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Finance & Development June 1, 2002 |
Book Reviews The International Financial Architecture: What's New? What's Missing? by Peter B. Kenen... Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future by Takeo Hoshi and Anil K. Kashyap... Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc by Anders Aslund... etc.  |
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Feeling Burned by Accounting Scams in the U.S.? Just Look Overseas Self-dealing and the misappropriation of profits at the expense of minority shareholders is much more common in other countries due to the weaker legal measures protecting such stockholders.  |
Reason July 2002 Mike Lynch |
Taxed Happy Two economists provide legislators with another reason to boost taxes.  |
Salon.com June 26, 2002 Damien Cave |
Foxes guarding the chicken coop President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron's derivatives trading instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place.  |
Wired July 2002 David H. Holtzman |
The Price of Being a Fortress No nation is an island - if it cares about its technological future.  |
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How Wealthy Nations Can Avoid a Looming Retirement Crisis The extent of the global aging problem and the prospect for globally-based solutions were outlined during a conference several weeks ago on "Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security."  |
Inc. June 1, 2002 Kate O'Sullivan |
Forecast: Here Comes the Sun Even though the Inc 500 CEOs who responded to Inc's most recent quarterly survey say the worst is over for the entrepreneurial economy, many are still cautious, wondering if the economy has truly moved on to the next act...  |
FDIC FYI May 23, 2002 |
New York City's Economy Shows Early Signs of Stabilizing The magnitude of the shock pushed the City's slowing economy into a recession, resulting in employment declines greater than the national average. Recent economic data indicate, however, that while the City has suffered major trauma, the economy now may be beginning to stabilize...  |
U.S. Banker May 2002 |
Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan clearly believes that business should be big and should be run in a clubby atmosphere. Or else he chooses not to hear, see or speak of evil...  |
Salon.com May 1, 2002 Damien Cave |
Old McDonald had a subsidy Congress is set to hand over $170 billion to farmers. But to one grower of fava beans in California's Central Valley, the money isn't just bad economics -- it's an outright insult...  |
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