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international / anti-capitalism Sunday January 30, 2005 - 22:02 by Yoshie Furuhashi
Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is now betting against the dollar. "I'm short the dollar," says Gates. "The ol' dollar, it's gonna go down." Will the dollar be one day the target of attacks by hedge funds? Recently the dollar rallied a bit, but short-term fluctuations aside, the dollar has nowhere to go but down. Gradually or suddenly and precipitously? It may be possible to engineer gradual devaluation of the dollar and stimulate US export, shrinking the US trade deficit, but it turns out that "the US does not have adequate manufacturing capacity to eliminate the external deficit," according to David Hale. That means that the US power elite will demand that the US working class reduce consumption to haul the multinational ruling class out of the abyss of the US current-account deficit, at the same time as forcing the US working class to make greater and greater sacrifices as IED fodders, sinking further into the quagmire in Iraq. Can American workers fight back? ... read full story / add a comment
louth / racism & migration related issues Saturday January 29, 2005 - 18:24 by A Student 6 comments (last - wednesday february 02, 2005 - 18:39)
FOR years it was the dream of every self-respecting Irish student: after a year denouncing British oppression in the college bar, the only way to spend the summer was sipping Guinness surrounded by plastic leprechauns in a Boston pub. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Saturday January 29, 2005 - 14:30 by eeekkkk
Billmon sketches out the reasons why. See the related link. Great Blogger and the website Moon of Alabama is where his acolytes hang around http://www.moonofalabama.org/ ... read full story / add a comment |