[Rhodes22-list] Weekend reading, not sailing, some might call it political, just educational

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

Add these to your weekend reading -

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081212.wcoessay1213/BNStory/specialComment/home

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Money/Story/STIStory_312280.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122893994548595473.html

Kinda strange that we find ourselves studying China for ideas on how
to make capitalism work. During our stay in Kunming last summer I
found a "hole-in-the-wall" joint to drink beer across from a Finance &
Economics University.  A couple of students sought me out to practice
their English.  I may as well have been across the street from the
Wharton School.  Smart kids!  No wonder we're getting our asses
kicked.

We're leaving for the lake this morning to do some maintenance, run
the world for me, will ya?

Brad

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
> I get all sorts of emails, this web site was contained in one:
>
> http://www.alipac.us/article3815.html
>
> And some so called political rhetoric:  "Let's switch gears here for a
> second. Apparently Dick Cheney, in a closed door Senate GOP lunch on
> Wednesday, warned the GOP, quote, that it will be Herbert Hoover time if aid
> to the industry was rejected for the bailout of the big three. This is
> exactly the same kind of stuff that they were saying about the bank bailout,
> but now they're saying it about GM. What do you think about what's going on
> right now,?' [Glen Beck]
>
> Reply to question: "Well, I think there's no end to this bailout. It's
> bailout without end. We need to find a way to bailout from the bailout and
> actually, with respect to Dick Cheney, I think he's got it actually wrong
> here. You know, it's very interesting to me, speaking as a foreigner, but
> the Americans always talk about the great depression. In other countries,
> they talk about it as a depression. It started in 1929, the worst was over
> in three or four years. What prolonged it in the United States was both
> Herbert Hoover and FDR over in overinterfering in the economy to impede
> recovery. That's why it's a great depression in the United States and it's
> just a depression everywhere else." Mark Steyn
>
> Ed K
> addendum:  "Sextant: an entertaining, albeit expensive, device, which,
> together with a good atlas, is of use in introducing the boatman to many
> interesting areas on the earth's surface which he and his craft are not
> within 1,000 nautical miles of." Beard and McKie
>
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