November 10, 2012, Saturday

Mihir S Sharma: Obama Silvertongue

The lesson of the US election? Be kind to sub-editors, they’re powerful people. One just won the election for Barack Obama.

November 10, 2012, Saturday

Mitali Saran: 2012 vision

The volume of press that a US election generates is just short of gross. Are you sick of it yet? Not me. I can’t quite let ...

November 10, 2012, Saturday

Sunil Sethi: What hope and change can mean

Among the avalanche of random tweets hailing Barack Obama’s re-election this week is one apparently from a young, ...

November 08, 2012, Thursday

Second chance

A successful second term for U.S. President Barack Obama depends on him learning to compromise. He won’t have much time to ...

November 07, 2012, Wednesday

Obama win should be bullish for world equity markets

President Obama’s dramatic re-election could be described as a victory for the aam aadmi in the US. Richer Americans voted ...

November 07, 2012, Wednesday

Shreekant Sambrani: Obama 2.0

So, Barack Hussein Obama will remain the most powerful person in the world for four more years, after all.  As he ...

November 07, 2012, Wednesday

Inexact, but science

Forget the spin: Barack Obama retains a narrow edge in Tuesday’s US election. Economy-based models and US national polls ...

November 06, 2012, Tuesday

A choice without a difference

As the campaigns for the Presidential election in the U.S. wind down, the media and the international community are beginning to ...

November 05, 2012, Monday

US elections: a hand-to-hand fight

The most important election in the world, the US election, is in a dead heat with incumbent President Obama with a statistically ...

October 29, 2012, Monday

Muddling on

The latest US GDP report sharpens the knife-edge of the US election. The economy grew at a two per cent rate in the third ...

October 27, 2012, Saturday

Mitali Saran: Red, white and blue

There’s something depressing about following the US presidential elections, however glancingly, in contrast to our own ...

October 25, 2012, Thursday

Foreign language

The last US presidential debate was an oratorical rendition of Saul Steinberg’s 1976 illustration of the myopic world view ...

October 22, 2012, Monday

Devangshu Datta: The bets that pay in a listless market

What’s good for the United States is good for the world would be one way to paraphrase the famous one-liner about General ...

October 08, 2012, Monday

Cheerful noise

A surprisingly sharp drop in US unemployment helped President Barack Obama’s odds of re-election regain half the ground ...