Vol. 24 No. 1, January 2010
Index
- How Washington blinked: America's economic future remains uncertain in part because of a lack of courage by policymakers in dealing with banks.
- Can China become the world's engine for growth? Is China large and powerful enough? Are its impressive growth prospects sustainable? Or is today's financial market enthusiasm towards China and its global role the latest form of irrational exuberance? More than fifty important experts offer their views.
- A reply to Krugman: in a recent column, Nobel prize-winning columnist Paul Krugman accused China of mercantilism. Stanford professor Ron McKinnon offers a spirited rebuttal.
- Is China killing the WTO? Chinese officials are ignoring both international and local law for companies that produce for export.
- Skirting depression: a blow-by-blow account of the financial crisis--as it could have been. Would letting Lehman, AIG, and Citi all fail have produced a 13 percent U.S. unemployment rate?
- Jail the bankers: the great mystery of why more U.S. bankers aren't being prosecuted.
- Get out while you can: why the U.S. dollar is doomed.
- Today's astonishing risk: thoughts on the meaning of the phrase, "real dollar purchasing power.".
- America's false sense of security: its once-great advantages are shifting abroad.
- Germany's fight over BaFin: the ramifications of a Bundesbank takeover.
- A Greek tragedy: new questions about the longer-run viability of the Eurozone.
- Cotton, the oil of the nineteenth century: important lessons of history.
- Don't kill the oil speculators: because if that happens, energy prices will skyrocket. How commodity transactions promote price stability.