On 28 Feb 2006 17:25:15 GMT, steamer wrote:

--Well we taught 'em how to be Ferengis back in the '40s; whaddya
expect??
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Japanese always were sharp traders/merchants. They were among
the first to create conglomerate trading companies called
KEIRETSU
see: http://www.witiger.com/international...sogoshosha.htm

The United States has no one to blame but our selves for our
current and rapidly increasing economic problems. We have
continually (and in too many cases deliberately) mistaken
appearance for reality. The only way to have more [in the long
term] is to make more. Anything else is simply bourgeoise
b***s***

General Motors, Ford and the stock/bond markets [actually the
owners of their so-called securities) are about to learn the hard
way, the same lesson that Orange County [California] did about
the reality of the "magical perpetual motion money machine."

Unka George