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[Helmut K. Anheier] 100 years of ineptitude

The global financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 was the greatest economic stress test since the Great Depression, and the greatest challenge to social and political systems since World Wa...

Oct 7, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] No, Mr. Putin, bungled spying won‘t blow over

The latest failures of Russia’s military intelligence service, commonly known as the GRU, expose a major flaw in President Vladimir Putin’s habitual way of dealing with public fiascos: He mistakenly ...

Oct 7, 2018
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[David Ignatius] ‘The Apprentice’ shows that Trump’s debacles are self-inflicted wounds

Reading Greg Miller’s gripping new account of President Trump’s entanglement in the Russia investigation, it’s striking just how many of the president’s difficulties have been self-created. Trump see...

Oct 4, 2018
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[Peter R. Orszag] Why Americans are retiring later

Something significant is happening in Social Security in the US: People are retiring and taking their benefits later. These trends are at least in part the consequence of policy changes made in the e...

Oct 4, 2018
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[Anjani Trivedi] Japan’s legendary trading houses have a new story

Japan’s storied trading houses are emerging from the shadow of billions of dollars of impairments they took after the financial crisis and the end of the commodity super-cycle. Stocks of the so-call...

Oct 3, 2018
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[Andrew Sheng] Open society and closed minds

Why is it that in the last days of September, 10 years after the failure of Lehman Brothers, the world feels as if it is a dangerous place? President Trump’s remarkable speech to the United Nations ...

Oct 3, 2018
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[Pankaj Mishra] China would be smart to heed Asia’s wise man

Visiting Beijing in August, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s recently elected prime minister, startled his hosts by boldly warning against a “new version of colonialism.” He was referring to China’s Belt...

Oct 3, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Why millennials are sour on economy

As Americans become more negative about the state of their society, a number of people have tried to cheer them up by reminding them of the improvements made, both inside their society and out. The C...

Oct 3, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] Six broader insights from Kavanaugh saga so far

Most news analyses are written by experts. But sometimes an event is of such importance that it is worth sampling some outsiders, and so I would like to consider last week’s Senate testimony from Chr...

Oct 3, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] Death by a salesman and amateurs

In Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” the protagonist Willy Loman gets abruptly fired from his lifetime job. Frustrated, Willy expects his son Biff to succeed socially and financially. Unfortunat...

Oct 2, 2018
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[Lee Jae-min] Still Torn Between Two Cities

Recent price hikes for housing in Seoul have fanned deep frustration among those living outside Seoul. While prices in Seoul are going through the roof, real estate markets elsewhere are struggling w...

Oct 2, 2018
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[David Fickling] China’s claims on trade with US don’t add up

China has marked the latest ratcheting-up of trade tensions with a misplaced history lesson. Far from worrying about its economic role in the world, the US should recognize just how well the two na...

Oct 1, 2018
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[Adam Minter] Big Brother creating two Chinas

Chinese authorities, who have long tried to limit the influence of foreign media and ideas, recently marked an escalation. In the span of a few days, authorities blocked access to Twitch, the video g...

Oct 1, 2018
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[Noah Smith] How Japan’s Abe should spend next three years

Japan’s economy is doing well. Unemployment is at multidecade lows. Capital expenditure is up, as is return on equity. And wages are finally rising. For the longer-term, Japan also looks strong. Cont...

Oct 1, 2018
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[Shirin Ebadi & Christophe Deloire] Defending democracy’s essence

On Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, affirming the view that “the will of the people” -- democracy -- should form the basis of any ...

Oct 1, 2018
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