Sign in Welcome! Log into your account your username your password Forgot your password? Get help Create an account Create an account Welcome! Register for an account your email your username A password will be e-mailed to you. Password recovery Recover your password your email A password will be e-mailed to you. Partisan Conflict and Fiscal Prudence 57 February 18, 2011 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Published in The Economist (U.K.) on by (link to originallink to original) Translated from by . Edited by . Back To Origin This post appeared on the front page as a direct link to the original article with the above link . Tags:U.K. Hot this week Block titleFeaturedAll time popularMore Australia: Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un Are Coming Together in China. And Trump Won’t Be There September 1, 2025. Published in ABC News Australia 0 Luxembourg: Thanks, Daddy: Trump Is Imposing Putin’s Will on Europe August 30, 2025. Published in TageblattThe big and strong can do as they wish. The world will have to live with the consequences. 0 El Salvador: Trump and Putin: Trying To Square the Impossible Circle in Ukraine August 27, 2025. Published in El Mundo[T]here were no signs of any flag of peace in Alaska, just the prolonging of a tragic, fruitless war. 0 Australia: Australia Boosts Corporate Law Enforcement as America Goes Soft September 1, 2025. Published in ABC News Australia 0 Turkey: Pay Up or Step Aside: Tariffs in America’s ‘Protection Money’ Diplomacy September 1, 2025. Published in Daily Sabah 0 Topics Poland: Ukraine Is Still Far from Peace. What Was Actually Decided at the White House? September 1, 2025. Published in RzeczpospolitaAfter the Washington summit, there are more questions than answers. 0 Ireland: Irish Examiner View: Would We Miss Donald Trump and Would a Successor Be Worse? September 1, 2025. Published in Irish Examiner 0 Canada: Minnesota School Shooting Is Just More Proof That America Is Crazed September 1, 2025. Published in Toronto Star 0 Australia: Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un Are Coming Together in China. And Trump Won’t Be There September 1, 2025. Published in ABC News Australia 0 Australia: Donald Trump Is Taking Over the US Federal Reserve and Financial Markets Have Missed the Point September 1, 2025. Published in ABC News Australia 0 Israel: From the Cities of America to John Bolton: Trump’s Vendetta Campaign against Opponents Reaches New Heights September 1, 2025. Published in GlobesThe elderly president, vengeful and bearing a grudge, is conducting an all-out war against individuals, private and public institutions, cities and against U.S. states. 0 Australia: Australia Boosts Corporate Law Enforcement as America Goes Soft September 1, 2025. Published in ABC News Australia 0 Turkey: Pay Up or Step Aside: Tariffs in America’s ‘Protection Money’ Diplomacy September 1, 2025. Published in Daily Sabah 0 Related Articles Austria: Maybe Trump’s Tariff Bludgeon Was Good for Something after All May 20, 2025. Published in Die Presse U.K.: The Guardian View on the IMF’s Warning: Donald Trump Could Cost the World a Trillion Dollars April 22, 2025. Published in The GuardianThe U.S. president’s economic agenda collides with fragile financial systems, triggering market fears, investor flight and developing nation chaos. U.K.: The Guardian View on Donald Trump’s Industrial Policy: Inward Turn by Ultimatum April 17, 2025. Published in The GuardianThe U.S. is retreating behind chokepoints and tariffs. It remains determined to invent the future but is struggling to ensure its control. U.K.: The Guardian View on the US Immigration Crackdown: What Began with Foreign Nationals Won’t End There April 9, 2025. Published in The GuardianThe Trump administration is deliberately fomenting fear through the deportations and arrests. U.K.: The Guardian View on Trump’s Tariffs: A Monstrous and Momentous Act of Folly April 5, 2025. Published in The GuardianThe U.S. president has expelled his own country from the rules-based global trade system that America itself created. Previous articleThe Spies Who Got it WrongNext articleDiplomats Can Kill? LEAVE A REPLY Cancel replyLog in to leave a comment