VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 29

17-APRIL-1995

Financial and Banking News

Financial Policy

The Importance of Oil

There has, however, been one absolutely fundamental change in policyattitudes: a recognition that economic difficulties are unlikely to be solved bymanipulating the price of oil. The refrain of former years, that if only oilexporters could coordinate policy more effectively, prices could be raised andeconomic difficulties would disappear, is much less frequently heard now. Inrecent months this has...