[PEN-L:6380] Re: Mergers and Acquisitions

1999-05-04 Thread MScoleman
This is a really general question, but I need some references and suggestions on how to research the trend towards mergers and acquisitions on wall street. (I already have Doug's book). Specifically, how has this affected the rising price of stocks, etc. thanks, maggie coleman [EMAIL

[PEN-L:5871] Re: Jim Devine on the Media and Golf

1999-04-24 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-04-23 12:26:24 EDT, Michael Perelman writes: Golf courses employee an enormous amount of toxic materials, especially pesticides and herbicides. and all those pesticides and herbicides are now being linked to breast cancer -- breast cancer lumps have several hundred

[PEN-L:5374] Re: on il Duce of NYC

1999-04-16 Thread MScoleman
Just three points to add to the article: Giuliani deals unfavorably with all minority communities, e.g.: stop and frisks in Washington Heights (Hispanic) are as high as Harlem (African American), street pedlars (immigrants across many countries) have been extorted and driven out of business,

[PEN-L:4192] Re: killer pilot gets off

1999-03-06 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-03-05 10:36:45 EST, you write: Problem was, it was discovered late in the game that the buffalo is an anatomically correct he. And that Clinton when he spoke at Interior would be standing, wags the Post, "right near its anatomical correctness." Hence the last-minute

[PEN-L:4195] Re: Re: Political Economy (fwd)

1999-03-06 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-03-05 19:10:46 EST, you write: I bought mine last night - in person at a BN retail store. The cashier said that about half the people who buy it apologize. Doug that's too funny. A couple of years ago I went out and bought a copy of the Republican "Contract With

[PEN-L:4194] Re: two tax questions

1999-03-06 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-03-05 14:10:43 EST, you write: First, prior to the creation of the income tax, what sorts of taxes did the federal gov't use to raise its revenues? All I could come up with were excize taxes and tariffs, but this does not seem to be enough to cover their outlays.

[PEN-L:4193] Re: Re: killer pilot gets off

1999-03-06 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-03-05 10:58:07 EST, you write: This "boys will be boys" attitude is directly related to the military's difficulty of keeping good pilots. Also, the killer instinct disrepctful to rules and authroity is considered a desirable quality in "top gun" fighter pilots. The

[PEN-L:4056] Re: local money

1999-03-02 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-03-02 11:48:39 EST, you write: There are now, says the paper, 65 such local denominations, like the Ithaca (New York) HOUR (the original--created nine years ago), the Berkeley BREAD, and Kansas City's (Missouri or Kansas? The paper doesn't say) Barter Bucks.

[PEN-L:4002] Re: Re: Postmodernist Marxism

1999-03-01 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-03-01 10:32:50 EST, you write: Lenin wrote and strategized about Russia in the early 20th century - a partly industrialized, mainly rural society at the periphery of the Eurocapitalist world. We live in the United States in 1999, an economic and imperial giant whose

[PEN-L:3963] Re: Re: Say it ain't so, Max

1999-02-28 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-28 20:04:47 EST, Jim Devine says: a recession would also end the surplus (raise the deficit) by lowering tax revenues and raising transfer payments. Well, yes a recession would lower tax revenues but with the new workfare laws in all the states would it really

[PEN-L:3954] Re: Re: Re: Re: Alabama -- fwd article

1999-02-28 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-25 12:15:08 EST, you write: The following is as unfair as is Wojtek's above, but my friends and I who took basic training at Lackland Air Force Base and pre-lang training at Brooks AFB, after going into San Antonio a number of times, reached the conclusion that the

[PEN-L:3953] Re: Re: Re: Alabama -- fwd article

1999-02-28 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-25 11:28:35 EST, you write: What's wrong with that? This is what those southern hicks, who now control the government in Washington, have been always doing. Rather than changing their ways, we should seal the border along the Susquehanna River (aka the Mason-Dixon

[PEN-L:3952] Re: Postmodernist Marxism

1999-02-28 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-24 09:15:52 EST, Louis Proyect writes (this is a partial quote from a longer missive): We are in many ways in a situation like the one that preceded WWI, including the Balkans as a hot spot. I view the current world situation as extremely dangerous. I am positive that

[PEN-L:3792] Re: Postmodernist Marxism

1999-02-23 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-23 09:56:34 EST, you write: Maggie, my problem is not with pomos who do their own thing. It is really with attempts to create a hybrid of Marxism and postmodernism such as Roger Burbach, Stanley Aronowitz, Antonio Callari and Doug Henwood are doing. A Monthly Review

[PEN-L:3794] Re: Re: Re: Re: Race as a construct

1999-02-23 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-23 12:11:10 EST, Jim Devine writes: racism can pay for white workers in the short run but it hurts them in the long run. Further, because most people don't have the secure position that allows them to look to the long-term or to act on their perspective, they get

[PEN-L:3796] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Don't just offer facts

1999-02-23 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-23 13:45:26 EST, you write: I was a small part of this debate, which was productive despite DM's aggressive, flamer attitude. An edited version was later printed in FEMINIST ECONOMICS. Marxists among us will note that DM vociferously defended the proposition that

[PEN-L:3653] Re: Re: Re: Race as a construct

1999-02-22 Thread MScoleman
i'm not sure why everyone keeps attributing the idea of race as a social construct to post-modernism. in fact, i'm surprised that so many anti-pomos will give pomoists so much credit! the idea that race is a social construct has a long a proud history, you can read it in the writing of

[PEN-L:3655] Re: Race as a construct

1999-02-22 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-21 15:25:32 EST, you write: History is the key, Doug. "Biology" and "society" are both essentialist categories. The merit of approaches like Roediger and Allen's is that they place racism in a historical context, which postmodernism stubbornly refuses to do.

[PEN-L:3656] Re: Re: Re: Race as a construct

1999-02-22 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-21 17:29:13 EST, Carroll asks Doug: And it didn't push blacks down but rather the possessors of that wealth extracted it from the labor of blacks. Do you really think that the plantation owners of the south were more interested in producing white supremacy than

[PEN-L:3722] Re: Re: Race as a construct

1999-02-22 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-22 11:38:13 EST, jim devine writes: I'm not exactly sure why Angela brings up the issue of whether or not ideology is "false consciousness." That's not what I was talking about. Ideology, as I sketched it above, can easily be "true consciousness" from the perspective

[PEN-L:3721] Re: Race as a construct

1999-02-22 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-22 10:47:30 EST, you write: This is a profound symbol of the dry rot of postmodernism and its pernicious influence on Marxism. Louis Proyect Louis, I don't know if you're signed on or not but i hope you get this. while I am not a particular fan of much of

[PEN-L:3720] Re: Re: Race as a construct

1999-02-22 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-22 10:33:04 EST, Jim Devine writes: I also think that the issue among the left is not about whether or not race is a "social construct" or not. Rather, what _kind_ of construct is it? Is it a matter of institutions that have been created by the dominant ethnic

[PEN-L:3599] Fwd: Help Stop Unionbusting in Ohio by Japanese Transnationalboundary=part0_919530121_boundary

1999-02-20 Thread MScoleman
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_919530121_boundary In a message dated 99-02-19 15:59:07 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subj: Help Stop Unionbusting in Ohio by Japanese Transnational From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robin alexander) Dear union brothers and sisters and

[PEN-L:3611] Re: Timothy McVeigh

1999-02-20 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-19 21:23:53 EST, michael writes: I thought that the comment on McVeigh was inappropriate. Even if you accept his thesis that bombing the oppressor is a reasonable approach, killing children does not make much sense. I'm not sure who Michael is addressing in this

[PEN-L:3349] Re: Re:[Fwd: Listen, Student!]

1999-02-14 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-13 10:32:04 EST, you write: One more thing, though: historical parallels intended or not, and with full knowledge of a certain cautionary warning about tragedies and farces, one of the first regional conferences of this organization is going to be held at Kent State.

[PEN-L:3321] Re: Re: Bill gets off, again

1999-02-13 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-13 02:02:10 EST, Tom Walker queries: Then what was that DNA stuff on the blue dress, if not semantic clarity? Well, it turns out that the dna was not usable (as opposed to admissable) because almost everyone in Arkansaw has the same dna. maggie coleman [EMAIL

[PEN-L:2865] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AIDS and the blow back

1999-02-03 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-03 20:33:43 EST, you write: Have a read of some of Octavia Butler's science fiction. In some such as Parable of the Sower and Clay's Ark we get to see the latter days of just those gated communities as disease and social oppression spill over their walls. Ellen

[PEN-L:2821] Re: Re: Re: Re: Chimpanzees, AIDS and ecology

1999-02-02 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-01 23:23:26 EST, Jim Devine inquires: I forget... does "IMF" stand for International Milton Friedman or International Mother F**kers? I believe that the two alternative names are interchangeable. But perhaps we could build a probit model to test for their relative

[PEN-L:2822] Re: virtuous circles

1999-02-02 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-02 10:11:07 EST, doug quotes a keynesian article: For a 1996 report on fiscal policy around the world, IMF economists conducted a detailed study of 62 attempts by industrial countries over the prior quarter-century to get their finances in order. The study concluded

[PEN-L:2779] Re: Re: Chimpanzees, AIDS and ecology

1999-02-01 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-01 13:57:02 EST, you write: I very much agree with this post by Louis Pro. I just wonder if to be precise we should say "human life is doomed". Of course, that is the main life form we are concerned about. there are a number of biologists, virologists and other

[PEN-L:2781] Re: RE: Re: Chimpanzees, AIDS and ecology

1999-02-01 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-01 16:31:22 EST, you write: Why should the relation between socioeconomic status and HIV/AIDS be any different than it is for another other illness and injury? because hiv/aids has the potential of destroying the human race. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2712] Re: Re: Russia

1999-01-29 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-01-29 17:24:25 EST, you write: f the Weimar/Russia analogy holds, we should expect fascism to rise to the top in Russia soon. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim, haven't a number of fascists already won significant numbers of votes in Russian elections? I can't

[PEN-L:2637] Re: Re: Trade deficit and Doug Henwood

1999-01-26 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-01-26 10:54:00 EST, you write: Also isn't consumer debt reaching levels where increasing consumption further will be difficult, at best? Bill What will make consumer debt even more dangerous is the bills wending their way through Congress which will end

[PEN-L:2635] Re: Dark musings

1999-01-26 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-01-26 09:13:10 EST, you write: China's Keynesian pump-priming strategy is faltering as both credit rating and currency come under immense pressure. A devaluation is suddenly on the cards. While I haven't read a whole lot about the closing of Ditic and other

[PEN-L:2453] Re: Re: Re: RE: Cicero Clinton

1999-01-21 Thread MScoleman
At 09:53 PM 1/20/99 EST, Maggie wrote: ... What is also most interesting is Alan Greenspan has now opposed the investment of social sec. in the stock market. ... Then Jim Define says: I wonder who appointed Greenspan to criticize economic policy _in general_. I thought he was only in

[PEN-L:2452] Re: Re: Re: Re: 1998 Bad Writing Contest winners

1999-01-21 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-01-21 10:06:43 EST, you write: P.S.: Anyone care to try to translate Butler's award-winning paragraph into reasonably idiomatic English? Ah, Brad, the question is, Is it worth translating into "reasonably idiomatic English?" maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:2373] Re: RE: Cicero Clinton

1999-01-20 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-01-20 10:19:31 EST, max says, amongst many other things, about the transfer of funds from social security to the stock market: This transfer is pretty comical. It goes like this: {and Max describes an unnecessarily complicated transfer process} I think the transfer

[PEN-L:2372] Re: Cicero Clinton

1999-01-20 Thread MScoleman
The problem with knocking Clinton is that -- as sleazy as the man is -- he still looks good next to the Republicans. Good and bad are relative terms and by comparison, slick willy is coming up smelling like a rose. Now, if he can just keep it in his pants for the duration What's really the

[PEN-L:2333] Re: Re: 1998 Bad Writing Contest winners

1999-01-19 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-01-19 12:19:47 EST, you write: It's really too bad that when they do these Bad Writing Contests, mathematical writing is not included in the hopper. I agree with Jim Devine on this. So, here's my proposal -- let's hold our own contest. Anyone who is interested

[PEN-L:2239] Re: Re: Re: liquidity: beer, gin, paint

1999-01-18 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-01-17 18:14:25 EST, you write: Michael Perelman wrote: At the time, beer was considered to be essential nutrition during times of hard work. At the time? You mean it isn't anymore? I've been living my life under a delusion then! Doug Hey all you historical

[PEN-L:2240] Re: Junk Science

1999-01-18 Thread MScoleman
To me junk science is the fact that the National Institute of Health, paid for in part with my tax dollars, has only recently begun the first study of women and heart disease -- interesting since women have as many heart attacks as men, and die of them at a much greater rate. Further, the NIH

[PEN-L:2247] Re: Junk gendering

1999-01-18 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-01-18 08:09:19 EST, you write: The upshot of such an attitude is that the health of women is best assured through maintaining the health of the men who, as hubbies, must pay their way. Such bureaucrats should be obliged to start their tenure with a week on the campus

[PEN-L:2275] Re: Shleifer and incentives; bounced from Peter D.

1999-01-18 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-01-18 12:12:49 EST, Peter Dorman writes in part: But I'm not getting to the point. What I found utterly surreal about this article is that its author {Shleifer} is under a cloud for having personally misappropriated public funds. So he is really modeling himself,

[PEN-L:213] Re: Russia: Unemployment rising/Communists desperate for votes

1998-09-24 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-09-23 14:03:11 EDT, you write: The resolution cites a '"fivefold increase" in the number of striking enterprises since the beginning of 1998 but notes that many Communist Party raion and city organizations have "little influence" on local labor collectives. yes,

[PEN-L:1509] Re: Wealth Effect?

1998-09-04 Thread MScoleman
generally, the down turns in the stock market have nothing to do with what is going on in the rest of the economy. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:1510] Re: Russia: In Need of Free Competition?

1998-09-04 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-09-03 14:44:18 EDT, you write: This period, as was the case with the 'post-communist', etc. efforts of globalising libearlism, will be the new ideology of the status quo; 'post-liberalism' will be its name and normality will be its game. Until, of course, those who such

[PEN-L:1428] Re: Samuelson on Crisis

1998-09-02 Thread MScoleman
Correct me if I'm wrong, but six months ago, didn't Samuelson say on National TV that deep depressions were history in the current advanced capitalist markets? Or am I thinking of someone else? maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ganja II

1998-05-05 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-05-05 00:14:59 EDT, Jim Devine writes in response to Valis: do you really think that "propaganda of the deed" (to use the old anarchist phrase) works? do you think that the media couldn't easily put a reactionary spin on the sabotage of a TV relay tower, especially

Re: Shameless Promotion: intro to econ

1998-05-04 Thread MScoleman
Jason; I'm glad to hear an updated version of Economics Today is coming out. Is it going to be both macro and micro or just macro? The reason I ask is that I am teaching macro in the fall. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Women in the Economics Profession

1998-05-04 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-05-04 14:21:01 EDT, you write: 1. Name all women Nobel prize winners in Economics. Ans: none 2. In 110 years of existence, how many women Presidents have there been of the A.E.A.? Ans: One, but I can't remember her name 3. Name at least three female editors

Re: Ganja

1998-05-04 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-05-04 12:43:00 EDT, you write: Pot growing seems to have replaced moonshining in many rural counties in the south. Friends who do rock-climbing have told me that in some areas of West Virginia and Kentucky, locals admonish them to stay on the trails so they don't

Re: May day

1998-05-02 Thread MScoleman
Rob, thanks for the history review. I remembered the gist of the history, but not the particulars. It's easy to forget the explosive nature of these holidays -- and you know the bourgeoisie doesn't forget, which is why they are always trying to rewrite them. Cheers to downunder for

Re: Old farts and today's youth (Re: David Harvey's anomie

1998-05-02 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-05-02 00:24:00 EDT, you write: It seems rather unfair to tar students in any generic sense with a brush i did not talk about students in general -- i spoke about my 30 or so students. i never said they were representative -- it is you taking my particular and making

Re: intro to econ

1998-05-02 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-05-02 15:57:12 EDT, you write: I get questions like this all the time, and never know what to answer. Any advice? I purchased your "Wall Street" and I find myself lacking substantially enough economics background. I was wondering if you could recommend to me, an

Re: Ganja

1998-05-02 Thread MScoleman
There have been several newsprogram reports lately about the extensive marijuana cultivation in the deep south: Georgia, Alabama, etc. Does anyone know exactly how true these reports are? I wonder if, now that the conservative farmers are making ends meet with marijuana cultivation, the weed

Re: Ganja Gatewood

1998-05-02 Thread MScoleman
Below this current message is the valis/maggie exchange on marijuana. Valis, interesting quotes. However, they interviewed farmers in one southern county where they had voted out the old sheriff who used federal money to harrass the shit out of weed growing farmers, and elected a new sheriff

Re: David Harvey's anomie

1998-04-30 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-29 21:32:47 EDT, you write: Hmm, really? My own recent tours of campuses, and conversations with academics, combine to present a less pretty picture of the U.S. college population. They seem, for the most part, poorly educated and don't seem to give a fuck about much

Fwd: Virus Warning plus1 or 2boundary=part0_893633989_boundary

1998-04-26 Thread MScoleman
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_893633989_boundary In a message dated 98-04-21 19:34:38 EDT, Bitburg1 writes: Subject:Virus Warning Friends: If you receive an Email with the subject line "Badtimes" delete it IMMEDIATELY, WITHOUT READING IT. This is the most

Re: EPI Environmental Economist

1998-04-11 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-10 17:10:37 EDT, max writes: Feel free to regale him with your pet nostrums of vegetarian leninism ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). ah, but can we regale him with vegetarian stalinism? inquiring minds want to know. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1 in 8 plant species threatened with extinction

1998-04-10 Thread MScoleman
so 'globalisation' has destroyed diversity, which is an alternative way of saying capitalism demands conformation and destroys individuality. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help! II

1998-04-10 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-10 11:36:29 EDT, Barkley Rosser writes: As someone who spends a lot of time in Wisconsin and actually used to live there, let me note that one factor in Wisconsin's "success" on this matter has been an exceptionally low unemployment rate. The surge of jobs has

Re: 1 in 8 plant species threatened with extinction

1998-04-10 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-09 18:03:49 EDT, you write: Again, this is part and parcel of a wrong-headed approach to the whole problem. Capitalist livestock breeding is not just cruel to the animal, it creates all sorts of environmental and health problems that ultimately can kill us. The

Re: 1 in 8 plant species threatened with extinction

1998-04-09 Thread MScoleman
I am not disputing that many plant species are dieing. However (not really knowing shit about botany) it was my understanding that new species are also created on a regular basis. Is this true? ALSO, is the current RATE of specie disappearance greater than it was say 10-20-30 years ago? If

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-08 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-07 23:02:42 EDT, nathan newman writes: I'm less excited than interested in it as a piece of evidence on the conservative divisions that are growing and paralyzing much of the rightwing agenda. I also happen to think that Buchanan is one of the more honest

Re: Good news: Welfare gains made in the last six years

1998-04-08 Thread MScoleman
They can afford to increase welfare -- I potentially see it as another slush fund a/la the social security trust fund. They increase the monies available, but get rid of the eligible population, so the money is there for the use of the politicians. cute. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pat Buchanan attacks Reagan and Thatcher's legacy

1998-04-08 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-08 12:39:55 EDT, michael perelman writes: MScoleman [DID NOT WRITE THIS -- SOMEONE ELSE DID] wrote: I also happen to think that Buchanan is one of the more honest conservatives, however lothesome his beliefs. He has become no less conservative, just evolved

Re: Help!

1998-04-08 Thread MScoleman
Dear Pen-lers; I need a few references. If anyone can help, reply to me direct at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. I know that the Republicans have recently tried to attach anti-abortion riders to UN funding and IMF bills. Does anyone have a newspaper clipping with a dated reference -- preferably

Re: Yuk!!

1998-04-08 Thread MScoleman
gee, what do they pay adjuncts? maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: low-wage workers in less-developed countries

1998-04-07 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-06 14:49:59 EDT, Louis Proyect writes: It is not unusual to see hardware engineers in their 50s and 60s in places like Rte 128 near Boston or in Silicon Valley, but software engineers get burned out at an alarming pace. I have two friends who write software -- one

Re: Sachs and Summers: Separated at Birth

1998-04-05 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-05 16:19:00 EDT, you write: I thought economists of their school were grown in Petri dishes! Dear Valis, flaming petri dish growth is simply unacceptable net behavior. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for anyone who didn't get it, this is intended to be a

Re: globaloney-stripazation

1998-04-04 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-04 11:34:11 EST, Jim Devine writes: BTW, for the life of me, I can't remember talking about "evening out" or being snapped at for it. But that simply indicates the bizarre nature of my brain processes. Aha! We could call that synapization-a-snappa. (snicker)

Re: Labor Movement Growth Decline

1998-04-04 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-04 13:35:50 EST, you write: I reread your comments to which I responded, and read my whole response (rather than the two introductory sentences you quote below) in context. I'm not sure what you found patronizing. Michael Eischner, It is possible I over reacted --

Re: globaloney

1998-04-04 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-04-04 11:51:11 EST, Doug Henwood writes: It's often surreal to hear Americans talk about globalization - a country that was founded on a massive act of transnational appropriation, whose early growth was funded by London finance, and which has run riot over the outside

Re: globaloney-stripazation

1998-04-04 Thread MScoleman
I think one of the problems with 'globalization' is the implication that industrialization is moving into otherwise non-industrial countries. In fact, that may not be true. Alot of 'emerging' nations are not industrializing, they are simply being stripped. F'rinstance, the development of

Re: an example of participant-observer sociology

1998-04-02 Thread MScoleman
At 11:32 AM 4/2/98 -0800, Jim Devine wrote: Last night, I went to my neighborhood's "homeowner association" meeting, which was a response to a recent gang slaying at the neighborhood park's basketball court (luckily a very rare event). Despite the mixed ethnic and religious character of

Re: Labor Movement Growth Decline

1998-04-02 Thread MScoleman
Aside from the problems within unions once people are organized and the problems with organizing new members (all this stated well in other messages) I think that the other primary thing missing is the overall political 'movement' atmosphere needed to organize anything. During the height of

Re: Russia

1998-04-02 Thread MScoleman
60 Minutes has done several slots on the low pay of the military -- you might give them a call and get transcripts. Also a newspaper search on government employees not getting paid at all for months at a time should be productive, I know I've read a couple of Times articles to that effect.

Re: A Right-wing ballot initiativer

1998-04-01 Thread MScoleman
My next door neighbor is a union organizer for 32B/32J national -- which for the uninitiated is the union that "made" John Sweeny and carried him to win the election of the AFL/CIO. Oh, did I mention that my neighbor is African American, male, and way left of center? He was hired by Sweeny

Re: centres of excellence

1998-03-29 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-29 10:34:50 EST, you write: The article also suggests that US professors who are heads of departments earn at least $200,000. Can this be true? Mark sure it can be true -- because they exploit the almost slave like conditions of adjuncts. maggie coleman [EMAIL

Re: Soviet balance sheet

1998-03-28 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-27 19:53:40 EST, Honorable Mediator (H.M.) Perelman writes: I would like to get some feedback about the net impact of the Soviets on World History. Here are some variables that I would consider: The threat of the Soviet Union caused the U.S. and other capitalist

Re: a proposed leading indicator

1998-03-25 Thread MScoleman
I have printed my initial statement and Tom Kruse's response below. Tom, I don't disagree with you at all, but my statement was meant to be a sarcastic commentary on military involvement IN the drug trade, not a comment on the generosity of the drug fighting budget. [basically, this is a great

Re: a proposed leading indicator

1998-03-24 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-23 14:08:33 EST, bhottivista writes: I occurs to me that illicit drugs should be considered as well. If one could control for "supply shocks" like changing governments, transient eradication efforts, etc. It would seem that something like planted domestic acreage

Re: US real earnings boom

1998-03-21 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-20 17:06:27 EST, Doug writes: Is this a blip, shortly to be squashed by Alan Greenspan, or a real reversal of the downtrend in real hourly earnings that began in 1973? if we're voting, i vote for blip. Also, I was thinking about why they increase in real wages

Re: a proposed leading indicator

1998-03-21 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-20 12:40:19 EST, Doug writes: Speaking of indicators, The Nation has asked me to put together a set of economic/social indicators, to be published quarterly, that would be revealing, interesting, and against the grain of conventional thinking. Yeah -- previous

Re: Pie in the Sky-??

1998-03-19 Thread MScoleman
It was my understanding (admittedly, shaky at best) that these earnings reports are real earnings which do not measure up to expected earnings. So, is the slow down in earnings really a slow down or just a let down of expectations?? inquiring minds want to know. maggie coleman [EMAIL

Re: a proposed leading indicator

1998-03-19 Thread MScoleman
ILS, that's good, has a certain, je ne sais quoi. I would also like to propose an indicator -- the HQI. Or, the Head Queen Index. As the head queen, I would look at the red sector, then the white sector, then reverse them in the looking glass, THEN I would say brilliant things like; 'retail

Re: What went right ~XXI

1998-03-14 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-14 05:06:03 EST, Dennis writes: Also, for a country were half the population in the early Fifties lived in non-urban areas, and where women were largely confined to familial jobs and brutalized by fearfully medieval gender ideologies, this expansion of the low-wage

Re: What went right?-unemployment

1998-03-14 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-14 11:56:56 EST, Doug writes: I thought I was pretty unshockable, but a recent report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics shocked me. Based on present incarceration stats, a black male born today faces a 1 in 4 lifetime chance of doing prison time. Prison,

Re: What went right

1998-03-14 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-14 13:06:44 EST, you write: At 05:40 AM 3/14/98 EST, you wrote: Maggie: Certainly Germany is more unionized than the USA, but since the fall of the wall labor there has been under tremendous attack. As to Japan, the benefits accruing to labor have accrued

Re: What went right?-unemployment

1998-03-14 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-14 01:24:56 EST, Paul Meyer writes: Sorry Maggie, for being anonymous but I am lazy about signing my name. (ie Paul Meyer) No problem, I was just curious as to who you are. As to the triumphalism of the business press, some stations have taken steps to moderate this

Re: What went right?-unemployment

1998-03-13 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-12 23:06:59 EST, you write: Even if you did throw the prison population into the stats, how much would effect the official unemployment rate? 1 or 2 per cent? The person who sent this comment didn't sign their message, and their email address was no clue -- however

Re: What went right ~XXI

1998-03-13 Thread MScoleman
valis: Your immense admiration for the German and Japanese systems suggests to me that their judicious compromise between stalemated capitalist and SD forces is the best we can hope for, there or here. Is that so? Redmond: Admiration? Hardly. They're capitalist, planet-raping bastards,

Re: globalization for peons

1998-03-13 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-13 11:07:42 EST, you write: So I've got a couple of Canadian dollar checks drawn on Canadian banks. Piece of cake in this era of globalization, eh? No. My bank, Chase Manhattan - not exactly a mom pop operation - says it'll take weeks to collect 'em and the fee will

Re: what when right again

1998-03-12 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-11 14:23:09 EST, you write: At 12:12 PM 3/11/98 -0600, Bill wrote: On Wed, March 11, 1998 at 09:20:07 (+0800) Anthony D'costa writes: ... in today's highly competitive world economy. Doesn't this imply

Re: What went right?

1998-03-11 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-11 09:36:51 EST, Mark writes (amongst other things): Anglo-Saxon world dominion has lasted for almost three centuries and will probably last as long as capitalism. Mark It depends on how you define Anglo-Saxon. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What went right?

1998-03-10 Thread MScoleman
Amongst other things Jim Devine writes: Another reason for the US boom has increased consumer indebtedness. This, partly caused by relatively stagnant real wages, has allowed consumer spending to do relatively well. Good point. Now a question about the relation of consumer debt to

Re: What went right?

1998-03-10 Thread MScoleman
In the midst of making many other interesting points, Louis Proyject writes: What it will take to reverse these trends is a strengthening of the labor movement, which is already beginning. Alex Cockburn's column in the same digital edition of the Nation reports on the struggle of Oakland

Re: Jobless PhDs

1998-03-10 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-09 14:32:22 EST, Arvind Jaggi asks: Greetings. Could you point me to books/studies on the subject of unemployment in academe. Specifically, I am interested in the work on the broad phenomenon that covers the rise of adjunct and visiting faculty, and the proliferation

Re: What went right?

1998-03-09 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-09 12:10:58 EST, Michael Perelman writes: I would like to start a dialogue on why the (U.S.) economy has been doing as well as it has over the past few years. We know about the problems, inequities , but why has the house of cards stayed up as long as it has.

Re: On reasonable uses of RICO

1998-03-06 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-03-06 11:12:05 EST, Michael writes: Be careful about this. It could be used much more often against the left than the right. Remember how Bruce Church's suit against the Farm Workers almost destroyed the union. With Rico, it would have been even easier. -- I agree.

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