ANALYSIS & OPINION
Post fiscal cliff: The fix is in
The fiscal cliff was a gimmick to turn the national debt into a crisis. But the voters know the crisis isn't real. Congress created it, and Congress can get around it with a fix.
Avis’s smart Zipcar buy
What's the opposite of the winner's curse? It seems that the biggest winner of the Hertz deal to buy Dollar Thrifty for $2.6 billion was actually Hertz's mortal enemy, Avis Budget.
Global relief on fiscal cliff misses the point
The unnecessary fight over the U.S. budget ended with another messy and inadequate compromise. Other equally silly clashes loom. Investors may cheer, but their nail-biting was symptomatic of the world’s excessive dependence on dysfunctional American politics. That hasn’t changed.
The high cost of hating government
While the difference between the sides is ostensibly over taxes and public spending and borrowing, the more profound division is over where government should begin and end.
How far can the Chinese firewall stretch?
After smart reporting from Bloomberg and the New York Times about China's increasing efforts to limit stories about its crony capitalism, we're in need of more stories. How serious is China willing to be about limiting information, and how serious is it already?
The world at work
“The Family of Man”, a 1955 photography exhibit, spawned a best-selling book. The pictures of work are dated and misleading, but still bring out the timeless universality of the human condition. It’s a sobering theme for economists, who place too many hopes on technical progress.
In 2013, the great global unraveling
After two decades of globalization, this year will see each of the big political theaters re-erecting barriers and focusing more on domestic repairs than on global expansion.THE LATEST
- Confronting the political problem of guns
by Newton Minow and David B. Apatoff on Thu, Jan 3, 2013, 5:21 AM UTC - Bad news crowds out the good in the world, Pope Benedict says
by Catherine Hornby on Wed, Jan 2, 2013, 10:58 PM UTC - Israeli TV star-turned-politician to confront ultra-Orthodox skipping army
by Allyn Fisher-Ilan on Wed, Jan 2, 2013, 10:30 PM UTC - Catholic Church closes London’s gay-friendly Soho Masses
by Tom Heneghan on Wed, Jan 2, 2013, 10:08 PM UTC - Counterparties: 2013′s first foreclosure settlement
by Ben Walsh on Wed, Jan 2, 2013, 11:46 PM UTC - Andrew Sullivan goes it alone
by Felix Salmon on Wed, Jan 2, 2013, 9:37 PM UTC - Post fiscal cliff: The fix is in
by Bill Schneider on Wed, Jan 2, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC - Avis’s smart Zipcar buy
by Felix Salmon on Wed, Jan 2, 2013, 3:30 PM UTC - What’s Ackman’s Herbalife game?
by Felix Salmon on Mon, Dec 31, 2012, 10:27 PM UTC - Counterparties: Resolution without reconciliation
by Ben Walsh on Mon, Dec 31, 2012, 8:30 PM UTC
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