Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mahathir's plan, of course, baldly flouts all the IMF's ?- and nearly everyone else?s -- current wisdom on saving Asia. According to their formula, a package of stopgap loans and high internal interest rates can protect the currency and attract foreign capital in the short term by restoring investor...
(2 of 3) The words may have come from a Boston economist, but the inspiration clearly came from the country Mahathir touts as the East's answer to U.S. world dominance: China. Ironically, it has been China that has been the West's great consolation in this crisis: By refusing...
Call it red-button relations. After all that speechmaking on the need for economic reform -- most of it preached to the economists who don't need it, rather than the politicians who do -- the only real action taken by President Clinton during his two-day summit in Moscow was this...
At the street level, the crash hasn't yet happened. The attitude is, "Oh, just another crisis." They haven't yet had the big layoffs -- Wile E. Coyote's legs are still spinning in the air. In the upper echelons, people feel that things are in free fall and no...
When it came time to pay, several of them drew out thick wads of crisp $100 bills. Because of the crisis, this place is not taking credit cards right now. I asked them why they didn't pay in rubles.