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OVER the past 12 months markets have had a bumpy ride(1)
Monday February 6th 2012
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Burgernomics shows Switzerland has the most overvalued currency(88)
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House of horrors, part 2
The bursting of the global housing bubble is only halfway through(40)
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The Reserve Bank of India: Pulling every lever
India’s central bank is one of its best institutions. It is also complicit in a government-borrowing binge(13)
United States
The economy: A hair of the dog
A bit more debt keeps the recovery on track(6)
Free exchange
The silent bazooka
The three-year loans offered by the ECB to banks have helped stabilise the euro zone(9)
Asia's economies
China’s economy: Time for a property tax
A way to stabilise both China’s wild property market and its weak local finances(24)
Europe's economies
Greece and the euro: An economy crumbles
Uncertainty about whether Greece will stay in the euro is crippling its prospects(139)
Britain's economy
Squeezed
The country is experiencing a quiet but dangerous credit crunch(2)
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The crisis of Western liberal capitalism has coincided with the rise of a powerful new form of state capitalism in emerging markets, says Adrian Wooldridge
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The rise of state capitalism
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