ANALYSIS & OPINION
Obama mobilizes his New America
Gun control will mobilize Obama's New America coalition that delivered for him in the election: working women, single mothers, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Jewish and Muslim voters, young people, gays and educated professionals.
America has multiple deficits
Reducing prospective deficits should be a priority – but not an obsession that takes over economic policy.
Don’t worry about currency wars
Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann gave a speech yesterday in which he warned of "increased politicisation of exchange rates" and a potential "devaluation competition" between currency zones.
Hugo Dixon: When is it OK to avoid tax?
It is clearly wrong to infringe the letter of the law as, for example, many Greeks do. It is also wrong to infringe the spirit of the law. But, as last week’s Goldman Sachs UK bonus row shows, it is also important to take account of the spirit of the times.
How the NRA hijacked the Republican Party
In the mid-Seventies, the NRA switched from being a moderate organization backing moderate gun controls into a radical body that promulgated an absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment.
Fighting inflation. But where is it?
The disappearance of inflation over the past 20 years, however, has barely dented the pervasive belief that inflation remains one of the greatest threats to economic stability.
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