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Obama’s Trimming Won’t End a Fiscal Nightmare

Financial Times

It is a dispiriting time for fiscal sanity in the US. Evidence is growing that both political parties lack the courage to mount an attack on their nation’s budget challenge. Republicans and Democrats agree that recent elections signalled public demand for deficit cuts. But they also agree that voters will steadfastly oppose the necessary pain.

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Slowly But Surely, Obama’s Economic Medicine is Working

Washington Post

Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. President Obama has bounded back from his midterm shellacking with a still more determined effort to convince the American people that he is on top of the unemployment problem.

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The “Great Man” Theory of Business

Financial Times

Historians have not documented whether Charles de Gaulle or Georges Clemenceau first pronounced that “graveyards are full of indispensable men”. While that must be so, some chief executives come close to severely testing that aphorism.

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The New York Times: How Project 2025 Would Change the Country

When Donald Trump takes the debate stage on Tuesday, he will doubtless again try to disavow Project ...

The New York Times: Don’t Take Trump’s Word for It. Check the Data.

For more than 90 minutes last week, Donald Trump gave a rambling speech accepting the Republican nom...

The New York Times: Biden’s Get-Tough-on-China Tariffs May Backfire

The tide of globalization is receding, at least from American shores. Two successive presidents have...

The New York Times: What Trump Would Do To Our Economy

Originally published in The New York Times. Much to fear about another Donald Trump presidency: ...

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