While the Democratic nominee is running on a platform of keeping the economy flush with cash so as to induce more business and consumer spending, the Republican plan is one of austerity.
EU's leaders at a special gathering in Lisbon only a year ago that was supposed to provide a platform for launching Europe's economy into a higher orbit of reform.
Until Europe decisively builds a firewall for its currency, and the U.S. definitively grasps its unsustainable economic platform of two vast deficits, the world economy will remain on an eccentric, out of control course.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who won the recent general election on a platform of promises to revive Japan's sluggish economy, has called upon Japan's central bank to do more to fight deflation.
Monetary reform, as anchored in the party platform, is the most obvious place to look to get the economy growing well again.
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Political commentator Nichole Bacharan says the election was the triumph of a platform proposing far-reaching reforms for Europe's third-largest economy over one stressing the need to preserve the country's welfare state.
Meanwhile President Hollande won election on a platform that made no concessions to the deep structural challenges facing the French economy, promising to lower the retirement age from 62 to 60 for some workers, introduce a new top rate of tax of 75% for the highest earners and make it even harder to fire workers.
Yesterday I wrote how a platform like the Kindle might act as a stimulus to the wider, creative economy.
But what we also understand is that our economy works best, America became an economic superpower, because we created a platform where everybody could succeed.
But that will change with the Internet's next phase, when the main platform will switch from the PC to the Internet itself, and in which hosted services will emerge and the economy will move online, he said.
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