Re: It's not the economy, stupid

1999-03-30 Thread Eva Durant
The burst of the speculative financial bubble, that has long lost it's link with the productive economy, will teach the new investor citizens much faster than any book... Eva Bill Clinton's "It's the Economy, Stupid!" strategy followed the same one used very successfully by Ronald Reagan in

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1999-03-30 Thread Eva Durant
i found this article demonstrative...Eva THE PEOPLE MARCH 1999 VOL. 108 NO. 12 PROFITING FROM MAYHEM BY KEN BOETTCHER A half-page advertisement that recently ran in THE NEW YORK TIMES is a testament to the debilitating nature of work under capitalism and the stress, anxiety and anger that

FW Death of the salesperson? (fwd)

1999-03-30 Thread S. Lerner
CHANGING ROLE FOR SALES PEOPLE The growth of e-commerce is changing the role of the sales force. While human salespeople provide an interactivity that can't be matched by a Web site, they're also tremendously expensive compared to electronic channels. According to one analyst, electronically

FW The temp scene (fwd)

1999-03-30 Thread S. Lerner
TEMPING IS BECOMING PERMANENT In the past couple of years the percentage of temporary workers in industrial countries has doubled. In the U.S., 98% of all companies use temp labor,with large companies hiring 15% of their work force on a temporary basis. But the important development is in the

FW Student activists target exploitation of workers (fwd)

1999-03-30 Thread S. Lerner
March 29, 1999 Activism Surges at Campuses Nationwide, and Labor Is at Issue library/national/032999campus-activism.1.jpg.htmlForum http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?13@@.efd54c9Join a Discussion on Unions and the Labor Movement By STEVEN GREENHOUSE n the biggest surge in campus

Re: It's not the economy, stupid

1999-03-30 Thread Marc Sobel
Sorry, I usually lurk here but this statement is off the mark. Bush had won the previous election by using Willie Horton. "It's the Economy Stupid" means focus on how Republican policies are bad for individual economically as opposed to Democratic policies. Do not let yourself be diverted into

Re: It's the (war) economy, stupid II

1999-03-30 Thread Tom Walker
Subtitle: Why are we in Kosovo? The term "military Keynesianism" is a misnomer and authorizes a misleading reduction of the question of war economy to the relative size of appropriations for the military in the federal budget. Instead of speculating about the dimensions of a vague metaphor -- mK

Re: It's the (war) economy, stupid I

1999-03-30 Thread Tom Walker
Subtitle: Going down to Washington in civilian garb to find a wartime job or how I became chairman of the Economics Department "In 1941 came also a somewhat more important event, America's entry into war. I knew that the armed forces would not want me; I had a thyroid deficiency, and the device

More on It's the economy, Stupid!

1999-03-30 Thread Cheney
Folks: Marc Sobel's rebuttal sounds a bit like a non-sequitur. The fact that there remain some meaningful differences between Republican and Democratic platforms on a number of issues in the U.S. does not at all deny the fact that a certain kind of economic discourse has come to be privileged

E-Seminar with Jeff Gates, _The Ownership Solution_

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Kurtz
Greetings all, Most of you undoubtedly have heard of ESOPS (Employee Stock Ownership Plans). Gates' book is a creative, wholesystem attempt to extend the ESOP idea to augment sustainable human economies, societies, and habitats. I urge you to have a look at these brief comments, and to order the