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Basis for ‘monetary insanity’ in India

A rare meeting of minds between India’s Left and Right on a point of economics should alarm those who belong to neither. The two sides are tossing out similar — and similarly absurd — ideas. Before they make PM  Narendra Modi’s government do something silly and harmful (such as the overnight ban on 86% of currency notes in 2016), both ...

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Orban uses Covid-19 crisis for ‘power grab’

What do you call a country whose government openly embraces illiberalism and exults in the crisis of democracy, cheers the perceived decline of the US and the rise of its authoritarian challengers, makes irredentist claims against its neighbors, and spreads decay within key institutions of the American-led international order? If you answered “NATO ally,” you are, unfortunately, correct. Under PM ...

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Will Brits ever trust Boris Johnson again?

Boris Johnson clearly wants to draw a line under the fiascoes of Britain’s handling of the pandemic and return to the “boosterism” for which he is best known. And as is often the case, his instinct is right. Doing so will be crucial to putting the economy firmly on a path to recovery. The UK downgraded its coronavirus alert level, ...

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