I have always loved the oft cited Balzac quotation: Behind every fortune
lies a great crime.
I brought this question up once before: Where did Balzac say this in
his novel Pere Goriot?
valis pursued this on the Balzac list. Nobody knew of it. I just
downloaded the novel:
ftp://sailor.gutenbe
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> Barkley and Jeff both write about the harm done by bursting bubbles. If harm
> is done by bursting bubbles then expanding bubbles should be doing some
> good. The stock market prosperity [is it still prosperous?] should be spread
> all over. One of the chief messages of Doug Henwood's Wall St
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Was read at 17:35, 31 Jul 98.
Barkley and Jeff both write about the harm done by bursting bubbles. If harm
is done by bursting bubbles then expanding bubbles should be doing some
good. The stock market prosperity [is it still prosperous?] should be spread
all over. One of the chief messages of Doug Henwood's Wall Street was
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Was read at 15:27, 31 Jul 98.
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At 11:30 AM 7/31/98 -0500, Bill Lear w
I find it hard to believe that only Chrysler stockholdes would have been
hurt, even forgetting about union contracts which was a bigger pill to
swallow back then than it is now.
Consider:
Chrysler bankruptcy --> collapse in stock values --> collapse of asset
values used as collateral on other lo
>Lear, the above list will simply disconfirm Chomsky's claim, that the
>*Bolshevik* revolution was responsible for ending soviet democracy.
>You are better-off looking for some old-fashion liberal critique, a
>Menshevik account, or an anarchist one.
>
>ricardo
Ricardo, have you heard about a
Michael,
A bit more. In principle nobody ought to get hurt.
But, somehow when major bubbles burst there is often damage
to the financial system that then feeds back on real
investment. Both Mill and Marx saw that as a major factor
in macro downturns.
Barkley Rosser
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998
Michael,
Of course. You're the guy who reminded us that Marx
and most earlier economists analyzed speculative bubbles
from the standpoint of "fictitious capital." As we know,
bubbles can keep going as long as nobody comes along and
somehow blows everybody's (or the relevant somebodys')
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At 11:30 AM 7/31/98 -0500, Bill Lear wrote:
>I'm a bit naive on these topics and I'd like to read some critical
>assessments of them. Chomsky contends (if I remember correctly) that
>the Bolshevik revolution really destroyed the nascent socialism that
>existed in the soviets, and I'm curious to k
I'm a bit naive on these topics and I'd like to read some critical
assessments of them. Chomsky contends (if I remember correctly) that
the Bolshevik revolution really destroyed the nascent socialism that
existed in the soviets, and I'm curious to know more about this
episode. Any suggestions wo
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Thanks to Valis for the list of War novels -- and for all his other posts,
which I read avidly.
I want to mention another war book. As an Irish kid growing up in
the 1930s I learned to hate Winston Churchill for what he did in Ireland.
And so was never taken in when the propaganda beatif
More from Randy on the "naive question".
michael-
i thought i had better add this so that we don't go off on the wrong
track. the "saddle the taxpayers" was a rhetorical statement; there are
many things wrong with the way the s&l crisis was handled thru the rtc,
and there were real costs to
I wholly agreee with Randy. Maybe we are are crazy but this talk of a
financial crisis seems to be constructed out of device to protect what
Marx called fictititous capital. Forgetting about union contracts for
the moment, what would have happened if Chrysler had gone bankrupt and
somebody picke
Michael- from Randy. -Mat
mat: you can forward this.
Michael: this probably isn't a very efficient way to discuss this, and i
am not quite sure what the question is. but let me try to answer.
1. someone recently told me a story of a financial official (i can't
remember if it was a banker or
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At 09:06 PM 7/30/98 EDT, you wrote:
>There are supposed some great memoirs from 'the Great War'
>Siegfried Sassoon's one of the best known as well as
>some great literature including recently Pat Barker's Trilogy
>and a novel called Birdsong (have forgotten the author)
I am a big Pat Barker fan.
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