Three questions are discussed: Is the world heading toward a new depression? Is there an alternative set of policies which could significantly minimize such risks and promise a return to stable growth? Can the United States restore acceptable economic growth at home without worldwide recovery? (RM)

The 1983 federal fiscal crisis has been created by a decade of excessive monetarist policy. Why so costly and destructive a policy has commanded the allegiance of economists and governments throughout the world is discussed. (RM)

Public policy and the unrelenting web of government intervention has adversely affected the U.S. industrial competition position over the last 25 years. This trend and how it can be reversed are examined. (RM)

Discusses the role of deficit spending in the American economy during the last 50 years. Whether deficits are dangerous is still a matter of dispute among economists. But the deficit is so huge now that we must slash spending and raise taxes in order to encourage balanced economic growth. (CS)

The present tax system impedes investment and is unfairly distributed. A consumption tax is the best way to reduce future deficits without curbing growth. Describes the various forms that a consumption tax could take. Such a tax can be as progressive or regressive as policymakers want it to be. (Author/CS)

The essence of sound economic policy in the future will be to integrate the wide variety of public- and private-sector decisions that bear on the nation's capacity to achieve full employment, economic growth, and stable prices. (RM)

It is important that the Reagan administration understand the domestic economic utility of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, rather than dismiss them as philanthropic institutions that are expendable in an era in which charity should begin at home. (RM)

Billions of dollars are lost each year in our balance of payments because U.S. multinationals have not entered foreign markets due to trade restrictions and restrictions on the remittance of profits and royalties. Formal and informal government obstructions to free trade are examined. (RM)

Controversy over the true number of poor people in the United States is not new. Most of the changes that would make the poverty line more realistic would increase the number of people classified as poor; no president would like to see the number of poor increase during his administration. (RM)

Discusses how banks brave enough to go against conventional wisdom, which says that customers should pay for everything, could end up with greater profits and more customer satisfaction by exchanging free minimum services for minimum reasonable balances. (RM)

Possible future scenarios for the United States are described. As resources become scarce, the exploding U.S. population will inevitably lead to rapid inflation, greater unemployment, greater likelihood of war, and the virtual impossibility of maintaining social services such as education and old-age security programs at current levels. (RM)

The three highest priorities for American foreign policy are avoiding nuclear war by working with the Soviet leadership to alter our present collision course, demonstrating our commitment to human rights throughout the world, and ensuring American economic prosperity by strengthening exports and ensuring the stability of the international monetary…

Senator John Glenn outlines an economic program, discusses educational policy, and presents steps that must be taken to ensure America's defense security. (RM)

What is happening today among U.S. institutions of higher education is a growing competitive mentality in which each school is striving to tear students and money away from its neighbors. In these times of tight money, taxpayer-supported institutions will not benefit if independent colleges and universities are forced to close. (RM)

The author examines two myths that are popular in the United States: 1) public policy proposals of the last few decades have been attempts to make real the promises held out by the American Dream of equal opportunity for all citizens, and 2) that public policy is formulated for the happy child-centered, nuclear family. (Author/RK)