`Committee to Save the Dollar' May Not Be Needed: William Pesek So, the dollar isn't on its own.

Days of Rage in Streets Start Derailing Asia: William Pesek Asia has indeed decoupled -- not from the U.S. economy, but from political reality.

Asia Is About to Give U.S. a Kick in the Fannie: William Pesek Intelligence reports. Unemployment statistics. National-security estimates. Political polls. World leaders sure have their hands full digesting reams of data.

Yakuza the Big Winners in Japan's Credit Crisis: William Pesek If only Japanese bureaucrats had an economic equivalent of medicine's Hippocratic Oath, something like: Don't harm an economy already plagued with limitations.

Here's to Hoping Nouriel Roubini Is Proven Wrong: William Pesek It's hard to forget your first Nouriel Roubini experience.

Greenspan's Glasnost Comes to Tokyo Just in Time: William Pesek An extraordinary thing is happening in Tokyo: Bank of Japan officials are speaking Japanese.

Bush Ties Prove Radioactive For Asian Leaders: William Pesek There's an underappreciated common denominator among embattled leaders in Asia: George W. Bush.

Bull Market in Bankruptcies Darkens BOJ's Year: William Pesek Bank of Japan officials can be excused for feeling a bit disoriented.

China Goes Milli Vanilli as Japan Tries Old Ways: William Pesek It was China's Milli Vanilli moment.

Reaganomics Comes to Japan After Dying in U.S.: William Pesek Supply-side economics is making an untimely appearance in Japan.