The Economist (US) back issues from January 1988:
Get ready for the phoenix. (government and businessmen are growing tired of floating exchange rates) (editorial)
Jan 09, 1988
Can Britain keep booming? It will take 40 years to catch up with other rich economies, but now that's not impossible. (editorial)
Jan 09, 1988
Party poopers; too many losers make it hard for the Democrats to pick winners. (U.S. Democratic presidential hopefuls for 1988 election) (editorial)
Jan 09, 1988
Officially it's secret; Britain needs a freedom-of-information act; the government, unwittingly, has shown why. (editorial)
Jan 09, 1988
Investment banks return to earth; their market may be global but their strategies should be more restrained. (editorial)
Jan 09, 1988
Magna Carta Afghaniensis; the aim of helping Afghan guerrillas is not just to get Russia out of the place. (editorial)
Jan 09, 1988
A boardgame for the brave; toy companies that hop from fad to fad live dangerously. (editorial)
Jan 09, 1988
Forget the growl, look at the tails. (Japan and America)
Jan 09, 1988
When Iowa becomes Brigadoon. (the Iowa caucuses)
Jan 09, 1988
Out of sight on the right? (the Libertarians)
Jan 09, 1988
Beg pardon. (will Ronald Reagan pardon Oliver North and John Poindexter?)
Jan 09, 1988
'Tis the season to be porky. (1988 U.S. budget; pork barrel spending)
Jan 09, 1988
Anti-Darwinism. (U.S. minimum wage legislation)
Jan 09, 1988
Fighting the slick. (Florida fights offshore oil drilling)
Jan 09, 1988
Beware: labels can spoil your fun. (bottles of beer, wine and whiskey will carry health warning labels)
Jan 09, 1988
Not so shocking, after all. (Clayton J. Lonetree's spy case)
Jan 09, 1988
When this Afghan war is over.
Jan 09, 1988
What everybody is starting to know. (how the Russian press sees the Afghan war)
Jan 09, 1988
And then there's another thing.... (chilly U.S.-China relations)
Jan 09, 1988
A star is dead. (power struggle among India's Tamils following death of Marudud Gopalan Ramachandran)
Jan 09, 1988
A mandarin's guide to Tokyo. (bureaucrats regain power in Japan)
Jan 09, 1988
Letter of the law. (Singapore government's actions against the press)
Jan 09, 1988
At the bottom of the barrel. (Haiti's economy)
Jan 09, 1988
Westminsters-in-the-sun. (democracies in the Caribbean)
Jan 09, 1988
No riots here. (Egypt-Israel relations)
Jan 09, 1988
Profit in poverty. (Somalia extorts money from UN for Ethiopian refugees)
Jan 09, 1988
Samson had that feeling. (conditions in Palestinian refugee camps in West Bank and Gaza)
Jan 09, 1988
The new Mayans. (Guatemalan refugees in Mexico)
Jan 09, 1988
Perestroika comes to the test. (Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of economic reform)
Jan 09, 1988
Non-aggressive Franzislav Joszef. (Franz Josef Strauss visits Soviet Union)
Jan 09, 1988
Let's all open our purses. (French election financing)
Jan 09, 1988
In slickness and in wealth. (Yves Montand and French checkbook journalism)
Jan 09, 1988
Sloba's Serbs. (Slobodan Milosevic is powerful in Serbia)
Jan 09, 1988
Forked tongues. (Belgian Socialists will put together the next government)
Jan 09, 1988
Ozal's open arms. (Turgut Ozal's new foreign policy)
Jan 09, 1988
End of the age of steam? (the Finnish government's weekly cabinet meeting no longer ends with a group sauna now that there are women cabinet ministers)
Jan 09, 1988
How to make public money go further.
Jan 09, 1988
Private money for public works. (private financing for the Channel Tunnel project)
Jan 09, 1988
Northern light. (privatizing Scotland's electricity industry)
Jan 09, 1988
An electrifying opportunity. (Britain imports electricity from Iceland)
Jan 09, 1988
Protection, please. (Northern Ireland judges need more protection)
Jan 09, 1988
Midwest university meets M4. (British universities need to strengthen ties to business and industry to get money for academic research)
Jan 09, 1988
Man on the make. (David Mellor wants to get noticed)
Jan 09, 1988
Wearing Mr. Smith. (menswear stores are becoming popular in Great Britain; Paul Smith)
Jan 09, 1988
Voices of silence. (cabinet records from Harold Macmillan's time now being released)
Jan 09, 1988
The year of exporting furiously.
Jan 09, 1988
Shaping up to ship it out. (U.S. exports )
Jan 09, 1988
How to survive a high yen.
Jan 09, 1988
Born-again intervention. (dollar vs. yen )
Jan 09, 1988
Super Nova. (Nova Pharmaceutical's research on protein drugs) (company profile)
Jan 09, 1988
Buying bigness. (Hoffman-La Roche's hostile bid for Sterling Drug)
Jan 09, 1988
Beware big boats. (container shipping)
Jan 09, 1988
Schools for scandal. (courses on business ethics at universities)
Jan 09, 1988
Old nobles fade away. (Jardine Matheson's new management)
Jan 09, 1988
Which is worse off? (Brazil's and Mexico's debts)
Jan 09, 1988
Economics brief: to fix or to float. (currency stability)
Jan 09, 1988
Is Wall Street spooked? (1988 economic forecast)
Jan 09, 1988
Promising, but no panacea. (Mexico's solution to its debt crisis)
Jan 09, 1988
Tokkin tinkles a Tokyo tonic. (Tokyo stock market regulations)
Jan 09, 1988
Tokyo's land prices teeter.
Jan 09, 1988
Struck by a Blue Arrow. (County NatWest bought Blue Arrow shares)
Jan 09, 1988
Not before time? (Ronald Li's management of Hongkong stock market)
Jan 09, 1988
Not only exciting, but risky, too. (accounting firms)
Jan 09, 1988
Something rotten in the state of software.
Jan 09, 1988
In the wild blue yonder. (computer programs for the Airbus A320 jet and the battle-management programs for Star Wars)
Jan 09, 1988