’S opposition Socialist Party should be building up for its best crack at the French presidency in over a decade. The incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, is unpopular. Polls find that a ...
Nicolas Sarkozy, Socialist Party, Martine Aubry, France, Presidential election, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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In Ireland, Dangers Still Loom
Peter Boone is chairman of the charity Effective Intervention and a research associate at the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He is also a principal ...
Ireland, Portugal, Greece, International Monetary Fund, Europe, All keywords...
economix.blogs.nytimes.com
3 days ago
7.
Monetary Fund Warns G-7 on Debt Levels
The world’s most developed economies, which have been racking up spending since the mid-1960s, face record levels of debt as a result of the 2008-9 financial crisis and have little ...
International Monetary Fund, The New York Times, The New York Times, Ireland, Greece, All keywords...
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com
3 days ago
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International Monetary Fund Warns G-7 on Debt Levels
WASHINGTON — The world’s most-developed economies, which have been racking up spending since the mid-1960s, face record levels of debt as a result of the 2008-9 financial crisis and have ...
International Monetary Fund, Carlo Cottarelli, Jonathan D. Ostry, WASHINGTON, Ireland, All keywords...
nytimes.com
3 days ago
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Reinhart's Seven More Years of High Unemployment Hit Fed Today
Reinhart and his wife Carmen Reinhart presented a paper at the symposium that finds the U.S., Germany and other advanced economies may face a decade of slow growth and high ...
Carmen Reinhart, United States, Ben S, International Monetary Fund, Economist, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
1 week ago
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Politics this week :
The floods that have ravaged Pakistan for the past month have stranded 800,000 people beyond the reach of ground transport, according to the UN. Of the 17m across the country ...
Kim Jong Un, United Nations, Jong Il, Kendrick Meek, Pakistan, All keywords...
economist.com
1 week ago
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A glow from the east : A slow fuse still burns on eastern Europe’s foreign-currency debts
AFTER firefighters extinguish a blaze they usually look carefully for glowing embers before rolling up their hoses and heading off. With the worst of the banking crisis now receding in ...
Eastern Europe, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Europe, All keywords...
economist.com
1 week ago
12.
Washed up : The misery shows no sign of abating, even as waters recede in some places
PAKISTAN’S floods are looking ever more monstrous. In the south waters continue to rise, eating up new areas and swamping districts such as Jaffarabad, in Baluchistan province, a full 100km ...
Pakistan, Indus river, Baluchistan, Feeble flood-protection infrastructure, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, All keywords...
economist.com
1 week ago
13.
Brazil may become seventh largest economy in 2011
Among the reasons for the changes in the ranking of the largest economies in the near future are the advance of the emerging economies that were not drastically affected by ...
Brazil, Economist, USD, Igor I. Solar, Italy, All keywords...
digitaljournal.com
2 weeks ago
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Dues and don’ts : Southern Europe will have trouble increasing its tax take
TELL a Greek or an Italian that the only certainties in life are death and taxes and they will laugh—and not because they believe in immortality. Southern European countries have ...
Greece, EUR, International Monetary Fund, Italy, Portugal, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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Fiscal fundamentalists : Austerity or stimulus? Some economists have much more extreme views than that
BY MOST people’s standards, George Osborne, Britain’s 39-year-old chancellor of the exchequer, is a fiscal hawk. In his first budget, announced in June, he promised to raise taxes and cut ...
Larry Kotlikoff, James Galbraith, America, Britain, George Osborne, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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