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Breaking India’s tax squeeze

The Indian middle class is in a financial squeeze. Overwhelmed with increasing tax rates and low disposable incomes, its consumption patterns seem to be slowing — a troubling trend for an economy where domestic consumption demand accounts for 60% of gross domestic product

Why Canada Should Join the EU

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/02/why-canada-should-join-the-eu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583297 Points: 13 # Comments: 3

Trump at the wheel of an oncoming financial train wreck

Global investors spent much of 2024 fretting over China’s troubles with a property crisis and deflation. In the year ahead, it’s America’s turn on the hot seat. Though Donald Trump’s trade war is getting the headlines, it’s the gaping disconnect between US net foreign