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How Serious Is Our National Debt?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: China, Japan, National Debt, Gross Domestic Product, Economic Stimulus Package, Ronald Reagan, The Economist, Debt Percentage, Obama Administration, Congress, Obama, Gdp, Business News

The American debt as a percentage of GDP is at around 100%, which is expected to edge up to 101% in 2011, then begin to drop. However, Japan's debt as a percentage of GDP will go to 230%!

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The Economist The Obama Administration Should Have Listened To

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Eight months ago, the Obama administration launched a plan to help troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure by providing $75 billion in taxpayer funds to...

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Wheel of Fortune

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Bloomberg LP, Businessweek, Charlie Rose, The Economist, Fortune Magazine, Condé Nast, Time Inc., Media, Business, Media News

So Fortune magazine is cutting back its issues to 18 from 25. But don't panic. The new Fortune will become more of a lush-looking premium product.

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Report on The Economist: Immigrant Assimilation Isn't Possible

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: The-Economist, Immigration, Assimilation, Politics News

The date of the report: 1933. The subject: Polish Jews... "In this period of very harsh economic crisis...work is being taken away from the indigenous population," says the report.

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This Week in Magazines: An Electric-Fuel-Trade Acid Test and the South Rises Against the New Yorker

James Warren | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Oxford American, The New Yorker, Malcom Gladwell, Time, American Music, Forbes, The Economist, Magazines, Media News

Those old, wicked animosities between New York City and Conway, Ark., are heating up.

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The Economist: America's New Antitrust Policy: Return Of The Trustbusters

Economist | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Us Antitrust Policy, Department of Justice, Obama Administration, The Economist, Business News

THE new head of the antitrust division of America's Department of Justice, Christine Varney, sees Thurman Arnold, a predecessor who took office in 193...

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The "Precision" of B-School Rankings Can Claim Victims

Pablo Triana | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business

Read More: The Economist, Business Schools, B-School Rankings, Yale Som, Financial TImes, Business Week, Kellogg, Cornell Johnson, Business-School-Rankings, B-School, Business News

Why do the outrageously flawed rankings go on living?

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Did the Economist Do Sex Crime Victims Justice?

Robin Sax | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Sex Offenders, The Economist, Sexual Assualt, Robin-Sax, Child Sexual Abuse, Crime, Media News

If anything should be explored about the state of the law relating to sex offenders, it's the huge issue of a lack of prosecution--not too much of it, as the Economist asserts.

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Does Economics Have a Future?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Economists, Bird Entrails, The Economist, Economics, Business News

This week the Economist offered a spirited defense of the profession for which it is named.

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The Economist Eats the WSJ's Lunch

Charles Warner | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media

Read More: The Economist, New York Times, Freemium, WSJ.Com, Wsj, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Folio, Media News

The Economist makes a lot of money and the WSJ loses a lot of money, even though they both have a freemium business model for their Web offering. Why?

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The Evolution of Economics

Dennis Whittle | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Globalgiving, The Economist, Economics, Rational Expectations, Behavioral Economics, Business News

Behavioral economics has been successful at exposing the fallacies of rational expectations, but it has not succeeded in creating a new framework.

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When Do We Take Action?

Jim Selman | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Environment, Wisdom, The Economist, Aging Population, Eldering, Economy, David Korten, Living News

According to The Economist's report on aging, one in three Americans will be over 60 in the next 11 years. The impact of this number of older people on public spending will be unprecedented.

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Robert Ménard Slams Door, or Booted Out, of Doha Center for Media Freedom?

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Depending on whose version one believes, Robert Ménard, ex-director of the Doha Center for Media Freedom, pushed the press freedom envelope a bit too far, until he was shoved out the door.

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Newsweek CEO On The Economist's "Snob Appeal"

Nicholas Carlson | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Media, The Economist, Magazines, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Magazine Industry, Media News

We asked Newsweek CEO Tom Ascheim -- whose magazine re-launched today -- to explain how his competitor does it. He gave us three reasons for The Economist's success.

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Nate Silver Economist Interview: Seven Questions About Polling, Predictions And Politics

Economist | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nate Silver, Nate Silver the Economist, The Economist, Nate Silver Economist Interview, Nate Silver Interview, Politics News

NATE SILVER has been called a "prodigy", a "wunderkind", and a "genius". Using his unique methodology, he was able to correctly predict every state bu...

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Robert Reich Economist Interview: Reich Is Pessimistic On Recovery

The Economist | Posted 05.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Robert Reich Interview, Robert Reich, Economic Crisis, The Economist, Economy, Business News

IN OUR lead story this week we say that the worst thing for the world economy would be to assume the worst is over. In order to reinforce our gloom, D...

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Economist: America Is Just Like An Emerging Market, Wall Street Oligarchs And All

HuffingtonPost.com | Julie Satow | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Global Economy, Simon Johnson, Economy, Emerging Markets, The Economist, Huffington Post Simon Johnson, Simon Johnson Emerging Market, Business News

America may be more like an emerging market than we realize. That is the analysis by an increasingly vocal and influential professor at MIT, Simon Jo...

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Corporate Government Reform

Harry Moroz | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Jeffrey Sachs, Aig Bonuses, The Economist, New Democrats, Spending, Bonuses, Taxation, Congress, Government, Blue Dog Democrats, Hendrik Hertzberg, Business News

Debate about the House tax bill and about earmarks is a striking reminder to us that governance in this country is at risk of going off track.

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The Economist Knocks Alan Greenspan: 'He Had The Power'

Economist | Posted 04.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Crisis, Alan Greenspan, The Economist and Alan Greenspan, Housing Bubble, The Economist, Business News

ALAN GREENSPAN's defence of the Federal Reserve in the formation of the housing bubble restates a familiar argument--it raised short-term interest rat...

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This Week in Magazines -- Middle East Mayhem, Gagging Conservatives and Vicki Iseman's Side

James Warren | Posted 02.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, This Week in Magazines, Time Magazine, Gaza, The Economist, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Vicki Iseman, Businessweek, Media News

Despite the difficulty for journalists in reporting on the latest mess in Gaza, given onerous press restrictions, it's an obvious topic for many magazines, with most suggesting more reason for fatalism.

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Economist Readers Defend Columnist Bagehot

Guardian | Paul Owen | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media

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The intimidatingly well-informed letter-writers of the Economist magazine have rushed to defend one of its star columnists against the charge that he ...

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Economist Apologizes For Not Predicting Financial Crisis

New York Times | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 01.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Daniel Franklin, Economist Predictions, The Economist, Media News

For 23 years, The Economist has issued bold predictions for the coming year in its thick December special issue. Last year, its crystal ball, in the i...

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The Economist Lays Off 12 Employees

AdAge | Nat Ives | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Layoffs, The Economist, Economist Layoffs, Magazines, Media News

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The Economist Group, whose flagship title was recently named Advertising Age's Magazine of the Year, has laid off about a doze...

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This Week in Magazines: Obama-Mania

James Warren | Posted 12.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Election 2008 Coverage, Sports Illustrated, This Week in Magazines, The New Yorker, The Economist, Election Reaction, Harpers Magazine, Barack Obama, Media News

Not all's lost for the Republicans: John McCain apparently took the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Algeria according to the Economist's Global Electoral College poll.

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This Week in Magazines: What's at Stake in the Election, Atlantic's Redesign and The New Yorker's Brainiacs

James Warren | Posted 12.03.2008 | Media

Read More: David Bromwich, This Week in Magazines, New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Journal, New York Review of Books, The Economist, Businessweek, Media News

What's really at stake in Tuesday's election? Many usual suspects are opining in the cable universe, so for a cerebral alternative there's "A Fateful Election" in the Nov. 6 New York Review of Books.

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