The economies of the Arab world lag behind the West. Is Islam to blame?
John Cassidy
John Cassidy has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995. He writes The Financial Page, a column about economics and politics.
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ANNALS OF FINANCE about last summer’s near-collapse of the investment firm Long-Term Capital Management... According to some observers the hedge-fund …
ANNALS OF FINANCE about Goldman, Sachs & Company. Goldman, Sachs & Company is the last big investment-banking partnership on Wall Street; that partnership…
annals of finance about the stock market, parallels with 1929 in global economic conditions, and the Federal Reserve Board's chairman, Alan …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, 43... Tells about a recent visit by Summers to Japan, where he was greeted as if he …
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Signed comment about Rupert Murdoch's cancellation of a book by Christopher Patten on Hong Kong... A few weeks ago, Murdoch temporarily departed from …