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South Africa is undeniably a free country. The hidebound evil of apartheid is gone. A liberal constitution helps ensure South ...

That leaves the third and most worrying option: making creditors pay. America would never be forced by the markets to default ...

At the start of this fiscal hullabaloo, in 1992, America’s net debt amounted to 46% of GDP. Today it has reached 96% of GDP.

A South Korean on the OECD ’s poverty line earns almost $22,000. That is still more than an average salary in Mexico. And ...

Indian officialdom still treats citizens like subjects ...

Strong economic growth, which averaged 5.9% over the 20 years after the country took ownership of the Panama canal at the ...

Mr Macron’s critics called it a mix of electioneering, the usual French self-interest and the intellectual vanity of a ...

The options boom is propelled by the rapid growth of India’s stockmarket. In January it overtook Hong Kong’s to become the ...

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He says a Russian order has gone out to “take something” in time for the pomp of Victory Day in Moscow on May 9th, or, failing that, before Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing a week later. The speed ...