COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Gordon Brown's Gordian knot
The widely assumed Prime Minister-to-be of Britain, Mr Gordon Brown, is inevitably the recipient of advice (welcome or otherwise!) from all quarters. One such piece of advice is that he should not let go the ...
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FINANCIAL SCAN
Asset prices thrive on liquidity
One of the first things that Mr Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, did, after Labour came to power, was to make the BoE autonomous and responsible for ensuring inflation did not exceed target. It has worked well for ten long ...
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VIEW POINT
Presiding over Latbagan
On Monday morning, the people of Kolkata were greeted by a picture showing a makeshift, ugly-looking contraption lifting a statue of Dr B. C. Roy, the erstwhile Chief Minister of West Bengal, literally by the scruff of his neck, as part of a ...
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DOWN TO EARTH
Climate change and the ostrich syndrome
When the wiser course would be to presume the worst effects of climate change and prepare for it, the country seems to be burying its head in the sand hoping that the storm will pass.
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