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Budget fairy tales

We have a candour deficit President Obama last week submitted his $4 trillion 2017 budget, using the occasion for self-congratulation. Deficits are down. Employment is up. He plugged proposals to improve cyber-security, early childhood education and “clean” energy. All this is routine political advertising. What’s missing is candor and context. We now have a government that’s doing less and costing ...

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UAE’s medical tourism industry on right track

While improving the overall infrastructure nationwide which is giving a boost to the healthcare sector, the UAE has been wooing more visitors, including medical tourists who visit the country to spend their holidays and receive medical treatment as well. The UAE has turned into a hub for medical tourism and it has worked very hard to achieve this status. Both ...

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Obama shows how not to sell a carbon tax

President Barack Obama’s proposal this week for a $10-a-barrel tax on oil, which has been overwhelmingly rejected by Republicans, could make it easier for the next president to pass a carbon tax — by demonstrating how not to go about it. Obama made three mistakes. First, he targeted a single industry, and one that many Americans believe he doesn’t like. ...

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