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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (120)	3/30/2001 12:15:29 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 443

Probably you would have been better off studying banking. Not that economics isn't fascinating, but I think all the theoretical stuff gets in the way. Trying to understand where the money went during the Great Depression, I keep brushing up against economists, when I'd much rather be reading historians or cultural anthropologists. My earliest academic introduction to "social sciences" was to anthropology, and I still have a preference for not introjecting preconceived notions into the study of the unfamiliar. If you already know what you want to prove then you won't ever find anything new. It's kind of hard not to have preconceived notions popping into the mind, like should it matter that the German official for the Bank for International Settlements in the early 1930's was the director of IG Farben? I am at present getting a case ready to send to an expert witness and am having to teach myself immunology and cytology and hematology from scratch, so I can't do it, but very soon I will go to the Library of Congress and really dig. I think in the early years people probably admitted things that later they would rather forget when it comes to what happened in 1930-1931. Eventually if it's not in the Library of Congress I may have to go to Basle, but I hope I won't. There may be some stuff in the archives at the Holocaust Museum, too, although maybe that's going a bit afield. The BIS definitely held Nazi gold - I think they still do. But the time period I am interested in predates the Nazis a little. I think the focus on the Bank of England has been well mined, but Germany presents a language barrier, and English speaking people are very lazy about research in other languages. I do speak a little German. The interrelationship between Germany and France during the pre-Depression era is fascinating. The French wanted reparations but at the same time seemed determined to destroy the German economy. I think having bankers run the world may be better than politicians. Not sure about that but it's worth thinking about. Bankers just want to make money. Politicians want power and control and supremacy, to be the greatest man who ever walked the earth, to do great deeds and be immortal. Bankers don't care if no one ever knows their name.