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........................................ Professor Tung Yin posts an interesting blog entry called Notes on Gen. Wesley Clark's appearance in Iowa. .......... The Japanese government has spent tens of billions of dollars this year intervening in the currency market to keep the yen down. Finally this week the yen broke out... let's see how far it runs.
........................................ Michael Kinsley writes about the new TV series "K Street":
"Influence peddling, in short, has grown from something acceptable to something positively respectable or even admirable. And now
it is even glamorous. Glamorizing the influence trade may not be the intention of 'K Street,' but it's unavoidable, just as
'The Sopranos' glamorizes murderers and thugs...."
.......... Leon Hadar writes that the men who got us into a quagmire in Vietnam were known as the "best and the brightest," but the ones who have gotten us into a quagmire in Iraq should be known as the "dumb and dumbest."
"[The war in Iraq] has all the makings of the same kind of quagmire [as Vietnam], in which US leaders are being confronted with the horrible
dilemma: If they 'run away' from the confrontation, they are perceived as losers, encouraging other 'bad guys' to test their will.
If they 'stay the course', they end up expanding their commitments to a point where they lose public and international support."
By the way, here's the Coalition Provisional Authority's website. .......... Our Consumer Expenditure Survey for June 2003. Previous Entry >>> Consumer Expenditure Survey -- June 2003 |
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