19-03-2015, 10:06 AM
More Friedman - this time using his crystal ball for the next 100 years.
For me, the intriguing things he focuses on are the Japanese economic collapse on the late 1980's and the Asian Tiger nations economic collapse of the late 1990's. I recall from the researching the latter event at the time that it was US hedge funds working in concert, but in particular Julian Robertson's Tiger Hedge Fund, that (allegedly) drove the Tiger economies to the wall via, so I was told, a bribe paid to a senior member of the central bank of one of those nations. A bribe that had designer consequences.
But in any event, if I am reading Friedman correctly, based on earlier comments of his, the crash of Japan and the Asian Tiger's was as a consequence of US economic warfare designed to bring a halt to any potential challenger.
PS, on Friedman's argument that the weakness in those two economies was clear from the Japanese and other Asian nations buying assets overseas, I would only add that the US has vast overseas investments too.
For me, the intriguing things he focuses on are the Japanese economic collapse on the late 1980's and the Asian Tiger nations economic collapse of the late 1990's. I recall from the researching the latter event at the time that it was US hedge funds working in concert, but in particular Julian Robertson's Tiger Hedge Fund, that (allegedly) drove the Tiger economies to the wall via, so I was told, a bribe paid to a senior member of the central bank of one of those nations. A bribe that had designer consequences.
But in any event, if I am reading Friedman correctly, based on earlier comments of his, the crash of Japan and the Asian Tiger's was as a consequence of US economic warfare designed to bring a halt to any potential challenger.
PS, on Friedman's argument that the weakness in those two economies was clear from the Japanese and other Asian nations buying assets overseas, I would only add that the US has vast overseas investments too.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14