Weekend Links (2 February 2008)
Posted by AJ on February 2, 2008
Some recent articles of interest:
- Bond crisis: Sovereign funds hold their bets (Fortune)
- US Treasury’s Kimmitt stresses benefit of commercially-based SWFs (CNBC)
- OPEC rebuffs call for increase in output (Financial Times)
- IMF’s proposed sovereign wealth fund code ruffles feathers (Bretton Wood’s Project)
- China Investment-Fund Head Says Focus Is on ‘Portfolios’ (Wall Street Journal)
- State-led globalization (RGE Monitor)
- Libya Sovereign Wealth Fund to Shun U.S. (Bloomberg)
- Market convulsions will lead to the return of the state as a major economic force (The Independent)
- Japan’s Nukaga: No plan for sovereign wealth fund (Reuters)
- Ask the Author: A World Without Islam (Foreign Policy)
- The ‘war on terror’ licenses a new stupidity in geopolitics (Guardian Unlimited)
- A Risk Index for Sovereign Wealth Funds (Breaking Views)
- After Iraq: A report from the new Middle East—and a glimpse of its possible future (The Atlantic)
- If $28 Trillion Comes Knocking, Open the Door (Bloomberg)
- Can Emerging Markets Avert U.S. Chill? (Wall Street Journal)
- (Stephen) Roach Says He’s `Optimistic’ on Asian Growth (Bloomberg)
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