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When you cut through all the buzz, the crypto-currency simply invites speculators to bet on the promise of technology

The new radical-populist establishment in Rome could be the force that finally breaks the continent’s cohesion

Every US administration until now has understood that an attempt to create rules is preferable to an absence of rules

Political outcomes often hinge on quirks of fortune and should not be seen as durable signals that liberalism is either moribund or resurgent

Cameron now faces a referendum with large sections of the media sneering at him

With luck, statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic will rise to this challenge — and my dire warnings of a tipping point in history will turn out to have been wrong

The US government has already done more than it gets credit for, and yet the national malaise continues

The next globalisation backlash

Taking over a multilateral institution like the World Bank is a bit like showing up at elementary school halfway through third grade nobody really likes you.

In resource-rich countries, a switch from autocracy to electoral competition lowers the annual growth rate.