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The inflation solution
The merits of inflation as a solution to the rich world’s problems are easily overstatedMar 11th 2010
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On deaf ears
Does India's government pay any heed to its economic advisers?Mar 4th 2010
Low definition
Trustbusters want to put less emphasis on market definition when assessing mergersFeb 25th 2010
Disciplinary measures
In a guest article, Daniel Gros of the Centre for European Policy Studies and Thomas Mayer of Deutsche Bank argue the case for a European Monetary FundFeb 18th 2010
Mix message
Barack Obama’s advisers lay out some steps to a rebalanced economy. Others are out of his handsFeb 11th 2010
Diversity training
Some developing economies are rich but crude, while others are poor but sophisticatedFeb 4th 2010
From bail-out to bail-in
In a guest article, Paul Calello, the head of Credit Suisse’s investment bank, and Wilson Ervin, its former chief risk officer, propose a new process for resolving failing banksJan 28th 2010
Invested interests
China aside, most Asian economies need to invest more, not consume moreJan 21st 2010
Digging out of debt
The rich world’s debt reduction has barely begunJan 14th 2010
Worth a hill of soyabeans
How the internet can make agricultural markets in the developing world more efficientJan 7th 2010
New-year irresolution
How to combat the natural tendency to procrastinateDec 30th 2009
Paul Samuelson
The last of the great general economists died on December 13th, aged 94Dec 17th 2009
Crash and carry 
New research suggests a way to make steady profits from the carry tradeDec 10th 2009
Default lines
What would happen if a member of the euro area could no longer finance its debt?Dec 3rd 2009
Systems failure
Two new papers explore how to regulate the financial system as a wholeNov 26th 2009
Green with envy
The tension between free trade and capping emissionsNov 19th 2009
Secret sauce
China’s rapid growth is due not just to heavy investment, but also to the world’s fastest productivity gainsNov 12th 2009
Pay for delay
Wage subsidies and fatter jobless benefits have softened the impact of the recession but may yet hurt recoveryNov 5th 2009
Buffer warren
Why are banks so averse to raising equity?Oct 29th 2009
E pluribus tunum
Uniform prices for online music are no way to maximise profitOct 22nd 2009
Reality bites
Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson win this year’s Nobel prize for economicsOct 15th 2009
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Two sides to every story
Capping credit-card levies on retailers and other merchants could hurt consumersOct 8th 2009
The dog that didn't bark
In a guest article, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, a member of the German Council of Economic Experts, argues that financial regulators need better incentivesOct 1st 2009
Much ado about multipliers
Why do economists disagree so much on whether fiscal stimulus works?Sep 24th 2009
Measuring what matters
Man does not live by GDP alone. A new report urges statisticians to capture what people do live bySep 17th 2009
What if?
If Lehman had not failed, would the crisis have happened anyway?Sep 10th 2009
The incredible shrinking surplus
Is China deliberately understating the size of its trade surplus?Sep 3rd 2009
Jackson's Holes
The financial crisis will change central banking more than many central bankers care to admitAug 27th 2009
The unkindest cuts
Discounting that promotes competition is hard to distinguish from predatory pricingAug 20th 2009
Cause and defect
Instrumental variables help to isolate causal relationships. But they can be taken too farAug 13th 2009
In defence of the dismal science
In a guest article, Robert Lucas, the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, rebuts criticisms that the financial crisis represents a failure of economicsAug 6th 2009
Waist banned
Does a tax on junk food make sense?Jul 30th 2009
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