The Wall Street Meltdown: the View from Asia

Many Asians absorb what is happening in Wall Street with a combination of déjà vu, skepticism and "I-told-you-so." For many, the Wall Street crisis is a replay, though on a much larger scale, of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which...

A Primer on the Wall Street Meltdown

Many on Wall Street are still digesting the momentous events of the last ten days: 1-3 trillion dollars worth of financial assets wiped out. Wall Street effectively nationalized, with the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department making all the major strategic...

Towards a New American Isolationism

Despite the glitter that surrounded both the Olympics in Beijing and the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the messages coming to Asia from the two events were very different. From Beijing, the message was, to put it in the words of one pundit, China has had a...