G'day all,
Wow! A DJI at about 9700 all of a sudden - any diagnoses of our moment? Is
it the price of oil? The whispers of junk-bond-exposed investment banks ?
Lousy tech projections (where it's acroos the board - from chips to dotcoms
to computers)?
Is there a compelling mainstream
At 01:05 AM 10/19/00 +1000, you wrote:
G'day all,
Wow! A DJI at about 9700 all of a sudden - any diagnoses of our moment? Is
it the price of oil? The whispers of junk-bond-exposed investment banks ?
Lousy tech projections (where it's acroos the board - from chips to dotcoms
to computers)?
Is
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2000
RELEASED TODAY: In 1999, the productivity growth rate for manufacturing was
the highest in the United States among the 10 countries for which comparable
data were available, according to preliminary Bureau of Labor Statistics
data. Labor productivity
This misses the point. Transcendental meditators and witches run campaigns
to recruit members. Personally, I'm a devotee of Adorno's Theses Against
Occultism.
I hope that we're in the majority on this one, but I remember when the
Yippies tried to levitate the Pentagon. (Max, was that in your
Art for Armani's sake New York's institutions of high culture are
unashamedly selling out to high fashion.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Albert Lee
Oct. 18, 2000 | It's Fashion Week in New York -- again!
The Seventh on Sixth festival of fashion may have ended a few weeks ago.
But a spate of new
Rob Schaap wrote:
Wow! A DJI at about 9700 all of a sudden - any diagnoses of our moment? Is
it the price of oil? The whispers of junk-bond-exposed investment banks ?
Lousy tech projections (where it's acroos the board - from chips to dotcoms
to computers)?
Is there a compelling mainstream
Doug Henwood said on 10/18/00 10:02 AM
9963 as I type. It's all these things - oil, Mideast,
higher-than-expected inflation, weakening profits, anxiety about
credit risks...
Don't you have to dump a huge number of shares to create the trade
imbalance that causes a price drop? Or is it just
At 21:07 17/10/00 -0400, Michael Hoover wrote:
Point of all this is to suggest that anti-privatization stance and move to
control "commanding heights" in recent years was more a pragmatic
response to circumstances than an indication of commitment to socialism.
Milosevic or no Milosevic (and I
Entirely a struggle of reforms, the occasion of the death of Scotland's
first minister of only just over a year's standing, Donald Dewar, is a
moment to salute the struggle that brought devolution to Scotland and a
Scottish parliament back almost 300 years after it was abolished.
The Scots
For those of you interested in local money...
I believe my home town of Ithaca, NY was the first to develop the idea,
encapsulated in Ithaca Hours (each one of which is, by common agreement,
worth ten dollars). And Paul Glover's the madman behind the
local tender scheme. He's also the one who
Further to the despicable and revolting travesty of "employment policy
analysis" by T. Boeri, R. Layard and S. Nickell in their Welfare to Work
report to Prime Ministers Blair and D'Alema and the Council of Europe, I
am forwarding three texts. The first is the central argument of the 1901
London
Buford:
A crucial feature of overall socialist control of an economy would have
been how to adjust for the differential in growth rates in different parts
of the country. Block transfer of funds from areas like Serbia to Kosovo,
may have been only part of an answer, and one open to Serb
I don't think that the Ithaca hours would be a solution to a massive
amount of unemployment, but I suspect that it does offer a certain amount
of opportunity for some people and the margins of the economy. In that
respect, it can improve the lives of a few people -- but Doug is probably
correct
Ithaca money was never meant to have anything *but* a local
effect. The local is the whole point, fer cryin' out loud. As
Glover says in his introduction:
We printed our own money because we watched Federal dollars come to
town, shake a few hands, then leave to buy rainforest lumber and fight
Michael Perelman said on 10/18/00 3:17 PM
I don't think that the Ithaca hours would be a solution to a massive
amount of unemployment, but I suspect that it does offer a certain amount
of opportunity for some people and the margins of the economy. In that
respect, it can improve the lives of a
Michael Perelman said on 10/18/00 3:17 PM
I don't think that the Ithaca hours would be a solution to a massive
amount of unemployment, but I suspect that it does offer a certain
amount
of opportunity for some people and the margins of the economy. In that
respect, it can improve the lives of a
Louis, I think both you and Chris are somewhat off base on this.
The Slovenes (I can't speak so confidently of the Croats but I was
teaching and living for extended periods at the time in Slovenia and
in constant touch directly or indirectly with Slovene government
officials) did not resent
At this point I was just going to let the argument drop -- but have
decided to pursue the mega-argument instead -- why we should spend a
little time on speculating on the nature of a socialist society, on as
old whiskers said "creating recipes for the cookshops of the future".
To start with,
Note - the following was accidentally sent before I finished composing
it. Here is the full post -- only a few additional paragraphs:
At this point I was just going to let the argument drop -- but have
decided to pursue the mega-argument instead -- why we should spend a
little time on
I took this from Al Krebs' AgBiz Examiner. It is useful because it
throws light on
1) Corporate control of the news.
2) GM crops.
as well as some intresting speculations about ADM.
NEW YORK TIMES:
ALL THE NEWS THATS FIT TO PRINT
. . . . . EXCEPT WHEN IT CONCERNS ADM?
An article
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