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Negative outlook

This week, we look at media reaction to the decision by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s to give the US a negative credit outlook. Editorial commentators say that this move by S&P should be seen as a warning to American political leaders.

Ratingagentur

Ausblick, Prognose

Schritt

A tribute to a diplomat: Richard Holbrooke Photo: D. Straus

A diplomat with a mission

Richard Holbrooke died in Washington yesterday at the age of 69. Even though Maja Sirola did not know him personally, she deeply admired him for what is regarded as probably his greatest achievement: the end of the war in Bosnia.

Leistung

Protesting over cups of tea? No, they're "Taxed Enough Already"!

Immigration and the Tea Party

A heated debate on immigration in Germany has given the media food for thought. So, too, has the Tea Party movement in the US midterm elections. We look at comment on both these subjects.

heftige Diskussion über

Denkanstöße

Kongresswahlen

Better times: Obama and McChrystal in 2009. Photo P. Souza/The White House

Bad behaviour and budget cuts

We look at media comment on the behaviour of the French team in the World Cup, the UK government’s emergency budget, and General Stanley McChrystal's controversial interview in Rolling Stone magazine. His withering comments led to his dismissal this week as commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Nothaushalt

vernichtend

Entlassung

Oil spills and cooling relationships

The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and elections in Britain don’t seem to have much in common. But the British company BP is responsible for the oil spill and relations between the US and Britain are likely to become even cooler under a new government. Here’s what the business press has to say.

Ölpest

viel gemeinsam

Portrait of Mao Zedong guarding the entrance to the Forbidden City

The mighty dragon?

Back in 2001, when China was chosen as the host for the 2008 Olympic Games, the country became everybody's darling. Everyone wanted to get a slice of the action.

Gastgeber; hier: Austragungsort

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Historic moment: Obama signs the health care bill

Strong medicine

This week, we look at media reaction to the passage of the health-care reform bill in the US Congress.

Verabschiedung

Gesetzesvorlage

Waiting game

Obama wants to stop tax breaks for US firms outsourcing services to other countries. But that's no threat to India, writes The Times of India.

Steuervergünstigungen

auslagern

Keep it open!

Barack Obama was right to criticize the "Buy American" provision in the US economic stimulus bill, even if he should have done so much earlier. The last thing the world economy needs now is nationalist ideas to protect individual countries.

Bestimmung, Klausel

Konjunkturgesetz

The next new trend

If you want to write a best-selling book, you need two key elements: a one-word title and good timing. If you jump on the bandwagon of a trend too late, nobody will be interested. This is why we now need a book about loving bankers.

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