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...Over the past decade, inflation has been a minor threat compared with brutal deflationary shocks. They started with the collapse of the Mexican peso in the mid-1990s. In 1997, much of eastern Asia's flourishing economy was leveled. Next were Russia, Turkey and Argentina; Brazil teetered on the brink. By early 2001, Silicon Valley, the pride of the U.S. economy, was crashing, while entire sectors of the so-called New Economy disintegrated...
...information workers. Result? The offshore outsourcing revolution and downward pressure on global production costs that keeps inflation under control. Equally powerful are the ultra-low-cost emerging-market manufacturing bases, led by China. With more than 1 billion people set to enter the urban labor markets of China, India, Brazil and Indonesia in the next 20 years, all those pressures on prices will only intensify...
...originally met when Menko was a high school exchange student from Brazil in Hagen's hometown of Caro, Mich. "When Vivian went back to her country, it was a relationship interrupted," Hagen says. "Now we have a chance to pick up where we left off. It's exciting." They lost contact after Menko left the States, mostly because in the 1970s communication between the two countries was challenging. A letter could take a month to arrive, and telephone calls were costly. In the interim, they married others and had children. In 2001, divorced and living with...
Converse is known for co-authoring many papers on election studies with other noted scholars including Angus Campbell, Warren E. Miller, Willard L. Rodgers, and Donald E. Stokes. His studies are not limited to the U.S.—he has spent time researching in Brazil, Canada, and France...