No Return To Normal - the Galbraith article | 96 comments (96 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

yep (none / 1)

my (ever-optimistic) friends over at the oil drum think that a real dollar crash will be inevitably accompanied by war.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 01:47:48 PM EST
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Re: yep (none / 0)

with who?

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 03:37:56 PM EST
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Canada? (4.00 / 2)

Needs to be somewhere we can build some electric railway lines to invade.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 08:05:04 PM EST
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Re: yep (none / 0)

I don't know, you have military bases everywhere.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Mar 22nd, 2009 at 04:26:36 AM EST
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Re: yep (none / 0)

So they think a dollar crash won't occur for that reason?

They tried to assimilate me. They failed.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 03:42:13 PM EST
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Oh no, the 'ever optimistic' is a dead-pan ... (4.00 / 2)

... it is, rather, zOMG we are going to have a war, because the dollar.is.s0.d00med!!!

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Mar 21st, 2009 at 08:06:31 PM EST
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