Reform: Germany is healthy, could be healthier
THE country formerly known as âÂÂthe sick man of Europeâ continues to do well. ...
Foxconn and labour laws: Using globalisation for good
ADAM OZIMEK responds to David Pogue's most recent post ...
Financial infrastructure: Of plumbing and promises
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Free exchange: Arab spring cleaning
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Daily chart: Rolling back the years
America has lost almost a decade of progress to the financial crisis TALK of a Japanese style "lost decade" has abounded ever since the financial crisis took hold in 2008. The Economist has crunched the numbers and on the basis of seven indicators covering economic output, wealth and labour markets, the United States has already ...
Charlemagne: Too long an illness
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What’s ailing British productivity: Britain’s productivity puzzle
AFTER the winter gloom that enveloped the British economy last year, with GDP dropping in the final quarter, there have been brighter signs of late. Business spirits are rising and the latest monthly figures for the public finances were better than expected. ...
Focus: Borrowing in Asia
CROSS-BORDER bank lending to AsiaâÂÂs developing economies has been shrinking recently. European banks in particular have been retrenching as they seek to meet new capital targets. That may prompt many borrowers to turn instead to the capital marketsâÂÂas they did during the last financial crisis. ...
The Greek crisis: The end of the marathon?
âÂÂI HAVE learnt that marathon is indeed a Greek word.â Thus spoke Olli Rehn, the European monetary affairs commissioner, at the end of a 14-hour negotiating session that produced a second bailout package for Greece this morning. This had been agreed in principle at a European summit in July last year. But political turmoil in ...
Germany and Greece: Wolfgang’s woes
WOLFGANG Schäuble is, in many ways, the strongest – perhaps even the last – Europhile in the German government. But open the pages of Greek newspapers and there he is, the German finance minister depicted in Nazi uniform. It is not just the inflammatory Greek press that dislikes him ...