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Toward Greek debt restructuring

• Latin lessons
  

  Latin America provides a model for how to restructure Greece’s debts (12)

• • • Default talk turns from whether to how
    • (2)
  • • While debt issues mount, Greek reform continues
    • (20)

America's long-term deficit

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  Wakey, wakey

  Standard & Poor's sends American leaders a warning (8)

• • • S&P’s bombshell means more politically than economically
    • (10)
  • • The US is behind the debt-reduction curve
    • Daily chart
    • (62)
  • • Economist asks: Should America adopt Barack Obama's budget plan?
    • (11)
  • • Economist asks: Should America adopt the Republican budget plan?
    • (55)

Latin America's economies

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  Wild horses

  A soaring currency is complicating Brazil's battle against inflation (4)

• • • Argentina's doctored economic statistics
    • (9)
  • • Colombia's rising fortunes
    • (6)
  • • The push for regional integration resumes
    • (14)
  • • Topic page: Latin America

Diverging central bank strategies

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  The Bank of England's dilemma

  With the Monetary Policy Committee divided, rates are unlikely to rise soon - Free exchange (10)

• • • Rich country central banks are on divergent paths
    • (16)
  • • The Fed isn’t about to tighten
    • (12)
  • • It's too soon for ECB tightening
    • (8)
  • • Britain should approach tightening cautiously
    • (7)
  • • Topic page: Central banking

The future of emerging-market growth

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  Beware the middle-income trap

  Growth tends to slow when GDP per head reaches a certain threshold. China is getting close (48)

• • • China's credit boom is worrying
    • (4)
  • • India grew faster than China in 2010
    • (4)
  • • Discussion: Is China approaching a growth slowdown?
  • • Economist asks: How fast will China grow this decade?
    • (22)

America's recovery

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  Revising downwards

  Growth takes a knock—from nature, as much as anything (2)

• • • But employment is moving, slowly, in the right direction
    • (9)
  • • It will take a long time to recover this lost ground
    • (13)

The troubled euro-zone periphery

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  The third bail-out

  How to make sure the latest bail-out marks the beginning of the end of the euro zone’s debt crisis (54)

• • • Why Portugal finally asked for help
    • (161)
  • • Greece's rescue has paralysed the economy
    • (20)
  • • Italy's economy is the euro's Achilles heel
    • (11)
  • • Spain's worrying property bust
    • (20)

The budget fight

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  America finally agrees a budget

  Democrats and Republicans congratulate themselves for avoiding a shutdown (182)

• • • The bad economics of the budget fight
    • Free exchange
    • (23)

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• Germany's local finances

  Hundreds of mini-Greeces

  The economy booms, but many municipalities are strapped for cash (4)

• House prices

  Unfinished bust

  The froth in the ritzier parts of London conceals a fragile national market (1)

• American farmland

  Sowing bubbles

  Regulators grow increasingly worried about steep cropland prices (1)

• Indonesian microfinance

  Rich pickings

  Microlending has helped make BTPN one of Asia’s most profitable banks (0)

• Poverty

  Untying the knot

  New ideas about an old problem (2)