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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...
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...
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...