Vol. 17 No. 4, September 2003
Index
- Long-term vs. short-term.
- Saddam's quick cash to the rescue.
- In passing.
- You! Yes, you! Sit down and shut up!(Off The News) (Brief Article)
- The mixed blessing of a return to global growth.
- Who's the comeback kid? France, Germany, and Italy are struggling to recover. Who'll come out on top?
- Should G7 policy coordination be revived?
- Greenspan on the griddle: Congress grills the Fed chairman and produces more heat than light. Who are these folks on Capitol Hill?
- Why the dollar is different: Europe, Japan, and China, unlike the United States, are all locked into export-driven policies dependent on U.S. markets and competitively cheaper currencies. That's why there are likely limits to dollar depreciation.
- Howard Dean's Vermont legacy: TIE's co-executive editor, who has known the Democratic presidential candidate for years, offers the inside story.
- Revisiting Sarbanes-Oxley: was the well-intentioned landmark legislation slapped together too quickly?
- Red sails in the sunset: the "sunset" tool with the Bush team's help is subverting the U.S. budget process.
- King of threadneedle street: how Mervyn King reshaped the Bank of England.
- Will Europe suffer the Swiss Syndrome? Confronting anew the problems if the world moves into euros.
- Iraq's currency solution: the importance of adding oil to the equation.
- The real challenge for Iraqi development: oil wealth could be a great help--or hindrance--to Iraq's development prospects.
- Japan's lesson for America: a comparison of deflationary woes.
- China's lesson for the world: Beijing's take on combating deflationary woes.
- Why sanctions (almost) never work: in the case of the late Idi Amin, they clearly helped drive him from power.