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Tuesday, June 24, 2003
“The hard money policy attacked both the techniques of plunder and the general strategy of warfare. By doing away with paper money, it proposed to restrict the steady transfer of wealth from the farmer and laborer to the business community. By limiting banks to commercial credit and denying the control over the currency, it proposed to lessen their influence and power. By reducing the proportion of paper money, it proposed to moderate the business cycle, and order the economy to the advantage of the worker rather than the speculator. It was a coherent policy, based on the best economic thought of the day, and formulated on a higher intellectual level than the alternatives of the opposition.” (Source Link)
Monday, June 23, 2003
“All told, at least 40 percent of adolescent admissions to private psychiatric hospitals during the 1980s were inappropriate, the Children’s Defense Fund estimated. The hospitals’ advertising campaigns were one reason. When researchers from the University of North Carolina questioned mothers of high school students about their reactions to a dozen fear-based newspaper ads for psychiatric facilities they came up with a paradoxical discovery. The ads had the greatest impact on parents of children who least needed mental health services.” (Source Link)
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Long-time fanatic riders of Harley-Davidson motorcycles call wealthy hobbyists and adult late-comers
;Come to Montenegro—Your Car is Already There! used to be a tongue-in-cheek tourist slogan aimed at Westerners.
Friday, June 20, 2003
Mardom-salari is Farsi
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