Articles

Does the economy determine elections?

01.02.08 Publication:

It has become conventional to say that most general elections are won or lost on economic issues, for those are the day-to-day matters that affect more voters...

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ECB – No Interest Cuts For Now

28.01.08 Publication:

For central bankers these days, it is a matter of pride to be able to stand up and ignore pressure from two sorts of directions: pressure from politicians, who...

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We must not ignore the wild gyrations of Asian traders

25.01.08 Publication:

It is so nice when a consensus forms among the economic commentators. There is going to be a recession in America, the pack says, and probably in Britain too,...

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Tata´s Nano car and India´s arrival

19.01.08 Publication:

Lakes full of ink have been spilled about the unveiling in India on January 10th by Tata Motors of its new, super-cheap car. Many have pondered whether the...

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India arrives as a manufacturing superpower

15.01.08 Publication:

Lakes full of ink have been spilled about the unveiling in India on January 10th by Tata Motors of its new, super-cheap car. People have pondered whether the...

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Betting on America´s election

05.01.08 Publication:

It is a little comical to make judgments about who will be the next president of the United States on the basis of voting by just a few hundred thousand...

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Hopes for America´s election

02.01.08 Publication:

With voting due to begin in the Iowa caucus on January 3rd, followed swiftly by the New Hampshire primary five days later, events in America’s presidential...

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Much more than China

01.01.08 Publication:

"Asia is one." When the Beijing Olympics are transfixing the world, it will seem as if that sentence is wrong and that Asia is simply China. Other countries...

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Europe´s difficult year ahead

01.01.08 Publication:

Europeans like to compare themselves with Americans. That is perhaps inevitable given our shared history and cultural origins. For the past decade, however,...

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Don´t despair about the dollar

01.01.08 Publication:

One of the most famous sayings about investment came from one of the founders of the Rothschild banking family, Baron Nathan Rothschild. In the early 19th...

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The coming change in China

01.01.08 Publication:

The momentum behind China’s economic and political rise is impressive. It brings to mind the phrase "shock and awe" that was commonly used by American...

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Minimum wages in Germany and Japan

26.12.07 Publication:

Politics and economics often pull in different directions. In the world’s third biggest economy, Germany, a policy is being debated intensely that makes...

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Alitalia should go to Air France-KLM

18.12.07 Publication:

When the board of Alitalia meets today to consider the competing acquisition proposals from Air France-KLM and Air One, the air will be filled with distracting...

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Asia´s century and its implications

01.12.07 Publication:

When the idea first came up, in the 1970s and 1980s, it was labelled as "the Pacific century", as it was assumed that the 21st century would be dominated by...

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The difficulty with dictatorship

01.12.07 Publication:

During the Cold War, it became a sort of joke to look at the use of the words "democratic" or "peoples" in the names of countries: the joke was that if the...

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The dollar near its trough

26.11.07 Publication:

The most famous, if rather callous, saying about investment is attributed to Baron Nathan Rothschild, one of the founders of the great banking dynasty. He...

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The importance of Pakistan to Japan

18.11.07 Publication:

In 1938 the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, justified his attempt to ignore Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the central European state of...

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Justice and the death penalty

16.11.07 Publication:

The resolution promoted by Italy and passed by the human rights committee of the United Nations General Assembly, calling for the abolition of the death...

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China, India and $100 oil

12.11.07 Publication:

The continued climb of the oil price towards $100 a barrel is grabbing attention both because of its symbolic importance and because of fears that it will...

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The failure of General Musharraf

04.11.07 Publication:

General Pervez Musharraf’s coup in Pakistan is the strangest of coups: it is in effect a coup against himself. When he seized power in 1999 from the...

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The real meaning of the credit crunch

01.11.07 Publication:

When finance ministers, bankers, central bankers and economists gathered in their thousands for the annual meetings of the World Bank and International...

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Slow wine, in the heart of Europe

01.11.07 Publication:

Twenty years ago, some Italian food producers started a wonderful campaign group called the Slow Food Movement. The idea was to start a reaction against the...

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What matters at China´s party congress

16.10.07 Publication:

When the world’s biggest country, measured by population, which could within 20 years be the world’s biggest economy, holds a meeting of its ruling...

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Why Fukuda should visit Nanjing

08.10.07 Publication:

For an outsider to comment about the historical issues between Japan and China feels instinctively awkward—rather like a stranger butting in on a family...

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