Nok en innsiktsfull artikkel fra Bill. Vh! Arno ... From: William Engdahl To: engdahl@... Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:43 PM Subject: Article...
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Arno Mong Daastoel
arnomd
Sep 8, 2008 8:39 am
Thanks a lot Bob, To the gang: Quote from Michael below (via Ellen Brown): (from Michael's article: http://michael-hudson.com/ or here...
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Arno Mong Daastoel
arnomd
Sep 8, 2008 9:03 am
Sorry for my Norwegian intro: Here is Bill's latest article on grand power strategies - and the sadly lost opportunity of friendly US-Russia relations : Russia...
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Arno Mong Daastoel
arnomd
Sep 9, 2008 6:59 am
Another interesting article from this summer. Arno ... From: William Engdahl To: William Engdahl Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 10:30 AM Subject: Article on...
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Geoffrey Gardiner
geoffrey276927
Sep 11, 2008 10:03 am
080911 Gardiner to gang. A day or so before I departed on my Scandinavian tour a letter appeared in the Times of London from Prof Philip Arestis, Dr. John...
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Ercouncil@...
econrescouncil
Sep 12, 2008 1:58 pm
. Hi Gang: Near enough this is the tenth birthday of the Gang of Eight. I date it from the first round-robin email which invented the name, Arno dates it...
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GUNNAR TOMASSON
gunnar_tomasson
Sep 14, 2008 11:14 pm
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/bank-of-america-in-talks-to-buy -merrill-lynch/?em September 14th, 2008 ...
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AMI
ami@...
Sep 15, 2008 3:45 pm
Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute, The 4th Annual 2008 AMI Monetary Reform Conference is shaping up as quite an event. Take a look at the...
These are good questions.... One could also ask a question regarding inflationary effects of (evt.) printing that much fresh money.. Arno Comment one hour ago...
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Geoffrey Gardiner
geoffrey276927
Sep 17, 2008 8:23 am
080917 Fellow Cassandras. Perhaps we should rename ourselves the Cassandra Group. Cassandra was a Trojan princess and prophetess, fated by the gods always to...
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Geoffrey Gardiner
geoffrey276927
Sep 17, 2008 8:45 am
No, this comment is silly. The credit creation (new) is to compensate for the money being destroyed by bad debts.The manoevre is not pro-inflationary but...
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Dr. Richard Werner
rawjapan2005
Sep 17, 2008 9:11 am
Thanks to Sarbanes Oxley the government and Fed can take over any financial institution they choose, by arguing that it was likely to fail. So no shareholder...
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Richard Werner
rawjapan2005
Sep 17, 2008 10:13 am
According to Bloomberg, the US government was not involved in the AIG takeover at all, it was entirely the New York Fed, and there seems to have been little...
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Richard Werner
rawjapan2005
Sep 17, 2008 10:39 am
So it’s official: interest rates are a ‘blunt’ tool, and the direction of credit creation is a more sophisticated and effective tool… Of course the Fed...
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Michael Hudson
peshinesmith
Sep 17, 2008 5:40 pm
The biggest rebuyer of its stock this year was Lehman Brothers. Fuld thought he could bluff the Koreans or some other sovereign wealth fund into paying full...
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Michael Hudson
peshinesmith
Sep 17, 2008 5:44 pm
To answer your question, Arno, both the US Gov¹t, the Fed and Treasury all work for the largest campaign contributors to the politicians on the major ...
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Michael Hudson
peshinesmith
Sep 17, 2008 9:25 pm
This is how you can find my TV interview on line. Michael Subject: Re: [UGLY] Hudson on Democracy Now, Wed. 8 AM ... Check tomorrow at...
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D.J.Bezemer
p233369
Sep 18, 2008 7:21 am
great show! On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:25:05 -0400...
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Michael Hudson
peshinesmith
Sep 18, 2008 1:51 pm
Who can come up with the best metaphor for this: Kraft Foods will replace AIG in the Dow. How fitting, we will all be eating macaroni and cheese once this is...
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Michael Hudson
peshinesmith
Sep 18, 2008 5:49 pm
Leo, you¹ve left out the best part. Kraft cheese isn¹t really cheese at all. It is as real as the derivatives trades that AIG insured. Michael Kraft...
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Michael Hudson
peshinesmith
Sep 18, 2008 11:06 pm
Here is what today's New York Times wrote about AIG -- it was bailed out to save the "dumb Europeans." (See the end of the article.) In fact, it turns...
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Dr. Richard Werner
rawjapan2005
Sep 18, 2008 11:29 pm
Well, it’s certainly true that the US banks were ‘smart’, if not necessarily all too ethical, in flogging their toxic waste speculative lending to the ...
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Hugh Whinfrey
wurther
Sep 18, 2008 11:53 pm
I think it was necessary. Politically, the consequences otherwise would probably have been the last straw for NATO. I wouldn't dispute the notion that the...
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Michael Hudson
peshinesmith
Sep 19, 2008 12:06 am
This greed was beyond irresponsible By John Gapper Published: September 17 2008 19:09 | Last updated: September 17 2008 19:09 I have a fine seat in the FT’s...
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Michael Hudson
peshinesmith
Sep 19, 2008 12:44 am
It looks like Europe will unwind its derivatives swaps as soon as it can. This means a conversion of $s into euros. What will the exchange rate be? Michael ......
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Hugh Whinfrey
wurther
Sep 19, 2008 1:50 am
Giant $ declineThe Fed has been ramping up its acquisition of Euros via the currency swaps announced yesterday. There's no reason in principle that I can see...
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Geoffrey Gardiner
geoffrey276927
Sep 19, 2008 9:19 am
Another ridiculous twist in this farce is that the central banks are lending like fury to raise the 'liquidity' (really assignable government debt) of the...
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D.J.Bezemer
p233369
Sep 19, 2008 11:39 am
Excellent observation of earlier this week, Richard - indeed the Fed's actions and pronouncement on the 'bluntness' of the interest instrument vindicate what...
