Larouche Online Almanac
Published: Monday, May 13, 2002
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Volume 1, No.10

Need to know this week







The May 9 New York Times online edition quotes Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan describing Friedman as "the most formidable economist" of the 20th century. Friedman has, indeed, racked up a formidable record: as perhaps the most awesomely incompetent of widely known economists of the recently closed 20th century.
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President Bush Mis-Briefed, Again — Lyndon LaRouche Comments

Saturday, May 11, 2002

Those Americans who are asking questions such as "What happened to my pension?" "How did I blow out my credit cards?," or, "Who closed down the only full-service public hospital in town?" have good reason to take a hard look at the notorious Milton Friedman, who is reported as about to turn 90 this July.

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Economic reports

World and Nation-state

In Depth Socrates

ECONOMICS NEWS DIGEST

Unemployment Swells: What Recovery?

State Revenues Hit Bottom of Barrel; No Bailout from Taxes

O'Neill: U.S. Government May Default on National Debt

Dollar Slide Signals Trouble for U.S. Economy

Consumer Credit Zooms Through the Stratosphere

German Economist: America Is Delirious with Debt

Documents Prove Enron Manipulated California Energy Prices

Not Just Enron: FERC Orders Power Sellers To Preserve Records

SEC Plans Formal Probe of Dynegy Natural Gas Deals

Texas Governor Proposes State's First Big Desalination Plant

Without Desalination, U.S. and Mexico Face Standoff Over Water

Swiss National Bank Cuts Interest Rates; Dollar Fall Stalled

German Industrial Production Falls; Unemployment Rises

UK Manufacturing Shrinks at Fastest Rate in 20 Years

O'Neill Pushes IMF's 'Poverty-Making Machine' on Argentina

Argentina Pays IMF at Demand of Bankers

Foreign Banks Bolting From Argentina



IBERO-AMERICAN NEWS DIGEST

Vicente Fox Investigated for Illegal Foreign Financing of Campaign

Mexican Trade Unions Call for Defense of Nation State vs. New Imperialism

Bush Officials Call for Policy of Regime Change in Cuba

Venezuela's New Cabinet: Neo-Liberal Economics and FARC Collaborators

Mont Pelerinites Plotting 'Post-Duhalde' Government for Argentina

O'Neill Pushes IMF's 'Poverty-Making Machine' on Argentina

Argentina Pays IMF at Demand of Bankers

Foreign Banks Bolting From Argentina

Colombian President: UN Wanted To Investigate Jenin—Why Not Investigate FARC Attack?


MIDDLE-EAST NEWS DIGEST

EIR Releases 'Ariel Sharon: Profile of an Unrepentant War Criminal'

Sharon's Warmongers Mass Troops at Gaza and Egypt Border

Ha'aretz Specialist: Sharon Was Preparing To Assassinate Arafat and Trigger Regional War

Israeli Military Copies East German Stasi, in Addition to Nazi SS

Arab Nations Keep Pressure on Washington: Why Do We Need a New Peace Conference?

Israeli Occupying Forces Condemned by UN General Assembly

In TV Address, Arafat Demands End to Terror Attacks on Israel

Middle East Policy in Washington: The Congressional Factor


WESTERN EUROPEAN NEWS DIGEST

German Newspaper Emphasizes Government Role in Economy

Charge That Italy's Berlusconi Ignores Importance of Infrastructure-Building

Top German Diplomat: East German Stasi Created Neo-Nazism

Netherlands Reeling After Assassination of Anti-Immigrant Populist Politician

Chirac Wins Second Round of French Election in Landslide


RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE NEWS DIGEST

Russian Security Official: Americans Dizzy With Illusory Military 'Omnipotence'

International Finance Is the Driving Force for War, Says Military Analyst

Attack on Parade in Dagestan Kills 41 or More

Putin Again Chastizes Government for Lack of Economic Plan

Academy of Sciences Economists Intervene on Economic Policy

Russian Government Will Look at National Wealth Policy

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The Rules by Which Games Are Played
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Sharon's 'Hallelujah Chorus' Shouts For Mideast War

Ariel Sharon: Profile Of an Unrepentant War Criminal

Fundies' Howl War, But Main Churches Call for End to Israel's Occupation

The 'Misfortune 500' Lead U.S. 'Recovery'

Strategy of Tension Now Targets the Netherlands

Media, Arms Producers Make Killer Video Games

'Nintendo Joe' Saved Killer Game Producers

Brazil's Debt: Trying To Conceal the Abyss

Indonesia Walks A Tightrope

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FDRthis week in history

May 13-19, 1933

We return this week to the story of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the first mass public assistance program put into effect by President Roosevelt's Administration. Faced with mass unemployment, mass foreclosures, looming starvation, and collapsing state budgets, the President had called for this $500,000,000 program on March 28, and he finally signed it into law on May 12. As you may recall from our previous report, the allocation was divided into two portions: half to be spent as matching funds for localities, and the other half for distribution to locations which could not meet the matching requirement.

The critical decision which the President took, however, was not simply the structure of the program, but who would administer it. On May 19, he decided to tap Harry Hopkins, then the chairman of the New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, which had been established by Roosevelt himself when he was Governor. The President overrode the objections of New York Governor Lehman, and ordered Hopkins to report to Washington, D.C. on May 22.
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