Stock Market Value in Billions of dollars---June '97---'Dec 98---Percent Gain or Loss (from part 3 of the NY Times series on the global crisis) USA---8920---11721---plus 31% Germany---766---1181---plus 54% Hong Kong---427---348---minus 19% Argentina---56---44---minus 21% South Korea---157---111---minus 29% Thailand---60---35---minus 42% Brazil---311---154---minus 50% Philippines---74---34---minus 54% Malaysia---282---74---minus 74% Indonesia---111---22---minus 80% Russian---84---12---minus 86% Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)