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| Friday 30 October 2009 |
China and America: the economic Odd Couple
Stephen Roach provides some useful, counterintuitive insights into the economic relationship between America and China, but too often uses the term ‘global imbalance’ as a euphemism for ‘US decline’.
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| Thursday 22 October 2009 |
This isn’t a recovery. It’s an Obama Bubble
Just because the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently reached 10,000, that doesn’t mean the US economy is springing back to life.
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| Friday 16 October 2009 |
We’re all Keynesians now? I’m not
Robert Skidelsky’s book on Keynes gives a good account of today’s economic crisis. But its faith in the ‘master’ of economic debate is misplaced.
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| Friday 25 September 2009 |
Keynes to the rescue?
Robert Skidelsky's latest book on Keynes gives a clear and concise account of the current economic crisis, but its faith in Keynes as the 'master' of economic debate is seriously misplaced.
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| Tuesday 1 September 2009 |
This is not only the end of the Kennedy dynasty
Yes, Ted’s death represents the end of the line for ‘America’s royals’, but it also exposes the ideology-shaped hole in the Democratic Party.
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| Friday 21 August 2009 |
Defending A-Rod from moralising sports writers
A Yankees fan is not impressed by a book which claims that Alex Rodriguez is a demanding, self-absorbed drug-taker.
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| Monday 17 August 2009 |
America’s health wars
The backlash against Obama’s modest healthcare reforms is born from the fear of an uncertain future and a distrust of the political class.
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| Friday 31 July 2009 |
In defence of A-Rod
Yankees fan Sean Collins is not impressed by a book which asserts – but never proves – that Alex Rodriguez is a self-absorbed, high-maintenance, long-time drug-taker. When did sports writers get so moralistic?
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| Tuesday 28 July 2009 |
Obama: the king of low expectations
Healthcare controversies, dumb comments about the arrest of a Harvard professor, and ‘frumpy jeans’: is Obama losing his Midas touch?
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| Tuesday 9 June 2009 |
Government Motors is no substitute for General Motors
Yes, GM showed itself incapable of mass-producing decent cars and keeping people employed – but Obama’s intervention won’t turn things around.
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| Friday 29 May 2009 |
Do we need a new ‘New Deal’?
Whatever conventional wisdom tells us, it isn’t true that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal brought the Great Depression of the 1930s to an end. However, today’s leaders could learn a thing or two from FDR’s ambitious scope.
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| Friday 1 May 2009 |
The ‘credit crunch’: another Great Depression?
To understand the current economic crisis, we need to look beyond the obsession with finance to the deeper structural problems of capitalism.
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| Friday 24 April 2009 |
The ‘credit crunch’: another Great Depression?
In the first part of his essay on the 1930s and today, Sean Collins puts the case for going beyond Keynesianism and monetarism and the obsession with finance to look at the deeper structural problems of capitalism.
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| Tuesday 31 March 2009 |
No, the economic crisis is not good for America
When even Time hopes the downturn will teach ‘childish, irresponsible, fat’ Americans a lesson, it’s clear recession porn has gone mainstream.
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| Friday 27 March 2009 |
The Reagan factor in American politics
An insightful new book puts Ronald Reagan in a proper historic perspective, but it overplays the strength of his political ideology and his role in creating a new world order.
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| Friday 6 March 2009 |
From Nixonland to Obamaland
A study of how Richard Nixon exploited the Culture Wars in the 1960s sheds new light on his political era - and on the Obama era, too.
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| Friday 27 February 2009 |
From Nixonland to Obamaland
A thorough and absorbing account of how Richard Nixon took advantage of shifting political dynamics in the 1960s sheds new light on that era, and also on American politics today.
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| Wednesday 18 February 2009 |
It takes more than money to revive an economy
Why President Obama’s $787 billion recovery package won’t fire up the US economy — and might even make things worse in the long term.
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| Friday 13 February 2009 |
The downturn is a crisis of the real economy
Blaming selfish bankers, bridge-playing CEOs and greedy consumers for the downturn overlooks the larger systemic forces at work.
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| Friday 30 January 2009 |
The boys in the bubble
Blaming selfish bankers, bridge-playing CEOs and greedy consumers for the financial crisis might provide economic commentators with a fix of moralistic self-satisfaction. But it means overlooking the larger systemic forces at work.
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