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To: MNI who wrote (15541)	12/13/1999 11:52:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

Re: Anyway, it seems to me that you are the one among both of us who believes those words have a real life meaning - other than concealing the issues about economy and stability that are contemplated and discussed in the silent before political guidelines are made public ... MNI You tirelessly try to mollify Europe's prejudiced stance on each and every issue --and I'm afraid you're wrong. Actually, you even seem trapped in the most deceitful piece of propaganda as you refer to 'economy and stability that are contemplated and discussed in the silent before political guidelines are made public ... Such a statement of yours perfectly fits in with the common assumption that a no-nonsense economic rationality is driving European leaders in their political decision-making. Wrong! That's why I advise you to reconsider the above scrap the other way around: ...political and ethnic criteria [that] are contemplated and discussed in the silent before economic and stability guidelines are made public ... After all, there's no financial rationale to support Germany's reluctance in opening its crony capitalism to foreign investors/buyers. Instead, a purely ethnic/nationalist guideline pleads in favor of keeping Mannesman in German hands rather than selling it to Anglo-Saxon 'gamblers'..... I'm quite aware of how much politically incorrect it is to depict an allegedly sensible society --such as Europe, e.g.-- as a closet irrational fabric --but it's the plain truth! Ideally, like in a mathematical never-never land of precise formulae, Europe should stick to the bottom-line benchmark only and not indulge in some dubious criteria. Hence, ideally, the question of ownership, of nationality, of ethnicity, and of religion should be negligible when assessing multibillion $$$ businesses/deals. YET, in real life instances, these supposedly petty considerations prevail --time to plug into reality, MNI!! High-brow financial/stability criteria are not addressed by abstract cyber-creatures, rather they are dealt with by human beings, that is people biased by their own, personal histories/backgrounds. So, to conclude, I'd say 'Yes, these prejudiced notions do have a real-life meaning!.... Actually, they might even be the only notions which conceal any real-life meaning at all!' All the rest is, to use a psychological analysis, mere babbles.... Economics, Finance, equilibrium politics are just logocratic machines aimed at making us believe that our power elites behave in some rational fashion.

To: MNI who wrote (15541)	12/13/1999 12:29:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Follow-up on my previous post: Where's your scientific rationality justifying West Germany's bargain deal to East Germans in 1990? Reminder: businessweek.com Excerpt: A new clash has broken out between Germany's central bank and Chancellor Helmut Kohl -- the worst since the Chancellor's 1990 decision to allow East Germans to convert their nearly worthless currency to deutschemarks at a rate of 1 to 1. Get the picture, MNI? IRRATIONALITY prevails --and Hans Tietmeyer should have known better............