Can Central Bankers Cope With the Crisis?

Are the current monetary tactics of Western central banks analogous to dosing a patient with steroids?

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Europe’s Champions on Different Economic Paths

Why is Spain starting look a little more robust economically than Britain?

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The India-Brazil Axis

Does India have more in common with the chaos and confusion of modern Brazil than with command-and-control China?

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The Cheney Test for Climate Change

Why is it reasonable to wager there is at least a one-percent chance that something serious may be occurring in the earth’s environment?

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From Iraq to LIBOR: Excessive Risk-Taking and Democratic Accountability

What is it about U.S. and UK financial and foreign policy elites that has them engage so willingly in excessive risk-taking?

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America’s Dark Shadows: Aurora, Sikhs and Guns

Can the inhuman act of a single person lay bare the neuralgia of an entire people?

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AID and the Afghan Cotton Saga

Why would USAID not get behind an effort to turn Afghan farmers from poppy to cotton?

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Is Modern Finance a Productive Economic Activity?

Financial systems play an important role in economic growth. Why, then, do they sometimes go off the rails?

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Don’t Leave It to the Economists

Why do economists — and the policymakers who heed their advice — need to reconsider the conventional wisdoms of their profession?

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The Circumcision Debate: No Issue for German Leadership

If there’s going to be a debate over the practice of male circumcision, isn’t there a better place to start it than Germany?

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