A World Depression?
January 1, 1975 Harold van B. Cleveland and W. H. Bruce Brittain Summary: In the summer of 1929 a few prophets foresaw the coming stock market crash. Only one gifted with second sight could have...
View ArticleVenture Abroad: Developing Countries Need Venture Capital Strategies
November 1, 1994 Larry W. Schwartz Summary: Developing countries seeking economic vitality should court venture capitalists, the gutsy investors bent on creating Silicon Valleys from economic...
View ArticleThe Color of Hot Money
March 1, 2000 Martin N. Baily, Diana Farrell, and Susan Lund Summary: Mahathir Mohamad and others love to blame buccaneering hedge funds for sparking Asia's recent financial crisis, but they have the...
View ArticleHands Off Hedge Funds
January 1, 2007 Sebastian Mallaby Summary: The massive growth of hedge funds has sparked warnings of instability and demands that the industry be regulated. But the fear of hedge funds is overblown,...
View ArticleWill Hedge Funds Survive?
High Finance After the Crisis April 21, 2009 Martin J. Gross Summary: Hedge funds did not cause the crash. But they need to get over what the markets did to them and what they did to themselves.By...
View ArticleWhy Rescue Big Banks?
What the Government Won’t Tell You but Should June 17, 2009 Roger M. Kubarych Summary: Are the bank bailouts a reward for bad behavior? Maybe. But keeping large financial institutions in business...
View ArticleChina Goes to Wall Street
Beijing’s Evolving U.S. Investment Strategy April 29, 2010 JC de Swaan Summary: Chinese companies and government-sponsored investment vehicles are increasingly purchasing U.S. assets. For all the...
View ArticleA G-Zero World
The New Economic Club Will Produce Conflict, Not Cooperation January 31, 2011 Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini Summary: In the wake of the financial crisis, the United States is no longer the leader of...
View ArticleWhen Currencies Collapse
Will We Replay the 1930s or the 1970s? December 14, 2011 Barry Eichengreen Summary: Confidence in the dollar and the euro continues to falter, threatening the international monetary system. The world...
View ArticleEurope's Optional Catastrophe
The Fate of the Monetary Union Lies in Germany’s Hands July 1, 2012 Sebastian Mallaby Summary: If the eurozone splinters, it will have been an avoidable disaster. After all, the European Central Bank...
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