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To: kingfisher who wrote (26367)	12/13/2007 5:20:33 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219792

rubbish the numbers based on money count is meaningless must weigh by amount of steel used, # of cities built, etc at the moment it is difficult to argue that any place is more pervasively corrupt, systemically bankrupt, morally weak, and hopelessly pointless than the empire, by sorry depth or by planetwide effect and never mind crony capitalism charges, etc etc etc

To: kingfisher who wrote (26367)	12/13/2007 10:25:21 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219792

World Bank and the IMF need more takers for loans. Therefore paint China as poorer to lend them money and extract rent. Besides that the views are based on economics. Economics is a pseudo-science. What we call Economics is a branch of psychology: psychology of incentive. Psychology of reward Psyhcology of fear. Most what we call an economic decision is in fact a psychological reaction to fear. Other decisions with far reaching economic implications are done in reaction to prodding some emotion inside human beings, most simpletons human beings. You can "invest" a couple of trillion just crying: MWD. You can spend a few billions preparing for the nuclear "threat" of Iran... The psychological effect of artifically created threats. Not the economic effects of war. Huge amount of money that has nothing to do with what is call it economics. Look to the root cause: Psychology of the masses at the service of the money movement.