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Analysis: US healthcare – transparently opaque
With work under way to implement Barack Obama’s voluminous reform measures, Americans find the cost is becoming clear sooner than the benefits
Analysis: Banks’ debt net
Questions persist about the long-term costs of ‘bail-in’ regimes, in which bondholders take greater losses in future failures
Man in the News: Stephen Elop
The Canadian took charge of Nokia last September, but it was only with his recent moment of frankness that he took full ownership of one of the toughest jobs in global business
Analysis: UK’s squeezed middle
With rapid inflation reducing pay and wrongfooting the Bank of England, the prospect looms of hard-pressed workers and companies creating a wage-price spiral
Analysis: Exchanges: A market to capture
The wave of consolidation that is sweeping exchanges is raising questions among regulators, banks and investors about the implications of their growing clout, writes Jeremy Grant
Analysis: IT: Mind games
After decades of false dawns, advances in artificial intelligence are at hand – led by a digital quiz show contestant – that offer business potentially significant benefits
Analysis: Finance: Elusive information
To forestall a future meltdown, regulators want a ‘dashboard’ alerting them to problems – but building it is hampered by a lack of uniform data and banks’ wariness
Analysis: Carbon trading: Into thin air
Cyberthieves’ theft of allowances has battered the credibility of the European Union’s emissions trading scheme to fight global warming
Analysis: Egypt: Evolution of an uprising
Focal point was the Arab world’s most populous nation, a US ally in a volatile region and one of only two Middle Eastern states to have formal relations with Israel
Analysis: UK politics: A quiet rebellion
As anti-austerity protests spread to Tory heartlands, the Big Society – David Cameron’s vision of a substitute for a shrinking state – faces growing scepticism
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