Edward Luce



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Career: Has worked for the FT since 1995 as Philippines correspondent, capital markets editor, South Asia bureau chief in New Delhi and Washington bureau chief between 2006 and 2011

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Other activities: In 2000 Ed was the chief speechwriter for Lawrence Summers, the US Treasury secretary

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Articles: 2013

 * Obama has hurt himself and business - Data privacy is a handy weapon for those challenging the titans - 10th June
 * The future of the American city - Once, Americans fled inner cities for the sprawling lawns of the suburban dream. Now, in a ‘great inversion’, US urban centres like Detroit and LA are springing back to life – as the suburbs become the new home of the poor - 8th June
 * Obama’s faith in the geek elite - Self-interest guides the Big Data companies, and the same is often true of the White House - 3rd June
 * Summers has edge in race to head Fed - Charm is overrated. The most important quality for this role is intellectual leadership - 27th May
 * Kerry displays his vaulting ambitions - The secretary of state is tackling a vast range of foreign issues - 20th May
 * Beyond America’s fiscal trench lines - Away from the political impasse are stirrings that could nurture growth - 13th May
 * Arsonists v architects: Republican civil war - Can the party recapture a purpose in governing or will it become a regional party of the south? - 6th May
 * Obama’s manoeuvres lead to an impasse - The president’s achievable goals remain a matter of conjecture - 29th April
 * Obama must tread warily after Boston - Tragedies often crystallise a country’s political mood - 22nd April
 * Why the US is looking to Germany - When it comes to the labour market, America is suffering from a case of ‘German envy’ - 15th April
 * Timid US visa reform will deter workers - The H1B visa manages to annoy everyone - 8th April
 * US inequality will define the Obama era - Since the financial crisis, each year has brought lower median incomes than the last - 1st April
 * As Congress sleeps the 2016 race begins - Voter interest in the next election - not least in Hillary Clinton - is intensifying - 25th March
 * Dangers lurk in US permanent campaign - The journey from idealist to insider is now complete - 18th March
 * A good engineer who knows his own limits - The Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke has been the only serious economic actor in Washington - 11th March
 * A taste for mutually assured destruction - US sequestration looks likely only to entrench the partisanship it was supposed to circumvent - 4th March
 * Corporate tie binds US to a slow internet - Comcast’s meteoric rise has concided with a drastic decline in service - 25th February
 * Obama is right to resist the Syria hawks - The president’s lack of diplomatic creativity, rather than his sense of caution, is his real Achilles heel - 18th February
 * Fellow Americans, let’s govern seriously - What Obama might want to say in his State of the Union address - 10th February
 * Obama must face the rise of the robots - Technology will leave a large chunk of the US labour force in the lurch - 4th February
 * Budget battles and careless cuts - Whatever happens at the next fiscal cliff will further dent America’s growth prospects - 28th January
 * Obama must atone for his carbon omissions - His promise of energy security no substitute for action on global warming - 21st January
 * No peacocks, jerks or whiners in Obama 2.0 - Second-term team suggests renewed focus on foreign policy - 14th January
 * Tea Party’s moment of maximum leverage - The question is whether they dive into their own political abyss in unison or in pieces - 7th January



Articles: 2012

 * Obama’s coming leap of faith on Europe - By acting now, the two regions still have the leverage to set standards - 24th December
 * Obama’s year of reckoning awaits on Iran - President faces uninvented threats from around the world - 17th December
 * The fiscal cliff could split the Republicans - If Obama persuades enough of the GOP to vote for a tax rise, the party may face civil war - 10th December
 * America’s Thelma and Louise moment - Congress will still have to confront the ‘fiscal abyss’ that lies beyond the cliff - 3rd December
 * Washington must stop the creeping rust - The need to invest for the future becomes alarmingly clear - 26th November
 * Obama’s path to Xanadu runs via Jerusalem - Tug of war between Mideast realities and Pacific strategy - 19th November
 * Obama’s next task is to split the GOP - President must use seduction and brinkmanship to persuade Republicans to accept reality - 12th November
 * Obama must renew bipartisan effort - With a fresh initiative, the next term has lofty goals - 8th November
 * US choice - a gamble or the devil we know - I suspect Mitt Romney would be far more pragmatic in reality than the persona he adopted - 5th November
 * The president struggles to convince - If Barack Obama wants to win the election, he could do more to show it - 28th October
 * Debate reflects an inward-looking America - Dull exercise betrays absence of new thinking about the world - 24th October
 * Shadow of 9/11 towers over the US election - The presidential campaign shows that the US has not yet left the Bush era behind - 21st October
 * Presidential wow factor may be just enough - Obama’s second debate performance could restore evenness of the race - 19th October
 * Mexico is forgotten story of US election - Americans only think of their neighbour as a law and order problem - 15th October
 * The ghoul of half truths is not America’s real problem - Now is one of those times when moral sensibility misses the wood for the trees - 8th October
 * Obama will need more than luck - If he returns to the White House, the president will face a daunting second term - 1st October
 * The US economy is still in a sorry state - It requires optimism at this stage to believe the patient is about to arise and go for a jog - 24th September
 * The GOP shows no sign of braking before the cliff - Never before has politics been as consciously likely to wreck the economy - 17th September
 * America’s season of hollow boastfulness - Each candidate, with their different visions, is indulging in national denial - 10th September
 * Back to the Future for Obama in Charlotte - If the president wins a second term he will be stymied in most of his agenda - 3rd September
 * The elephant in the room: Romney the pragmatist - He has been forced to abandon common sense positions to get the nomination - 27th August
 * Why the UK was right on Romney - It has its faults but the British media has a reasonable track record at detecting bluff - 30th July
 * A welcome jolt to shortsighted Washington - Two Californian cities may succeed in taking on Wall Street where Obama has failed - 23rd July
 * Welcome to the new world of American energy - A nation is turning from a voracious consumer into a producer of plenty - 16th July
 * Survival of the weakest: economy vs Romney - Most Americans are worse off than they were four years ago. Why, then, do most pundits expect Mr Obama to win? - 9th July
 * Obama healthcare war will rage on - Although the president has won a famous battle, neither side believes the epic struggle is over - 2nd July
 * Unlike LBJ, Obama battles frozen politics - The major difference in 2012 is that America’s chief polarisation is between, not within, the parties - 25th June
 * The leaks that are devaluing the Obama doctrine - Obama’s eagerness to flesh out his national security persona also makes him look cynical - 18th June
 * From the California Dream to a cautionary tale - The more voters tie the assembly’s hands, the more they despise its failures - 11th June
 * America’s unlikely class-war candidates - The biggest class divisions are not between the Republicans and Democrats but within them - 4th June
 * Worst is still ahead for Obama’s chief firefighter - Geithner advises to do what it takes to stop the system - 28th May
 * Facebook president in need of new friends'' - The social network site’s ethos captures the zeitgeist of Obama’s administration - 21st May
 * The moral majority is in headlong retreat - Overt racism, misogyny and, most recently, homophobia have ceased to be respectable in America - 14th May
 * There are few sparks in a sputtering US recovery - What many hoped was a return to growth is to looking like another summer of hibernation - 7th May
 * The neocons are back vying for a seat in the White House - Most of Mitt Romney’s stances poll reasonably with the American public - 22nd April
 * Obama needs to find a theme soon - It should be little surprise that in recent polls, Romney is in a statistical tie with the president - 23rd April
 * Housing policy is holding back America’s recovery - The situation demands a bazooka. Obama is still offering only a rifle - 16th April
 * America reassembles industrial policy - Nobody would confuse the US tax code with the design of rational mind - 9th April
 * Obama’s very own Kennedy moment - Supreme Court health bill ruling will be an election bombshell - 2nd April
 * America’s dream unravels - As other nations rise, the US is in relative economic decline – and the country’s political system is making things worse - 30th March



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