From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 24 18: 1:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F4737BE8C for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 18:01:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from mira1.cisco.com (mira1.cisco.com [171.71.212.196]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA05716 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 18:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (sjck-dial-gw5-198.cisco.com [10.19.238.199]) by mira1.cisco.com (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AAO05154; Wed, 24 May 2000 18:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <392C7D17.359FD8E7@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:08:39 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software References: <200005242353.QAA08949@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: [snipped] > I have never really understood the idea of the chairman of the > U.S Federal Reserve bank raising interest rates "because the > economy is running too hot". There may be good reasons for > artificially braking the economy from where it would go in an > otherwise unregulated system, but I haven't ever seen any math > to tell me why where it would go in an otherwise unregulated > system, at least for the interest rate constraint, would be an > undesirable place. > You forgot about the chicken bones they toss around to help decide these matters :-) For you conspiracy theorists out there, several reports are in that GeeDubya wins big in November if the economy tanks. It's well known that Mr Greenspan is a staunch Republican. IMHO, far too much power rests at the Federal Reserve Bank. Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message