Volume 6, Number 39, October 9, 1979
This Week
Carter, Cuba and the IMF
by Nora Hamerman
The Week in Brief
Economics
A Dollar Recovery ... Without a Support Operation
by David Goldman
Commodities: International Power Play in Metals
by Renée Sigerson
U.S. Interest Rates? Look at Brazil...
by Lydia Schulman
At the Farm Banks, Credit Is Tight
by Susan Cohen
Cushman & Wakefield Brings Hong Kong to New Jersey
by Lydia Schulman
A U.S.-Canadian Trade War Bloc
International
The IMF meets in Belgrade: The Shape of the New Monetary System
by Susan Johnson
Monory: EMS or Vertigo of Monetary Disorder
Showdown at the Belgrade Corral
Europe Plans New World Credit Terms
by David Goldman
‘Gold Is Unstoppable’: Remonetization Ahead?
by Alice Roth
Nicaragua Calls for Debt Moratorium
by Gretchen Small
Special Report
‘A New Era ... or the End of All Eras’
Mexico’s President López Portillo presents his energy proposal to the UN.
‘Oil Isn’t Sugar,’ Mexico Tells Latin Delegation
A ‘Happy’ State Dept. To Undermine Proposal
Energy
Oil Fever Hits the United States–A New North Sea Swindle?
by Judith Wyer
Plenty of ‘Cheap’ Oil in the United States?
Iran is the Trigger on the Oil Weapon
Ford Foundation: Get Ready for High Prices
Asia
China and the State Department Are Still Fighting the Vietnam War
by Peter Ennis
Europe
The Direction of French Policy
The Tradition of Friedrich List
by Jacques Cheminade
French political economy from Jean Bodin to Charles Dupin–part 2.
U.S. Report
On the Scenes in New Hampshire
by Kathy Stevens
Nuclear power is the issue of the nation’s first Presidential primary.
Economic Survey
Dismantling the Railroads
by David Goldman and Steve Parsons
One way to make money at the expense of the U.S. economy.
U.S. Railroads: The Facts
by Steve Parsons
How To Make $8 Billion off a Bankruptcy
by Leif Johnson
Columns
Congressional Calendar
Aid to Cambodia ... or Pol Pot? – Push Exports on Capitol Hill – Senate Refuses To Cut Breeder Funds ... Again – Carter’s Windfall Profits Plan Stripped Down By Senate Committee – Land Reclamation Act Passes Senate.
Facts Behind Terrorism: Permindex Assassination Networks ‘Alive and Well’
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Labor Periscope: Meany To Retire and Kirkland To Go for Austerity
by L. Wolfe
World Trade Review
