Lachman pushes for a floating exchange rate in theGulf countries.

Can the current post-Bretton Woods international monetary system prevent a return to the beggar-thy-neighbor policies and competitive devaluations that so harmed international prosperity in the 1930s? What are the system's flaws? Can they be corrected, and if so, how? An expert panel will address these and related issues.

Recent successful experiencesin Brazil and Mexico demonstrate that emerging market economies are capable of managing a floating exchange rate.

Exiting the Euro might at least give Greece a chance of being spared multiple years of high unemployment and depression, in contrast to the debt restructuring option.

The Federal Reserve is prone to major and minor mistakes because it is affected by political pressure.

Europe is going through a macroeconomic crisis.

Sadly for the global economy, Chinese authorities will not change what they regard to be a highly successful exchange rate peg in the near future

Politicians of both parties are blaming China for high U.S. jobless rates, but in truth, the impact on the U.S. economy of a change in Chinese currency policy could well be so small that it would be almost impossible to detect.