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Inflation

• How big a threat is inflation?
  

  And what, if anything, should be done about rising prices? - Free exchange (13)

• • • Different concerns in rich and emerging markets
    • (4)
  • • Eswar Prasad: No easy choices for central banks
    • (2)
  • • Discussion: What should policymakers do?
  • • Economist asks: Is the worst behind us?
    • (6)

America's economy

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  So this is the new year?

  The first jobs report of 2011 is a very disappointing one - Free exchange (39)

• • • Apart from jobs, the economic news is good
    • (10)
  • • But America's housing market remains a mess
    • (19)
  • • And rising petrol costs are another headache
    • (27)
  • • Topic page: American economy

Germany's economy

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  Angela in Wunderland

  What Germany’s got right, and what it hasn’t (475)

• • • What's behind the success of German business?
    • (16)
  • • Among the G7, Germany is clearly the top economic performer
    • (8)
  • • In education, an emphasis on the practical
    • (5)
  • • Economist asks: How strong is Germany's economy?

Trends in economics

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  Which economists are most influential?

  And has the profession changed because of the crisis? - Free exchange (70)

• • • Economists give their "most influential" lists
  • • Economist asks: Is Ben Bernanke the most influential economist of the past decade?
    • (6)

Chinese economic statistics

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  Fact-checking Hu Jintao

  Has China really saved American consumers $600 billion? - Free exchange (56)

• • • Did China really create 14m jobs?
    • Free exchange
    • (34)
  • • Discussion: Is the world too dependent on China?

Britain's GDP surprise

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  Don't panic—yet

  The government should stick to its course despite worrying economic figures (75)

• • • Recovery, if it continues, won't feel like one
    • (8)
  • • Topic page: British economy

The risks of inequality

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  Economic power begets political power

  Economist Daron Acemoglu finds the roots of the crisis in diverging incomes (15)

• • • Raghuram Rajan responds that government is to blame
    • Free exchange
    • (25)
  • • Economists debate how inequality matters
  • • Economist asks: Did inequality cause the crisis?
    • (3)

The new inequality

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  The rich and the rest

  What to do (and not do) about inequality (214)

• • • Does rising inequality matter—and if so why?
    • (35)
  • • Did inequality cause the financial crisis?
    • (24)

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  Repayment days

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• Postmortems on the financial crisis

  The official verdict

  America’s FCIC report is big, surprisingly readable and a disappointment (2)