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Financial Times - Editorial
  • Europe cannot make bank risk go away
    Europe may be able to hide risks in its banking system, but it cannot make them go away

  • UN resolve must not waver on Syria
    Serious consideration should be given to whether to arm the rebels and how and when to establish humanitarian corridors

  • Obama’s latest housing plan
    There are two ways of reading any White House proposal: on its merits, and by the politics. Struggling homeowners are pawns in election campaign

  • A merger fit for world domination
    Consolidating mining and trading bodes ill for consumers. The analogy in the oil market would be a Saudi Arabia producing three times more crude than it already does

  • Two tales from the world economy
    If progress can be made on tackling southern Europe’s unemployment, it would be a real bright spot for the world economy

  • Putin’s politics
    And among world leaders, one of the most enthusiastic levellers of the charge of hypocrisy against the west has been Russia’s leader

  • Facing up to the failings of finance
    It will take more than Fred Goodwin’s knighthood to bring about reconciliation. More must come out about what went wrong in the City

  • No winners in Afghanistan’s war
    Little has been achieved to ensure stability in a country still beset with corruption and lawlessness

  • Putin and the polls
    Moscow should bow to the demands of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary opposition, and announce new elections within 12 to 18 months

  • No fairness in rich man’s justice
    It is important that those engaged in relationships of trust co-operate with authorities and that fraud is not swept under the carpet

  • Mitt Romney’s Hispanic problem
    The Republican frontrunner can now afford to pander a little less to the base. On no issue does this matter more than immigration

  • The Global Fund must come of age
    Organisation must be more critical in scrutinising grant applications to ensure its stretched finances go to the neediest

  • A learning curve
    Britain needs to provide real alternatives to higher education, including a better system of vocational training

  • The shredding of Sir Fred Goodwin
    If the recipient of an honour should be expected to show noblesse oblige, the former RBS boss has fallen woefully short

  • Letting China’s economy bloom
    Keeping up the pace of reform is the key challenge for China this year, whether or not it reaches for another stimulus package

  • The dilemma of German leadership
    There is truth in the German view of fiscal discipline, but it is not the whole truth so Berlin should make more explicit offers and demands

  • US tax requires less caution, more action
    By eliminating most tax loopholes, for example, Barack Obama could reduce the headline personal and corporate tax rates and still boost revenues

  • A rational choice for regulators
    Regulators’ objective must be to ensure that consumers are offered financial products appropriate to their needs and circumstances

  • Hollande calls on hearts and heads
    The French Socialist frontrunner’s plan scores politically but less so economically. He should not make promises he cannot keep

  • Fly me to the moon
    ‘By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon,’ Newt Gingrich promised. Will he ever come down to earth?