There are reports of widespread anti-US protests all over China. Some
cities are reporting increasingly serious violence against US consulates
which required calling out Chinese soldiers to maintain order.
The waves of protest are not likely to subside soon, but instead are
expected to escalate.
I'd written:
Methinks the bloke is experimenting with the idea of gently pricking a
bubble ...
and Doug replied:
Yeah, he tried that about 6,000 Dow points ago, with his tortured
"irrational exuberance" remark.* Didn't work very well, did it?
*AG, 12/5/96: "Clearly, sustained low
Jim D, thanks for your great post on Brenner. I was going to put together a
reply but I don't really disagree much.I would just add that the Fine article
does the value-theoretic critique of Brenner (Rakesh B will like this article.)
I'm generally sceptical of the globalisation thesis, but
Is this captured in the term "chauvinism", which means both male-supremacy
and national jingoism ? (Named for Napoleon's General Chauvin)
Charles Brown
"Michael Hoover" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/06/99 01:20PM
in first days/weeks of US/NATO bombing, this list had a lot of
traffic about
In their walking tour of London's financial district, Frommer's Guide
includes a stop at the Temple of Mithras. When I arrived there, I half
expected a pint-sized version of the Parthenon. What I discovered was that
only the very top of the temple was visible. Set in the center of a modest
plaza,
I think so. Run that by me one more time.
CB
"Michael Hoover" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/09/99 08:24AM
Is this captured in the term "chauvinism", which means both male-supremacy
and national jingoism ? (Named for Napoleon's General Chauvin)
Charles Brown
"Michael Hoover" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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100,000 besiege US embassy
By Carmen Cheung in Beijing, Pamela Pun and agencies
UP to 100,000 angry demonstrators besieged the United States Embassy in
Beijing for a second day of rock-throwing demonstrations against Nato's
bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia.
Similar protests were
One does have to wonder if the bombing of the Chinese Embassy was a mistake. It it
quite a coincidence.
We'll probably never know, and the accusation that they did it on purpose is hard to
prove.
But there is a pattern of U.S. hits on certain civilian targets that were claimed to
be mistakes
A piece of news that totally escaped Western media attention is the
defeat last October by the National People's Congress (NPC), by one
single vote, a proposal by the State Council to revise all local
highway fees and taxes into a national gasoline tax.
The NPC did not approve Zhu's gas tax
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THE TORONTO SUN
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The Boston Globe
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Hi.
The Journal of Economic Perspectives (from the American Economic
Association) is considering a symposium on topic in econometrics. Part of
my job is to get input from a subset of *non--econometricians* on topics
that they might actively choose to read about if published in the JEP.
The Los Angeles Times
Sunday, May 9, 1999
The Jackpot Economy
Widening wage inequality is not just a function of a better education
or great technological skill. Dumb luck may be even more important.
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
Amid soaring stocks and tightening labor markets, last month's
Michael Perelman wrote:
A friend whose wife is Russian assures me that street children are
disappearing in Russia, supposedly to cannibalism. I don't know how
common this rumor is, but her friends firmly believe it.
Also, I recall that the CIA spread rumors of cannibalism right before
the
U.S. Consulate Building Set Ablaze
By Renee Schoof
Associated Press Writer
Saturday, May 8, 1999; 11:48 p.m. EDT
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese protesters broke into and
severely burned a U.S. consulate building in southwest China, an
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