Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!212.84.206.1.MISMATCH!bolzen.all.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.scottish,fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.irish,soc.culture.korean Subject: Re: Promote Peace: Boycott USA goods Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:10:38 +0900 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <41AAD97E.3010603@hotmail.com> References: <52d3f97e.0411212013.7111438b@posting.google.com> <8g3cq0tpbp3sfi3iackt4pophbmhpa6ua7@4ax.com> <30nai5F2vh04hU18@uni-berlin.de> <41A6EFD0.1050704@hotmail.com> <30oq9tF33s1vsU5@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de uYrkuKSuvljoE48iK/ALIwsZuZmrycG/IlnDwxmC5KWUqgDGRh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:22736 Brett Robson wrote: > > Kevin Gowen wrote: > >> Declan Murphy wrote: >> >>> Kevin Gowen wrote: >>> >>>> If China is so concerned, why does it have the same central bank as >>>> the US? >>> >>> China doesn't have the same central bank as the US. >> >> Sure it does. It's called the Federal Reserve. This is by dint of >> pegging the yuan to the dollar >> >>> Comments by the governments (and in some cases, central banks) of >>> some countries about the perceived poor performance of key trading >>> partners is nothing new. >> >> Yes, it isn't. Who said otherwise? > > I missed this gem. I wonder where he read that one. Probably the same places where he learned that 0.12% is almost double 0.7%, or that the US accounts for over 1/3 of the global GDP in PPP etc. I hope he does better at law. -- Non gratum anus rodentum