From the Winter 2007 issue
Free
Trade Blues
Labor-oriented
Democrats take on the Clintonian triangulators.
By Jeff Faux
How
Wall Street Controls Oil
And how OPEC will be the fall guy for $90 oil.
By Philip K. Verleger, Jr.
Is
the World Becoming Immune from America?
Historically, U.S. slowdowns and recessions have led to global slowdowns
and recessions. Is that still true today? Two dozen experts share their
thoughts on a question with serious implications for the future of globalization.
A symposium of views
Scaremongering,
Inc.
Poor forecasts from the false prophets of gloom and doom.
By Robert Novak
Cry
for Latin America
Those narrow sovereign debt spreads and booming stock markets have
been a mirage.
By Desmond Lachman
The
Broom of Titoism
How developing nations are compensating for weak labor markets.
By Steve H. Hanke
Weak
Yen Conundrum
Why Japanese households love foreign financial assets.
By Tadashi Nakamae
The
ECB’s Curious Money Fixation
The latest on Europe’s campaign to cement monetary growth to monetary
policy.
By Wolfgang Münchau
Wisdom
from the Graybeards
Hannes Androsch, former Austrian finance minister
and head of Creditanstalt-Bankverein, and now industrialist and
entrepreneur, tells it as only a wily European policy veteran can.
A TIE exclusive interview.
The
Bush Economy
TIE sat down with Richard Clarida, the
Bush Treasury’s former point man for economic policy, for
some frank talk on deficits, rate spreads, and inflation risks.
Here’s how he answered our questions.
Fannie
and Freddie Post-Election
The significance of the Democratic victories.
By Owen Ullmann
