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What keeps central bankers in Frankfurt awake at night – and why should Britain care?

In his speech in Davos yesterday, David Cameron outlined some very sensible proposals for how to deal with Europe’s economic crisis. But, almost in passing, he also called for a eurozone “central bank that can comprehensively stand behind the currency and financial system”, implicitly suggesting that the ECB must be ready to provide more cash [...]

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New York’s Silicon Valley dream deserves applause

It’s rare when a city as proud and ambitious as New York offers the equivalent of a curtsey to a visiting business executive. But that’s what Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer at Facebook, received when she jetted in from Silicon Valley in December. Like Google a decade ago, Facebook is a company whose power [...]

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