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
The clever Englishman was actually Irish and his name was Jonathan Swift.
The modest proposal was that the Irish solve their food and population
problem by eating their children.
Second, way back when some clever englishman wrote an essay entitled "A
modest proposal", which in similar
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Yes, you did put quotation marks around progress in your original post as
well. What is striking about the present state of capitalist 'progress' is,
though, that capitalism seems to be to a certain extent doing away with
even the ideology of 'progress' for many parts of
Unfortunately, the ruling class thinks as vulgarly and ruthlessly economically as your
joke here.
CB
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/99 04:13PM
At 03:14 PM 4/29/99 -0500, Ken wrote:
... I think the solution is simple. Milosoevic
should use the southern sites as shields for tanks or guns.
Friends,
I read the article below with much concern. A second Russian debt default
could make the meltdown of the Long-Term Capital Management "hedge fund"
look like a walk in the park, no?
Seth Sandronsky
Monday May 3 1999
HK issues US with hedge-fund warning
IN THIS MESSAGE: Appendix B to Rambouillet Accord proposal; Kosovo's
Glittering Prize
Chapter 4a, Article I -- "The economy of Kosovo, shall function in
accordance with free market principles."
It is crystal clear whose interests are being advanced here: Kosovo has
substantial mineral
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
I read the article below with much concern. A second Russian debt default
could make the meltdown of the Long-Term Capital Management "hedge fund"
look like a walk in the park, no?
Come on, confess - you're not really worried about that, you'd kind of
welcome it. No?
I am one of the many on this list who has
yet to figure out what on earth was racist about
Max's original play on Henry's name. However,
once it was clear that Henry objected for whatever
reasons to having his name fooled around with,
it was inappropriate for Max to do it some more.
It's hard to say for sure, but reading Summers' concluding section does make
it seem to me he _was_ being ironic and provocative, but in a most cynical
way. The memo slyly acknowledges the inherently evil logic of liberalization
but does so in order to ask, in effect, "how far can we go? how much
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1999:
More than half (57 percent) of all youths work at some time while age 14,
mostly in freelance jobs, according to a new survey by BLS. The findings
represent the first round of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
1997, a nationally
The importance of Greenspan's utterances lie not in his wisdom but on
the self-fulfilling impact his power.
Greenspan allows: "The distributions of income that arise in unregulated
markets have been presumed unacceptable by most modern societies, and
they have endeavored, through fiscal policies
The Wall Street Journal
Copyright (c) 1999, Dow Jones Company, Inc.
Tuesday, May 4, 1999
Politics Policy
Tour by Commerce Secretary to Sell China-WTO Deal Is Joined by Few
CEOs
Sounds like part of a potential vulgar materialist motive for war.
Charles Brown
"Michael Hoover" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/99 11:42AM
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Glittering Prize
Chapter 4a, Article I -- "The economy of Kosovo, shall function in
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By Martin Khor
We've already heard about the mines of Kosmet
as an alleged material cause. It just does not fly.
Is mining all that profitable these days? Why should
European or US capitalists give a hoot and not just
buy the stuff, given that prices have not been all that
high lately? I'm sorry, but I
Ok lets eliminate that one. I would like to add to the list of eliminated
explanations: humanitarian rescue, anti-fascism , muddling through not knowing what
they are doing. having no economic master plan and no material motives whatsoever,
free floating machoism,
What is the DEFINITE
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BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1999:
Today's News Release: "Productivity by Industry: Service Sector and
Mining, 1997" reports on labor productivity changes in 1997 for selected
industries in the service and the mining sectors of the U.S. economy.
Labor productivity -- defined as
At 02:04 PM 5/4/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Are you saying that this war has no material cause or combination of
material causes whatsoever ? No main material cause or main combination of
causes ? That its main cause is not material ? That it is random ?
Charles, why is it so difficult to
At 12:50 PM 5/4/99 -0400, Barkley Rosser wrote:
As for lignite, what a joke! The stuff is highly
polluting and not particularly desired by anybody
anymore, although it might be acceptable in poorer
and more polluted countries like (Larry Summers
would approve ).
Exactly. DDR
Doug wrote:
Oh, but the protectorate would be in the name of "civilized Western
values," because as everyone knows the people of the Balkans are only
marginally white. And structural adjustment too is imposed in the name of
progress. The bourgeoisie has been quite adept in rebranding 19th century
forwarded by Michael Hoover
[www.IraqWar.org]
Americans Against World Empire
www.IRAQWAR.org
Very important documents. German govt. reports state that no extensive
persecution of Albanians in Kosovo was taking place prior to the Nato
bombing. ( The German govt. nonetheless supported
Barkley Rosser wrote:
I accept that I mischaracterized Henry's
position vis a vis Max. However, Henry certainly
characterized one position as being "evil" even
if he did not specifically list people who held it,
although Max came closer to it than anybody on
the list. Not too surprising
The source for this material is the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development--via a BBC news analysis.
GDP in 3 selected years as percentage of GDP at the fall of
communism (1989=100)
Country1997
19981999 (est.)
ALBANIA
Sorry about the columns. The system reacted strangely to the data. I
wrote it out in
three neat columns from 97 to 99 using the tab key. The data is still
under the correct columns.
Cheers K. Hanly
Ken Hanly wrote:
The source for this material is the European Bank for
Reconstruction and
IN THIS MESSAGE: Sanders v. progressives on NATO bombing; Crisis in
Yugoslavia It's Relation to Global Fascism (long)
People interested in the response of Bernie Sanders political constituency
(at a Sanders Town Meeting) to his pro-war stance on the U.S./NATO bombing
of Yugoslavia might want
The National Post Monday, May 03, 1999
NATO: UNITED TO SUCCEED
The International Monetary Fund and Group of Seven industrialized
countries stand ready to offer financial help to the countries of the
Balkans. This help should go hand in
Barkeley Rosser to Charles:
Also, now that it is going,
the US military-industrial complex is enjoying the higher
earnings and saying "go go go," although they were not
behind its initiation, I don't think,
At the XIIth NATO Workshop on Political-Military Decision Making in 1995,
Dr. Wolfgang
At 05:05 PM 5/4/99 -0500, Yoshie wrote:
I think that this war is, in an important sense, an expression of the fact
that a huge part of the working class have become expelled from productive
labor under neoliberalism. ... There is no currently
legal profitable way to incorporate, for instance,
Despite convoluted denial by Greenspan and the NY Federal Reserve Bank, moral
harzard has been increased with the Fed orchestrated bail-out of LTCM.
Incidentally, while the crisis of LTCM was caused by the sudden impact of the
Russian default on the normal paradigm of global interest rate parity,
Charles,
Never said any such thing, only that it is complicated.
And I did not reject all of those things you listed, certainly
not that one about muddling through not knowing what
they are doing. Some obvious ones that have been listed
and not rejected include periphery pacification for
I accept that I mischaracterized Henry's
position vis a vis Max. However, Henry certainly
characterized one position as being "evil" even
if he did not specifically list people who held it,
although Max came closer to it than anybody on
the list. Not too surprising that he took offense.
I really do not wish to spend more energy on this, but Barkley's claim that
I called Max evil is not support by fact.
I wrote before Max's "joke":
"I never once attacked Max personally for taking a position I disagree with,
much less accused him of being evil.
Read my post. Max was not
But wouldn't that be good from the standpoint of making radical change of the
capitalist system more likely ? How do you make an omelette without breaking eggs. ?
Charles Brown
"Seth Sandronsky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/99 11:17AM
Friends,
I read the article below with much concern. A
For one thing, the bourgeoisie do not do the dying in their wars. Just the
internecine, working class mass murder is an enormous plus for interests of the
bourgeoisie as far as any war is concerned.
Charles Brown
Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/30/99 05:01PM
Charles to Wojtek:
also:
Prowse, Michael, 1992: "Save Planet Earth--From Economists, _Financial Times_,
February 10.
IN THIS MESSAGE: Appendix B to Rambouillet Accord proposal; Kosovo's
Glittering Prize
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:55:56 +0900
From: Hendrik
Subject: [NS] Interpreting the Rambouillet Accord proposal
Here are some excerpts from the Rambouillet accord proposal interspersed
with some comments.
late response
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/29/99 04:45PM
Charles:
I can't tell if you are opposing the Marxist idea that capitalist wars are
integral to the capitalist system; or whether you are saying that this war
is an exception.
neither. I was opposing crude economic determinism and
Thomas Kruse wrote:
Lawrence Summers wrote, as you all know, a little memo on the logic of
dumping toxics on poor people. Does anyone have the original citation, or
report on the memo (I believe a write-up apperaed in the Economist)?
and The Nation.
See also excerpts from the memo tacked
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