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...these questions were also on the table at this month's meeting of G-7 finance ministers in London, and for some, they have a historical echo. The two Americans on TIME's panel, Jeffrey Sachs, the director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, and Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a former national economic adviser to President Bill Clinton who is now dean of the London Business School, see eerie similarities with economic conditions of almost 20 years ago. As Ronald Reagan began his second term in 1985, the dollar was sliding and the U.S. was running up big deficits...
Sachs and Tyson are Democrats (though Sachs insists that his work is nonpartisan); Republican officials argue that the U.S. economy will keep humming along despite red ink and higher rates. That view was seconded earlier this month by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who suggested in London that a tighter fiscal policy could stabilize or even shrink the U.S. trade deficit. Still, mindful that alarmist predictions of two decades ago turned out to be wrong, Sachs and Tyson are not forecasting a calamity in the U.S. They also expect wider damage to be limited. "The U.S. deficit is really...
...There was broad agreement among the panelists that Chinese authorities have little interest in unlinking their currency from the dollar, despite consistent pressure to do so from the U.S. "The sanguine view is that it is not in the interest of the Asians to break the dollar link," said Tyson...
Another townsperson won over by canine charm is Gloria Dump, (Cicely Tyson) the town eccentric who “sees better with her heart than her eyes.” She inhabits a house in the backfields filled with oddities such as a massive tree decorated with whiskey bottles from her younger days. Her too-obvious name, describing her flyaway hair and mismatched rags, makes for another trite attempt at cleverness by the writers of a banal movie...
Another townsperson won over by canine charm is Gloria Dump, (Cicely Tyson) the town eccentric who “sees better with her heart than her eyes.” She inhabits a house in the backfields filled with oddities such as a massive tree decorated with whiskey bottles from her younger days. Her too-obvious name, describing her flyaway hair and mismatched rags, makes for another trite attempt at cleverness by the writers of a banal movie...