I too have become more and more ... amused .. with _The Economist_. Fortunately, my huge pile of books arrived from LAISSEZ FAIRE BOOKS in the posts - paid with e-gold. You get a great LFBooks catalog which is worth buying somerthing! JP >I once subscribed to _The Economist_ but did not renew my subscription when >it ran out. I expected it to be a free market-oriented magazine with an >emphasis on sound economic reasoning. To be sure there was some of that, but >mostly I found it to be shockingly left-leaning, credulously accepting of >claims of the supposed benefits of third-party decision-making by government >bureaucrats and highly critical of Americans with our silly ideas about >individual liberty. I suspect that part of the problem is that _good_ >economists realize that sound economic policy leaves little for an economist >to do. > >I'm not a bit surprised that it gave short shrift to privatized money. > ----------------------------------------------------------- "Great ventures create great mottos." --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]