Close families and flexible labor markets don’t go together. That’s the conclusion of a fascinating paper by a quartet of transatlantic economists. Their work should be required reading for all European politicians and for the economists a…

(Reuters) - Spending time with top European policy makers at the moment is scary and slightly nauseating, like the final, slow-motion moments of a car accident, when you can see precisely both how you will probably crash and what it would …

In Europe, Parallels to Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’ By MARK SCOTT LONDON — Is Europe the new Japan?Parallels abound between Europe’s current debt crisis and Japan’s so-called Lost Decade, when the Asian country’s economy imploded in the 1990s.Bo…

Never Mind Europe. Worry About India.By TYLER COWEN THE economic slowdown in India is one of the world’s biggest economic stories, but it is commanding only a modicum of attention in the United States. It may not even look like a slowdown …

U.S. Chose Better Path to RecoveryBy FLOYD NORRIS Last summer, things looked bad on both sides of the Atlantic. There were fears of double-dip recessions, and stubbornly high unemployment rates. Stock markets swooned. Now, the pictures app…

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Broccoli and Bad FaithBy PAUL KRUGMAN Nobody knows what the Supreme Court will decide with regard to the Affordable Care Act. But, after this week’s hearings, it seems quite possible that the court will strike down the “mandate” — the requ…

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My new book, Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States,1 tries to explain and, to the extent possible, predict the outcome of the euro crisis. It follows the same pattern as my other books: it contains an updated version of my conc…

In the history of product launches, the rollout of the Obama Administration’s plan to stabilize the financial system was in the category of “Ishtar,” smokeless cigarettes, and New Coke. On February 10th of last year, the newly appointed Tr…

On the last day of 2011, a headline in The Wall Street Journal read: “Spain Misses Deficit Target, Sets Cuts.” The cruel forces of poor economic logic were at work to welcome in the new year. The European Union has become a vicious circle …

The Myth of Japan’s FailureBy EAMONN FINGLETON Tokyo DESPITE some small signs of optimism about the United States economy, unemployment is still high, and the country seems stalled. Time and again, Americans are told to look to Japan as a …

Monti Wins Confidence Vote in Italy’s Lower HouseBy RACHEL DONADIO and GAIA PIANIGIANIROME — Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy won a confidence vote in the Lower House on Friday, speeding up the parliamentary passage of the 30-billion-eu…

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/09/15/does-the-euro-have-a-future/The euro crisis is a direct consequence of the crash of 2008. When Lehman Brothers failed, the entire financial system started to collapse and had to be put on ar…

http://blogs.reuters.com/nader-mousavizadeh/2011/08/25/a-smaller-america-could-be-a-stronger-america/

In Nuclear Crisis, Crippling Mistrust By NORIMITSU ONISHI and MARTIN FACKLERTOKYO — On the evening of March 12, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s oldest reactor had suffered a hydrogen explosion and risked a complete meltdown. Prime Mi…

This Is Just the StartBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Future historians will long puzzle over how the self-immolation of a Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, in protest over the confiscation of his fruit stand, managed to trigger popular upri…

‘X Day’: How To Trade a Japanese Bond Implosion CURRENCIES, US: TELEVISION, BUSINESS NEWS CNBC.com | Friday, 18 Feb 2011 | 8:32 AM ET As investors fret about a default of Greece’s $300 billion debt bill, consider this: at $10.2 trillion, t…

Mubarak's end came quickly, stunninglyA generation's pent-up anger proved the president's downfall. The Egyptian leader's maneuverings as the protests swelled proved no match for youth-based dissent that spread to all corners.February 11, …

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http://fora.tv/2010/06/09/Tim_Jackson_Prosperity_Without_Growth#fullprogram Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet by Tim JacksonWe must repudiate traditional economics if we're to save the planet, says Jeremy LeggettPros…

China Is Poised to Raise Rates Again, Bankers SayBy KEITH BRADSHER HONG KONG — China’s government, increasingly worried about soaring inflation, plans to continue tightening its money supply and will probably raise interest rates again wit…

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Maybe Japan Was Just a Warm-UpBy STEVE LOHRIN the 1980s, the United States faced an unnerving challenge from a rising economic powerhouse and export dynamo. It was an impressive challenger, to be sure, but one that often bent rules of glob…

Washington and Mr. MubarakBoth President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, in power for three decades, and Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, in power for 23 years, should have seen this coming. They didn’t — or didn’t care. Both countries share similar p…

Who has survived the global credit crisis in the best shape? As Zhou Enlai is reputed to have said about the impact of the French Revolution, it is still too early to judge. The snap verdict that China is the big winner and the US and rest…

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