This year foreign capital has gone into reverse at the same time as India's current-account deficit has widened sharply.

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Will the Commons be asked to reverse that change and continue the current round of Parliamentary ping-pong?

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The situation now is, in a way, the reverse: David Cameron, the current Tory leader and odds-on favourite to win the next election, has agreed to the debate, as has Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats.

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But the current movement to take American businesses private threatens to reverse this mass-shareholder trend.

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If defaults continue to increase and municipal problems become front-page news, the current stampede into municipal bonds could quickly reverse.

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But when ratings agencies look at the UK they don't only see the current set of economic policies, they also see that the chancellor could easily reverse them - if necessary, in a matter of days.

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Germany's example is especially instructive: Although the state's family policies are now among the most generous in Europe -- a parent who stays home with a child receives 67% of his or her current net income for up to 12 months -- they have failed to boost the birthrate or reverse the figures for childless women.

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