(Quoting Eric Bartelsman)
(Quoting Eric Bartelsman)
is not trying to save the world 
. It
is not trying to help the underprivileged of the Third World 
either. Business and
economics are not about that at all. What is trying to do, is
to teach you (and the rest of the inhabitants 
of this planet) how to make 
money, how
to keep it 
and, most important of all, how to flash it! 
Almost everybody in believes in a market economy. The right that 
sharks, banks 
, extorsionists sharks, 
and
swindelers 
have to make a buck! Everybody in the free world has the right to make 
a
buck! We do not really mind how. believes in a 
Free World! and more
important than that, believes that the entire world 
should be a free world 
so that 
bankers and 
swindlers can operate through the entire planet. A World Economy 
that is. will give you advice in how, when and where to invest 
: the property market 
throughout the entire planet (bargains in the former Commieland 
with basic guide
lines in how to evict unprofitable 
tenants with the help of 
criminal gangs.) Where to find solid stock 
from companies 
that are about to go busted and then sell it right before it happens making, of course, a handsome, sexy profit 
. A quick buck in the booming weapons 
and 
drug markets.
Winners and loosers in 
Wall Street ( hates loosers) etc. you name it.
For economic wizard Martin Bosma 
has put together the Dream Team. His
Divine Holiness 
Milton Friedman (if he is still alive) and, in alphabetic order:
Mickey Mouse. First MIT 
later 
Columbia University.
Fresh out of grad school he goes to work for the 
FED (Federal Reserve Board),
following short stints at 
de Nederlandsche Bank and the 
IMF. Back again in Amsterdam he
he jumps ship and goes to 
Centraal Plan Bureau and now the 
Ministery of Economic Affairs Not bad!
Drs. Martin Bosma. Brillant but reckless, le infant terrible of Live! Some consider him a genious,
others not, ambitions...Job hopper, two or three of them a year everything: 
CNN, 
+ some 
New York 
cable
stations. Back home, he went to work for 
Veronica Business News, 
NOS Journaal and now 
Radio Nederland. The perfect education. First the UvA 
(University
of Amsterdam) then... Zentrum fur 
Kommunistische Zuberssion! (The New School of Social Research in New York)
Hans Hoogervoorst MP: a true blue, a decent chap thats the way that he is often described in the corridors of
power at . Unlike some of them that are in the same league, H. Hooervoorst is an educated man too.
Fluent in several languages including Spanish and if you speak Spanish, they say, you've made it in .
The financial Spokeman of the
(Market oriented party) in the Dutch Lower House. Formely with the National
Bank in Washington D.C.
George Nicolai. Serious, conservative, banker. Studied law at the University in Utrecht. A friend of the family
for more than 15 years. Perfectly dressed. G. Nicolai regulary cunducts workshops and seminars on simple,
decent dressing in De Hoeksteen Live! radio and television and has his own section on the same subject in
De HoeksteenNet. Director of Pierson Trust. Handles the venture capital of a lot of celebrities. One of the senior financial editors of De Hoeksteen.
The CNN Bureau in Havana
An article by Raul Marroquin for Nettime
