Washington Post on A16

[Brad De Long]

>  >>> Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> 04/19/00 04:44PM >>>
>
>Meltzer Report.
>
>There are a bunch of people who think that problems with the world
>economy arise because it is not laissez-faire enough--that the World
>Bank and IMF are bad because they are institutions of collective
>self-government that interfere with the free operation of the market
>by creating moral hazard, pushing prices away from market equilibrium
>values, and so on.
>
>That bunch of people are stronger than you are.
>
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>CB: But not stronger than you, I bet , because you know some people 
>who are even stronger than the anti-IMF'ers.
>

Hope so. But you can never tell in advance. I thought we were 
stronger than Reagan, too...

Brad DeLong