----- Original Message ----- From: "Devine, James" >Jane, that the dollar was in danger if > other countries ceased buying new financial assets because they needed their > foreign exchange for other uses.
I've known Jane since 1976 when I was a wee lad playing viola in a Bethesda string ensemble with her son. Every financial-doomsday prediction she has made since then - actually, from the late 1960s when she learned her trade on the Hill as Wright Patman's Banking Committee staff guru - has come true, from REITs to Third World debt crisis to big-bank-bankruptcies and bailouts to S&Ls to junkbonds to securitisation to emerging markets to dot.coms to...