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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (13121)	1/9/2002 11:51:22 PM
From: Stock Farmer	Respond to of 74559

Hi Maurice, Good example re. workable disintermediation vis-a-vis replacing an admixture of diverse currencies with a single currency. So we have examples of things that disappear and things that re-appear in different guises. Another world of many grey-shades for us to explore? John

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (13121)	1/10/2002 10:35:29 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

having many ratty little currencies in Europe was one of those minor but very irksome problems of life which added nothing to the quality of it What's that make the Kiwi Dollar?! :) Now at Princeton. This carbon mitigation initiative has got $US2 million a year funding for 10 years from BP and Ford (Motors not the foundation). Looks very interesting, these guys are serious about investigating this stuff. NYT reported yesterday (on p1) that Bush admin will also look at funding hydrogen power research and wind down the CAFE standards program (which has become a bit of a joke as SUVs are classed as trucks and are exempt from it). Two quotes from my potential supervisor here: "They (Princeton faculty) all hate Bush - I like him" "I'd rather have Exxon running my life than most governments" David