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| Germany focuses on small beer |
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| Part of Merkel's appeal seems to be her ability to persuade Germans she can protect them from the harshness of the world beyond their borders |
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| A plan to finish fixing global finance |
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| The G20 has made progress on financial reform, but more remains to be done. How we complete the job will do much to affect future global prosperity |
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| Miliband and the left misread Lehman |
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| The British Labour leader's assumption over the past three years has been that elections can be won from some way to the left of where Tony Blair' contested them |
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| Japan must be brave and put up its taxes |
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| If the consumption tax rose to the European level of 20-25 per cent, the country's fiscal situation would become perfectly sustainable |
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| A chance to keep the Olympic dream alive |
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| Work is needed to ensure that the summer games become more relevant, compelling and youthful, more in line with the winter games |
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| Strikes, Ed Miliband and workers' pain |
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| The Labour leader is in a tangle over his party's links with the unions but he should be more concerned by falling average real wages |
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| Relax barriers to US banking shake-up |
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| Activist investors often ask the right questions and demand the right change but they would have little luck forcing change at lenders |
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| US public unmoved by security giants |
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| Every intervention seems to have only pushed more members of Congress, especially, but not only Republicans, into the No camp |
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| Don't bet against Fed's inflation quest |
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| While deflation continues to dominate the thought process at central banks, the reality is that core inflation has bottomed, says David Rosenberg |
