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China Buys Friends and Influences Nations

06/05/2014(0)
If you can’t beat them, outspend them. That seems to be the thinking behind a huge new infrastructure investment fund being promoted by China as an alternative to established ... Read More
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Tax Is the New Black for Foreign Takeovers

02/05/2014(0)
U.S. pharmaceuticals company Pfizer has augmented its attempt to buy AstraZeneca, the U.K.’s second-biggest drug maker, with a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron. The missive, as well as ... Read More
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A Case of Piketty Fever at the OECD

02/05/2014(0)
The French economist Thomas Piketty has become something of a rock star with his recent book on inequality, and now the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development has embraced ... Read More
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Where’s the Rule of Law in Global Politics?

30/04/2014(0)
The West’s difficulty in dealing with an aggressive Russia demonstrates a broader issue: The world is having a much harder time holding to a common set of rules in ... Read More
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The Euro’s current strength is a powerful deflationary factor: ECB’s Noyer

29/04/2014(0)
The euro’s current strength is a powerful deflationary factor and low inflation is likely to persist in the euro zone for some time, European Central Bank policymaker Christian Noyer ... Read More
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Bank of America Lost $2.7 Billion in a Maze of Accounting

29/04/2014(0)
Last month, Citigroup failed the Fed’s stress test because, even though it would meet minimum capital requirements in a severely adverse scenario, the Fed wasn’t comfortable with Citi’s capital ... Read More
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Buy London Mansions on Russia Sanctions

28/04/2014(0)
Targeted sanctions against Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians are proving a boon to London’s real estate market. Some of the $51 billion that fled Russia in the first quarter of ... Read More
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What Obama and Abe Didn’t Talk About

25/04/2014(0)
As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently reminded readers, the dirtiest word an economist can call you is “Japanese.” Swedes must be stewing with regret for giving Krugman ... Read More
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Europe Still Has a Mountain of Debt

24/04/2014(0)
There was a time not so long ago when the vast majority of experts agreed that a country could not emerge decisively from a financial crisis unless it solved ... Read More
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The First National Bank of Facebook

23/04/2014(0)
The company that rebranded the word “friend” may soon take up a more ambitious makeover: the word “bank.” Facebook Inc. is on the verge of winning approval from Ireland’s ... Read More
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