Individual Stockholder, R.I.P. By JOHN C. BOGLE October 3, 2005; Wall St. Journal, Page A16 The amazing disappearance of the individual stockholder as the...
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Oct 3, 2005 9:49 pm
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051004 Gardiner to Hudson Dear Michael, Thanks a million for your two messages. I can incorporate the facts from both of them, even at this late stage of...
Geoffrey Gardiner
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Oct 4, 2005 6:56 am
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Dear Geoffrey, I'm sure that you can ask for a variance for your chapter quotes. I like them, and I use them. Tell them that it will help sales in America. I...
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Oct 4, 2005 1:09 pm
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Gunnar, Cassirer is an old favourite of mine - a very thorough idealist . Did you ever read this book - with a preface by Albert Einstein ? (which I have...
Arno. I bought one or two of Cassirer's books back in the 1970s but, after taking a quick look at his approach, put them aside. Now that you raise the...
Arno. I just had the following exchange with somebody on an Internet Forum. *** In response to the other party's suggestion that "proof" need not be predicated...
Dear Gang: We think we have problems!!! Zimbabwe must be one of the most mismanaged semi-developed economies the world has ever seen. Chris Today I received...
FYI. Arno ... From: Stephen Zarlenga To: AMI Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 4:53 AM Subject: Report on the AMI 2005 Monetary Reform Conference Dear Friends...
051031 Gardiner to Gang Bernanke's appointment has publicised his view that there is too much saving, a line we have suggested for a long time. It has been...
Geoffrey Gardiner
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Oct 31, 2005 1:05 pm
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In a message dated 10/31/05 8:06:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Dear Geoffrey, Gus Kelley reprinted Knapp's book. I used to have a few copies. I think I have...
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Oct 31, 2005 2:51 pm
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Geoffrey: The concept of "saving" remains as confused as ever! And makes strange bed-fellows of the likes of Washington Consensus Critic Stiglitz and...
Michael: Unfortunately, Bernanke referred to China and oither central banks as doing the "saving" by recycling surplus dollars. Henry Liu quickly pointed out...
For: The level of Entrepreneurial Profit in the Economy - and much else - is a function of "Savings" in 2. The Supply of "Savings" in 1 is constrained by the...
Geoffrey and Michael, I wrote, concerning German Idealism in philosophy ( (Leibniz) Kant, Fichte, Hegel etc. + List): "The focus of this tradition on ideas and...
Dear Arno, I'd say the post-Keynesian approach and the Innes approach CONVERGE with the idealist tradition. My own views of Mesopotamia are based on my ...
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Nov 1, 2005 12:54 pm
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Arno: yes sounds correct, altho I don't really know german philosophy. See also Ingham's recent book, which does deal with that. L. Randall Wray Professor of...
Wray, Randall
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Nov 1, 2005 2:00 pm
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Michael, ... Agreed, but to understand something well one has to go for the roots. Along with Gunnar I have for a long time had an interest in epistemology in...
Well, Arno, I guess a Marxist would call my approach idealist. It is idealist in the sense that the monetary and financial system is Autonomous from the ...
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Nov 2, 2005 12:54 pm
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Dear Michael: Re the following: I'd say the post-Keynesian approach and the Innes approach CONVERGE with the idealist tradition. Comment: Below is an exchange...
051110 Gardiner to Gang and Michael Moore The new version of Towards True Monetarism, now given the more academic title of The Evolution of Creditary...
Geoffrey Gardiner
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Nov 10, 2005 11:04 am
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Dear Geoffrey, Thanks for that good news. When will copies of the new book actually be available? On the basis of publishing lags, one imagines it will be...
Geoffrey, in particular I contribute regularly to the "Forum" published every couple of weeks by "Islamic Finance News". The following is published fairly...
Dear Chris, <in fact therefore may often be one of the root causes of inflation, rather <than a cure as conventional economic wisdom has it. Could you please...
Dear James, I was 'listening in' and seeing Chris has not yet replied I would suggest the following. Interest is an important cost category for (non-bank)...
Dear Dirk, Exactly what I think too - and have been saying publicly for more than thirty years. Why then do central banks still raise interest rates when there...
James, Dirk http://blog.zopa.com/ has a letter of mine to the FT on Tuesday which is relevant. www.zopa.com brings together borrower and lender on a "peer to...
James, Why indeed? One reason may be that interest rates are a distributional instrument, and here your 'other story' becomes actually quite relevant. Research...
Replant the American Dream By David Ignatius Friday, November 25, 2005; A37 When I lived abroad, Thanksgiving was always my favorite holiday. It was a chance...