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		<title>The deficit problem: Dealing with America&#8217;s fiscal hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Nov 19th 2009
From The Economist print edition

Don’t cut the deficit now—but explain how, eventually, you will







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		<title>America&#8217;s fiscal deficit: Stemming the tide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 19th 2009 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition

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Unprecedented levels of government debt may require radical solutions







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[Greg Ip] STUDENTS at National Defence University in Washington, DC, were recently given a model of the economy and told to fix the budget. To get the federal debt down, they jacked up taxes and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=632&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Economic Outlook for 2010: Square Root Reversal</title>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/u-s-economic-outlook-for-2010-square-root-reversal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Nov 13th 2009
From The World in 2010 print edition
By Greg Ip, WASHINGTON, DC

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America will recover, but too weakly for comfort
The American economy in 2010 will be torn between two opposing forces. The first is that deep recessions usually lead to strong recoveries. The other is that financial crises usually produce weak recoveries. The interplay of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=637&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. in 2010: The Fed&#8217;s next battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 13th 2009
From The World in 2010 print edition
By Greg Ip, WASHINGTON, DC
This time, with politicians







 









How tight is Bernanke’s grip?



In the 1930s the Federal Reserve stood by as the economy sank into Depression. Retribution followed as Franklin Roosevelt concentrated more of its governance in Washington, DC. Today’s Fed, under its chairman, Ben Bernanke, has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&blog=5387080&post=639&subd=gregip&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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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		<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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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>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/americas-public-debt-tomorrows-burden/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/why-did-only-some-countries-have-banking-crises/</link>
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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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