Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday May 9th, 2013

In most parts of the world, our cover leader, backed by a 14-page special report on international banking, argues that "Wall Street is back". Back in 2008, with many big American names on their knees, Europeans thought their time had come. Yet American investment banks now dominate global finance once more (though that, as we point out, may not be good for America). In our Indian edition we look at the country's youthful population—and how India's elderly politicians may be squandering the world's greatest economic opportunity. John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief

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