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The growing burden

How Japan’'s huge national debt grew so large

By P.T.W., K.N.C. and A.J.K.D.

How Japan'’s national debt grew so large

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Three reasons why oil prices are remarkably stable

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Why America is a “flawed democracy”

EIU’s index plots the country’s democratic decline since 2006


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