Re: "Downturn, Deflation Haunt Japan, IMF Finds"

[Peter Challen]

Perhaps this beautiful rhetoric is pertinent to most 
modern currencies as well as to the measurement  of GNP

'Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children,
the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. 
It measures neither the beauty of our poetry,
nor the strength of our marriages. 
It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our
streets alike. 
It measures neither our wisdom nor our learning, 
neither our wit nor our courage, 
neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country.  
It measures everything in short,
except that which makes life worth living, 
and it can tell us everything about our country except those
 things that make us proud to be part of it.'    

Robert Kennedy 1968  ..... assassinated !!

Peter Challen