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Saturday 18/August/2018 14:46 PM

Italy likely to contain its bridge rage

Italy's government has unnerved investors with its angry reaction to this week's deadly bridge collapse, threatening to renationalise toll roads and...

Saturday 18/August/2018 14:40 PM

Trump’s botched Turkey policy

The crisis between the United States and Turkey, a NATO ally and traditional bulwark of American policy in the Middle East, is serious. While the...

Wednesday 15/August/2018 15:19 PM

Why the Bank of England should target growth

The Bank of England raised interest rates to 0.75 per cent this month, in the belief that inflation will exceed its mandated 2 per cent target in about two...

Wednesday 15/August/2018 14:18 PM

The Turkish emerging market timebomb

Turkey’s falling currency and deteriorating financial conditions lend credence, at least for some people, to the notion that “a crisis is a terrible...

Wednesday 15/August/2018 14:16 PM

Globalization with Chinese characteristics

US President Donald Trump’s erratic unilateralism represents nothing less than abdication of global economic and political leadership. Trump’s...

Wednesday 15/August/2018 14:14 PM

Is ethnic cleansing coming to India?

Seventy-one years after the partition of India, and 47 years after the former East Pakistan became Bangladesh, one of the legacies of the messy division of...