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America is reviving the base as a staging ground for its expanding war against Latin America’s drug gangs. Since August it ...

The number of mega-deals—mergers, acquisitions and investments worth more than $10bn—announced this year is approaching a ...

Mr Mokyr is an economist and a historian. He is also an inbetweener; not fully happy in either camp. He writes better than ...

Since the foundation of the welfare state its critics have warned that it would be captured and abused by coalitions with ...

Next, the editorials insist that China is profoundly resilient. They note risks, including American protectionism and weak ...

The appeal is obvious. Immigration mechanically boosts GDP, spreading existing debt over more people. In the near term, ...

To succeed, the process will require new leadership and sustained external pressure, writes the peace-deal veteran ...

The effect is still hard to spot in official data. But a study of 300,000 companies suggests where hiring is weakening ...

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The irony of the world’s fiscal mess is that economic conditions are benign. No major economy is in a recession. Public debts ...

That leaves three unpalatable options: tax rises, default and inflation. The most likely is inflation—a danger looming over ...