continuing...... ... all the ... (those ... the ... call ... messy ... And perhaps this is why I have such a hard time with this whole concept: I want systems...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 15, 1998 10:33 pm
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hey folks--- hope this finds you in good health and spirits. This is something of an experiment; so I hope you don't mind it. They said the few ads will be ...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 15, 1998 10:39 pm
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hello, folks--- in case you joined the list late, there's a great discussion on private conscience and the public square, at ...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 17, 1998 10:02 am
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There was an article in the WSJ by Milton Friedman a few weeks ago explaining how the Asian mess was essentially a monetary crisis precipitated by policy ...
Shonacole@...
Nov 21, 1998 7:24 am
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hey, did you see the article in the New Yorker recently about John Maynard Keynes?? There was a great quote in there by him, about telephones, that rings truer...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 21, 1998 7:39 am
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hey mark -- sorry about the double-post (and so much for the 90-second turnaround)! Anyway, interesting thoughts, and I must confess that in the area of ...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 21, 1998 7:13 pm
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Friedman aside, a number of economists are wanting to go back and put K's original proposals into practice -- kind of like they did with Orson Welles's "Touch...
Paul Soupiset
paul@...
Nov 21, 1998 9:34 pm
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Barry--Your observations about Keynes are probably right, I've only read the guy second hand. If he was for a currency board, then, as far as monetary policy...
Shonacole@...
Nov 22, 1998 1:51 pm
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Comments? Jeffrey J. Walker ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please, impeach my commander in chief By Daniel J. Rabil The American military is subject to...
Jeff J W
jerry_jeff@...
Nov 23, 1998 4:31 am
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... <<<by cleverly deleting Henry Mancini's score, Orson Welles aims to explain in economic terms how banning the market failed in Russia. Oh wait, that's...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 23, 1998 9:39 am
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<<<If he was for a currency board, then, as far as monetary policy goes, he was OK (monetary policy not being the whole of economics, but important).>>> so...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 23, 1998 9:54 am
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hey jeff-- my response is, yeah yeah.....several folks fwded this to me, and I'm not exactly sure *how* to respond, but here are some things I immediately ...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 23, 1998 11:22 am
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... By the way, Mike, you must be an economist. Lay people "generally" don't delve that deep into the theory of currency boards. For that matter, most...
Tim Hopper
tkhopper@...
Nov 26, 1998 12:17 pm
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Keynes knew Versalles would paralyze Germany and piss them off, in short. For the record: I am a Thatcherite, no doubt about that. There is no such thing as...
Shonacole@...
Nov 27, 1998 3:13 pm
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Who has read this guy? I have only read his political stuff, mostly op eds and speeches (he wrote the Dole convention speech -- too bad he couldn't deliver...
Shonacole@...
Nov 27, 1998 3:15 pm
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howdy, mark-- <<Who has read this guy? I have only read his political stuff, mostly op eds and speeches (he wrote the Dole convention speech -- too bad he ...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 29, 1998 3:22 am
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<<It appears to me from what I've read that the real discussion is what is wrong with Asia and what is needed to fix what is wrong. Am I right?>> wellll,...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 29, 1998 3:22 am
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Soldier of the Great War is about a sometimes professor of aesthetics who serves in the Italian army, that is, when he's not a deserter or POW, during WW1. It...
Shonacole@...
Nov 29, 1998 9:30 pm
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mark-- <<There is no such thing as excessive capitalism (which is really just a way of saying there can ever be too little government regulation), provided...
barry brake
barry@...
Nov 30, 1998 1:58 pm
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Regarding Helprin: I was recommended "A Winter's Tale" about five years ago. Took me 18 months just to find a copy. I cannot claim the status of "Well Read,"...
Patrick Lafferty
plafferty@...
Nov 30, 1998 2:11 pm
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And now for something completely different... Thought you might enjoy this article from the most recent copy of Books and Culture. At one point or another,...
Paul Soupiset
paul@...
Nov 30, 1998 7:29 pm
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hey -- sorry about the cross-post, but it won't affect too many. I found the worship article pretty interesting; indeed, worship seems to be the main question...
barry brake
barry@...
Dec 3, 1998 7:40 am
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<< Also reading a biography of one of the great statesmen/bookworms in US history, John Quincy Adams, and to top it off, de Gaulle's war memoirs, all highly...
barry brake
barry@...
Dec 3, 1998 8:17 am
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This has all been very interesting, and I can only add this: According to John Finnis, who claims to only be re-hashing Aquinas, there are sis basic, ...
Shonacole@...
Dec 3, 1998 8:47 pm
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hey gang -- sorry again about the cross-post. I was just listening to one of Wynton Marsalis's most pleasurable albums, 'black codes (from the underground),'...
barry brake
barry@...
Dec 15, 1998 7:32 am
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Those are interesting thoughts from Wynton; made me think of similar ideas expressed by Frankie Shaeffer. However, I'm not sure that I would go so far as to...
gbrakr@...
Dec 20, 1998 12:21 am
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hey rich-- <<To me, this almost cheapens the impact of what the codes really were. It's one thing to choose one kind of food when you can/should choose ...
barry brake
barry@...
Dec 21, 1998 2:53 pm
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... I'll make my inaugural run at this: I'm with Rich on this point. I heard John Perkins (social justic eadvocate, on board of the CCDA) state that ...
Chris McMains
mcmains.christopher@...
Dec 21, 1998 5:15 pm
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The owner of the pond [provided the pond is justly acquired, ie through a free exchange] should let the guy fish if it is mutually beneficial. Otherwise, the...
Shonacole@...
Dec 23, 1998 12:00 am
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hello, interesting and interested people -- one of my favorite cultural critics is Kenneth Myers, author of "All God's Children & Blue Suede Shoes." There's a...
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