[lbo-talk] Mark to Market and Bad Business Practices: Was Re: question for those opposed to the bailout

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 6 04:44:08 PDT 2008


--- dredmond at efn.org wrote:


> Which is why this election is so important. Obama is
> no radical, but he
> does have the skills to convince the sovereign
> wealth funds of the
> semi-periphery, East Asia, and the Eurostate to
> finance an orderly, if
> painful, bailout. If the petro-fundies steal another
> election, the train
> goes over the cliff.

Dennis, it's time to drop the term "Eurostate". The EU states have openly declared their unwillingness to engage in any coordinated response to the crisis:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,582072,00.html

The German political class has worked out a commitment to avert catastrophe in the case of HRE entirely independent of the EU:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,582359,00.html

If you want to engage in mental contortions for supporting war criminal to-be Barack Obama, do so, but without appealing to a mythical, non-existent Eurostate.



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