Opinion
Japan govt looks to great depression for econ fix
ARTICLE - More than a decade of economic stagnation, marked by financial crisis and deflation that brings the economy to its knees. Then, remarkably, a rapid recovery after a debt-buying binge by the central bank.
Questions for Chairman Greenspan
ARTICLE - By Tom Schlesinger at the Financial Markets Center, Virginia, 20 February.
Stanley Fischer - An Economic Insider's View
FEATURE - Few people are ever privy to how world leaders try to cope with their economic woes. But from his position at the IMF, Stanley Fischer certainly was.
Give Wadhwani a longer run at Bank
FEATURE - Sushil Wadhwani has denied a stock market rumour that he asked Gordon Brown to keep his seat on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee after his three-year term expires in May.
Argentine Senator revises history
FEATURE - At a conference in London this week, Dr Rodolfo Terragno, a member of the Argentine Senate, set out to refute what he termed as the "fairy tale" version of events that shroud Argentina's experience over the past decade. He wanted to expunge any…
France bids tearless farewell to franc
FEATURE - After 650 years of history, the franc disappears this weekend with about as much ceremony as the muttered address at the funeral of a forgotten relative.
Watch the Fed for clues to rise in gold sector
FEATURE - Gold has broken out and there is no shortage of theories as to why and where it's going from here. But, according to Chad Williams, investors should pay no attention to outlooks based on supply and demand, hedging, central bank sales or even…
Succession scramble at ECB
FEATURE - For those few who enjoy the subtleties of central banking politics, a glacial but important semantic change has occurred over the past couple of years.
Poll dares to ask: Who will succeed Greenspan?
FEATURE - A panel of prominent economists this week pondered a question that many Wall Street investors find unthinkable: Who will take the helm of the world's most powerful central bank when Alan Greenspan leaves?
Greenspan's maths skills honed on baseball
FEATURE - Even as a boy, the world's most powerful central banker avidly combed through statistics -- baseball statistics, that is.
Japanese go for gold
FEATURE - Fears are growing again about the health of the Japanese financial system.
Wim Duisenberg's legacy
FEATURE - Wim Duisenberg, the Dutchman who has headed the European Central Bank (ECB) since its inception, is standing down in July next year.
The yen's fundamental weakness
FEATURE - The currency's depreciation stems not from government policy but the state of the economy says Haruhiko Kuroda, Japan's viceminister of finance for international affairs.
A question of balance at the ECB
ARTICLE - Although the European Central Bank is independent and sets policy on a eurozone-wide basis, a huge effort is made to keep representation of the constituent nations in balance.
BSP chief started out as a credit investigator
FEATURE - It is hard to imagine how today's business icons once lugged heavy books to sell, worked at the school canteen, sold pens and paper.
Central Banker of the Year
ARTICLE - The Banker magazine published in London has awarded Mugur Isarescu, Governor of the Central Bank of Romania the title, Central Banker of the Year. Three other governors from the Philippines, Chile and Botswana won regional titles.
Stamp of approval
ARTICLE - So just why has DeAnne Julius, the American former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, taken out dual UK nationality? City types point darkly to a Bank of England connection.
Drachmas to euro, money exhibit opens at NY Fed
ARTICLE - The Federal Reserve is hoping that the power of money will lure visitors to a lower Manhattan exhibit at a time when other downtown museums are having trouble.
Let pounds and euros compete
ARTICLE - For well over a decade there has been a ceaseless political battle over whether Britain ought to join the euro. The introduction of euro notes and coins at the beginning of this year has raised the decibel level of the controversy but has not…
Israel's regulatory easing
ARTICLE - Some $260 billion (290.39 billion euros) in Israeli financial assets is walled up inside the country by regulations, discriminatory taxes and investor conservatism, kept pacified by high domestic interest rates.
Argentina's woes are not solved
ARTICLE - The new Argentine government of President Eduardo Duhalde has started decisively. It took little time to devalue the peso and sketch out a new economic strategy. But the policy remains full of holes. Rather than follow the successful recent…
Capital flow and soundness of regulation
LETTER - A letter published in the London Financial Times, 8 January 2002.
Argentina's route to salvation
ARGENTINA - A competitive exchange rate, a more open economy and sound banks should be the priorities, says Ricardo Haussmann professor of economic development at Harvard in Todays's Financial Times.
Rojo: Keynesian policies are no longer an option
SPAIN - Perhaps the most influential economist in Spain in recent times, Luis Angel Rojo has devoting most of his professional career to servicing the Spanish economy in the country's central bank, the Bank of Spain. In an interview with El Pais…