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In our latest Money Talks audio programme: our correspondents discuss whether 2011 will be a year of dangers avoided, or of shocks
Gulliver
Digging out in the north-east
America's airports in the aftermath of the snow storm
Buttonwood's notebook
Nostradamus?
Market pundits are making their forecasts for 2011. How did their predictions for 2010 go?
Americas view
Fiscal paradise lost
Panama will no longer be a tax-dodgers' haven
South Korea's Hyundai has plans to move upmarket (The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Vietnam’s biggest retailer finds a Singaporean ally to fight the multinationals (The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Loans to businesses fell sharply after the financial crisis in most rich countries, and have yet to recover More »
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