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FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Why Obama must mend a sick world economy
ft.com - 1/21/2009
FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Why Obama must mend a sick world economy
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Pinn illustration Pity President Barack Obama. He won power partly because of the global economic crisis. He himself, most of his fellow citizens and much of the rest of the world agree that the US broke the world economy and now has the duty to fix it. Unhappily, this consensus is false. The ...

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FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Why Obama’s plan is still inadequate and incomplete
ft.com - 1/14/2009
FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Why Obama’s plan is still inadequate and incomplete
— ft.com — Pinn illustration Last week, President-elect Barack Obama duly unveiled his American recovery and reinvestment plan . Its title was aptly chosen, for Mr Obama spoke, astonishingly, as if the policies of the rest of the world had no bearing on the fate ... (more) FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Why Obama’s plan is ...

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FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Why dealing with the huge debt overhang is so hard
ft.com - 1/28/2009
FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Why dealing with the huge debt overhang is so hard
— ft.com — Sub How much debt is too much? Nobody knows. But the governments of highly indebted high-income economies – such as the US and UK – think they know the answer: more than today. They want even more credit to flow to their struggling private sectors. Is ... (more) FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Why dealing with the ...
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FT Alphaville — ... Things are bad – unprecedentedly bad – so we need to consider radical actions and actions that would have been thought lunatic a year or so ago. John McFall and Jon Moulton call for nationalisation. John McFall is chairman of the Commons Treasury committee and Jon Moulton is founder of Alchemy Partners. Martin Wolf: Pity Obama Collapse of globalisation is now no small risk. Barack Obama is present at the re-creation of the global economic system. It is a challenge he has to take up. ...

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naked capitalism — Edible technology relays medical data from inside the body The Standard It's Not Just Consumers Who Are Making Adjustments Michael Panzner Roubini Predicts U.S. Losses May Reach $3.6 Trillion Bloomberg Ben Stein: Please eat your hat Andrew Leonard Salon Gun Nuts Exposed at Distorting Data and Results EconoSpeak Mortgage-Securities Defaults Rise Wall Street Journal Why Obama must mend a sick world economy Martin Wolf, Financial Times Helmut Schmidt: Six steps to curb ...

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