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HE DESERVES A BREAK.
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Greece’s Euro Membership Looks Vulnerable Again

Greece’s Euro Membership Looks Vulnerable Again

Greece is caught in a spat between its major creditors. On one side is the International Monetary Fund, which says “significant debt relief” is needed. On the other are the euro-zone institutions, insisting on a primary budget surplus of 3.5 percent of...
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Bye-bye single market?
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A Union Jack flag flutters next to European Union flags ahead of a visit from Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium February 16, 2016. REUTERS/Yves Herman


Post-Brexit Britain Faces a Pay Squeeze

Post-Brexit Britain Faces a Pay Squeeze

Don’t tell Tiny Tim, but even if Brexit hasn’t put a damper on Christmas 2016, next year might be a different story. Come January, Britons will pay 5 percent more for their Lego sets, as the Danish company raises prices in response to the pound’s...
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The hair-raising cost of energy security. Photographer: JENS SCHLUETER/AFP/Getty Images


The U.K.’s Nuclear Gamble

The U.K.’s Nuclear Gamble

The U.K. government had to perform two distinct calculations in deciding to proceed with building a nuclear power station at Hinkley Point, one political and one economic. The political reckoning was always going to argue strongly against abandoning the project. The...