An Interview With President Ma Ying-jeou Source New York Times 2009-02-13 18:51:32 feature On June 18, 2008, President Ma Ying-jeou was interviewed by Keith Bradsher and Edward Wong of The New York Times, and Leonard M. Apcar of The International Herald Tribune. The following is an edited transcript of the interview provided by the Taiwanese Government Information Office.

Notes from the Editors of MR Source Monthly Review 2009-01-07 10:05:11 paper Notes from the Editors of MR This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in the history of capitalism. However, while the Great Depression has been very much in the news of late, this is not due so much to this anniversary as to the fact that for the first time since the 1930s an economic crisis has arisen on a scale and of a nature that invites direct comparison with that earlier deep downturn, which threatened the entire system and ended in the Second World War.