Washington Post on A16

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Thu Apr 20 09:32:27 PDT 2000


LA was far more vulnerable to pressure from the US than the US was from the UK.


>
> >Brad, please let me know what you think about the US default in the 19th
> >C. as a model.
> >--
> >Michael Perelman
>
>
> We tried that in the 1980s with Latin America. It didn't work so
> well. Economic development essentially froze for five years as
> everyone waited to see what the resolution would be.
>
> Much better to clean up government and private enterprise balance
> sheets quickly...
>
>
> Brad DeLong
>

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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