The International Economy articles

Recent articles from The International Economy

What fiscal stimulus?(OFF THE NEWS)
January 1, 2009... The notion of fiscal stimuli in Japan during the 1990s is somewhat misleading. It is not so much that government spending was ineffective, but rather that it never actually existed, or at least not to the extent touted by the government. After the bursting of Japan's economic bubble, spending...

Singapore coffee klatch.(Off the News)
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sometimes a picture tells the story as well as a thousand words. The image above, produced using a combination of Google Earth and a plugin from Vesseltracker.com, shows an unprecedented number of container ships sitting idle off Singapore in March. The world's...

"Your Fall 2008 issue did a fantastic job of assessing and evaluating what has transpired in recent months in the global economy.(Off the News)
January 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Your Fall 2008 issue did a fantastic I job of assessing and evaluating what has transpired in recent months in the global economy The issue has just a whole host of first rate articles." --Claylon Yeutter Former U.S. Trade Representative

From Newsweek columnist Dan Gross's hot new E-book.(Off the News)
January 1, 2009... From Newsweek Columnist Dan Gross's Hot New E-book: "In fact, it was now clear that because of the way the system was designed, losses and failures could only create massive, widely distributed losses. The disaster was not a bug, but an inevitable feature of the financial operating code...

How we got into this mess: a political primer.(FROM THE FOUNDER)
January 1, 2009... The April 2 G20 meeting in London of the major world economic leaders could have been the most important global economic gathering since 1944, when the Bretton Woods conference reshaped the old order near the end of World War II. But it wasn't. Another Bretton Woods is not in the...