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Obama must face the rise of the robots

Technology will leave a large chunk of the US labour force in the lurch

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How America should avert its looming fiscal crisis
Reforming the tax code along with a consumption tax and revising the accounting process can help restore budget discipline
– Glenn Hubbard
Can publicity curb corporate tax avoidance?
Shaming techniques could be a good vehicle for promoting tax reform, at least on the company side of the ledger
– Bruce Bartlett
Economic nationalism will only fuel failure
Currency wars just lead to an international redistribution of economic pain but little growth
– Stephen King
Janan Ganesh Janan Ganesh from COLUMNISTS 6:07pm

Cameron must stop appeasing his party

The UK leader sees same-sex marriage as a way to broaden Tory appeal

Jurek Martin from OPINION 2:26pm

A disoriented view of Washington

How everything changed after the US president’s very nice speech

Markets Insight from MARKETS 11:24am

Brace for a stock market accident

Profits and leverage are locked in a deadly embrace

Wolfgang Munchau from COLUMNISTS 8:15pm

The eurozone crisis is not finished

The renationalisation of banking means that the monetary union is still unsustainable

OPINION 9:07pm

Cameron’s critics should extol his European vision

London needs to develop partners, issue by issue, writes Robert Zoellick

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The problems with Japan’s economic experiment

‘Abenomics’ challenges the conventional wisdom about fiscal policy, writes Masaaki Kanno

From LIFE & ARTS 11:12pm

How Berlin and Beijing tilted world trade

Stefan Wagstyl reviews ‘The Great Rebalancing’, by Michael Pettis

John Authers from COMPANIES Feb 3, 2013

Activist spat distracts from real targets

All the signs suggest this is a great time to take aim at boards

Joe Cummings illustration Peter Aspden Feb 1, 2013

Hilary Mantel: author in tune with the times

The novelist brings a modern sensibility to a pivotal point in history

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A girl stands amid the ruins of a school burnt down in north-eastern Nigeria by Boko Haram, the jihadist group ©Getty The west is still struggling to contain the constantly changing face of Islamist terrorism

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French soldiers salute Malian people after the prayer next to the Djingareyber mosque, on January 31, 2013 in Timbuktu. The fabled desert city of Timbuktu, an ancient centre of Islamic learning, has been recaptured on January 28 by French-led forces in their offensive against Islamist rebels who have been occupying Mali's north since last April. The extremists last year smashed up mausoleums of ancient saints and the entrance to the 15th-century Sidi Yahya mosque, claiming the sites were blasphemous. Reports had emerged in recent days that rebels fleeing the advancing soldiers had torched a building housing thousands of priceless manuscripts, but an expert said on January 30 that most had been smuggled to safety as the Islamists overran the city last year. ©AFP Bienvenue à Timbuktu: Many are celebrating the flight of Islamist fighters but fears persist

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