Vol. 23 No. 4, September 2009
Index
- Should, or can, central banks target asset prices? Twenty experts offer their views.
- Why banks aren't lending: the unintended consequences of a zero interest rate policy.
- Time for more stimulus: it's do or die.
- Oil lessons from the 1970s: energy expert Dan Yergin sat down with two of the main energy policymakers from that decade--former Senator Bennett Johnston (D-LA), and John Deutch, former under secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. The topic: have we learned anything from the 1970s experience?
- The coming China crisis: trouble in paradise.
- The renminbi challenge: the future role of the Chinese currency.
- China's dollar problem: the limits to eternal greenback accumulation.
- Coming water wars: beware the future.
- Why America will lead the "Asian century": a counterintuitive view.
- European integration, R.I.P? Thoughts on the aftermath of the financial crisis.
- What's still exceptional about America: why the United States is undervalued.
- Japan's road to harmonious decline: those lazy Japanese are goofing off again.
- Reinventing economics: time for a more realistic approach.
- America's new climate unilateralism: a better approach to Copenhagen.