Zero Population Growth was a fashionable cause in the 1970’s, continuing as an issue on the fringe of public life in the 2000’s, with one key ZPG Web site now devoted to haranguing Congress and the media about the necessity for worldwide abortion and contraception rights.

French peasants and Indian housewives have traditionally avoided stocks, bonds and even bank deposits in their investment portfolio, preferring instead to put their faith in gold, whether in bars, coins or jewelry. Every now and then, usually when the world economy is going through a difficult phase, there comes a time when the French peasants […]

At the Asian Development Bank meeting in Hawaii last week, Standard and Poor’s, the rating agency, claimed that while 2000 had been the worst year ever for defaults on S&P rated bonds, 2001 was expected to be even worse, with the Asian corporate sector a major component of the problem.