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Cina
Fed:Bullard,tassi zero non più necessari
Economia americana è vicina alla normalità
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Grecia
Grecia, paese si ferma contro austerity
Sciopero generale, trasporti a singhiozzo. Traghetti fermi
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Cina Germania
Straitened circumstances
THE Chinese theory about economic integration with Taiwan is that it will bind the two together politically. Taiwan will become ever more reliant on China for its prosperity, paving the way to eventual unification. Many in Taiwan fear this process is under way. But now the premise of the theory—that ...
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Marjorie Deane internship
Applications are invited for a Marjorie Deane internship in The Economist’s New York bureau. The award is designed to provide work experience for a promising journalist or would-be journalist, who will spend 3-6 months at The Economist writing about economics and finance. Applicants are asked to write a covering letter ...
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Bulgaria
Paddy-whacked
NEARLY 16% of Indonesia’s 250m people survive on $1.90 a day or less, as do more than 6% of Cambodia’s 15m people. In both countries, rice is the staple crop, providing more than half the daily calories of the poor. That puts needy Cambodians at a distinct advantage: between January ...
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Ecuador
A serviceable deal
IT DID not take long for America’s presidential candidates, busy though they must be, to digest the 6,000 pages of the agreement creating the “Trans-Pacific Partnership” (TPP). America and 11 other countries of the Pacific Rim struck the trade deal in early October, but the full text was not released ...
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Cina
Abnormally normal
FROM John Rockefeller’s Standard Oil in the late 1800s, through the Railroad Commission of Texas in 1930, to OPEC since 1960, institutions have long tried to control and stabilise the oil market for their own benefit. Only rarely, says Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s Centre on Global Energy Policy, ...
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Australia
From waterfront to boardroom
The wharfies’ nemesis CHRIS CORRIGAN, a Sydney businessman, has lost none of his gift for drama. Seventeen years ago Mr Corrigan took on the “wharfies”, Australia’s stevedores, in a bitter dispute that smashed their control of the docks. The tale was eventually turned into a television mini-series, “Bastard Boys”. On November ...
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Brasile
Cautious conqueror
A bright spot in a gloomy region CHILE is often described as the Germany of South America. Its budgets are balanced, roads decent and trains punctual. Alongside Argentine histrionics or Brazilian flamboyance, life tends to be Teutonically staid. Successful Chilean businesses often exhibit cautious conservatism as they look beyond their puny ...
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Ecuador
Anyone want a power station?
Awaiting rebirth “IT’S not a funeral, it’s a transformation.” That is the positive spin Francesco Starace, the Tesla-driving boss of Enel, one of Europe’s biggest electricity companies, puts on a tough issue looming over the energy industry: stranded assets. He knows of what he speaks. Whereas executives at coal, oil and ...