Currency Board Critics Cite Selective Facts
Paul Krugman doesn’t care much for hard-money types or countries that employ hard-money monetary regimes. Argentina is one of his …
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The Confidence Question
An economist is “someone who sees something happen and wonders whether it would work in theory,” as Ronald Reagan used …
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How to Forestall International Financial Rescue
The firemen at the International Monetary Fund are busy rescuing Argentina and Turkey. They have just confirmed a Dollars 10bn …
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Reagan the Intellectual
A true intellectual conveys to the public new ideas on a wide range of subjects, unearthing these notions long before …
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Argentina Is No Turkey
The collapse of Turkey’s pegged exchange rate — like similar events before it in Mexico, Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, Russia and …
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Turkey’s Next Move
Chalk up another victim of the International Monetary Fund’s currency policy. On Feb. 21, Turkey gave up on its IMFimposed …
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