Just at 8:30 CST this morning, I heard (I think) Bob Edwards on NPR
blurt out something about Swedish tax rates that smelled rather
unsavory. He claimed that several Swedish executives (I think he
cited three examples) had to paid over 100% taxes on their wages.
This sounds outrageous, of
Andersengate
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/opinion/14SAFI.html?todaysheadlines
. . .
"The dozen or so investigations may turn up something to embarrass the White
House, especially if Bush pulls another "executive privilege" when Congress
wants facts. But the scandal I see in this
I forgot to tell the list that last week, the folks at US National Public
Radio were interviewing Ian Buruna and some other fellow (whose name I've
forgotten) about their analysis on 911 etc. that was published in the NEW
YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. Anyway, Buruna made the comment that all the best
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/108abrw_e.p
df
Legal status of prisoners.
by Ian Murray
13 January 2002 00:03 UTC
CB: I agree that the Bush military tribunal faces the legal dilemma mentioned by
George Fletcher .. I believe I suggested it in earlier posts. I had tried to get at
some of these issues with this old post:
It's a war.
Fred, thanks for your thoughtful comments. (For those who haven't been
paying attention, we are discussing only the United States in this thread,
using the BEA data.)
1. I said: I should acknowledge that if I recalculate the trend profit
rate in a few years, the trend will probably be
Devine, James wrote:
I forgot to tell the list that last week, the folks at US National Public
Radio were interviewing Ian Buruna and some other fellow (whose name I've
forgotten) about their analysis on 911 etc. that was published in the NEW
YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. Anyway, Buruna made the comment
QUOTE OF THE
DAY (NYTIMES)="Companies come and go. It's part
of the genius ofcapitalism."-PAUL O'NEILL, treasury secretary, on the
collapse of Enron.
The banality of O'Neill's comment obscures a deeper
confusion. It is not simply the collapse ofEnron that is
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QUOTE OF THE
DAY (NYTIMES)="Companies come and go. It's
part of the genius
Jim D states his big idea:
Rather, the idea is that if the growth process as a whole is more
like a house of cards, i.e., more fragile, a fall in investment is
more likely to have a big effect.
I agreed that the direct, proximate, cause of the recession was a fall in
fixed investment. Where
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NOUVEAU, NEW:
- Palais de l'UNESCO à
Paris: la "culture scientifique et technique" commeexorcisme de la
crise.
"Scientific and technical culture" as an
exorcism of crisis.
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2002:
Led by a drop in energy costs, producer prices fell 0.7 percent in December,
after a 0.6 percent decline in November, according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. The Producer Price Index has fallen 3 months in a row.
According
I understand that David Rockefeller used to enjoy meeting with Stephen
Hymer for much the same reason.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:30:38PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
I forgot to tell the list that last week, the folks at US National Public
Radio were interviewing Ian
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
At any rate, the crisis hit Dept I first. Consumption was not a
problem. We also know Marx's famous vol II passge in which he
criticizes underconsumption. Consumption will now give.
We'll see. Wall Street's favorite economist, Ed Hyman, has a piece
out today claiming
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
At any rate, the crisis hit Dept I first. Consumption was not a
problem. We also know Marx's famous vol II passge in which he
criticizes underconsumption. Consumption will now give.
We'll see. Wall Street's favorite economist, Ed Hyman, has a piece
out today claiming
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
yes what the previous collapse in basic memory chips suggests is
that constant capital had cheapened so considerably (esp relative to
consumer goods as is almost the case, I believe) that the rate of
profit on the lower value of this constant capital can now be
greater
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
At any rate, the crisis hit Dept I first. Consumption was not a
problem. We also know Marx's famous vol II passge in which he
criticizes underconsumption. Consumption will now give.
We'll see. Wall Street's favorite economist, Ed Hyman, has a piece
out today claiming
This is casual empiricism, but of all the long time econ profs at the
new school, I think the one whose students most end up on or near wall
st is Anwar Shaikh. mat
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[Yet to see a piece that challenges the legal form
by which corporations are constituted under the law as the
real source of the problem]
Bush, the corporations' flag-carrier
Enron's collapse exposes the folly of his cash-for-influence
policy
Julian Borger
Tuesday January 15, 2002
The
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Date: 1/14/02 5:53:25 PM
[P.S. to those on the cc list, this is a letter to the editor
of a new
newsletter from Foreign Policy in Focus, a joint project of
the
Interhemispheric Resource Center and the
My mother's first cousin was one of the largest SL banker in California
in the early 60s. After his bank collapsed in the mid 60s, my second
cousin who remained with the bank claimed that the bank had lent money on
virtually every brothel in San Francisco -- always lending far more than
the
It seems that the need for naval and coaling stations is in perpetuity. The
lease itself is not in perpetuity. I wonder if the annual rental has been
increased?
For anyone interested the lease agreement and the terms are on line:
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/images/Journal_Samples/CORG0964-8410~5~4~062/062.pdf
Corporate Governance: An International Review
Corporate Governance in Argentina: the outcome of economic freedom (1991-2000)
Volume 9: Issue 4
Rodolfo Apreda: Universidad del Cema, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abstract:
This paper develops and provides evidence for two statements: a) In
Isn't Brazil in a much worse position, macro
accounting and socially. Th exposure is such that none
the measures taken now in argentina can be implemented
in Brazil. it is also possible that much more would
have to stripped to bring half the population to live
at below one dollar a day as is the
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