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To: At_The_Ask who wrote (66246)	2/13/2003 3:32:57 AM
From: Agamemnon	Respond to of 209892

"The Federal Reserve's greatest nightmare is that OPEC will switch its international transactions from a dollar standard to a euro standard. Iraq actually made this switch in Nov. 2000 (when the euro was worth around 80 cents), and has actually made off like a bandit considering the dollar's steady depreciation against the euro. (Note: the dollar declined 17% against the euro in 2002.) "The real reason the Bush administration wants a puppet government in Iraq -- or more importantly, the reason why the corporate-military-industrial network conglomerate wants a puppet government in Iraq -- is so that it will revert back to a dollar standard and stay that way." (While also hoping to veto any wider OPEC momentum towards the euro, especially from Iran -- the 2nd largest OPEC producer who is actively discussing a switch to euros for its oil exports)." ratical.org

To: At_The_Ask who wrote (66246)	2/13/2003 1:40:09 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 209892

What we need is a true liberal party that isn't into too excessive and inefficient redistribution and doesn't have all the conservative baggage and isn't some whacko extreme Libertarians (sorry - probably managed to offend everyone at this point). In most countries pro-free market tends to get mixed with a conservative-paternalistic-millitaristic lot of stuff for some reason that isn't really clear to me. The Democrats in the US are a centrist type party by World standards. Just recently they don't seem too inspiring to say the least. In Australia I voted Liberal which is considered the right wing there. I didn't agree with the conservative views of many of them. But the more socially liberal Australian Democrats were just knee jerk anti free market efficiency. In the end I thought the views on the parties on economics would have more real world impact than any of their other views. moom