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AAs. The scent I pick up is of a huge multi-corporate cartel held
together by its common independent auditor. What is the meaning of
independent?
Charles Januzzi wrote:
One thing interesting is just how intimately connected Andersen is to the
Waste Management corporate structure...
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a
law prof. at UCSD. There's a longer law journal article by him on the
questionable role of financial gatekeepers at the second link below.
http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/partnoy.htm
http://law.wustl.edu/WULQ/79-2/p491%20Partnoy.pdf
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, Marx's famous mole from the Eighteenth Brumaire must have been
Toussenel's. Marx also makes use of the Cyclopean image in his discussion
of modern industry in Das Kapital.
Toussenel's _L'Espirit des betes_ was published in 1847.
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finished, Pershing County Sheriff Ron Skinner
said.
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Kuczynski's cabin
in Montana, or where ever it was.
(BTW, his roommate in college is named Jim Devine -- just like the bent
dermatologist here in L.A.)
There's also an official with Unison in Glasgow named Jim Devine.
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in sum, blame ny yankees for u.s. cuba 'problem'...michael hoover
That should be ny yanquis, no?
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They don't call it a racket for nothing.
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Any significance in the retroactivity to April 1st?
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And every day should be the first of May.
Michael Perelman wrote,
All political decisions in this wierd time should be made on April 1st.
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Max Sawicky wrote,
She's kinda-young, kinda-wow, she's anti-globalization,
she's Jewish, she goes to demo's, she writes economics
tracts . . .
what's not to like?
But can she sing?
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require will
have trouble raising capital and will shrink, while companies that provide
accurate information will thrive.
Ludwig von Mises-en-abyme?
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of critiques of the
Swedish experience.
The Hospital Employees Union website puts up a lot of good current stuff on
the B.C. privatization schemes:
http://www.heu.org/
(Disclosure: I do contract research work for them on the issue.)
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Ken,
Have you googled Romanow and Sweden? At the very least you'll find some
excellent contextual questions about the different records of Canadian and
Swedish policy on the _determinants_ of health, such as child poverty.
Tom Walker
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I heard a clip of the 'genius of capitalism' on the CBC this morning. He was
speaking with such sarcasm about *what he was supposed to say* about the
Dollar that one could only assume the literal meaning of what he actually
said had about the same intrinsic worth as the Dollar.
What a card!
Tom
new...
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for it with exhaustion and
pain...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-speedup19jun19.story
Jim Devine commented:
hey, didn't I read about this in some old book, published in 1867?
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wouldn't think of this as a cargo cult but as a form of capitalist
irrationality: capitalists have been known to speed up work in a way that
actually hurts labor effectiveness (Q/effort).
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, but
the economy). Under rules of discourse, there may well be circumstances in
which a greater intensity and/or duration of messages contributes to
increased understanding or meaning. Obviously, there are other circumstances
where the proliferation of messages detracts from understanding.
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On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Devine, James wrote:
so we need to think critically. so what's new?
Commodity fetishism isn't new. Didn't somebody already write something about
that once? Seriously though, is fetishism only a danger when it is
eulogistic? I think not.
so the folks who slave away
I thought institutional investors included pension funds and mutual funds.
Doug Henwood wrote,
Who loses from insider trading? Mostly richer people than the inside
traders - e.g. institutional investors rather than the
well-positioned individual.
This is what I was trying to tell Jim Devine about speed up -- post hoc ergo
prozac.
A WSJ columnist, Holman Jenkins, today praised Prozac et al for raising
worker productivity.
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with whether either speed up or productivity are good or bad in themselves.
Jim Devine wrote,
COMMENT: I don't know where Tom got the false impression that I was
praising speed up. I also don't praise productivity.
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experts never get named, heh?
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, along with many of the deals.
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And relatively few Marxists have take the formal/real subsumption
distinction very seriously. Most experts agree.
Doug Henwood wrote:
but many Marxists have
taken the productive/nonproductive distinction very seriously.
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Arthur Andersen LLP was a limited liability partnership.
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encouraged the
steelworkers union to take wage concessions in exchange for
retirement benefits, costs US steelmakers $3.7 billion a year, a
competitive disadvantage against companies in Canada, Japan, Europe,
Australia, anyplace where such costs are socialized.
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; for with
the smallest savings it may in as little time as its interest can require
pay off the largest debts (pp. XIII, XIV). What a pretty theoretical
introduction to the national debt of England!
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Title: RE: [PEN-L:27637] Re: Slaughter of dead labour (dead already but not again, yet)
All I meant to refer to was the increasingly social character
of production, certainly not its equalization or de-skilling. By all means
science and technology are attributes of human activity and perhaps
is constrained by the size of the surplus-product
relative to the total product. When the rate of surplus-value is low,
average interest for society as a whole will be limited, too.
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Jim Devine wrote,
Of course, it's hard to figure out some times when one stage begins and
another ends.
1. 1851 - 1914
2. 1914 - 1945
3. 1945 - 1975
4. 1975 - 1991
5. 1991 - 2001
Just a suggestion.
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Romain Kroes wrote,
But as in besieged Bysance, scholars are still busy discussing the sex of
angels.
Or waiting breathlessly to see what the corpse will do for an encore.
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/ahdr/english.html
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Ugly...more
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Wouldn't such data be highly volatile with changes in value of various
financial instruments? Presumably not all the dollars are held in cash.
Joel Blau asked,
Does anyone know of a website that has data on the total amount of
dollars held overseas?
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Greenspan is expected to reaffirm in congressional testimony that the
fundamentals of the U.S. economy remain sound.
Tom Walker
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Irrational exuberance arguably engendered an outsized increase in
opportunities for avarice.
Stupid greedy bastards.
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Joanne Bujes wrote,
And prosperity is just around the corner...
Or around the coroner.
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, we're back on Depression Watch, aren't we? Hope you all have good
plan for taking advantage of the blood that will soon be flowing in
the streets. And a good explanation to offer the working class for
why you're all ghoulishly cheering on disaster.
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and does not represent an endorsement of the views contained therein or a
celebration of any real or imagined consequences thereof.
My opinion: I think red, bear and death grip in the above message are
metaphors.
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question?
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is that they clear away ideological fog and
make room for fresh ideas.
Doug Henwood:
They can also generate new ideological fogs: our problems are caused
by lazy minorities/parasitic immigrants/disloyal citizens/greedy
unions
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. How tiresome. How tiresome. How
tiresome.
The fword comes to mind, but it's hardly worth the effort.
Doug Henwood wrote,
...Recessions aren't things...
No wonder progressive economists are such a strong influence on political
discourse!
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that
Americans added nearly a full week to their work year during the 1990's,
climbing to 1,979 hours on average last year, up 36 hours from 1990. That
means Americans who are employed are putting in nearly 49 1/2 weeks a year
on the job.
. . .
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Bowen Island, BC
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much.
There is a fixed amount of hubris.
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the booms of the 1950s and 1960s -- it more than made up for
this gain in the slumps of the late 1950s and early 1970s. See Marc Linder,
From Surplus Value to Labor Costs in _Labor Statistics and Class
Struggle_, International Publishers.
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I wrote,
There is a fixed amount of hubris.
Jim Devine asked,
is this the lump of hubris fallacy?
Almost, except it is not a fallacy. Maybe it's a phallusy.
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to their contribution!)
What's left -- the residual -- is mostly profits. So when total factor
productivity goes up, so does the profit rate.]
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I thought it was because U.S. popularculture has an affinity for the image
of the misfit or rebel. Maybe that same affinity helps explain the
traditional inefficacy of oppositional politics in the U.S.
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from principles; I shall proceed therefore immediately to lay down
such as are of immediate consequence to the argument.
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Jim Devine quoted Slate,
A USAT insider reports that a Georgia state legislator said in
a speech during a House session that she has achieved psychic
contact with Chandra Levy.
I say it's hearsay.
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no
role. The real headline should be Overtime permits administrators to sweep
staffing crisis under the rug.
35-hour week puts French hospitals at risk
Jon Henley in Paris
Thursday September 6, 2001
The Guardian
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before offering his own. The book has extensive notes and a
useful, though not exhaustive, bibliography.
—Eugene Coyle Eco-Economics
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held up an otherwise fragile
economy.
``It builds the story toward a recession,'' said Mike Niemira, economist at
Bank of Tokyo/Mitsubishi in New York. ``I think we are in a recession.''
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Non-disposable time would be the amount of labour time socially necessary to
produce goods sufficient for subsistence, reproduction of the working
population and a reserve fund to replace worn out means of production.
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airline -- dovetails r us. I
could use an antipode holiday about now. G'day, mates.
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in the financial
markets have been killed and won't be easily replaced,'' said McWilliams.
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.
This is unquestionably true. Kiss your civil liberties goodbye, folks. The
other side of the coin is that the repression can't be carried out on the
basis of business as usual. Hello, Mars; Goodbye, Pluto.
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with that old
'sticks and stones' routine, that they're only fooling themselves.
Fighting back against zombies is hard. Calling them names leaves no impression.
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to the
events of September 11 will require a level of concrete and frankly
collectivist thinking that is totally at odds with the abstract laissez
faire solipsism of the past two decades. Video game surgical strikes won't
cut it. Trying to have all the guns and all the butter too won't cut it.
Tom
going on. Kiosks don't allow for that.
The only human
interaction a passenger without baggage has is with the gate agent, and the
gate agent is usually too
rushed to pay attention to who you are.
An increased security role for CSSA's is also increased job security. It's
also common sense.
Tom
.
Realistically, one can expect such demands -- and responses to them -- to
lap over onto agendas that are not unambigously connected.
Meanwhile, I presume the rest of the world -- Turkey, Argentina, Brazil --
are taking the day off while the U.S.A. sorts this one out.
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doesn't need to be chanted. That
logic is: no justice, no war.
Quid pro quo.
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Jim Devine wrote,
I wonder if the Bushwackers will try to pull off their sweeping,
sustained, and effective war against terrorism with a large reserve army
of labor and the current degree of inequality of sacrifice.
Hard for me to imagine anyone that stupid.
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soft landing for the economy
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for reality. In that case we are in big trouble --
militarily, economically and socially.
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last week.
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are weighted mainly toward conditions that may
generate economic weakness.
In taking the discount rate action, the Federal Reserve Board
approved requests submitted by the Boards of Directors of the Federal
Reserve Banks of Richmond, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dallas, and San
Francisco.
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under that
country's Prevention of Terrorism Act, but later released so they
could be monitored, the paper reported.
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and hubris of the ruling class. Read about it in Oedipus Rex. But
the first dupes of THAT conspiracy are the rulers themselves. If Dubya
murdered his dad and is sleeping with his mom, he'd be the last to know.
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soon be grass in a Western glasnost, if you'll pardon the alliteration.
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of depletion advancing at a fast rate,
and it is also an indicator that the Saudi's may have been forcing the pace
of production in order to keep world oil prices low, because the plain fact
is that the balance between global supply and demand has been very tight.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
=
I want him I want justice. And there's an old poster out
West, as I recall that said: 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'
-PRESIDENT BUSH.
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that it was patriotic to be bullish.
-
Wall Street Reopens; Stocks Slide, but Do Not Crash
Stock prices plummeted seconds after the opening bell but
never succumbed to the frenzied selling that government and
business leaders had worked hard to avoid.
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it.
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international banks and on news
that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban was threatening a holy war against the United
States.
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discount rate to one-tenth of one percent. Exchange controls, anyone?
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large number of people in Birkenstocks milling
around their brokers' offices Tues.
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(the soft landing?)
and put more money (a lot) into high speed rail for medium distance travel.
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, this
construction worker said, that on at least two occasions during the day, I
turned around and happened to see men in business suits with color patches
in their lapels-the color was the same on both men, and they were shouting
orders to the workers.
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.
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Small Planet Fact (from the back of a falafel mix box):
The grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock could feed more than ONE
BILLION human beings. [italic emphasis in original]
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to
promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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Michael Perelman wrote:
Can you imagine an unemployed worker asking for a bailout?
Asking, sure. Getting is another matter. Isn't that why it's called
capitalism and not unemployed workerism?
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``continued to ease'' in most parts of the
country and wage pressures softened.
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Yoshie:
Give peas a chance!
Don't you mean chick peas a chance?
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Max wrote,
Airline bailout is a done deal.
Other industries -- tourism, for
instance, are starting to line up.
This time around there won't be any left for the hedgies. Maybe that
explains why they're intent on maintaining investment discipline.
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Ian Murray asked,
Any guesses as to what will happen when the Fed pulls all the
liquidity back out of the markets?
Ever try to pour steam into a bottle?
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It is. . .only a modest move but at this
point any kind of uptick is
encouraging.
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Ken Hanly asked:
Will some websites be shut down?
Enjoy it while you can, Ken. I'm surprised the free-for-all has been allowed
to go on as long as it has. Maybe counter-intelligence still has some unused
disk space to write to.
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.
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and unproductive.
Shopping is productive labor. Watching TV is unproductive.
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Rob Schaap wrote,
The politics of floating signifiers, for mine.
dem bones is fossils.
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of the victims were consulted at Rome three hundred
years after Cicero had remarked, that the two augurs could no longer examine
them without laughter. -- J.B. Say
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the city was burning, Nero had
gone on his private stage and, comparing modern calamities with ancient, had
sung of the destruction of Troy.
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The patriotic rally following Bush's speech doesn't appear to be
materializing. European markets slid 7%. NASDAQ gapped down nearly 6% at the
opening. SP down 4%. Investors seem to be shouting (with their money),
Hell no, we won't go!
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EMH? LPT?
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about traffic safety
enforcement. What's wrong with that person going to the ICU after a major,
avoidable freeway crash and saying this didn't have to happen. Do you have
to call that gloating?
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.
What really happens when you shift risks is that the vulnerabilities appear
elsewhere.
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