From the Winter 2006 issue
Today
vs. 1935: Hyperbole or Prescience?
Former
U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently suggested
the present-day global situation bears a striking resemblance
to 1935, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
pursuit of nuclear weapons capability—not to mention
his anti-Jewish sentiments—strikingly similar to Adolf
Hitler’s quest in the 1930s for weapons superiority.
Is this observation credible or over the top?
A symposium of views
A L S O in the Winter 2006 issue:
From the Founder
Iran’s Ahmadinejad: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
By David Smick
Hundred
Dollar Oil, Five Percent Inflation, and the Coming Recession
Why the Fed is in trouble.
By Philip K. Verleger, Jr.
Deflationary
Lessons
What Japanese deflation did and did not do.
By Adam Posen
Greenspan’s
Four Lessons
An important senior Tokyo financial strategist sizes up the last two
decades of U.S. monetary policy.
By Makoto Utsumi
The Global
Driver
How housing is driving the world economy.
By David Hale
Why Japan
Needs Higher Interest Rates
The first step toward shifting to a consumption-based economy.
By Tadashi Nakamae and Tomoko Saito
Japan’s
Golden Age
What to make of the age demographic.
By Chi Lo
Captain
Rato and the Titanic
The growing irrelevance of the International Monetary Fund.
By Desmond Lachman
The Cox
Revolution
How the former U.S. lawmaker is changing the SEC.
By Christopher Whalen
The
Emergence of Africa
The Subsaharan attempt to join the emerging markets club.
By Gary Kleiman
The Hidden
Key to Growth
How local services stimulate economic expansion.
By Martin Baily, Diana Farrell, and Jaana Remes
Georgia
on My Mind
Economic realism in a new book on post-Soviet economic transformation.
By Anders Åslund
