Re: Canada

1997-12-27 Thread Tom Walker
Doug Henwood wrote, I hear this from a lot of Canadians - the implication being that Canada didn't have a debt problem. With a structural budget deficit of over 5% of GDP in 1991, net government interest payments also over 5% of GDP, and the second-highest net government debt position in the G-7

Re: Canada II

1997-12-27 Thread Tom Walker
Valis wrote, In our Tom we have a raconteur smack in the tradition of Khrushchev, I always wanted to be a raconteur but I never felt quite avuncular enough. Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL

Re: Canada

1997-12-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Tom Walker wrote: The WSJ is only too modest. A key part of the massive propaganda campaign to help sell the austerity program was a Wall Street Journal article claiming that Canada was about to "hit the debt wall". That, coupled with a "leaked" IMF memo was trumpeted through the Canadian media

Re: Drawing a Line

1997-12-27 Thread maxsaw
From: Thomas Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max's drawing a line post is very timely, very to the point: we really must hash out what a progressive position on bailouts should be. I agree that these are the sorts of crises we will see more of. As evidenced by the NYT article attached

Re: Drawing a Line

1997-12-27 Thread Thomas Kruse
Max's drawing a line post is very timely, very to the point: we really must hash out what a progressive position on bailouts should be. I agree that these are the sorts of crises we will see more of. As evidenced by the NYT article attached below, the mainstream press also seems to see this as

Drawing a Line

1997-12-27 Thread maxsaw
It seems to me that our politics lacks the right response to the current and incipient financial events. By "our" I include both a liberal, muddle-through stance and a radical, sit-back-and-gawk posture. The Administration is going to support IMF bail-outs and some of the left is going to

Ask the cat, dummy

1997-12-27 Thread Alan Freeman
Surely no discussion on cats is complete without the experiment first proposed by Schroedinger (Naturwiss 48.52 (1935) trans Jauch, Josef M (1965:125), Foundations of Cat Mechanics (Reading, MA and Addison-Wesley)) cited in Griffiths (1994), an experiment to my knowledge never performed, so

Re: Canada II

1997-12-27 Thread valis
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997 Tom Walker recounted, in conclusion: They went along and they went along and they went along until they met a Wall Street fox . . . "We're going to tell the king the sky is falling," said Chicken Little, Ducky Daddles, Turkey Lurkey and Canada Goosey Loosey.

Re: Dilbert revisited

1997-12-27 Thread maxsaw
From: James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] coming back to the gigantic and crucial theoretical debate that held pen-l by the throat recently (until comrade Sawicki pointed out the correct path to us all), I bought a copy of THE DILBERT FUTURE: THRIVING ON STUPIDITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Re: Canada

1997-12-27 Thread Tom Walker
From the Wall Street Journal article on Canada, Last-minute bad news helped Mr. Martin sell his controversial program. As the finance minister was about to stand to address a cabinet meeting where he expected opposition to the proposals, he was handed a note saying the Bank of Canada had boosted

Not quite fiscal Darwinism

1997-12-27 Thread valis
It's hard to say whether anything new appears in this article, which I edited out of a horribly misformatted post in the World Systems list. This deputy secretary of the Treasury in Clinton I seems to say that the depredations of unbridled currency speculation are

Re: FSF

1997-12-27 Thread bill mitchell
At 02:54 PM 12/26/97 -0600, you wrote: On Fri, December 26, 1997 at 12:04:02 (-0800) James Devine writes: ... where/how can one get FSF software? does it run on IBM compatibles, with Win95, etc.? The ftp location is prep.ai.mit.edu, in the directory pub/gnu. Many of the programs can be built