[lbo-talk] Newsweek: "Revolt of the Rich"

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Thu Sep 18 15:38:50 PDT 2008


An economist? I thought you asked for a communist!

(Old joke about what Che was supposed to have said when, after the Revolution, Che supposedly volunteered to be finance minister. Fidel said, on the way out, Che, I am continually amazed by you, you are a doctor, a motorcyclist, a revolutionary, a soldier, I didn't know you were also an economist! And Che supposedly replied . . . .)

--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Newsweek: "Revolt of the Rich"
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 7:58 PM
> "Despite winning last month's recall election,
> President Evo Morales faces
> escalating violence from protesters who don't want to
> share the nation's
> natural-gas wealth."
>
> http://www.newsweek.com/id/158825
>
> (I'm surprised they simply called Mark Weisbrot an
> "economist and Bolivia
> expert ... [and] co-director of the Center for Economic
> and Policy Research
> in Washington, D.C.")
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal
> þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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