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To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (5640)	2/18/1999 1:09:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

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To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (5640)	2/18/1999 7:30:00 AM
From: tom pope	Respond to of 9256

>>You know full well the cause was a stubborn and futile defense of an untenable currency peg.<< Lawrence you know full well you are right, and saw through my love of what seemed like a good line at the time(le vin aidant). But the origin of the problem was also an uncontrolled international capital market which encouraged local banks to borrow without limit as long as international bankers were willing to keep the credit spiggots open. Once rationality (in the form of panic - how on earth did we let our exposure to Bangkok Bank get that high???) set in, the result was indeed a balance of payments problem.