Pilger on the telly

2001-08-22 Thread Michael Keaney
Rob writes: I'm watching Stanley Fischer assure John Pilger (who's positing the debt-as-stick argument) that debt is not a problem for the world's poor (all they need is education and an incorruptible government, after all isn't debt a good thing when we want something? [beaut analogy, Stan]), an

Pilger on the telly

2001-08-21 Thread Rob Schaap
I'm watching Stanley Fischer assure John Pilger (who's positing the debt-as-stick argument) that debt is not a problem for the world's poor (all they need is education and an incorruptible government, after all isn't debt a good thing when we want something? [beaut analogy, Stan]), and that the IM