Editorial January 18, 1999 Issue

Currency for the global economy

Mary Metzner Trammell

They're not professional economists. But they speak to us cogently about the global economy. They call out from the frames of our television screens, from the pages of newspapers and magazines. The young mother in Jakarta who can't get food for her toddler. The Moscow laborer who desperately needs to keep his family warm this winter. The Washington, D.C., inner-city boy who goes to school hungry every morning.

There's a kind of currency that never runs short.

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