Commentary on a positive outlook for the US economy in 2013, a useful list of investment themes for 2013, the African boom, a deportation challenge, the danger of prohibition, and why the United States is so unequal and Canada less so.

Is private sector deleveraging over?

Articles on the sustainability of our lifestyle, credit ratings, America’s liquidity trap, how liberals got seduced by capitalism, China’s cross middle class, stock market correction like 1938 (not 2008) and hopeful Africa.

Turns out the flat world is making it fuller too. Thanks to Evan of Victoria.

Articles on the game of debt chicken playing out in Washington, the price of gold keeps rising, the impact of government debt on growth, the global income map, Africa’s booming population growth, European bank exposure to Italian debt, nasty Chinese debt, America’s structural employment problem, Murdoch’s fall,  and the tattooed faces of Burmese women.

Even the level headed President is losing his cool.

In recent speeches we have been underlying the importance of species altering demographic trends.

These include falling fertility rates, more people reaching the age of 65 living to 95, and distorted male-female imbalances due to the practice of aborting female fetuses and female infanticide.

This is changing the shape of the global population.