Financial Times

"It was a mistake to bet on getting a quick treaty with the Russians," said Jeffrey Lewis at the New America Foundation in Washington. ...

A year ago on this page, we cautioned that the enormous cost of the financial industry bail-outs and the stimulus plan would sharply curtail US President Barack Obama’s ability to push for investment spending and for healthcare and entitlement reform. We felt that by further exploding our federal debt and our reliance on foreign capital, our economic security would decline, especially vis-à-vis China.

“There is a lack of creativity in the Obama administration's approach to the Arab-Israeli talks,” says Daniel Levy, a former Israeli government official and ...

Maya MacGuineas, who heads a fiscally conservative think-tank, said: “It is a great idea that needs to be strengthened given the many constituencies that ...

"If progress is defined as Republican support, then right now it's a fool's errand," said Len Nichols, a fellow at the centrist New America Foundation. ...

The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed a period of sustained global deflation. In the 1896 US presidential election, William Jennings Bryan famously attacked the gold standard as the cause of deflation, declaring “You shall not press upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” Today, euroland is being crucified upon its own cross of gold that is the institutional arrangements behind the euro. Those arrangements have distorted the monetary - fiscal balance, creating deflationary central bank dominance.

Steven Hill admires a great deal about Europe. Road speed humps, high-speed trains, wind turbines, siestas, works councils, two-button flush ...

In Grand New Party, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that the future of the Republicans lies in addressing what they describe as growing trepidation ...

"There's a sense that the administration overestimated Russia's eagerness for a deal," said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the New America Foundation ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said “the 3.9 per cent number is a bad number, but it is not unrealistic” ...