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Fixing what's wrong with the system is no trickier than preserving the parts that work. But first the country has to understand which is which. Everyone from the libertarian Cato Institute to the American Association of Retired Persons is ready to offer a different answer, but for now all agree that the main thing is to get people thinking about the issue--something the President alone is positioned to do. That Clinton has seized this moment is testament to political instincts and probably no small amount of polling. What he does with this moment will say something about...
...deal would create the world's biggest company, to be called Citigroup, with $700 billion in assets and a market value of nearly $160 billion. It would join under one name some 100 million customers in 100 countries, 162,600 employees and 3,200 offices, and offer every conceivable financial service for individuals and corporations. Under one umbrella you could get money to buy a house or a FORTUNE 500 company, trade stocks, bonds or foreign exchange, insure your life or find export financing. Heck, you could even open a checking account. Says Roy Smith, a professor of finance...
...beat that bogey, he concedes, he can't simply offer a wide array of financial products. Customers won't buy them purely on convenience. The failure of financial "supermarkets" at American Express and Sears proved that in the '80s and today the number of small community-oriented banks is growing in towns where mergers have wiped out local institutions, leaving corporate branches and higher fees in their wake. "You have to be a low-cost provider," Weill emphasizes...
Leave Africa alone! Let the Africans decide the scale of their economies, the most appropriate technologies to use and the level of industrialism that is desirable. Buy their products, yes. Offer favorable terms of trade, yes. But don't organize their economies for them by offering Western models of unlimited growth in a finite environment. Multinational corporations that do business in Africa should guarantee that most of the benefits go to Africans. MARK HACKLER Glenview...
...Ford plans to offer side air bags on all models. That should put a dent in the 7,000 deaths from side-impact crashes each year...