From the Spring 2004 issue
Grading
Bush’s Economic Team
The bad news: They’ve got few new ideas and fear
too much being slapped down (the “Lindsey factor”).
The good news: Josh Bolten is positioned to emerge and Snow’s
been an improvement.
By Fred Barnes
Kerry’s
Short List
Truth is, the Senator hasn’t relied much on
economic advisers,but
the new team emerging is heavily Clintonesque.
By Alan Murray
A L S O in the Spring 2004 issue:
Bush’s
Spectacular Failure
A former Clinton policy adviser argues the Bush team has failed miserably at
global economic leadership.
By Jeffrey Frankel
Huh?
A Surprising Success
First came the bursting of the Clinton bubble, then 9/11, then the accounting
scandals and all the other shocks to the system. Who would have predicted such
a vigorous U.S. recovery?
By R. Glenn Hubbard
Stuffed
Shirts vs. ’Skins
An econometric critic tells how to predict the presidential race.
By Edward M. Graham
Is
the Japanese Recovery for Real?
After all, for more than a decade Japan’s economy has experienced a series
of false starts on the road to recovery. Is the current economic upswing for
once the real thing?
A symposium of views
This
Time It’s Different
Japan is poised for growth because for once its financial system is healthier.
By Richard Jerram
The
New U.S.-Asian Dollar Bloc
And why Europe could end up the loser.
By Milton Ezrati
The
Köhler Episode
The inside story on the surprise resignation of the IMF’s top man.
By Klaus C. Engelen
Exiting
EMU
Not surprisingly, the Maastricht Treaty contains no exit procedures, but bailing
out would not be that difficult.
By Brendan Brown
Chasing
Yield
How the emerging market debt trading community is playing a dangerous game.
By Desmond Lachman
In
Praise of Financial Plumbers
Want a formula for achieving developing economy success? Begin with sound,
independent supervisors.
By John G. Heimann
India
Rocks!
The global media fixate on China’s boundless future. India, the English-speaking
democracy with a huge middle class, is a far better bet.
By Jon Thorn
