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Continue Reading: Food Inflation in India Hits 18.4%; RBI Expected to Hike Rates; Pause Before Rupee Collapse?
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Pettis: "Abenomics Likely to Fail in Medium Term, Debt Matters" Michael Pettis, at China Financial Markets , discusses Abenomics, Japan’s shrinking (for now) current account surplus, debt, and interest rates in an interesting email. From Pettis … Abenomics in Japan is likely to put upward pressure on the national savings rate in Japan (but not necessarily on the household savings rate).
Continued here: 4th and 1st Amendments Under Fire; "Everyone Spies" a Favorite Cry of US Apologists; War Against Journalists; "We…
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Montebourg Preserves "French Gem" DailyMotion From the Clutches of Yahoo! – The day Arnaud Montebourg prevented the acquisition of DailyMotion by Yahoo! France Goes After "Red Bull" Energy Drinks Where there’s socialists, there’s economic nonsense. Here is another case in point via translation from Les Echos .
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