[PEN-L:481] Re: Public investment in the Internet

1998-10-10 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Bill, Some thoroughly unhelpful thoughtlets ... As we're talking about a process much of which occurred within the confidential, distorted and unitemised accounts of the US Defence Department, you might have to rely a lot on guess-work. The high degree (hardly to be determined by IPO

[PEN-L:483] Re: Financial breakdown in Japan

1998-10-10 Thread Tom Walker
Rob Schaap asked, So how did the Yen do that Phoenix thing? The previous strength of the dollar was predicated on its underlying weakness. So the rebound of the Yen was only a matter of time. Now we also have the talking interest rate blues, where the expectation of future rate cuts from the

[PEN-L:484] Privatizer Milton Friedman Gets Pie In the Face

1998-10-10 Thread Eugene P. Coyle
Path: news.igc.apc.org!cdp!not-for-mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: labr.privatization Subject: Privatizer Milton Friedman Gets Pie In the Face Date: 10 Oct 1998 08:50:42 X-Gateway: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 68 CONTACTS: Al Decker (for statements) and Priya Reddy (for

[PEN-L:488] Re: Re: Who will tell Acompora?

1998-10-10 Thread Doug Henwood
Tom Walker wrote: All I know about the Canadian FoF's is that they're not free. You can download a time series (1961-1998) for a single category for $3 from Stats Canada. Next time I'm down at the StatsCan library, I'll have a peek. $3 per? Wow. I wanted a history of auto employment in Canada -

[PEN-L:490] Re: Financial breakdown in Japan

1998-10-10 Thread Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Hey, the Japanese have a huge trade surplus and are the world's largest net creditor nation. The US, on the other hand, has a huge and rising trade deficit and is the world's largest net debtor nation and is now in a falling interest rate scene. Plain old forex fundamentals suggest

[PEN-L:489] RE: Nobel prize in Econ.

1998-10-10 Thread jf noonan
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Picciotto, Sol wrote: According to the Financial Times, the Nobel prize fund has been badly hit by the plunging markets, so there may not be enough cash in the pot to hand out. Maybe they should have a moratorium on the Economics prize this year, as its previous winners

[PEN-L:486] La debacle japonaise

1998-10-10 Thread valis
So how did the Yen do that Phoenix thing? Japan has perhaps the worst excess capacity problem in the world; its tax receipt projections must be In regulationist parlance, have we a regime of accumulation here that's suddenly

[PEN-L:487] Re: Milton Friedman Gets Pie In the Face

1998-10-10 Thread Tom Walker
The Nobel Pies? Nobel Laureate Economist Milton Friedman Gets Pie In the Face At Corporate Conference Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ #408 1035 Pacific St. Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4G7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 669-3286

[PEN-L:485] Re: Who will tell Acompora?

1998-10-10 Thread Tom Walker
Doug Henwood asked, What are the FoF accounts for Canada other countries like? All I know about the Canadian FoF's is that they're not free. You can download a time series (1961-1998) for a single category for $3 from Stats Canada. Next time I'm down at the StatsCan library, I'll have a peek.

[PEN-L:482] Re: Financial breakdown in Japan

1998-10-10 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day again, Penners! So how did the Yen do that Phoenix thing? Japan has perhaps the worst excess capacity problem in the world; its tax receipt projections must be hair-raising; we still don't know who owes whom what, nor what the odds are on those debts being honoured (better under a

[PEN-L:480] U.S. AID TO RUSSIA: WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG

1998-10-10 Thread Arno Mong Daastøl
U.S. AID TO RUSSIA: WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG Here is an important testimony for the US congress which I received from Wendell Solomons in Colombo, Sri Lanka: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings! Arno [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://daastol.com This is the link: