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INCOHERENT, floundering, sleepy and confused. The demeanour of Japan's finance minister, Shoichi Nakagawa, at a G7 press conference in Rome on February 14th typified the country's economy and politics. Mr Nakagawa, forced to resign a few days later, blamed his apparent drunkenness on “cold medicine”. But there is no ready remedy for what ails Japan. The Japanese economy contracted 3.3% in the fina
In the face of chaosHow Pakistan’s army is failing, and what America must do, to crack down on rampant Islamist insurgencies in the region
YOU are what you eat, or so the saying goes. But Richard Wrangham, of Harvard University, believes that this is true in a more profound sense than the one implied by the old proverb. It is not just you who are what you eat, but the entire human species. And with Homo sapiens, what makes the species unique in Dr Wrangham's opinion is that its food is so often cooked. Cooking is a human universal. N
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Perhaps a reason to be cheerful?For those looking gamely for bright spots, China flickers CHINA is in the grip of a severe drought. In contrast, its banking system is awash with liquidity. Whereas most economies are being squeezed by a credit crunch, Chinese bank lending surged by 21% in the year to January. There are a few other hopeful signs. Are these the first green shoots of spring? Not neces
The ties that bindWill west European banks abandon their eastern subsidiaries? When companies brandish maps of their conquests, trouble usually follows. For some west European banks in recent years, the cartography in question tracked their efforts to hoover up lenders in central and eastern Europe (CEE). Depending on how this area is defined—some stretch it as far as Kazakhstan—up to four-fifths
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A thousand cries of painThe fabled Mittelstand is feeling the pinch more than most TWO gleaming towers of glass rise above the wooded hills next to a Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. They are garages, as sleek as the vehicles they store. Automated lifts whizz cars about before sending them off to a cathedral-like hall to be collected by reverent buyers. But this delivery centre, where in
Time to change the actBusiness in China, like business everywhere else, is being walloped by the global crisis. The slowdown is also exposing some deeper flaws
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