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Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Bonds Need to Catch Up on the News

The bond-market tide may be on the turn. After weeks of inaction, 10-year Treasury yields are eyeing 3% once more. Continued momentum in the global economy could lead yields higher still.

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Monday, 30 July 2018

Intel Serves Up an Opportunity for AMD

Much smaller chip maker will have a big head start with new data-center processors.

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Saturday, 28 July 2018

Liberating trade

How much damage does protectionism do to the world economy?

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Migration and development

Easing the movement of people across borders is a political challenge more than an economic one

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Fighting corruption

Corruption enriches the venal, but hurts everyone else. Can it be curbed?

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The learning deficit

Lack of education holds much of the world back. Would more money help?

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Curbing disease

Across the developing world, disease causes a vast toll of avoidable suffering

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Essential Economics

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Double or nothing

Fixing failed firms should be based on economics, not revenge

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Liberating trade

How much damage does protectionism do to the world economy?

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Migration and development

Easing the movement of people across borders is a political challenge more than an economic one

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Fighting corruption

Corruption enriches the venal, but hurts everyone else. Can it be curbed?

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The learning deficit

Lack of education holds much of the world back. Would more money help?

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Curbing disease

Across the developing world, disease causes a vast toll of avoidable suffering

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Essential Economics

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Double or nothing

Fixing failed firms should be based on economics, not revenge

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Sources: New-year irresolution

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Sources: “Much ado about multipliers”

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Sources: New-year irresolution

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Sources: “Much ado about multipliers”

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An emoluments suit against Donald Trump gets the go-ahead

The legal challenge focuses on the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC

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Richmond’s monument commission says a statue of Jefferson Davis should go

No city in America is more closely entwined with the Confederacy and the civil war

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Brett Kavanaugh’s years as a government lawyer

A watchdog files lawsuits to produce the executive-branch papers of Mr Trump’s Supreme Court pick

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America’s cultural divide isn’t growing

So what explains increasing partisanship?

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The missing middle of the Trump-Putin meeting

The summit offered up a graphic reaffirmation of what was already known

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Robert Mueller indicts twelve Russians

How Russian prosecuted its cyber-war on American democracy

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An emoluments suit against Donald Trump gets the go-ahead

The legal challenge focuses on the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC

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Friday, 27 July 2018

Facebook's Terrible Timing and Why a Trade Deal Matters for Tech Stocks

Many tech companies were seen as immune from trade tensions, but Facebook released a worrying outlook just as that benefit may wane.

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How badly are sanctions hurting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un?

Not as much as people think

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A “slight correction on democracy” in Cambodia

Abolish the opposition, silence criticism and call it a fair election

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A dam disaster in Laos

A deadly flood and a torrent of criticism of Laos’s hydroelectric ambitions

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Why South-East Asia is fertile ground for mini-Trumps

Thaksin Shinawatra, who wrote the book on South-East Asian populism, ponders its next chapter

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How badly are sanctions hurting North Korea’s Kim Jong Un?

Not as much as people think

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A “slight correction on democracy” in Cambodia

Abolish the opposition, silence criticism and call it a fair election

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A dam disaster in Laos

A deadly flood and a torrent of criticism of Laos’s hydroelectric ambitions

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Why South-East Asia is fertile ground for mini-Trumps

Thaksin Shinawatra, who wrote the book on South-East Asian populism, ponders its next chapter

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Why Shell's $25 Billion Buyback Program Isn't Enough

As oil prices and gas demand rise, Royal Dutch Shell needs to plow surplus profits into production—not just share buybacks.

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High-ranking officials claim immunity over poisonous water

The cases will run and run

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Trump tries a Nixonian move, but lacks Nixon’s skill

The independence of rate-setters protects him

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Catholic bishops’ opposition to Donald Trump emboldens church liberals

They may be disappointed

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Soon anyone will be able to learn how to print 3D guns

Gun-control advocates are terrified

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Jonathan Gold, poet of the strip-mall eatery

The first food critic to win a Pulitzer died on July 21st

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The questions over Carter Page’s links with Russia

Donald Trump denounces a “witch hunt”, but the surveillance seems justified

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