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America's budget

• The budget act
  

  The White House pretends its priorities matter (111)

• • • As Barack Obama presents his draft budget to Congress, our correspondents ask whether the proposal goes far enough
  • • America’s fiscal crisis has put defence spending in the crosshairs
    • (52)
  • • Deficit hawkery as farce
    • (75)
  • • Economist asks: Is Mr Obama's budget proposal fiscally responsible?

Inflation

• Revisionism in China

  Why the latest set of inflation numbers in China came in lower than expected - Asia view (32)

• • • Britain's worrying set of figures
    • Buttonwood's notebook
    • (23)

Vietnam's currency crisis

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  Going, going, dong

  The only solutions in sight are woefully short-sighted (10)

• • • Another day, another dong devaluation
    • EIU
  • • The Vietnamese find clever ways to dodge official currency controls
    • (1)
  • • Worries about renewed overheating (Mar 2010)
    • (3)

European economic integration

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  Pact of uncompetitiveness

  Dangers lurk in Franco-German plans for a more tightly integrated euro zone (29)

• • • Leaders are still avoiding decisive steps
    • (42)
  • • Charlemagne: What is Angela Merkel signalling?
    • (165)
  • • Topic page: The euro zone

The commodity boom

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  Spread the wealth

  The impressive growth figures of resource-rich African countries are not all good news (23)

• • • What should Angola do with its windfall?
    • (36)
  • • The Economist commodity-price index
  • • Economist asks: Is the worst of the commodity spike over?
    • (9)

Inflation

• 
  Grim reaping

  A lack of rain in China threatens to send wheat prices even higher (5)

• • • High fuel costs bite in Britain
    • (3)
  • • Some inflation worries are overstated
    • (10)
  • • Economics by invitation: How big a threat is inflation?
  • • Topic page: Inflation

America's economy

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  Where are the workers?

  Troubling trends behind the falling unemployment rate (13)

• • • Apart from jobs, the economic news is good
    • (10)
  • • But America's housing market remains a mess
    • (23)
  • • And rising petrol costs are another headache
    • (27)
  • • Topic page: American economy

Trends in economics

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  The contemporary Keynes

  Which economist is doing most to shape post-crisis thinking? (8)

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

Germany's economy

• 
  Angela in Wunderland

  What Germany’s got right, and what it hasn’t (1110)

• • • What's behind the success of German business?
    • (16)
  • • Among the G7, Germany is clearly the top economic performer
    • (11)
  • • In education, an emphasis on the practical
    • (5)
  • • Economist asks: How strong is Germany's economy?
    • (2)

Chinese economic statistics

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  Fact-checking Hu Jintao

  Has China really saved American consumers $600 billion? - Free exchange (57)

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

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