Re: Floating currencies (was Re: The Science of Fairness)

2002-02-23 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
- Original Message - From: Keith Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 2:45 PM Subject: Re: Floating currencies (was Re: The Science of Fairness) Hi Steve, At 23:12 17/02/02 -0500, you wrote: As we seem to be the

Re: Floating currencies (was Re: The Science of Fairness)

2002-02-17 Thread Brian McAndrews
At 03:13 PM 2/16/2002 -0800,Keith Hudson wrote: In desperate circumstances currencies become real (in many areas of Afghanistan grain is now the only currency). Hi Keith, I agree!! Not only do currencies become real; so do people!! Real circumstances versus simulated circumstances makes all

Re: My life with chess ( was Floating currencies (was Re: The Science of Fairness)

2002-02-17 Thread Brian McAndrews
Hi Keith, That was a very touching response to the ps portion of my 'floating currency'' email. Speaking of touching, I heard a great piece on CBC radio the other day. A researcher was sharing the results of her study on how much touching goes on between young couples of different cultures.

Re: Floating currencies (was Re: The Science of Fairness)

2002-02-17 Thread Steve Kurtz
Since much of my career focused on relative valuations of currencies and the 'odds' the derivatives market placed on changes to them (put call option prices imply expected volatility), here's a brief comment on the current state of affairs. It is highly unlikely in my opinion that the major

Re: Floating currencies (was Re: The Science of Fairness)

2002-02-16 Thread Thomas Lunde
Hi Keith: I like this post and the information you bring to awareness. It really is a shell game until we find a way to determine value of a currency. The reason it hasn't collapsed yet is perhaps, the fact that most people living today grew up in the mindset that there was some definitive

Floating currencies (was Re: The Science of Fairness)

2002-02-04 Thread Keith Hudson
Hi Charles, At 18:59 04/02/02 +1100, you wrote: (CB) You commented in part in this post that no-one has yet countered your argument that (KH) the mechanistic aspect will not be sufficiently analysable or understood until we have a currency system that has constant purchasing-parity across all