James Devine wrote:
>As I understand it, the basic idea is that if a government can print (fiat)
>money and people actually accept it as money, it can make a profit (value
>of assets or goods or services purchased with printed money minus cost of
>printing it).[*} The ability to issue fiat money
Doug writes:
>
> Of course the U.S. derives great benefit from printing the world's reserve
> currency, but that's another story. A few months ago, the FT printed an
> estimate that the U.S. derives up to $40 billion a year in seignorage
> benefits, which are severely threatened by the euro.
Jus
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G'day Penners,
Bill quotes Doug:
>> Major surplus countries are Japan (+$94.1b), France (+$38.0b), Italy
>> (+$32.7b), Netherlands (+$21.0b), Switzerland (+$20.9b), Singapore
>> (+$14.6b). The EU as a whole ran a $116b surplus in
Rob asks: >And as for the US - well, I think I understand their relative
advantage in controlling the current international reference currency, but
I'd love someone to explain this word 'seigneurage' to me.<
As I understand it, the basic idea is that if a government can print (fiat)
money and peo
At 09:22 24/06/98 -0500, you wrote:
Thanks to Carrol Cox. Cheers, ajit sinha
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>You can obtain information on the case from Susan Burnett, International
>Concerned Families and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Secretary to Mumia
>Abu-Jamal. She sends out periodic announcements (as well as brief c
Michael P writes:
>
> Bill Lear thought that the corporate universities are a cause for concern.
> Our school has been talking some time about the need to compete (read:
> become more like them) with these schools.
>
> So, the public space may follow a national public radio trajectory: to
> pres
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Bill Lear thought that the corporate universities are a cause for concern.
Our school has been talking some time about the need to compete (read:
become more like them) with these schools.
So, the public space may follow a national public radio trajectory: to
preserve funding, abandon all reason
On Thu, June 25, 1998 at 08:48:55 (-0700) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> But now that cozy relationship is crumbling,
>as corporate universities increasingly are under pressure from their
>companies to become self-supporting. That puts the corporate schools
>in direct compet
> Major surplus countries are Japan (+$94.1b), France (+$38.0b), Italy
> (+$32.7b), Netherlands (+$21.0b), Switzerland (+$20.9b), Singapore
> (+$14.6b). The EU as a whole ran a $116b surplus in 1997.
>
> Major deficit: U.S. (-$166.4b). No one else even comes close.
> Australia was -$13.5b, and Ca
CORPORATE UNIVERSITIES ARE BIG BUSINESS
Ten years ago there were about 400 corporate universities -- comprehensive
training institutions operated by corporations -- and that number has now
grown to 1,600. Several of them, such as the Arthur D. Little School in
Boston, have formal degree-grantin
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Regarding where to send funds for support of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Equal
Justice situation.
What follows is a letter from Mumia naming the two places he has authorized to
raise funds for him.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the issue of whether public
funding to an artist can be linked with the idea of whether the art is
'decent.' After the Robert Mapplethorpe "scandal" not so long ago,
Congress passed a law that for an artist's art to receive public money
via the National Endowm
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