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...Meanwhile, on the other side of the world: There were rumblings in Asia, and it had nothing to do with the dim sum. While Wall Street paraded record profits, in Hong Kong the sky was falling. Efforts to prop up the currency rocked the Hang Seng index, and the effect was more catastrophic than any galactic collision. By Friday, the Dow was as bitten as a Marv Albert chew-toy. Looks like George Soros has a lot more to answer...
...fallout continues. Once again, dour comments by Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan on the state of the U.S. economy have touched off a world-wide spate of panic selling, reports Money Daily. Southeast Asian markets were the most affected, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dropping 4 percent and Japan's Nikkei falling nearly 250 points. The bulls were equally spooked in Europe - Germany's DAX and Britain?s FTSE were sinking slowly early Thursday. All this on the back of Greenspan expounding a very simple economic truism: higher employment means higher wages and higher prices. What on earth...
After the Dow posted a record 257-point gain yesterday, investors in Southeast Asian markets pushed ahead. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index had it's biggest point gain ever, soaring 978.66 points to close up 7.13 percent at 14713.99. Markets from Australia to Taiwan also recorded strong gains...
...have no idea where Peov is today. Seng was adopted by a family in Massachusetts, and the last I heard from him he was studying math in a university. If the two of them saw the televised pictures of Pol Pot during the Khmer Rouge show trial, I cannot imagine what they thought...
...would put Seng and Peov on any tribunal chosen to judge him, for the reason that they are the enduring casualties of his work. I picture them at the trial. They hear the evidence against him, inspect the photos of the hills of skulls and learn all that this monster did to burn over their country. But in the end it is they who condemn him--they and tens of thousands of other Cambodians now in their 20s who remember too much and wake up screaming like children...