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January 2004
Fed's Folly Will Come Due in 2004, By Peter Eavis, The Street, 2 Jan
Europe faces an uncertain future as globalisation takes hold
, By Stephen King, Independent, Jan 5
The Broken Promise of Nafta, By Joseph E. Stiglitz, NYT, Jan 7
Second sight, By Victor Keegan, Guardian, Jan 9
Latin America's Failed Macroeconomic Dictatorships, By Enrique Dussel Peters, Project-Syndicate, Jan 12
Eurozone could yet succeed, By Martin Wolf, FT, Jan 14
How India is becoming the new giant of Asia
, By Hamish McRae, Independent, Jan 15
Inflation can no longer be policy makers' only guiding light, By Stephen King, Independent, Jan 19
Strong economy could pump up jobs, By Susan Tompor, Detriot FP, Jan 20
How the EU can avoid a stormy 2004, By Quentin Peel, FT, Jan 22
What happens in China will affect us all, By Hamish McRae, Independent Jan 22
Why Europe May Be Forced To Drive The Euro Down, By David Fairlamb, BW, Jan 23
Who Benefits From Free Trade, and How, By Robert P. Murphy, Mises, Jan 26
Waiting for others to act will only make Europe feel queasy, By Stephen King, Independent, Jan 26
Red Ink Realities
, By Paul Krugman, NYT, Jan 28
IMF must stand up to blackmail, By Martin Wolf, FT, Jan 28
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February 2004

Times Are Good When 4 Percent Growth Disappoints, By Caroline Baum, Bloomberg, Feb 2
As interest rates start to climb again, how far can they go?, By Jeremy Warner, Independent, Feb 3
Dollar's threat to eurozone, By Wolfgang Munchau, FT, Feb 3
The Richest Get Richer, By J. Bradford DeLong, Project-Syndicate, Feb 4
A bittersweet taste in wages, By Hays Wire, CNN, Feb 5
Fed Forecasts Could Hold Clues on Rate Timing, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, Feb 6
Europe left behind as US looks to Asia, By Larry Elliott, Feb 9
Mystique now lies at the heart of Bank's interest rate policy, By Stephen King, Independent, Feb 9
Mr. Greenspan Weighs In, NYT, Feb 13
The wrong way to sell reform
, By Wolfgang Munchau, FT, Feb 16
Will Dr Pangloss rule if it's $2 to £1?, By William Keegan, The Observer
Treasury's Trip to Beijing May Not Budge Peg, By David DeRosa, Bloomberg, Feb 17
It's downhill all the way for UK trade traffic, By Larry Elliott, The Guardian, Feb 17
Asia will not rethink currencies soon, By Martin Wolf, FT, Feb 18
Greenspan's Deep Job Analysis Affects Policy, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, Feb 19
World economic rebound gains altitude, By Richard Irving, Times, Feb 19
Why on earth not put a tax on land?, By Martin Wolf, FT, Feb 20
Focusing on reform, By Wolfgang Munchau, FT, Feb 23
Let's keep America growing, By Hamish McRae, Independent, Feb 23
Trade is not bad for US jobs, By Martin Wolf, FT, Feb 25

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March 2004

The great borrowing boom is about to end, By Christopher Smallwood, Independent, Mar 1
Greenspan Skips Short-Term Deficit Risk to Rates
, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, Mar 2
'The recovery is still fragile', By David Pilling, FT, Mar 2
Japan Inflation Bonds Like Waiting for Godot, By William Pesek Jr., Bloomberg, Mar 3
Greenspan's Wrong. Productivity Won't Move Yuan, By Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg, Mar 4
Betting on a jobs pop, By Hays Wire, CNN, Mar 8
The Unrecognizable Recovery, By Bob Herbert, NYT, Mar 9
Not equal to the job it was meant to do, By Martin Wolf, FT, Mar 11
Job-loss pessimists should not blame offshoring, By Guy de Jonquières, FT, Mar 12
No More Excuses on Jobs, By Paul Krugman, NYT, Mar 15
Brown's battle is to stop the rot
, By Larry Elliott, Guardian, Mar 15
Fed Sober Reality - It's Not Just Jobs, But Wages
, By John Berry, Bloomberg, Mar 17
Gordon Brown's figures might just about add up, but only in the best of all possible worlds, By Hamish McRae, Independent, Mar 22
UK still short of reaching economic nirvana, By Stephen King, Independent, Mar 22
How long can China continue to boom?, By James Kynge, FT, Mar 24
Brown's art of double-speak, By Patience Wheatcroft, Times, Mar 25
Are high oil prices here to stay?
, By Carola Hoyos, FT, Mar 29
The Fed is forced to fuel a global boom, By Martin Wolf, FT, Mar 31

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April 2004

US needs sustained jobs growth, and lots of it, By Stephen King, Independent, Apr 5
We're More Productive. Who Gets the Money?
, By Bob Herbert, NYT, Apr 6
One Good Month, By Paul Krugman, NYT, Apr 12
Economic dependence can be hard to quit, By Stephen King, Independent, Apr 13
A matter of more than economics, By Martin Wolf, FT, Apr 14
Fed Is Likely Many Months From Raising Rates, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, Apr 16
The time for a rate cut has gone, By Wolfgang Munchau, FT, Apr 19
Questions of Interest, By Paul Krugman, NYT, Apr 22
Fed Probably Won't Raise Rates at a Rapid Pace, By By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, Apr 23
Might the Fed Rate Increases Stop at Only 2.5%?, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, Apr 28
Big spenders keep the economy moving, By Martin Wolf, FT, Apr 28

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May 2004

Appetite for IPOs? We're not hungry, By Charles Stein, Boston Globe, May 3
Let Us Pray, By Thomas L. Friedman, NYT, May 3
Fed Won't Raise, Just Move Rhetorically Closer, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, May 4
The Pernicious Rise Of "Core Europe", By John Rossant, BW, May 6
China has forged its own economic consensus, By Joshua Cooper Ramo, FT, May 7
Japan needs creative strategy, By Haruhiko Kuroda, FT, May 12
New economic giants India and China give a twist to the global recovery, By Hamish McRae, Independent, May 13
Fed Appears Certain to Raise Rate by .25 Percent, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, May 14
Where the Jobs Are, By W. Michael Cox, Richard Alm and Nigel Holmes, NYT, May 14
Asia needs its own monetary fund, By Martin Wolf, FT, May 19
The history books will record the true cost of Greenspan's cheap money policy, By Hamish McRae, Independent, May 20
S&P Should Punish Italy, Germany for Deficit Woes, By Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg, May 24
Outsourced and Out of Work, By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project-Syndicate, May 25
Rising rates will put Brown's boast to the test, By Stephen King, Independent, May 25
An oil shock is likely to herald another world recession within the next 10 years
, By Hamish McRae, Indepedent, May 27
Britain's miracle of stability, By Martin Wolf, FT, May 28
Goods and services don't really cost more in Britain - so why does it feel as if they do?, By Hamish McRae, Independent, May 31

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June 2004

US managers prefer a little more inflation, By Stephen Cecchetti, FT, Jun 1
Supply, demand, politics and oil, By Martin Wolf, FT, Jun 2
A China Trade Deal for the Yuan to Float?, By David DeRosa, Bloomberg, Jun 7
How big a threat to West is growth of China?, By Stephen King, Independent, Jun 7
Britain's economy goes onwards and upwards, By Ed Crooks, FT, Jun 9
Just what the spin doctor ordered, By Larry Elliott, Guardian, Jun 11
An Economic Legend, By Paul Krugman, NYT, Jun 14
Greenspan Removes Any Doubt About Rate Increase, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, Jun 16
Greater efficiency, not a new wonder fuel, is the answer to higher oil prices, By Hamish McRae, Independent, Jun 18
It's wrong to think rates will keep on rising, By Stephen King, Independent, Jun 21
Fed hikes ... still guessing, By Hays Wire, CNN, Jun 22
An alternative to trade retaliation
, By Marco Bronckers and Naboth Van Den Broek, FT, Jun 24
Is China about to step off the jet ski of economic growth on to the slow boat?, By Hamish McRae, Independent, June 24
What Keeps Greenspan Up At Night, By Rich Miller, BW, Jun 28
New life in Old Europe, By Wolfgang Munchau, FT, Jun 28
Will ECB Independence Threaten ECB Independence?
, By Caroline Baum, Bloomberg, Jun 30

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July 2004

Fed Raises Rate, Sticks to `Measured' Approach, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, Jul 2
Turn the clock back on hours, By Wolfgang Munchau, FT, Jul 5
Overheating should not worry China, By Martin Wolf, FT, Jul 7
Will rising rates bring correction or collapse?, By Henry Tricks, Virginia Marsh and Christopher Grimes, FT, Jul 8
A bond bail-out is unlikely, By Wolfgang Munchau, FT, Jul 12
Japan's long winter is over. But one small boom won't melt the snow on Mount Fuji, By Hamish McRae, Independent, Jul 12
EU faces rise in welfare migration, By Hans-Werner Sinn, FT, Jul 13
Fed should go easy on interest rates, By Brad DeLong, FT, Jul 13
Why Europe Shouldn't Save For Retirement Yet, By Carol Matlack and Adeline Bonnet and David Fairlamb, BW, Jul 14
The need for intelligent discrimination, By Martin Wolf, FT, Jul 14
The best way to get Labour smiling again, By Larry Elliott, Guardian, Jul 16
Europe's chance for a new start, By Wolfgang Munchau, FT, Jul 19
Greenspan Can Tell One of Two Tales to Congress, By Caroline Baum, Bloomberg, Jul 20
Strong world growth masks medium-term risks, By Martin Wolf, FT, Jul 20
Mortgage lending raises the roof, By Patience Wheatcroft, Times, Jul 21
More Jobs, Worse Work, By Stephen S. Roach, NYT, Jul 23
Will longer hours close Europe's productivity gap?, By Wolfgang Munchau and Ralph Atkins, FT, Jul 23

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August 2004

We need a global currency, By Martin Wolf , FT, Aug 4
Bank of England Doesn't See Red on Debt, By Matthew Lynn, Bloomberg, Aug 5
The fallacy that stifles growth in Europe, By Paul de Grauwe, FT, Aug 5
Markets See Measured-Pace Interruptus From Fed, By Caroline Baum, Bloomberg, Aug 9
Fed Focuses on Inflation, Not `Soft Patch, By John M. Berry, Bloomberg, Aug 11
Trading up Global Trade Talks
, By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project-Syndicate, Aug 11

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