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Villoso — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:53:16 -0000

Angela Merkel is the chancellor, not prime minister, of Germany.

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Villoso — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:53:09 -0000

Angela Merkel is the chancellor, not prime minister, of Germany.

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Villoso — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:52:58 -0000

Angela Merkel is the chancellor, not prime minister, of Germany.

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Villoso — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:52:49 -0000

Angela Merkel is the chancellor, not prime minister, of Germany.

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Chas — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:14:18 -0000

Oregon Jon: you need to check out William Easterly's two books, the most recent with a bad title ("The White Man's Burden"), previously "The Elusive Quest For Growth" - he's a liberal mugged by reality, presents a powerful case why foreign aid is generally destructive (although it can provide useful health benefits). Clear economic thinking would demonstrate why this is of course the case; but to convince the unwilling, it's necessary to show that it has happened, over and over. Like explaining that price controls cause shortages - "fortunately" there are countless examples.

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Mesa EconoGuy — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:15:51 -0000

Ah, I see.

He was probably referring to Sonny Bono as well.

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Python — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:22:11 -0000

Gandalf did what to Africa?

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The Captain — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:24:25 -0000

Dear Mesa EconoGuy:

I would be surprised if Professor Morriss did not intentionally gaff Bob Geldo[r]f. Who cares about Bob Geldof? Boner and Geldork would probably would have been too obvious.

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Mesa EconoGuy — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:57:40 -0000

Professor Morriss may be a terrific man of editorial letters (that is well said), but he needs a little tweaking in his accuracy:

Geldof and Bono take G8 campaign to Germany

http://www.u2france.com/art...

I believe this should be Geldof, as in Bob Geldof, organizer of Live Aid (and Live 8), as well as star of Pink Floyd’s The Wall (1982), not Geldorf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Jacko — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:08:09 -0000

Has anyone ever done a regression over say, 20-40 years, showing that a country's poverty is inversely proportional to foreign aid as a percentage of its GDP? It would be great to see the numbers both with and without IMF and World Bank loans also.

If anyone knows of such a study, please post. Thank you.

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OregonJon — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:56:30 -0000

Bono's and Geldorf's and others from the Scold Class are deep into feeling good about themselves with no interest in effective policies. It's a conceit often seen in entertainers, a career requiring outsized egos.

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Ken Willis — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:26:38 -0000

Somebody please send Prof. Morriss's letter to George W. Bush before he sends another few Billion to Africa.

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Chris Meisenzahl — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:31:52 -0000

Slam-dunk! ;-)

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Adam Malone — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:57:58 -0000

This solution also requires the wealth redistributors and trade protectionists (is this still the term we are using?) to admit that free trade helps rich people. and middle class people. and poor people. and destitute people.

And admitting such a thing would require them to fess up to the fact that they have been blantantly wrong for about 80 years.

They still won't admit that the Smoot-Hawley Act had at least as much to do with the Great Depression as the stock market crash.

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Patrick — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:41:15 -0000

Prof. Morriss, that is just too simple. No one would go for that in any real way, the solution is just to plain. No, our folks at the State Dept. and USAID, etc. want to actually "help" people by giving them stuff and assuring them that their leaders won't kill too many of them and maybe get them some health care. If only we could just redistribute the world's wealth, all would be fine in Africa.....so sayeth the mighty of Europe and the US Democratic party. Imagine if the US started out the way the free world is trying to gerrymander the African continent, where would we be now? Thank God, for us Americans anyway, there wasn't a USAID, IMF or some other wacky organization.

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Ray G — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:02:11 -0000

Pow!

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Wild Pegasus — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:56:12 -0000

My law school (Case Western) is a pile of stupid for not holding onto Prof. Morriss. Good to see he's still killin' 'em dead.