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Twenty Years of Big Ideas

Summers Speaks
In an exclusive interview, the Harvard professor takes on the subprime crisis, moral hazard, and Alan Greenspan’s inflation forecast.

Blinder Baloney
Today’s scare talk of jobs outsourcing is grossly exaggerated.
By William T. Dickens and Stephen J. Rose

Advising the Candidates
Who advises the 2008 presidential candidates on economic policy?
By Robert D. Novak

Twenty Years After Black Monday
Is the world better or worse prepared to handle financial crises? TIE asked the three key former U.S. officials who managed the 1987 stock market crash—E. Gerald Corrigan, David Ruder, and Manuel Johnson.

Germany Fires Back
And who does Adam Posen think he is, anyway?
By Klaus C. Engelen

Schwab on Trade
In an exclusive interview with U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab, America’s chief trade negotiator assesses the world.

The Coming Triple-Digit Oil Prices
Most think tanks and government experts predict a price decline in coming decades. They’re dead wrong.
By Philip K. Verleger, Jr.

The Credit Crisis Is Not Over
The anatomy of a financial unravelling.
By Harald B. Malmgren

Global Warming Losers
Why developing world agriculture stands to suffer big time.
By William R. Cline

IIF at 25
TIE sat down with the Institute of International Finance’s Charles Dallara to discuss the future of the global financial system.

New China Worries
The Chinese military is snapping up the latest in cutting-edge Western technology. Is that good?
By Adam Segal

The Great China Challenge
America’s G7 deputy makes the case that when China succeeds, America succeeds.
By David H. McCormick

China’s Yuan Decision
The economic costs of the inflexible exchange rate now outweigh its benefits.
By Chi Lo

THE MONETARY REALIST
Central Banking Dermatologists
By Adam S. Posen