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2008-12-16 India-Pakistan

12 steps to shock-and-awe Pakistan's economy

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Posted by john frum 2008-12-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 I like the way this guy thinks: Use India's buying power to twist arms and put the screws to Wakiland.
Let the market handle it.
That's our secret, we let the market do all the work.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-12-16 01:24|| 2008-12-16 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 That's our secret, we let the market do all the work.

I've no idea where you live Jim but it obviously isn't the United States.

Posted by AzCat 2008-12-16 01:54|| 2008-12-16 01:54|| Front Page Top

#3 If you're not in finance the world still turns. And don't make it seem like we have been in the great depression for 13 years now, everything was hunky dory until sometime around september. The market is going back up, not down. Stock prices are rising, home prices are falling. Lets not start jumping out of windows at this point.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-12-16 08:11|| 2008-12-16 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 A stable Pakistan is not in the interest of world peace, leave alone India.

Didn't that stupid President Bush say something similar about the Middle East?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-12-16 12:49|| 2008-12-16 12:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Jim my point was that we in the USA now have something that is no longer a free market. It's a hybrid where regulation, litigation and bureaucratic decisions choose winners and losers to at least as great, and in my opinion greater, degree than consumer choices in the market and the business acumen of folks in the private sector.

Posted by AzCat 2008-12-16 20:27|| 2008-12-16 20:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, but look at every other country in the world with a stock market and gasp in horror. Ours isn't perfect, not even close, but how would you like to watch your 401k in the Russian RTX go down 80% or more? It could be worse guy.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-12-16 22:30|| 2008-12-16 22:30|| Front Page Top

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