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		<title>Obama and the unions: Love of Labour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct 29th 2009 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
Unions are winning again in Washington, but the big fights are still ahead







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[Greg Ip] THREE years ago, when negotiations with the union representing air-traffic controllers reached an impasse, the administration of George Bush simply imposed a deal that froze salaries, slashed entry-level pay and even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=620&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The economy: A joyless recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct 29th 2009 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
New figures suggest that America has at last moved out of recession







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[Greg Ip] ON October 29th the government reported that gross domestic product rose at an annualised rate of 3.5% in the third quarter compared to the second. This was the first increase since the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=622&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The use &amp; abuse of economic history</title>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-use-abuse-of-economic-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
80 years after the crash that ushered in the Great Depression, we&#8217;re not repeating history&#8217;s mistakes. We&#8217;re making our own.
By Greg Ip
Sunday, October 25, 2009
 Book review of:
THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,  By Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff, Princeton Univ. 463 pp. $35
THE CREATION AND DESTRUCTION OF VALUE: The Globalization Cycle, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=613&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s public debt: Tomorrow&#8217;s burden</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct 22nd 2009 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
America’s debt crisis will be chronic, not acute








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[Greg Ip] AS AMERICA’S financial crisis recedes, the rumblings of its next crisis can be heard. The federal government has wrapped its guarantees around banks and the housing market. It has borrowed hundreds of billions of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=605&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why did only some countries have banking crises?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Oct. 9 I appeared on a panel at the American Enterprise Institute discussing a paper by Vincent Reinhart on the financial crisis. While many countries were affected by common global factors, I focused on how some countries escaped crisis even while they were affected by the same factors as others. View the slide show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=592&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The economy&#8217;s stumble: Air pocket or second dip?</title>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/the-economys-stumble-air-pocket-or-second-dip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct 8th 2009 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
A slump in September prompts thoughts of new stimulus







 









 



[Greg Ip] AFTER riding a wave of improvement since the spring, the economy stumbled in September according to the latest figures. Non-farm employment sank by 263,000, which was 62,000 more than in August, and the unemployment rate rose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=582&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing&#8217;s future: Wanted: new customers</title>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/manufacturings-future-wanted-new-customers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct 1st 2009 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
Pummelled by recession, manufacturers face an uncertain future
[Greg Ip] AFTER the worst slump in modern memory, American factories are showing signs of life. Manufacturing production rose in August for the second straight month, and a survey of purchasing managers says new orders are rising briskly.
Yet manufacturers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=586&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Governments&#8217; contingent liabilities: Fiscal iceberg</title>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/governments-contingent-liabilities-fiscal-iceberg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sep 24th 2009 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
Guarantees offered during the crisis pose lasting risks to America
[Greg Ip] THE visible costs of the financial crisis are well known: bank recapitalisations, stimulus spending and shrunken tax revenues. Another set of liabilities—the guarantees thrown up around financial systems a year ago to quell panic and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=573&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financial reform in America: Bogged down</title>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/financial-reform-in-america-bogged-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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[Greg Ip] TIM GEITHNER, the treasury secretary (left), has made overhauling finance a priority. Instead he faces delay. America has four federal bank regulators, including the Federal Reserve. Mr Geithner wants to increase the power of the Fed to oversee not just banks and their holding companies but any firm that might [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=576&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The tyre wars: Playing with fire</title>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/the-tyre-wars-playing-with-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Sep 17th 2009 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC AND BEIJING
From The Economist print edition

By succumbing to domestic pressures, America has started an alarming trade row with China







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[GREG IP and The Economist's Beijing Correspondent] IN RAW economic terms Barack Obama’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese tyres hardly registers. The number of jobs affected is barely a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=568&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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