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Your Views 12:12 AM | April 22,2009
Two things have come to the fore in these elections. There has been muckraking and bad-mouthing. This has given us, the electorate, insight into the candidates’ biodata
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Your Views 01:15 AM | April 15,2009
In this slowdown, the private sector can ill-afford Congress’ idea of reservations
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Your Views 11:27 PM | March 18,2009
With the kind of political turbulence prevailing in India right now, diverting resources is not justified
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Lauren Silva Laughlin / breakingviews.com 10:56 PM | March 13,2009
GE had maintained a high overall rating because of the steady cash thrown off by the industrial side of its business
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Una Galani / breakingviews.com 09:51 PM | March 12,2009
Residential and commercial property prices in cities such as Delhi and Mumbai skyrocketed—rising by as much as 300% in the three years until 2007
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 10:08 PM | March 10,2009
The liquidationist would have allowed Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. to go, as happened in reality
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Hugo Dixon / breakingviews.com 09:24 PM | March 09,2009
The solution isn’t to pick on one particular banking activity, label that as especially risky and quarantine it in some half-regulated purgatory. The better approach is to improve risk management across the industry
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Our Views 10:00 PM | March 08,2009
Both US and China have moved aggressively by ramping up government spending and slashing interest rates though experts feel either stimulus will work in the long run unless the basic economic models of the two countries are rejigged
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 09:12 PM | March 08,2009
The Obama administration’s stimulus package should provide a short-term economic boost soon, so a bottom to the economic downturn may be approaching
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Edward Hadas / breakingviews.com 09:53 PM | March 06,2009
Unemployment is rising fast, credit spreads are widening and world trade has not picked up. The recession is getting worse and unless a turn comes quickly, the official experiments are likely to get even more desperate
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John Foley / breakingviews.com 10:51 PM | March 05,2009
The package so far will leave a fiscal deficit of under 3% of GDP--high for China, but frugal by today’s international standards
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Your Views 12:30 AM | March 05,2009
We live in close proximity to very violent neighbours--our strategic rapprochement with the US has converted us into a surrogate target for the US
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 11:20 PM | March 04,2009
While Obama reiterates the US commitment to the World Trade Organization, his agenda promises to “aggressively defend our rights and benefits under the rule-based trading system”
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Martin Hutchinson / breakingviews.com 12:04 AM | March 04,2009
The Dow Jones Industrial Index closed at 6,763 on 2 March, down 52% from its 2007 high
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John Foley / breakingviews.com 10:53 PM | March 02,2009
HSBC clearly needs the extra buffer, much of which could be absorbed by fresh losses
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