On 7/15/07, Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't read the article yet. The CBO director is Peter Orszag,
out of Berkeley and Brookings. Not a supply-sider, but a deficit hawk.
well, that's the first time I've been wrong this year!
Most feel the CIT is borne by capital (not
On 7/15/07, raghu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/15/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/ben-stein-and-karl-marx/
This still leaves the crucial question unanswered - what is the reason
for the erosion of the trade union movement?
One's
Here is a quote from James Laxer, a well known
Canadian left nationalist, and one of the founders of
the Waffle group. It is from the site Rabble.
http://www.rabble.ca/politics.shtml?sh_itm=8d811e83d96c88510bbdca2cfffcf99frXn=1;
From the political right, once a strong source of
support for a
Isn't the bureaucratization of the union hierarchy a part of the story?
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 06:22:37AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
On 7/15/07, raghu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/15/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Workers drowning in an ocean of overwhelming consumer debt.
This is a a good issue for 'union' organizing... where are they? Out shopping?
Leigh
From Docuticker by Shirl Kennedy
http://www.docuticker.com/?p=14840
Usury Law, Payday Loans, and Statutory Slight of Hand
An Empirical Analysis
Jim Devine wrote:
On 7/15/07, raghu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/15/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/ben-stein-and-karl-marx/
This still leaves the crucial question unanswered - what is the reason
for the erosion of the trade union
Michael Perelman wrote:
Isn't the bureaucratization of the union hierarchy a part of the story?
=
I tend to see bureaucratization more as an expression than cause of the
decline in trade union militancy - much facilitated of course by the
institutionalization of labour
I need an article from the 1977 Capital Class archives that is only
available to subscribers. Please contact me privately if you can help.
On 7/16/07, ken hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is a quote from James Laxer, a well known
Canadian left nationalist, and one of the founders of
the Waffle group. ...
why is it called the Waffle? that makes it sound bad. (No-one knows
for sure, by the way, why the IWW were called Wobblies,
For what it's worth, I did a seat-of-the-pants estimate of what the
2004 effective tax rates (for Federal taxes only) assuming that the
corporate tax is distributed more equally across the population. I
simply took the corp. tax out of the equation and then standardized
the numbers so that the
A noted economist M. Sawicky introduced the idea of do it yourself tax cuts
-- by
which he meant elaborate tax avoidance schemes. The IRS keeps data on the
amount of
uncollected taxes. We could safely assume that the ability to avoid taxes
increases
with income.
--
Michael Perelman
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51ItemID=13300
me:
I wasn't advocating econometric
nihilism. I don't know how you
got the impression that I was.
Please provide evidence.
Julio Huato:
Sure. You reject time-series analysis as crude empiricism. What is
one left with to analyze economic time-series if time-series analysis
is taken away?
Squirrel spy ring? Thats nuts!
Thu. 12 Jul 2007
Sky News
Police in Iran are reported to have taken 14 squirrels into custody -
because they are suspected of spying.
The rodents were found near the Iranian border allegedly equipped with
eavesdropping devices.
The reports have come from the
Actually I was referring to illegal tax evasion, made possible by lack
of IRS enforcement, rather than legal tax avoidance.
The illegal piece is estimated at $350 billion a year. The legal piece
is approximated by the data on tax expenditures, reported every year by
OMB.
The components of the
Here is a part of my travel blog (www.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org. Click on
blog.). I read the discussion on inequality on pen-l. I have been
banging on this issue at every stop on my book tour (this week in Texas
barnstorming with the California Nurses Association). How can we have any
kind
a range of possible new directions in Iraq,
including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop
buildup.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070716/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_pace
Bear Stearns CEO Investigated By Golf Club For Altering Score
from The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/07/16/bear-stearns-ceo-investig_n_56419.html
by The Huffington Post News Editors
CNBC has learned that the Hollywood Country Club in Deal, New Jersey
is
from SLATE: USA Today leads with an in-house investigation that found
service members on the ground in Iraq had been asking for the Mine
Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, which provides much better
protection against roadside bombs, since as early as December 2003.
But Defense Secretary Robert
The state Legislature is trying to pass a modification of term limits.
Admittedly,
term limits is a stupid policy because inexperienced lawmakers become more
dependent
on lobbyists. Although this particular legislation limits the total number of
years
a legislator can serve, it will allow a
(N. Gregory Mankiw is a professor of economics at Harvard. He was an
adviser to President Bush and is advising Mitt Romney, the former
governor of Massachusetts, in the campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination.)
Three fragments from Greg Mankiw's column in the New York TIMES, which
I
On 7/16/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnttntget=2007/07/15/business/yourmoney/15view.htmltntemail0=y
Here's the link to the Free version:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/business/yourmoney/15view.html
I noticed this curious piece of
Michael Perelman wrote:
like to respond to Julio,
who seemed to support Jim's
Popper-like suggestion that
econometrics can only
disprove theory, not confirm
it, but then went on to
suggest, if I'm reading them
correctly, that econometrics
can do much more.
Michael,
I just didn't want to
raghu wrote:
This discussion would be much
enriched if you can provide a
concrete example. An example
where increased sophistication
in modeling and computation has
provided good forecasting
ability.
raghu,
Please don't get offended, but your request makes me think of somebody
who, after
Jim Devine wrote:
For the record, I did NOT reject
time-series analysis as crude
empiricism. Instead, I wrote the
following: isn't ARMA nothing
but crude empiricism, a modern
version of factor analysis?
No. For the record, you wrote:
that's [time-series analysis is] a dynamic form of
The story is that Ed Broadbent used the phrase as
describe in this bit from Wikipedia. I was active in
the movement and my understanding is the same...The
movement was a group within the NDP attempting to move
it to the left.
Origins of the Waffle name
The name was meant ironically one story,
Does everyone agree with this definition of robustness?
Is an estimation that depends on the removal of outliers robust?
Question: Julio, give me an example of an econometric study that settled a
question?
Suppose I present a paper at Chicago showing that money is endogenous -- that
GDP
At 11:14 16/07/2007, jim d wrote:
On 7/16/07, ken hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is a quote from James Laxer, a well known
Canadian left nationalist, and one of the founders of
the Waffle group. ...
why is it called the Waffle? that makes it sound bad. (No-one knows
for sure, by the
On 7/16/07, Julio Huato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
raghu,
Please don't get offended, but your request makes me think of somebody
who, after watching Michael Moore's Sicko, asks for concrete
examples showing that medical technology has really improved, given
that the U.S. health care system is
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