Comment: Obama’s battle to win over the House, The high price...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Thursday September 05 2013     Comment   Obama's battle to win over the House   Public passion against Syria strikes far exceeds lukewarm support. Latest polls show roughly two to one against action with big chunks of don't knows       The high price of Europe's lost lead   With the iPhone and iOS, Steve Jobs defeated the effort by operators – both US and European – to maintain the mobile world as a walled garden     The west is hastening its strategic decline   Beyond internal divisions and a changing balance of military power, the trend is towards self-imposed political limits on the use of force     UK economy calls for cautious optimism   The recent recovery is broadly based. It seems several years of very easy monetary policy might at last be having an effect     UK needs an ambitious infrastructure plan   An independent national commission should be set up as soon as possible to evaluate evidence for the UK's needs three decades ahead     Like India's, Indonesia's growth is stalling   Manmohan Singh was once hailed as the superman of Indian reform. In his second term, he has turned back into Clark Kent     Of BFFs, the UK and the USA   Fretting about Britain's status in American gang dynamics suggests the country is still struggling to adjust to its reduced circumstances     Streaming revenues turn piracy tide   Spotify has more than 6m music subscribers while in video, Netflix, boosted by original productions such as House of Cards, has more than 36m     Xi's anti-corruption drive is nothing new   Real goal is not to clean up the Communist ranks but to boost flagging support for continued party rule by appearing to get tough on the bad guys     Don't blame the Fed for EM woes   The real villains are elsewhere. Emerging market stocks trade at a discount to their developed peers partly because of structural deficiencies that will take time to address         Opinion   Export obsession is crushing Germany   Cutting wages has been the basis of the nation's export success in the past dozen years, when exports have been its sole consistent growth source       America must stick to a course on Syria   Washington needs to quickly formulate a strategy that it is prepared to implement and live with, whatever the consequences, writes Richard Haass         Manage email    Forward this email   Feedback    Manage portfolio Subscribe to the FT Follow the FT   Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.