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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
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C. Henwood,
By no means am I defending the IMF as such, but the IMF, while
trying set limits and rules for internal investment does what it does to
encourage market-oriented investment (including foreign investment of
course). The argument, therefore has to be
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A no vote and even a call to dismantle the IMF need
not be taken all that literally. Assuming sufficient
flexibility on the part of the naysayers, it could
be the only way to force the
At 03:13 p.m. 4/26/98 -0400, Max wrote:
Liberals don't get excited about investment.
According to the current [May 4] issue of BUSINESS WEEK, there's
a new wing
of the [US] Democratic Party that's very excited by investment, led by
Barry Bluestone, Bennet Harrison, James K. Galbraith, and
Liberals don't get excited about investment. That's
for the Clintonoids. I suspect my folks will find an
traditional Keynesianism perfectly appropriate.
The IMF is a pro-austerity leg-breaker for bankers,
anti-public sector, anti-democratic, etc.
No?
Everyone knows the
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
So, what's your take on the House of Representatives
apparently not voting the "emergency" $18 million?
(Boddhi, you didn't call that one; the House Republicans
are NOT backing the IMF). Is this just grandstanding for
the yokels because the "crisis is over"
Quoth Doug:
[A]s Trent Lott (one of three
ex-cheerleaders in the Senate, apropos de rien) said a couple of weeks ago
- all you need to know about the IMF is that it's run by a French
socialist.
And all we need to know about you, Trent, is that you're from
Max, for the ADA I'd spin it by saying that the IMF deliberately depresses
investment in countries desperately in need of higher levels of
investment.
In Asia, the only region of the "Third World" to show gains in income
relative to the First over the last several decades, they're forcing
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
You are putting an ideological overlay on this vote
which is probably not held by the ones voting. The
vote was one part political -- let's give Clinton
a win after kicking his ass on Fast Track -- and
one part a fear of disaster, since Rubin and Summers
give their
At 03:13 p.m. 4/26/98 -0400, Max wrote:
Liberals don't get excited about investment.
According to the current [May 4] issue of BUSINESS WEEK, there's a new wing
of the [US] Democratic Party that's very excited by investment, led by
Barry Bluestone, Bennet Harrison, James K. Galbraith, and
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Max, for the ADA I'd spin it by saying that the IMF deliberately depresses
investment in countries desperately in need of higher levels of
investment.
In Asia, the only region of the "Third World" to show gains in income
relative to the First over the last several
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
You are putting an ideological overlay on this vote
which is probably not held by the ones voting. The
vote was one part political -- let's give Clinton
a win after kicking his ass on Fast Track -- and
one part a fear of disaster, since Rubin and Summers
give their end of
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
When we roll over, we roll over big time.
You have inspired me to present a resolution on the IMF
at the upcoming ADA convention.
Max, for the ADA I'd spin it by saying that the IMF deliberately depresses
investment in countries desperately in need of higher levels of
Interesting tally on the IMF funding vote in the House, from Robert
Weissman of Multinational Monitor:
AYES NOES PRES/NV
REPUBLICAN 22 193 11
DEMOCRATIC164 28 13
INDEPENDENT 1
TOTALS186 222 24
Nathan Newman wrote:
Marx did not like Bismarck but he supported centralization of the German
state,
since that was preferable to the competition of small little states. Just as
Marx could attack Bismarck's actions while supporting a more centralized
state,
it is perfectly consistent for left
To whom...,
I think the Republicans are fine with the IMF, but they have to
get enough assurances that the Fund will do their bidding before they vote
for it and cheese off their Know-Nothing constituents. I doubt there is
much Buchanan anti-free-trade sentiment
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Nathan Newman wrote:
it is perfectly consistent for left activists to condemn the IMF's anti-labor
policies while defending the existence of it as an institution of centralized
global credit.
--Nathan Newman
Why should we want to defend the existence of a
Doug,
To say that the IMF has killed millions is over-wrought. The IMF
is at most a cog in a machine operated by people who never cared how many
they ran over. Obviously there doesn't have to be any international
lending agency and then developing countries could
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Interesting tally on the IMF funding vote in the House, from Robert
Weissman of Multinational Monitor:
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The Dems are the party of the IMF, which isn't surprising, since it was
founded
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