6 January 2002 The belief which Chris and I have that government should guide, as gently as possible, capital investment, produces some interesting thoughts. ...
5 January 2002 Michael's chapter asks "Why were the British so weak in the 1945 in their negotiations with the US?" We have all been thinking about that, and...
. Dear Gang: The cleverest example of thius I ever came across was during my (brief) sojourn as a Commodity Futures Trader in the early 1970s. I worked mainly...
Dear Gang, Here's an exchange I just had on my Japanese discussion list, that puts monetary issues in a broader context. Michael Kita-san: Here is how I view...
In a message dated 19/12/2001 19:54:32 GMT Standard Time, Hudsonmi@... ... Yes, Michael, this is true except what makes you think that being a state ...
18 December 2001 The cost of bureaucracy. Some time ago Chris suggested that just as it is assumed that the objective of the entrepreneur is to maximise his...
13 December 2001 Kevin wrote, "I'm told, by the way, that Freude schöne Gottesfunken, originally read Freiheit, schöne Gottesfunken, an anthem to freedom...
Dear Gunnar, It seems that as you are developing your ideas, "creditary economics" is something more than merely looking at the entire volume of credit (equal...
. Dear Gang: In an IM session yesterday (something we folk on AOL tend to do) Michael asked me for sources on the doings of the British government at that...
Euro's Impact on China Profound Xinhuanet 2002-01-04 13:56:11 Beijing, January 4 (Xinhuanet) -- While the long-awaited debut of euro banknotes and coins on...
Re: Keynesian Christmas!-- and the collapsing internationalJames: Re. the following: If the IMF can't do anything beyond what you describe, then let's be rid...
. Dear Gang: Can't quite get used to all this stuff about Bob Skidelsky. He used to write book reviews for me at Oxford when I was editing Isis. Chris...
Agree - indeed, the whole chartalist story strikes me as curious. Going back to basics, it seems to me that a newly-organized State can spend its newly-created...
. Michael asks us : The new economic managers in Argentina want to create $15 billion of credit to spur employment. This created a panic as people claimed it...
Dear Geoffrey, You will see that I've rewritten my original chapter on how the IMF was part of the US design to unseat sterling as a potential rival to the ...
Dear Gang, A year ago we spent some effort discussing how China might fund internal improvements such as a railway infrastructure. Today, essentially the same...
VOW 2002: Expressions of Support We are gathering expressions of support for the Democratic Initiative for Victory Over Want 2002 (VOW). These expressions may...
Bill, I was about to make a comment to my last letter, regarding the relationship between transport and credit, by saying that if we say that infrastructure is...
. Dear Gang: Arno says, amd I quote: "One reason for my hangup on this is my deep belief that transport is THE carpet of industry and progressive development,...
A YEAR OF CONTRASTS: COURAGE, SACRIFICE AND ... CORPORATE GREED By Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) As we reflect on the year 2001, our minds catapult to the World...
Enron Is Symbolic of Bush Blunders By Robert Scheer | Los Angeles Times. December 27, 2001 IF YOU FOLLOW George W. Bush's thinking on how to fix our broken ...
Peace is a gift but also has to be earned, the Pope said in his 2001 Xmas message. The WSJ reported on Xmas eve that Bush targets enivironment, public works to...
"The sustained depreciation of yen exchange rate will cause currency devaluation in many countries in Asia," predicted Dai Xianglong, the president of the...
12 Moscow Times December 25, 2001 Euro Sure to Sow Discord By Boris Kagarlitsky In this country, no one trusts banks or the ruble, and as a result, people ...
Dear gang8sters! I apologise for being a bit inactive in the past, mainly due to my transport project here in Norway. (-One reason for my hangup on this is my...
gunnar et al the following might help to sort out some recent issues discussed here, as well as gunnar's "junk economics" discussed on pkt. by the way, as i've...
Dear Geoffrey, At your suggestion I bought Vol. III of Skidelsky's biography of Keynes. I had just typed in my Chapters 4, 5 and 6, and will now go back and ...
Dear Randy, You will note the following sacrifice of pensioners to repay "foreign" creditors, that is, wealthy Argentinans with bank accounts abroad invested...
Just in case you are interested... I have attached a "screenpicture" of a computersimulated "non-stop"; transit network that we finished here in Oslo yesterday....
