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...portfolio of leftover shares and has occasionally meddled in the economy in ways that have confused businesses and the community at large. And while Malaysia's market interventions helped the country through the crisis, the country never recovered the openness and tolerance it had enjoyed during the boom years. Foreign investors have never returned to Malaysia in their pre-crisis numbers...
...Mark L. Clifford is executive director of the Asia Business Council and co-author of Meltdown: Asia's Boom, Bust, and Beyond
...Three decades ago, the Party approved another set of rural reforms, liberating a billion peasants from the collectivized farming imposed by Mao Zedong and allowing them to farm their plots for a profit. That decision is widely regarded as marking the start of China's stunning economic boom. But ownership of the land remained with the state; farmers had to renew leases every 30 years and their sale was forbidden...
...world is in the grips of a perilous market crunch, the boom is over, and tough times loom. The U.K.'s FTSE-100 stock index has nose-dived and is down about 35% in the past year. Two famous British banks have already imploded--Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley. And after a dramatic plunge in the stock price of other banks, on Oct. 8 the British government announced an emergency $88 billion recapitalization package that includes partially nationalizing three other banks: Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyds TSB. The City has been through enough slumps to know what...
...control inflation of the 1970s wreaked havoc with Keynesian fine-tuning and seemed to confirm the criticisms of Lucas and Friedman. But their victory was never complete. The U.S. economic boom of the 1980s was at least partly the result of deficit spending. As financial crises battered much of the world in the 1990s, governments turned to tools devised by Keynes simply because other approaches didn't work. And behavioral economic research has since shown that most humans are awfully shortsighted...