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The return of economic nationalism
A spectre is rising. To bury it again, Barack Obama needs to take the lead:




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｡he world this week
The return of economic nationalism
A spectre is rising. To bury it again, Barack Obama needs to take the lead:


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｡eaders
The world economy
The return of economic nationalism
The euro
High tensions
Venezuela
Ten mostly wasted years
Japanese business
Nothing to lose but their (restaurant) chains
Zimbabwe
Wait and see


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｡etters
On the British army, Russian mortality, female executives, Valley Forge, shareholders, Rolls-Royce, delays


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｡pecial Report
Divorce
Money in misery

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｡nited States
Economic policy
Can the centrists hold?
The new president's plans
Stealth care
Infrastructure
Be careful what you wish for
The Republicans
Reassembling the wreckage
Minnesota's Senate seat
Three months and counting
Open government
Track my tax dollars
Statewatch: Nevada
Wheel of fortune
Lexington
Another two bite the dust


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｡he Americas
Hugo Chｨ｢vez's Venezuela
Oblivious to the coming storm
Uruguay and Argentina
Profiting from virtue
A Brazilian political boss
Where dinosaurs still roam


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｡sia
India's election
Awaiting the democratic tide
Malaysia's airport controversy
Terminal declined
Australia's economic stimulus
Hey, big spender
Myanmar and the United Nations
Knock, knock
Ideological debate in China
The Little Red Bookshop
Press freedom in Kazakhstan
Keep it official
North Korea's belligerence
In the court of King Kim
Correction: Cambodia


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｡iddle East & Africa
Israel
Politics not quite as usual
Voting in Iraq
God takes a back seat
Iran｡ｯs 30-year-old republic
Defiant, and doubtful
Ethiopia
A row over human rights
Turmoil in Madagascar
I'm king of the...oops
Kenya
Double trouble


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｡urope
The euro area
A tricky balancing act
Food in France
Sandwich courses
The Irish economy
Reykjavik-on-Liffey
Turkey's prime minister
Temper tantrums
Spain's rail ambitions
Ave Madrid
Amsterdam's troubled metro
A big dig
Charlemagne
Single-market blues


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｡ritain
Industrial action
Discontents, wintry and otherwise
Torture and the law
That curious relationship
Monetary policy
Breaking the rule book
Snowbound Britain
White-out


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｡nternational
The World Social Forum
Dear capitalists, admit you got it wrong
Cyber-hedonism
Virtual pleasures

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｡usiness
Japan's electronics giants
Unplugged
Japan's labour market
Non-regular and not wanted
Executive pay
Paying the piper
Mining
Digging deep
The rise of haggling
Let's make a deal
Outsourcing
A quick fix
Online video
Hulu who?
Face value
The unrepentant salesman


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｡pecial Report
Globalisation under strain
Homeward bound
Carmakers
Too many moving parts


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｡inance & Economics
Mortgage losses
Move over, subprime
Russia's currency
Down in the dumps
Japan's currency
Up and away
American Treasury bonds
Too much of a good thing
Asian stockmarkets
Bye bye sell
Fortis
What a carve-up
Corporate finance
Triple trouble
The IMF
Supersizing the fund
Economics focus
Burger-thy-neighbour policies


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｡cience & Technology
Evolution
Unfinished business
The Richard Casement internship


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｡ooks & Arts
Liberalism
Anatomy of an idea
Iran and the West
Talking past each other
Tehran memoir
Mulberry milkshake
Charles Darwin
A life in poems
The euro
Currency affairs
Pierre Bonnard
Meditating on modernism
Correction: The YSL/Pierre Bergｨｦ sale


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｡bituary
Anastasia Baburova

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｡conomic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, February averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Open budget index