2012 may well be the year that India's economy returns to a familiar place—as an Asian laggard overshadowed by its East Asian peers and largely ignored by the rest of the world.

China's announcement that it would let its currency begin to move seems like the successful culmination of the Obama administration's strategy on Chinese currency practices, but the president may not be able to claim the victory.

Many liberals predicted that the financial crisis would increase Americans' confidence in Big Government. That has not happened.

Advocates for revaluation of China's exchange rate have argued that an appreciation would boost demand for U.S. goods and shrink the U.S. trade deficit, but Chinese currency revaluation cannot provide a quick fix to the U.S. economic predicament.

While Obama administration's nonproliferation strategy has shown to be ineffective at preventing North Korea and Iran from continuing their nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Congress and opinion leaders can take steps without White House leadership to curb growing danger abroad.

In Japan, the time is right for political regeneration; a new political organization could help Japan build a stable, two-party democratic system.

The explosive growth of Electronic Communications Networks (ECNs)--computerized venues for trading securities--has forced the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ to alter their visions of the future and has raised fundamental questions about how securities markets should be structured and regulated. This conference will review the changes that seem...

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