There's a document released on November 13th available at the GAO's website
The document # is GAO-01-160
http://www.gao.gov
WTO NEWS
World trade growth to double this year
World merchandise trade will grow by about 10% in 2000, twice the rate
recorded for 1999 and one of the highest in the last decade, according to
International Trade Statistics 2000 by the WTO Secretariat published on 30
Norm,
Before you go into further debt slavery with all those texts, try The New
Palgrave [a great series btw] titled "Marxian Economics". It's a
dictionary/encyclopedia that's in one slim volume that's VERY readable.
Also, there's a larger "Dictionary of Marxist Thought" by Tom Bottomore
which
Nathan, it's a mistake to think that just because people on pen-l don't
rant and rave about some subject they don't think it's important. The
discussion is almost always about what people _disagree_ about, not what we
agree about.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
It also seems inconsistent, in light of your defense
of the white radicals in Seattle. Their profile on
race issues was no better than Nader's. Of course,
they didn't go so far as to suggest taking a vote
away from Gore and giving it to Nader. All they
did was block streets and break windows.
To: All Activists
From: Jim Jontz
Date: December 1, 2000
HAGUE TALKS END WITHOUT AGREEMENT
No agreement is better than a bad agreement, but it is disappointing
that the international climate change talks ended in The Hague this past
Saturday without resolving any of the important issues
Innovations in themselves are neither good nor bad (it all depends on
outcomes). _Compulsion_ to innovate under the whip of M-C-M' should
have become by now obsolete, having already performed its
world-historical task.
Will there be this capitalist-like _compulsion_ to innovate in
Justin's
[ah, sclerosis]
GENEVA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States, which
had been expected to hold bilateral talks on Friday on a new U.S. law
covering export tax relief, have postponed them to Monday, EU diplomats said
on Thursday.
The postponement means that should the two
as I was saying..
GE Wants Superfund Declared Wrong
By H. JOSEF HEBERT= Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The General Electric Co., confronting hundreds of millions
of dollars in cleanup costs for hazardous chemical spills, asked a federal
court Tuesday to declare the Superfund
A lot of lefties want to blame evil corporations for global warming,
and while they're no angels, the real solution would mean profound
changes in everyday life for almost all of us. How do we get there?
Doug
Not by ignoring the problem. Not by having the Vice President show up
at lots of
Norm,
Try "Is Capitalism Sustainable" edited by Martin O'Connor [Guilford,
1994]still in paperback. Also, "Cyber-Marx" by Nick Dyer-Witheford
[University of Illinois Press, 1999]in paperback.
Both are very readable.
Plus you should try to find any works by Nancy Folbre, Iris Marion Young,
cal hassle
by building the
progressive tightening of the standard into the initial
regulation. If the
political juice is there, that's always a good thing to do...
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
If we set
stringent targets that do as you say, how do we avoid the costs of
litigating e
From a totally brilliant
Filipino organizer who's been an inspiration to many activists in Seattle.
Happy anniversary to all those who helped the US get off it's smug imperialist
ass and think about the misery we cause to our fellow citizens around the
planet.
-Original
Anybody looked at this two day old piece?
http://www.cepr.net/stock_market_bubble.htm
Jr.
Peter,
Thanks for the reference.
There is nothing stopping
a firm that owns the right to emit a certain amount of a
given pollutant to emit less. But it cannot emit more.
Ceiling implies a maximum above which one cannot
go. A floor is a minimum below which one cannot go.
PD
The problem is that it transfers to the state the cost of
reducing the target.
At the margin, this is the same as the sort of "takings"
compensation the Right
demands and was passed by initiative in Oregon this fall. It is
as if polluters
had the right to pollute and we, the polluted,
http://www.unionrecord.com/metro/display.php?ID=325
Metro Seattle 2000-11-28
UW teaching assistants plan to strike Monday
By Ruth Schubert
Seattle Union Record
Hundreds of teaching assistants at the University of Washington plan to go
on strike Monday morning over the administrations refusal
Jr.
I find it curious that there is nearly zero
discussion of what is to me the biggest news
event of the moment, the failure of the global
warming talks in The Hague. Michael P. and
I have batted it about a bit, but that has been it.
*
One question I have is whether success would
As I understand the original proposal, the US would get credit if they cut
down an old growth forest and planted a new one.
Credit, despite good evidence that old growth sequesters more CO2 than
younger forests. Either
way, the US should plant more trees and not merely for
Aaron Rappaport [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
U.S. INTRANSIGENCE HURTS FORESTS AT THE HAGUE
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Having completely discredited itself by seeking
massive and false carbon sequestration credits from its current,
"business-as-usual", forestry activities, the U.S. has
Why is that the criticism of "bureaucratism" and "undemocracy"
are not a constant refrains in discussing capitalist corporations
and institutions the way they are used to describe China or
socialist countries ? The below is arch- anti- democratic and
bureaucratic autocracy.
CB
Doug,
You insert the word "moral" prescriptiveness. I am thinking in terms
of prescriptiveness without the adjective. We conform to each other,
dress our children as the community prescribes, buy the toys, dress
ourselves, etc. That is all prescriptive.
Gene Coyle
Doug Henwood
full article at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Australasia/2000-11/tonga231100.shtm
l
Biotech firm buys rights to Tonga's gene pool Company acquires rights to
country's gene pool
By Kathy Marks
23 November 2000
The 108,000 residents of Tonga in the South Pacific are to be the
Michael Perelman wrote:
True enough, but don't the adverse consequences of tobacco hit the
working-class
harder? So, discouraging smoking by taxes might have positive
consequences over the
long run.
Shouldn't people decide for themselves whether to smoke? Do you think
you
MP
Doug, the question was one of the welfare effects of the taxes. The
question you ask makes any answer more complex. Bombarding a child with
advertisements makes rational decision making somewhat unclear. If, I
were to assert that high cigarette taxes were a legitimate way were a
Eugene Coyle wrote:
This sounds like the tobacco lawyers. Tobacco carries an addictive
drug and, separately, kills people. Michael talked about "discouraging"
not banning.
Who are you, or Michael, to decide whether people should smoke? Or
eat fatty food? Or drink martinis?
[Ellen Gould is one of Canada's premier anti-WTO activists...]
47 demonstrators arrested at EU-US trade
talks in Cincinnati, Nov 18, 2000
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:02:20 -0800
From: Ellen Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sid Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Doug, have you ever met a teenager that thought about future consequnces?
I did not think that way, nor did anyone that I knew.
So social policy should be designed in what certain enlightened
adults believe to be the better interest of teenagers?
Doug
***
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
Again, slippery slope to the capitalist argument..Call
Robert Hale
Is it forbidden to forbid?
When it comes to regulating personal behavior, I'd say yes. I'm sure
I could come up with an exception if pushed, but as a general rule,
it's none
I guess I'm more and less libertarian than Jim. On the one hand,
I think any
decent society would have an enforceable meta-rule (like a constitutional
guarantee) carving out a private space for personal choice in
consumption, use
of one's body etc. beyond the purview of even the most
Colin Danby wrote:
Cigarettes are a cheap luxury which a lot of people enjoy. Things fried
in lard taste good. Why should a progressive agenda try to suppress, or
even discourage, cheap, almost-innocent pleasures? Why do we have to
assume that people are stupid? Why are we even
Yoshie:
I am in favor of eliminating cigarette advertising (as well as all
idiotic corporate advertising, though it's impossible to do so under
capitalism). However, it is not clear whether the absence of
corporate advertising will make a huge dent in consumption of
addictive goods
"kids" ain't into that new age stuff the way their boomer forbearers were.
they handle the drugz better too.
ian
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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NSSC
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 6:13 AM
To: '[EMAIL
But a closer link is drawn between the two stories when Anytus hears that
Socrates, on his deathbed, has said: "Death is only the separation of the
soul from the body. . . . Men who fear death love the body, and probably
power and money, as well."
***
While Socrates may have said something
Similarly, the transition to a post-oil economy is, in all probability,
independent of whether it is done under capitalism or socialism.
Yoshie:
Not quite. I think that abolishing the logic of M-C-M' makes it much
easier to plan implement more rational resource uses.
*
How so?
JDDoes someone have a convincing argument that capitalism will collapse if
it
doesn't expand geographically?
***
Geographic space is only one type of space. Imagine buying and selling data
structures in cyberspace as a form of real estate transactions. In it's own
way, cyberspace has the
Yoshie:
You must take into account the most scarce resource of all: time. In
the long run, we are all dead, as Keynes reminded economists of his
day. Can capital increase productivity, improve energy efficiency,
and/or invent alternative energy sources (whose production does not
depend
full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/17/business/18CND-TRADE.html
November 17, 2000
European Union Seeks More Than $4 Billion in Trade Sanctions Against U.S.
By PAUL MELLER
BRUSSELS, Nov. 17 -- The European Union filed for trade sanctions worth just
over $4 billion against the
IMO, total nonsense.
norm
***
Well I shudder to learn what you think of this great prediction, then...
"If present trends continue, the world in 2000 will be less crowded (though
more populated), less polluted, more stable ecologically, and less
vulnerable to resource-supply
full article at: http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns178
Burning problem
All the world's oil could be used without wrecking the climate says a
leading climate analyst.
The world has so little oil left in the ground that it could burn the lot
without wrecking the climate,
Capitalism has come to be dependent on fossil fuels, yes, but *so has
actually existing socialism been, it will remain so in the
foreseeable future*, so oil dependency does *not* define *either*
mode of production -- it has become common to both, which is an
empirical fact.
Yoshie
**
What kind of "global governance"? To me, the question is whether
the world
goes for corporate globalization (i.e., neoliberalism, rule by
the IMF and
its ilk) or whether we go for democratic globalization (a
democratic world
government). Despite the efforts to paint the Seattle and
Speaking of Soviet era tragediesCan we declare the age of Irony is over,
please?
http://www.whistleblower.org/Tomsk/Pressrel.htm
PRESS RELEASE
NUCLEAR EMERGENCY ON THE TOM RIVER
Joint Russian/American Team Reports "Largest Discharge of
Radiological Contaminants on the Globe"
For More
Does anyone know what year Chile privatized it's Social Security
system?
Beginning in 1981, though initially the eligible assets were quite
restricted.
For an overview see Diamond and Valdes-Prieto, "Social Security
Reforms," in Bosworth et al. eds. 1994. _The Chilean Economy._
full article at
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001115/ts/economy_eu_congress_dc_2.html
Wednesday November 15 1:42 AM ET
U.S. Congress OKs Bill to Avert Trade War with EU
By Adam Entous
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House gave final congressional approval Tuesday
to legislation aimed at
"Globalisation is a revolutionary reality. It will keep coming and keep
changing: even the speed of change will increase. So a second revolution is
needed: towards a strong, innovative system of global governance. Towards a
situation where we can start to harness and steer the process of
Isn't forty years of this experiment enough? It seems kind of cruel
to the people of Cuba to let it continue...
Brad DeLong
***
You're right. Let's all call the White House and Congress and tell them to
act like adults rather than imperialists and end the embargo.
Ian
You may have seen this before, but it is worthwhile to remind ourselves
that in our democracy that votes are proportional to dollars. I picked
this account out of Al Krebs's valuable e-mail newsletter, the
Agribusiness Examiner.
Welcome to the new, improved "free trade".
The WTO is
full article at http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20001114/laborsafetydc.html
U.S. Implements Job-Safety Rule Opposed by Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Clinton administration put in place on Monday a
final safety standard, vigorously opposed by business, which it says will
prevent 460,000
U.S. House approves export tax bill
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives gave final
approval on Tuesday to legislation aimed at averting billions of dollars in
sanctions against U.S. goods in a heated dispute with Europe over tax breaks
for American exporters.
After
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As you may have heard, Stockwell Day has proposed that a petition of
Does anyone know what year Chile privatized it's Social Security system?
Ian
f***'in A this is ridiculous
Monday November 13 2:09 PM ET
House Leaders Mull Next Step in EU Tax Dispute
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the threat of European Union sanctions looming,
House Republican leaders are considering whether to reverse a pre-election
position and allow a
Jr.
BTW, I remember an old joke from the early
1960s.
**
Tell us about the War, Grandpa ;-
Ian
JFK, RFK, and Mayor Daley are stranded on
a life raft with only enough food for one to survive.
They decide to have an election to see who it
will be. Each
full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/TUE/IN/warm.2.html
Paris, Tuesday, November 14, 2000
At UN Conference, U.S. Takes Heat on Pollution Rules
Compiled by Our Staff From Dispatches
THE HAGUE - Environmental groups accused the United States on Monday of
seeking loopholes to avoid
Yoshie wroteAt the
same time, the wars on crimes drugs have made costs of living
higher ( lowered standards of living) for an increasing number of
people, since fines, court costs, lawyer fees, bail bonds, etc. must
be paid prisoners can't contribute to household incomes (through
regular or
I've never understood the whole "things are bad, so let's make them
worse!" meme...
Brad DeLong
***
I've never understood the unsurpassable predictive prowess of economists in
all socio-politico-economic matters that exhibit greater complexity than
atmospheric chemistry.
Ian
Goldilocks has an extraordinary fondness for prediction and, being wealthy
and interested in giving away some of her money in the form of prizes so as
to avoid paying taxes to the government, inquired of economists thus:
"There are 3 candidates for President of the US in the year 2000AD. Are
CDWhy are Nader backers so
unwilling to take *any* responsibility for this?
*
Of what does taking responsibility consist? Should Bush apologize for
defeating Gore or vice versa? Should whoever is the winner apologize to the
other two losers for defeating them? Does taking
BDLYou think that Nader's 3% showing is impressive?
**
I don't know; do you think Rosa Parks was impressive or was that too, a
one-shot prisoners dilemma type game? We won't go into, why, if N was so
ultimately empty a threat, your religious group and that other church worked
MP
who is he. Where did this appear?
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
David Ellerman is tucked away working on firm governance issues in Eastern
Europe for the WB. He also worked closely with Stiglitz when he was there.
The quote comes from "Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Lif
BDLYou think that Nader's 3% showing is impressive?
**
I don't know;
So in other words, you don't.
**
Thank you God for collapsing the unpredictability of the future with your
unsurpassable foreknowledge of 21st century political-economic history. I
realize your
I'm watching the debates with Chretien on CBC.CA TV [cable]. Would any of
the Canadians on the list be kind enough to let me [us] know who the others
are, especially the woman making him piss in his Depends.
Ian
[anybody know why they chose to do this under WTO rather than NAFTA? Does
WTO have better ajudication procedures?]
Paris, Friday, November 10, 2000
U.S. Turns to WTO in Dispute With Mexico
By Peter S. Goodman Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration has asked the World
[James Buchanan meets Myron Scholes]
Paris, Friday, November 10, 2000
Two New Options On Bush and Gore
Agence France-Presse
ZURICH - A Swiss bank is offering financial derivatives called the ''George
Bush'' and the ''Al Gore'' options, made up of baskets of U.S. company
shares that could
One of my colleagues refers to this as Shrodinger's election...
Peter
***
Maybe Daniel Lazare is/was onto something and the Constitution is capable of
generating a Godelian moment?
Ian
Nader and his supporters had the power to throw the election to
Bush. That
is very real power. I have frankly urged that since the Greens have
exercised that power, they should now take advantage of it to promote a
radical change in the electoral college in favor of ranked voting
or
SUVs? The fact that the American Petroleum Institute ate Gore for
lunch in the fight over the BTU tax in 1993?
You can say that Gore didn't try hard enough for taxes on emissions.
But you can't say that he didn't try. And you can't blame dirtier air
in Portland-Seattle over the past eight
BDLThe political naivete of people who think that the White House is
some kind of dictatorial center of power continues to astonish me.
BDLAnd in the process he has thrown the election to the right-wing
candidate, with important differences over the next four years for
the Supreme Court... the
The journal Computational Economics has a great little article on the choice
of computer languages for modeling economic systems. For those who are
computationally inclined or know those who are, it offers an interesting way
of looking at non-neoclassical econ. classics. It's currently free so
BDLIf you think there's no difference between a Clinton-Gore EPA and a
Bush-Cheny EPA you need to have your brain overhauled.
Why is it that the people who claim to care the most about issues so
often turn out to care the least about them?
Brad DeLong
*
Why has the air in the
Jr.
Ian,
Egads, madness? Well, actually I'm holding a
tea party here in Wonderland for any who are interested
in multi-valued logics and causal dynamics, :-)
Two minor notes:
1) Leibniz was more influenced by
Confucius than by Taoism. In China these are very much
JD
Metaphor or simile? it depends how the sentence is structured. When
economists use a model to describe the economy, that's metaphorical. If
they say that the economy is _like_ the model, that's a simile. It's all
poetry, though hopefully it's logically consistent on the inside (unlike
Unfinished texts usually look more complex than more finished
ones. But my core
question is, how useful is it to label arguments "Newtonian" or
"Non-Newtonian."
Nothing in Newton has actually been falsified -- it's just been
placed in a
larger context. And while the first section of Vol.
would this be a case of corporate syndicalism?
full article http://thenation.com
FEATURE STORY | November 20, 2000
The Last Farm Crisis
by WILLIAM GREIDER
The contemporary triumph of free-market capitalism has revealed to farmers,
if not to other Americans, the bitter last act in this
JDThis equates "laws of motion" with the unforeseen consequences of the
"invisible hand" of the market. I don't see why other systems might have
unforeseen consequences of purposeful action, though of course, they'd be
different. For example, Kornai argues that USSR-style top-down planning
all hail the Repugs
Full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/FRI/FIN/tax.2.html
Paris, Friday, November 3, 2000
U.S. Bill to Avoid Trade War Falters in Tax-Cut Battle
By Steven Pearlstein Washington Post Service
WASHINGTON - The bitter battle between President Bill Clinton and Congress
JD
the only kind of theory that exists in social science is metaphorical (or
rather involves a simile: the model is like the phenomenon being
investigated). All efforts to "merely describe" what's going on
(empiricism) involves some sort of theory, often covert. So we're
stuck...
The hope
at least somebody is using comedy in the campaign
NADER CAMPAIGN UNVEILS NEW TELEVISION AND RADIO AD CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 31 - Ralph Nader's surging campaign today introduced
his latest radio and television spots. [ads below]
In the new 30-second television message and
[that's 4.5 billion $$ a year]
Wednesday November 1 12:48 PM ET
Senate Passes Export Tax Measure
By CURT ANDERSON, AP Tax Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate passed a $4.5 billion export tax measure
Wednesday that would replace a law ruled an illegal trade subsidy by the
World Trade
the ludditism of the Greens and Ralph bother me, but i just tell myself that
when progressive caveman/woman experimented with microbes to invent baked
bread and brewed beer and was challenged by his/her peers for "upsetting the
balance of nature", he/she just told them, "Get used to it!". same
full article at
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001030/pl/economy_congress_dc_1.html
Monday October 30 2:46 PM ET
U.S. May Miss WTO Deadline on Tax-Break Plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress warned on
Monday that a standoff over tax cuts may doom for the year
full article:
http://www.economist.com/World/na/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=397606CFID=2252
02CFTOKEN=41668739
Shareholders are more likely to vote than non-shareholders; so it is
possible that almost two-thirds of the voters this time will be
shareholders, compared with just over a third in 1996.
It really, really helps to read Wood alongside Christopher Hill's "The World
Turned Upside Down". Problems for the landlords [and the Parish System in
general] began with the reign of Henry the VIIIth. Nor should we avoid the
fact the rise of atheism in England had a lot to do with the eroding of
full article at http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/FPAGE/bux.2.html
Paris, Thursday, October 26, 2000
Euro Puts Central Banks to Test
Currency Is at New Low, but Few See Any Likelihood of Intervention
By Tom Buerkle International Herald Tribune
LONDON
The euro touched an all-time low of
full article
http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/f/1310/10-25-2000/20001025000713150.html
The bill is at http://www.house.gov/banking/hr1161ar.pdf
House OKs Bill To Reduce Bank Risk
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The House passed a bill on Tuesday designed to reduce risk
to the nation's banking system
well it must be true...
Do any of you know about the trade pact with Jordan? The NY Times says
that labor approved.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2000/200010192.htm
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2000/20001016.htm
...Unfettered competitive pressures will foster consolidation in the long
run as liquidity tends to centralize in the system providing the narrowest
bid-offer
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/
McReynolds and the socialists have a solution. "Vast corporate
structures" should be placed "under social ownership," he said
when he announced that he would seek the Socialist Party
nomination for President.
But McReynolds does not hold that the state should take over large
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
This seems to be a gaping hole in left prescriptions for organizational
change at the micro and macro economic level. What would
socializing IBM or
UPS, or McDonalds for that matter, look like?
As opposed to small, locally owned enterprises? What would
full article at http://www.iht.com ]
Paris, Tuesday, October 17, 2000
For Free-Traders, the Choice Is Bush
By Reginald Dale International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON - The opening up of world trade is one of the few recent economic
issues to have generated strong emotions in the United States,
Ah yes, the disaster multiplier. It's done wonders in the US coastal
communities and wherever floods strike along major rivers...
Ian
Note how their model seems to suggest that the earthquake may have
actually increased the GDP. Who needs military spending?
On the Macroeconomic Impact
full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/THU/IN/revenge.2.html
Paris, Thursday, October 12, 2000
Across Yugoslavia, the Once-Powerful Get the 'Milosevic Treatment'
By R. Jeffrey Smith and Peter Finn Washington Post Service
BELGRADE - It is not often that low-level employees in large
October 12, 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/12/politics/12LEND.html
Senators Propose Global Version of C-Span
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 Two senators proposed setting up a global equivalent
of C-Span, the public affairs cable channel, as a way of dismantling what
they
full article at
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=Viewc=Articlecid=FT3UAUTI4ECliv
e=truetagid=ZZZOMSJK30Csubheading=US
'Investor class' may hold the key to the White House door
By Aravind Adiga
Steven Weinstein, a 23-year-old New York University law student and amateur
stock market
full article http://www.timesofindia.com/today/10busu1.htm
RBI sees slower growth; interest rates unchanged
NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) forecast slower than expected
economic growth and left lending rates unchanged on Tuesday as it released
its monetary and credit policy for the
[full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/WED/FPAGE/wto.2.html ]
Paris, Wednesday, October 11, 2000
China's Entry to WTO Unraveling
Beijing Appears to Resist Opening Markets and Reforming Laws
By John Pomfret and Philip P. Pan Washington Post Service
BEIJING - The final round of talks over
Yoshie Furuhashi dijo:
What has not changed,
however, is the idea that it is Americans who should bring criminals
of the world to justice. It goes without saying that this self-image
makes Americans forget the fact that they are the biggest criminals:
the only remaining superpower
full article http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/TUE/FIN/taibank.html
Paris, Tuesday, October 10, 2000
Taipei Sets Tax Breaks For Banks That Merge
Bloomberg News
TAIPEI - Taiwan's banks will receive tax breaks if they merge, the island's
new deputy prime minister said Monday as the government moved
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