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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (20801)	4/28/2004 8:07:50 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 80915

Raymond > It's a sweet swindle they've arranged for themselves Here's another, or the same seen in a different way, also based on the "market". rense.com >>>I then asked Treasury Secretary Snow, "In February you said the markets would determine the value of the dollar and not the policy or strength of government. Is this a new global policy?" Using a lot of "ahh's", he said, "What it basically says is that we endorse the concept of flexibility in exchange rates." The move to the markets has been called "market based democracy" which is defined as a form of government that does not involve traditional bureaucratic government but uses the markets to encourage productive behavior. If this is the case, then we can understand the reinventing of Lenin's "commanding heights" to "market based democracy." This sounds as utopian as communism-for if there are no barriers any longer between the nation-states, then that means the strongest and most powerful (the bourgeoisie) can "skim off the top" of the currency, equity, bond, commodity, and metals markets at any time in order to use the market for their own personal gain, leaving you and I (the serfs) with the crumbs. <<<