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Troubled by bubbles: Bankers rethink the hands-off approach
Central bankers look at using regulation to prevent asset prices getting out of line with economic fundamentals
On the offensive: Russian oil trading
A secretive group is now the world’s third largest dealer of crude, and some see political connections at work
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Burma’s victims pay price for foreign policy realism
The Burmese junta has bestowed the right, if not the obligation, on the international community to intervene. But the geopolitical circumstances also remind us that what should be done will always be tempered by what can be done, writes Philip Stephens
Britain must not cut loose its anchor
Stick to the inflation target, says Martin Wolf
Change is in the air for financial superclass
David Rothkopf on the end of a golden age
States must act locally in a globalised world
Jeremy Greenstock on the need to decentralise
A Sex and the City guide to the entertainment industry
John Gapper says the show points to the future
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Time to convene a summit on oil
A summit would not cause instant falls in prices, but an international response will achieve more than countries acting alone
Bad constitution
UK ministers should focus on ensuring that National Health Service patients have choice and that hospitals have financial incentives to improve care
Monster-bankers
It may be true that bank regulators need a new set of teeth. But Germany’s political class clearly has a thing about the awesome beast that is capitalism
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Willem Buiter’s Maverecon
Inflation here, there and everywhere: What is inflation? Who or what causes it? And why is it rising almost everywhere?
Economists’ Forum
The canary in the mine: Larry Summers’s apparently nationalist argument for globalisation signals an alarming prospect for developing countries, say Devesh Kapur, Pratap Mehta and Arvind Subramanian
Gideon Rachman’s blog
The League of Democracies revisited: The league will only take off if the world’s democracies become convinced they face a common threat so obvious and dangerous that it is worth forming a new alliance
Book review
Political Hypocrisy
A Cambridge academic argues that a hypocritical politician need not be a bad thing – and shows that, in many cases, this realist’s approach is justified
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