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Mexico’s capital idea. (Mexico’s economy and its need to attract foreign investors)

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Alarums and excursions in Argentina. (Argentina’s central bank changes management due to inability to control money supply)

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Pariah Peru refuses to worry. (Peru’s inability to repay debts has made it ineligible for International Monetary Fund assistance)

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Rush to join the Fed club. (foreign participants in the U.S.Treasury market)

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Cutting costs? It comes expensive. (automation in banking)

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Whose price is it anyway? (data swapping in the financial information business)

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Back to the breadline with electronic speed? (the possibility of worldwide financial disaster)

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“I agree with Secretary Baker.” (Karl Otto Pohl, president of Deutsche Bundesbank, sees international cooperation as the only hope for continued growth of the world’s economy)

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Baker’s big worry is protectionism. (interview with James Baker, U.S. Treasury secretary) (interview)

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First among the worst. (Egypt’s financial problems and its Minister for the Economy and Foreign Trade, Sultan Abu Ali)

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Borrower of the year: GMAC. (General Motors Acceptance Corporation)

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Finance minister of the year 1986: James Baker, Secretary, U.S. Treasury