From the Spring 2007 issue
FEATURED ARTICLE
Is
the IMF Obsolete?
With the narrowing of risk spreads in an era of increasingly interconnected
markets and more efficient risk management, is the IMF’s role
still relevant?
A symposium of views
A L S O in the Spring 2007 issue:
The
Monetary Realist
What's in a name?
By Adam S. Posen
Fear
and Greed
Why the American housing credit crisis is worse than you think.
By Lawrence B. Lindsey
The Wall Street
Slide
Why New York is losing out as the world’s financial center.
By Gerard Baker
Hoist With
Their Own Petard
How emerging markets use U.S. anti-dumping laws…against America.
By Duane W. Layton
The Shanghai
Shock
Financial lessons from the late-February 2007 hiccup.
By Harald Malmgren
The Asian
Myth
The notion that the Asian economies have somehow insulated themselves
from the United States is nonsense.
By Friedrich Wu
It Takes
Two to Tango
Why a big Chinese currency appreciation alone won’t cut America’s
trade deficit.
By Chi Lo
Will China
Surpass the United States?
The dangers of the game of extrapolation.
By John A. Tatom
America’s
China Brigade
A Washington insider offers the lay of the land. Hu’s up, Hu’s
down in U.S. China policy.
By Chris Nelson
The Post-Chirac
French Funk
Is a refurbished U.S-Franco relationship in the cards?
By Simon Serfaty
Why Germans
Love the Euro
And why the “Club Med” remains less enthralled.
By Stefan Schönberg
The Looming
Arab Employment Crisis
Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.
By Marcus Noland
Venezuela’s
Oil Trap
Economically speaking, other than oil nothing else is happening.
By Christopher Whalen
G7 Reflections
One of the Plaza Accord’s behind-the-scenes players offers his insights.
By Tomomitsu Oba
