NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The Cato Institute's 20th annual monetary conference, in New York Thursday, looked in detail at the two proposals outstanding for country bankruptcy. Former Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston's famous remark, after the 1982 Mexico crisis that "countries don

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The Macedonian election result forms yet another element in an East European pattern, common to almost all the post-Marxist economies. Reformist governments, however successful their economic track record, have enormous difficulty in getting re-elected. T

The International Monetary Fund is not unlike the coaches of teams competing in football's World Cup. After a defeat, the coach will be criticized by millions of disparate voices. But would the suggestions of the critics have changed the result? Perhaps;

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QUERETARO, Mexico, March 28 (UPI) -- More than a year ago this corespondent pondered the possible impact of a US administration that was inexperienced in the handling of international economic crises and an International Monetary Fund that, weakened by past criticisms, was unwilling or unabl

SKOPJE, Macedonia, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- This is the second part of a two-part survey of the Russian financial sector. This part looks at the debt markets, money laundering, the foreign exchange markets, and the role of the international financial institutions, and suggests what may be the way

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