List of Finance and Banking articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cheap Dollar Diplomacy
Worries over U.S.-European estrangement miss the real threat: the falling U.S. dollar.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Downside Danger
Why the world's central banks must become more vigilant about falling prices.
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The Morality of the Market
The market economy has triumphed virtually everywhere -- and has come to be reviled virtually everywhere. Critics, including more than a few economists, charge that capitalism creates gross inequality, inflicts environmental destruction, and undermines democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. The market economy is the most just and humane economic system yet conceived.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The IMF’s China Card
Why China should bail out the International Monetary Fund.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ranking the Rich 2004
The second annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index ranks 21 rich nations on how their aid, trade, investment, migration, environment, security, and technology policies help poor countries. Find out who's up, who's down, why Denmark and the Netherlands earn the top spots, and why Japan once again finishes last.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The FP Memo: How to Run the International Monetary Fund
To restore its credibility, the IMF must represent all its members, not just the ones who chose its new director.
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America Overdrawn
The U.S. economy is the world's economic engine. But with American citizens saving less and Washington spending more, that engine is now running on fumes. Together, these trends could ignite trade protectionism and threaten global economic integration.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Making Change
Coin's end?
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NGOs: Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor
The war against poverty is threatened by friendly fire. A swarm of media-savvy Western activists has descended upon aid agencies, staging protests to block projects that allegedly exploit the developing world. The protests serve professional agitators by keeping their pet causes in the headlines. But they do not always serve the millions of people who live without clean water or electricity.