1980s

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If ‘Sole’ is 150 years old, then I am 30. In fact, I am much older than that: what I mean is that I have been writing for ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’ for 30 years.

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Italy may not be Ireland (a leader in Europe, with GDP up 6.0 percent in 2016, up 4.5 percent in 2016), but it is making progress, leaving the recession behind. Italy confirmed its eighth place among the manufacturing powers of the world thanks to, as a primary source of wealth and growth, an

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There are those who look at forests and those who look at trees. Angus Deaton, the recipient of this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences resolutely looks at trees. And by looking at trees—in other words the economic decisions of individuals—it turns out he can better understand the

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No surprise: even the reports from the Federal Reserve confirmed that we will still have a dollar without rules, which will cause instability on the financial and exchange markets. Yet, central bankers are not interested in exchange volatility—at least until it becomes a political problem.

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There’s the company, and then there’s the family businesses. But the right of companies to evolve takes precedence over the “right of ownership” for those who control them. That’s the first rule of the Pesenti family. The second rule is that internationalization is a strategic priority through

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The involvement of Turkey—probably triggered by the Vienna agreement on Iran’s nuclear power—represents a turning point in the already one-year long war against ISIS. From Ankara’s point of view, the entente between the United States and Iran must have looked like a serious geopolitical defeat:

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The fact that a country spends between 15 and 16 percent of its GDP for pensions is undoubtedly a problem. And it is also true that the 1996 Dini reform—the true turning point for the welfare system—was born with a birth defect.

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As banking foundations and the Ministry of the Economy sign off on a definitive new set of regulations, the first stage in the life cycle of these institutions comes to a close—institutions that for the past 20 years have been major actors in the economic life of the nation, but also the object of

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The spending review and the reform of the public administration (PA) are at the center of the political agenda, but at least in the field of subcontracts, so far some issues have been ignored: which PA functions are necessary and which ones, instead, should be left to a transparent and

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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was not speaking metaphorically when he said that France is at war with radical Islam. There is, indeed, a full-fledged war

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What convinced Jabhat Al Nusra—recognized by Al Qaeda leader, Ayman Al Zawahiri as the Syrian branch of the movement—to free Vanessa Marzullo and Greta Ramelli?

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CAMBRIDGE – With Western economic sanctions against Russia, Iran, and Cuba in the news, it is a good time to take stock of the debate on just how well such

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Does Europe really intend to resign itself to being the 1 percent economy in the global market? The risk is present, and it is quite concrete. It is not necessary to push oneself to take the dull predictions of former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers as good when he announces a “secular

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The European rules dictate that, following a revised calculation of gross domestic product, the United Kingdom must pay 2.1 billion euros by next month to

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LONDON – The global system of financial regulation is extraordinarily complex. Partly for that reason, it is little understood. In order to explain it to my