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Healthcare: Technology is a bigger cost driver than demography

Elderly patients are responsible for only a tiny fraction of healthcare spending increases

Call girls, graft and paralysis

Call girls, graft and Italy’s paralysis

New revelations about Berlusconi further erode his image, but no one seems ready to bring him down

What it takes to get back to AAA

Washington doesn’t have to look far for examples of how to climb back from a downgrade