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The UK and France added a few extra percent to their GDPs by including drug-dealing, prostitution and smuggling.
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If Abenomics proves to be a successful electoral strategy, conservative politicians elsewhere are likely to take note and follow suit
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At the age of fifteen he was living with a geisha, and in his thirties he led a group of hard-drinking, brawling Japanese miners to the high Andes…
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They walk in cool and confident, armed with their PowerPoint presentations. They leave town horizontal, soaked in red ink.
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The Greeks could do us all a favour by voting Trotskyite and neo-pagan and thus ending a saga that could go on for decades.
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The bond market vigilantes appear to have gone as quiet as the sound of one hand clapping.
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The Bank of Japan’s decision to adopt an inflation target and double its bond purchases completes the global flight to soft money.
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In Havana’s Plaza Vieja (old square), a pavement artist produces a sketch of me containing two features that are purely imaginary. One is a nose long enough to stir a mojito; the other is a hat-band proclaiming “Cuba Must Survive.”
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Warren Buffet visited Japan for the first time in November. At the press conference journalists blinked in disbelief at his breezy assertion that their grandchildren…
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I scan my memory, jumbled and blurred by hangover, jetlag, lifelag. Got it – he’s a media figure, fronts up current affairs programs, TV and radio. A real pro, and a nice guy too. “You’re looking well,” I respond.