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Reports on Vietnam's plans of becoming Asia's next boom economy. Speculations of the United States' resumption of diplomatic relations; Violation of the `Trading with the Enemy Act'; Hindrance due to Vietnam's communist government; Vietnamese claims of plots to overthrow its regime; Regulations for foreign investors on how to treat workers.

Wonders why British capitalism is seen as a success story in the international world. How all its economic indicators reflect a negative economic state; Theory that British capitalism helps the world economy more than its own people; Lessons British companies should learn from Germany and France, whose economies are helping their own people.

Lists the main points against a monetary union in Europe from the British Labour Party point of view. Removal of the power to devalue and vary interest rates from the chancellor; Amount of public-expenditure cuts required to meet Maastricht convergence criteria; Possible undervaluation of the British pound.

Reports on the admission by Bank of England Governor Eddie George of his powerlessness to avert the collapse of Barings Bank. Monitoring the bank's activities in Singapore; Legality of transfer by Barings of 750 million pounds to that country; Opinion on the trading of currencies and derivatives.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles that appeared in the October 20, 2008 issue including "The mad world of shadow bankers," "The rise of economic nationalism," and "Global finance crisis."

Presents several letters to the editor. Information on business interest in health care reforms; Information on the issue of collective bargaining in the telephone industry; Information on an article on migrant labor.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "The End of the Party" by Michael Kenny and Nick Pearce and "In the Red" by Laurie Penny, both in the July 25, 2014, issue and "Madness of Crowds" by Will Self in the July 18, 2014, issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the April 21, 2008 issue including "Food crisis: how the rich starved the world," "So, is it all right to be an English nationalist?" and "Treat with extreme caution."

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles that appeared in February 25, 2008 issue including "We ain't seen nothin' yet," by Andrew Stephen, Peter Wilby's examination of equality in the workplace and the article on the war in Iraq.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles that appeared in previous issues including "We must learn from our mistakes" and "Nothing left for Protestants," in the September 10, 2007 issue and "Land of the old general," in the August 20, 2007 issue.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in the previous issues of this journal "The Economist." "Palindrome repents," which focused on a claim stating that economics is inherently flawed on some deep epistemological level is just embarrassing; "The next identity crisis," which focused on federal structure of Belgium; "Not all bull," which focused on a story of the Hong Kong analyst who, on April Fool's day 1993, advised international investors carried away with emerging market fever to buy shares on the Bhutan stock exchange, even though neither the firms nor the stock exchange existed.

Presents a letter to the editor of 'The Economist' magazine in response to a November 1991 article on the vulnerability of cement imports to anti-dumping action.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles from previous issues such as "Lines of Dissent," by Mehdi Hasan, about Arab-Israeli conflict, from the July 5, 2013 issue, "In the Red," by Laurie Penny, about marriage, from the July 5, 2013 issue, and "Politics Column," by Rafael Behr, about welfare states, from the June 28, 2013 issue.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues, including a "World Citizen" article by John Pilger concerning activist publisher Julian Assange in the February 15, 2013, issue, a review by John Gray of the Geoff Mulgan book "The Locust and the Bee" in the March 1, 2013, issue, and an editorial on British politics and economic policy in the March 8, 2013, issue.

Several letters are presented from readers responding to content from prior issues including an editorial about a scandal at newspaper company News International from the July 11, 2011 issue, a poem by Jackie Kay from the same issue, and an editorial about long-term care for the elderly from the July 4, 2011 issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including “Failure in Scotland Would Be a Big Blow to the Miliband Leadership" in the May 2, 2011 issue, "This Heaving Planet," by David Attenborough in the April 25, 2011 issue, and “A Little Revolution” in the May 2, 2011 issue.

Presents letters to the editor commenting on several articles about a variety of issues. Notions about gender roles; Criticism on the social and political policies in Israel; Translation of the Koran.