The Pankian Metaphor wasGoodbye to USENET 3149

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:18:26 +0200, Morten Reistad

Agreed. Go back to the late 1800's-Early 1900's, China was seen as a market for hi-tech (at the time, locomotives, guns(:)), etc.) US and European goods.. The situation is almost opposite now. BMW are building a mbuttive factory in China... Imagine Beamers at discount prices?

He didn't enter the area of getting basic services to work, things like basic health services, which tend to keep ordinary people happy. He did point out, correctly, that many services which purported to help ordinary people, were actually pumping funds into already rich peoples pockets.

Will have to reread all that. What `dervatives' (sp?) mean to me is a grade A way to really gamble and lose spectular amounts of money :).

There is reputed to be a gadget in airports that will measure the amounts of cash that people are carrying in their hand luggage, and the rumor is that the officials will sometimes take no action, but just to watch where the funds end up...

Probably a good one, if the Euro remains in existance (not a forgone fact).. Having two fairly stable currencies will help the world deal with crises in either the US or the Euro..

Nobody, I think.. Cheers.

-- greymaus Just Another Grumpy Old Man