Market & Economy

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BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Brian Bremner	Why This Japan Fund Pro Is Gung Ho Shuhei Abe, who manages about $3.7 billion, professes to be "absolutely bullish" about the Japanese economy's long-term growth prospects.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Emily Thornton	Fees! Fees! Fees! Companies can't raise prices, so they're socking consumers with hundreds of hidden charges -- and that's creating stealth inflation and fueling a popular backlash.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Robert J. Barro	The Stubborn Jobless Rate: Puzzling, but Far from Scary The Dems say the labor market is the worst since the Depression. But the drop in jobs has been milder than in many other recessions.
FDIC FYI September 17, 2003 Susan Burhouse	Evaluating the Consumer Lending Revolution Consumer balance sheets have become stretched by large amounts of new consumer and mortgage debt. This rapid increase in consumer spending and borrowing raises important questions about the sustainability of current debt loads and the vulnerability of the consumer sector to economic shocks.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	Ready to Say "Help Wanted"? Surging demand should spur a second-half spike in hiring.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 David Fairlamb	The ECB's New Boss Is Jean-Claude Trichet the central banker Europe needs?
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003	"Central Bankers Have to Explain the Need for Reform" How will Jean-Claude Trichet run the European Central Bank? Bank watchers are poring over his comments for clues. Here, in excerpts from a BusinessWeek interview and in testimony given to the European Parliament, are his views.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Consumers Will Keep Carrying the Ball True, jobs aren't back. But tax cuts and refinancings are doing the trick.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Jonathan Wheatley	Brazil: One Growth Obstacle after Another After just eight months in office, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has won congressional approval for economically critical and politically controversial pension and tax reforms,. Now, da Silva faces a bigger challenge: reviving Brazil's economy.
Reason August 2003 Nick Gillespie	Really Creative Destruction Economist Tyler Cowen argues for the cultural benefits of globalization
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