Doha Forum to discuss global challenges from May 20

Careless Dithering EUROPE'S economic problems are growing steadily worse, with unemployment in parts of the Continent now above the level reached in the United States during the Great Depression. Meanwhile, policy makers dither over solutions. Last week, the European Central Bank cut interest rates by a meagre quarter of a percentage point, akin to giving two aspirin to a patient with pneumonia. Meanwhile, pressure is growing to ease the emphasis on austerity and to allow larger budget deficits. If it were only that simple. Properly coupled with other new policies, fiscal stimulus can help, but on its own it is just an inadequate palliative ...

Myths Collide In The Capital THEcapital is in the throes of deja vu and preview as it plunges back into Clinton Rules, defined by a presidential aide on the hit ABC show 'Scandal' as damage control that goes like this: "It's not true, it's not true, it's not true, it's old news." The conservatives appearing on Benghazi-obsessed Fox News are a damage patrol with an approach that goes like this: "Lies, paranoia, subpoena, impeach, Watergate, Iran-contra." (Though now that the IRS has confessed to targeting Tea Party groups, maybe some of the paranoia is justified.) Welcome to a glorious spring weekend of accusation and obfuscation as Hillaryland goes up against ...

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