Vol. 17 No. 1, January 2003
Index
- Kicking Dubya when he's up. Why it's time now to "do windows." (From The Founder).
- Latest joke in global financial circles.
- The most powerful guy you never heard of.
- Tokyo's new American-style debate.
- Think tank wars.
- The four horsemen of Bush economic policy: an emerging system of seemingly obscure officials takes over.
- The great Friedman-Huntington debate: the coming clash between two fundamentally opposed post-9/11 global views.
- The yen solution: why dramatic currency depreciation and the resulting market resurgence are Tokyo's only way out.
- A democratic view: a few inches with seismic consequences.
- GOP outlook: to avoid repeating history, Republicans had better make their own.
- Why does the world hate America?
- The Clarida view: in an exclusive interview, TIE sat down with the Bush Treasury's chief macroeconomic strategist, Dr. Richard Clarida.
- Whither the Democrats? John B. Judis, who co-authored the important new book The Emerging Democratic Majority, confronts the recent U.S. election outcome. GOP political strategist Jeffrey Bell offers an important alternative explanation.
- Bankers' nightmare? Think American bankers are thrilled with the rise of Richard Shelby as the new chair of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee? Think again. Long-time Washington journalist Robert Novak, who interviewed the Republican legislator and past supporter of consumer privacy rights, puts things in perspective.
- Should the European Central Bank change its two percent inflation ceiling?
- Making the case for the euro: no economy is an island, entirely of itself or why Britain should join the EMU.
- Russian WTO membership: to join or not to join, that is the question ...
- Making global markets safer: the latest stirrings from the International Monetary Fund.
- Rethinking the CEO.
- Will China take over world manufacturing.