Vol. 18 No. 1, January 2004
Index
- The curious case of Greenspan bashing.
- Geithner takes charge.
- Is the aging of the developed world a ticking time bomb? The developed-world populations are aging and shrinking, producing huge fiscal, economic, political, and social stresses given the unfunded liabilities of public entitlement programs. Does this phenomenon represent a global crisis? If a crisis looms, when will it unfold, who faces the greatest risk, and what if anything can be done? Twenty important experts offer their views.
- Boom, gloom, and excess: yet the U.S. economy today is poised for serious takeoff.
- Inflation targeting: should the Federal Reserve in its conduct of monetary policy follow the European Central Bank and adopt some form of inflation target range? TIE asked thirteen distinguished experts.
- Why America is different: no matter who wins the 2004 presidential contest, serious tensions with the United Nations will persist.
- Master of the Senate: guess who's become the go-to Democrat on Capitol Hill?
- America's sorry trade performance: whatever happened to all that talk about rule of law?
- Bullish on America: the United States needs to think more conceptually about how to use its economic advantage.
- The Bush hate game: TIE asked a top Democratic analyst why the animosity toward the 43rd President is so great.
- Mutual fund cleanup: Washington's surprisingly slow-motion efforts at reform.
- Governments and growth: the real threat to global recovery.
- The case for globalization: the results of McKinsey's latest study of the pros and cons of emerging market foreign investment.
- International investment carousel: when it comes to rules for international investment, it's time to stop riding the WTO.
- Knight vision: TIE's contributing editor Klaus Engelen interviews , Malcolm Knight the new General manager of the Bank for International Settlements.
- Das empire strikes back: German banks have had enough of Standard and Poor's and other agencies, and they're not going to take it any more.
- Gunfight at the Basel II corral: as the dispute brews, will the Federal Reserve misjudge the mood on Capitol Hill?
- Madagascar manifesto: an island nation looks to the future.