Jan 8, 2013

American industry is on the move

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Manufacturers using ‘big data’ are setting the scene for a revival

©Matt Kenyon Jan 1, 2013

Africa is hooked on growth

The success is not continent-wide but the best-managed countries are pulling it off

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Bernanke – the rebel with a cause

The Fed chairman’s move to target lower unemployment is genuinely radical

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Japan should scare the eurozone

Europe risks replicating Japan’s lost decades

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Beware membership of this elite club

The business climate among the Brics countries is less than ideal

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Obama must do more than raise taxes

The president should be bold and aim for true fiscal stability

©Ferguson Nov 20, 2012

Spain is in need of urgent repair

The case for debt restructuring is painfully clear

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Europe is messing up Merkel’s union

If Germany can’t head off crises its citizens will pay for, unhappiness will turn to fury

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Economics must heed political risk

The answers to global questions are far more consequential than fine adjustments to data forecasts

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Regulators should keep it simple

If risk is important, the case for a data revolution seems clear

Aug 28, 2012

American law is patent nonsense

Litigation promotes madness rather than progress

Aug 21, 2012

The US labour market doesn’t work

The stick and carrot formula is no longer adequate

Aug 14, 2012

Why I work on my summer holiday

How workaholic we really are is a matter of perspective

Aug 7, 2012

This will not be enough, Mr Draghi

The ECB is bold when providing crisis loans to banks, less so with sovereigns

Jul 31, 2012

Finance must escape the shadows

Reform is, well, shadowy because no one wants to grapple with what money really is

Jul 24, 2012

Show some real audacity at the Fed

If the central bank won’t risk new tools, others won’t take risks either

Jul 17, 2012

Breaking up banks will win investor approval

Shareholders see banking behemoths as scarily complex, not comfortingly protected

From OPINION Jun 14, 2012

Sombre Spanish lessons on fighting credit bubbles

Regulatory intervention will rarely be pursued vigorously enough

From OPINION May 24, 2012

Mr Obama, stop the attack on private equity

Bain was a blood bank to the steel plant in the campaign ad, not a vampire

From OPINION Apr 26, 2012

Forget euro woes – brace for taxmageddon

US politicians need to win a mandate for fiscal overhaul, writes Sebastian Mallaby

ABOUT SEBASTIAN

Sebastian Mallaby Sebastian Mallaby is an FT Contributing Editor and the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was previously a columnist and leader writer for the Washington Post and spent thirteen years on the staff of The Economist, serving as bureau chief in southern Africa, Tokyo and Washington, DC.

His most recent book, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, was the recipient of the Loeb Prize, a finalist in the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs prize, and a New York Times bestseller. His previous books are The World's Banker (2004) and After Apartheid (1992).