- Original Message -
From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Does Boeing sell 96% of its planes outside of the US?
In some years it's about 80%. That's a different issue than the number of
present/future global customers and the percentage of them that live
outsi
I asked:
> do you think that individual capitalists of whatever sort
> really care
> about the balance on the current account (except the currency
> speculators)?
Ian writes:
> Enough of them may be worried about loss of export markets as
> countries
> grow leery of buying BS from corps. like
- Original Message -
From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> do you think that individual capitalists of whatever sort really care
about the balance on the current account (except the currency
speculators)? also, the fall of the dollar seems to have encouraged a
leveling off of the b
do you think that individual capitalists of whatever sort really care about the
balance on the current account (except the currency speculators)? also, the fall of
the dollar seems to have encouraged a leveling off of the balance on the current
account. It doesn't have much to do with cowboy cap
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From: "Doug Henwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> John Gulick wrote:
>
> >Nice find. This puts to bed stronger versions of the thesis that US
finance
> >capital does not tacitly back
> >the Bushies' ultra-unilateralism and military adventurism.
>
> Don't underestimate their
John Gulick wrote:
Nice find. This puts to bed stronger versions of the thesis that US finance
capital does not tacitly back
the Bushies' ultra-unilateralism and military adventurism.
Don't underestimate their cynicism - Bush cut their taxes. Next to
that, policy can take a distant back seat.
I go
Lou Proyect posted the following NYT article: "Once at Arm's Length, Wall
Street Is Bush's Biggest Donor" ...
Nice find. This puts to bed stronger versions of the thesis that US finance
capital does not tacitly back
the Bushies' ultra-unilateralism and military adventurism. Wall Street was
backed i
NY Times, October 23, 2003
Once at Arm's Length, Wall Street Is Bush's Biggest Donor
By GLEN JUSTICE
A day after a chilly reception at the United Nations last month,
President Bush received a warmer greeting from a New York group that he
had been keeping at arm's length: about a dozen leaders of th
