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Does the world need saving? Just ask the folks in Russia, who saw their economy strangled last August by an outflow of confidence that was as fast as it was lethal. Ask Latin American countries, whose economies were concussed by the Russian shock waves even though the two regions have few direct economic links. Or ask the thousands of ethnic Chinese who fled Indonesia last summer after impoverished locals concluded that Chinese businessmen had magnified their misery by shipping cash out of the country in search of stability...
...naive understanding of how free markets actually work. When investors have confidence in a country, they will bring capital into it. When they lose confidence, they will pull their capital out. It's their capital. They can use it as they wish. Mahathir has no right to regulate outflow of capital when he originally welcomed it with open arms. To say otherwise is nothing but complete hypocrisy. HUGH BROWER Stamford, Conn...
There was remarkably little evidence of panic among individual investors last week. One measure of that is the amount of money that flows in and out of equity mutual funds. In August, a month that included several gut-wrenching weeks, there was a net outflow of $5.4 billion, or well under 1% of the total invested in equity funds. Though this was the first such exodus since the recession and stock slump of 1990, the number is still quite modest when compared with the 4% that fled equity funds after the October 1987 correction. Last week investors pulled...
...outflow from Siberia helps put to rest one of the most enduring myths about the region--that it is virtually empty. The number of humans is in fact low in absolute terms. Currently Siberia has 30 million inhabitants, with the largest concentrations in cities like Novosibirsk (pop. 1.4 million) and Vladivostok (pop. 640,000). The entire Russian Far East, covering 2.4 million sq. mi., has 8 million people, less than the population of Moscow. But Siberia is not empty; it is not even underpopulated...
...OUTFLOW: That could mean raise the retirement age from 65. And raise or abolish the early retirement age, now 62, at which recipients can collect partial benefits. Or institute a means-test denying full benefits to those with huge incomes from other sources. Or reduce annual cost of living increases. Or do them all. The general idea is to reduce the total of benefits payable and thus put off the evil day when the system crashes...