[PEN-L] good news on net neutrality

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Perelman
Robert McDowell, the Republican swing vote on the FCC, will not vote on the ATT merger. As a result, the Dems might be able to hold out for net neutrality. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] Bringing the War on Terror to the Shop Floor?

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Perelman
is exploring a possible injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act to force the 200 Kansas workers back to their jobs. He proposed that they return under their current terms of employment, on the understanding that any settlement would be extended to them. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

[PEN-L] coercion in the tire industry

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Perelman
case. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] identity gift a Korean question

2006-12-16 Thread Michael Perelman
How is it identify theft if an immigrant uses my Social Security number pays into my account? Wouldn't it be identity gift? I do have a question. I hear that S. Korea just passed a law that will make it legal to make all employment casual. Does anybody know anything about this? -- Michael

Re: [PEN-L] query: the opposite of a vested interest

2006-12-15 Thread Michael Perelman
a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. -- Karl Marx. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] The Dismal and Unwelcome Science?

2006-12-15 Thread Michael Perelman
I sent something about this before, but now it appears in Inside Education. http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/12/13/econ Emerging from my finals swamp -- almost -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] Tone on Pen-l (was: Winston or it's about time!)

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Perelman
)? . -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Winston Churchill refutes the Brenner thesis

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Perelman
, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. -- Karl Marx. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Re: Iran?s New Power Balance

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Perelman
. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] NO MORE IRAN

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Perelman
, but it is just not working as a discussion. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] NO MORE IRAN

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Perelman
? On 12/11/06, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yoshie, I don't think that we can do this. It is one thing to encourage discussion of an important subject, but this one goes nowhere. Large numbers of exchanges involving a small number of people, which drives people to unsub

Re: [PEN-L] What the Baker Report DOESN'T Say

2006-12-09 Thread Michael Perelman
with the thought that they can push much of the blame on the Dems, who seem clueless. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] a great cartoon

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Perelman
-- Jim Devine / Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. -- Bertolt Brecht -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Welcoming Stan Goff Out of Marxism

2006-12-03 Thread Michael Perelman
a blog. Actually, I think that our comparative advantage would be to exchange information about the real world. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Venezuela's oil boom

2006-12-03 Thread Michael Perelman
Michael, although Ven. might succomb to the Dutch disease, it has disproven the curse of oil. Maybe the correct indicator of corruption might be how well a state hand handle a sudden influx of wealth. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530

[PEN-L] question on imperialism from Loren Goldner

2006-12-03 Thread Michael Perelman
(reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com - End forwarded message - -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California

[PEN-L] How Real is this problem?

2006-12-02 Thread Michael Perelman
health. More schools are putting transmitters in classrooms to give pupils wireless access from laptops to the school computer network and the internet. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] Government for the (Artificial) People

2006-12-01 Thread Michael Perelman
Inc. The FCC is also considering a major rewrite of rules regarding media ownership. Industry executives regularly meet with FCC commissioners and staff at the agency's headquarters to lobby for their companies, and those meetings are not public. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: [PEN-L] gas prices

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Perelman
Aren't crude oil prices beginning to increase again? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Query: International Law, Economics, And Civil War

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Perelman
So there was no civil war in Lebanon? None in Africa today? Why would the military use such a limited definition, unless the manual were recently written to frame Iraq? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] funny!

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Perelman
in the past. I think leftists should avoid sounding like a teachers lounge at the end of a hard day. Carrol -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Formula for disaster

2006-11-27 Thread Michael Perelman
For anybody interested in the theory of mathematical finance theory, I would suggest: MacKenzie, Donald A. 2006. An Engine, Not a Camera (Cambridge: MIT Press). Not only does he go through the mechanics, but he interviews the central figures in its development. -- Michael Perelman Economics

[PEN-L] medical fact of the day

2006-11-27 Thread Michael Perelman
for those who want to earn an M.B.A. degree as well as an M.D. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Trolls of the Desert

2006-11-18 Thread Michael Perelman
I am listening to Dean Bakers speak. I just glanced at this. Let's cut the crap out. If people cannot relate respectfully, they do not belong on this list. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] Negative Income Tax [Was Milton Friedman the bright side]

2006-11-17 Thread Michael Perelman
Friedman was also a libertarian with respect to drug laws. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] walls in near east: the new fad

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Perelman
by Halliburton or Bechtel? (Or am I a little too cynical?) -raghu. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] on the death of Milton Friedman

2006-11-16 Thread michael perelman
accepting the inequity. People are willing to give up their own potential gain to block someone else from unfairly getting more than themselves, says Ms. Brosnan, who points to resistance to globalization and free trade as current examples. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

Re: [PEN-L] We're #1! - US is top purveyor on weapons sales list

2006-11-14 Thread Michael Perelman
by 'We'?) -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Ruling class?

2006-11-14 Thread Michael Perelman
of generality), in which the Blues have a disdain for the Reds, and the Reds have a resentment of the Blues? David Shemano -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Ruling class?

2006-11-14 Thread Michael Perelman
than that America is ruled by a meritocracy of any sort. ML -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Ruling class?

2006-11-14 Thread Michael Perelman
. Did anyone read the Michael Lewis extract in the NYT Magazine from his book Blind Side? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Divisions in US Capital?

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Perelman
This, of course, is one of the key questions in all of politics -- because the answer is relevant to the kind of compromises to be made. I don't think it is a subject that can be discussed with sweeping generalizations. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University

Re: [PEN-L] Divisions in US Capital?

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Perelman
for the ruling class, just as the gay Republicans, see themselves as making things better for their group. Clear thinking is not a very important characteristic in American politics. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail

Re: [PEN-L] Divisions in US Capital?

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Perelman
clever about getting and retaining power. He was certainly no more a sign of decay than his entire class... ML -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Has anyone read Greg Grandin's book

2006-11-10 Thread michael perelman
to channel the passions of its evangelical base into the international arena. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Advice Rumsfeld Never Heeded

2006-11-10 Thread Michael Perelman
there carried to many potential hazards for a politician. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] global mining giants

2006-11-10 Thread Michael Perelman
Ian Murray sent me this pointer. Interesting. http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,druck-436987,00.html -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Evolutionary analogies against socialism

2006-11-09 Thread Michael Perelman
, and socialists reject the idea that profitability is the same as being socially beneficial. Michael Perelman deals with this argument in a different fashion in The Natural Instability of Markets, but I wonder how much his argument depends on the correctness of the Punctuated Equilibrium theory

Re: [PEN-L] Men In Black

2006-11-09 Thread Michael Perelman
Let's try to keep it to 3 a day. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Masters in Math for econ student question

2006-11-09 Thread Michael Perelman
I have a very serious student who want to go to grad school. He thinks he should get a masters in math to help him. Do you know of good programs that might be appropriate? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] On what happened

2006-11-08 Thread Michael Perelman
Pombo, is apparently gone. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Saturday Night Live

2006-11-07 Thread Michael Perelman
folks post URLs, could you give us some text from the post, or a description of the page, so we have an idea of what it is about? --ravi -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] Sheehan says no to Hillary

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Perelman
for socialism? This kind of measure has some potential to engage disaffected people. Could we have contributed ideas and information that could have supported such an agenda? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

[PEN-L] serious warning!!!

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Perelman
past. I've never believed there was anything resembling the massacre which the U.S. government (and subservient NGOs like AI) claimed to have happened. That annoyed him. Denier. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] U.S. Imperialism, Iran, the U.S. Left

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Perelman
of the Chinese Russians to the u.s. peril) is perhaps the major barrier the u.s. is encountering there. An Iran hostile to the u.s. (regardless of anything else) is an ally of the american people. Carrol -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321

Re: [PEN-L] U.S. Imperialism, Iran, the U.S. Left

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Perelman
as well be writing about Khazakstan with a President named Borat. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] oil price conspiracy, 2004?

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Perelman
and trying to keep the price as low as possible. He expressed appreciation for the policy and the impact it would have during the election year. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] Concrete Economic Questions

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Perelman
with the concentration of finance in hedge funds that keep accelerating the speed with which finance capital moves? I am not thinking about broad abstractions, but to develop an understanding that we can communicate to others. Others might have suggestions of other matters to consider. -- Michael Perelman

Re: [PEN-L] Why Iran Keeps Coming Up

2006-11-05 Thread Michael Perelman
. Yuck. Doug -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Why Iran Keeps Coming Up

2006-11-05 Thread Michael Perelman
is the reason why Washington is keen on its use against a wide variety of governments it seeks to remove. -- Yoshie http://montages.blogspot.com/ http://mrzine.org http://monthlyreview.org/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail

Re: [PEN-L] Why Not Sanction Iran? (was campus feminism)

2006-11-05 Thread Michael Perelman
they encounter opinions or information that contradicts their settled views, which they won't change no matter what. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] extreme measures

2006-11-05 Thread Michael Perelman
Someone who I value greatly just dropped off because of the squabbling. I am going to ask people who communicate in a nasty way to unsub for a week. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] a modest proposal or two [was: Why Iran Keeps Coming Up]

2006-11-05 Thread Michael Perelman
05, 2006 at 09:06:46AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote: 1) Michael, how about banning the word Iran from pen-l for the rest of November? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] Global warming and global waring

2006-11-05 Thread Michael Perelman
is called for a moral equivalent of war to reduce dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Maybe the road to preventing a climate catastrophe would be the moral equivalent of peace. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

[PEN-L] volume limits

2006-11-05 Thread Michael Perelman
for information, but not once those calls turn into debates. Thanks. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Friendly Fire files: Strafed school gets Pentagon aid

2006-11-04 Thread Michael Perelman
Did the high level Taliban official escape? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] Abstractions

2006-11-04 Thread Michael Perelman
regulations. They got some response, but nothing like the discussions of abstractions. We can do better -- as the Democrats say. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Beyond Criticism of the Democratic Party

2006-11-04 Thread Michael Perelman
Employment is very sparse. Those stats that are kept are treated as company confidential data not available to staff or the public. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] election question

2006-11-04 Thread Michael Perelman
It seems that whenever I see polls predicting a slight Democratic victory, it never happens. When was the last election surprise where the polls understated Democratic chances? Are people ashamed to tell polsters that they support the right? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: [PEN-L] smelly sources

2006-11-04 Thread Michael Perelman
I cannot see why this Iran stuff keeps reappearing. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] more on the economic cost of terrorism

2006-11-04 Thread Michael Perelman
officers (CFOs) of U.S.-based companies, 124 CFOs of European companies, and 103 CFOs of Asian companies, and concluded September 4, 2006. The European polling was done in cooperation with Erasmus University in the Netherlands. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University

Re: [PEN-L] Oaxaca in flames

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Perelman
Very impressive. As aways, thanks. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] technical question

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Perelman
: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] Process (was Third Worldism)

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Perelman
I wish it would. I don't get the opinion of much dialogue here. On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:29:23PM -0500, Hari Kumar wrote: Hello: Seems the topic of fascism is not going to die down! -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E

Re: [PEN-L] Bubbles rapacious behavior

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Perelman
David, why do such companies as you described need a takeover to give the debtors a haircut? One example in the story is a company that tries to do an IPO only 3 weeks after the takeover. On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:27:19AM -0800, David B. Shemano wrote: Michael Perelman writes: My

Re: [PEN-L] Fighting the Party of Big Money

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Perelman
tanked and his SL chain went belly up. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] the rise of the West

2006-11-02 Thread Michael Perelman
When I was on sabattical at Stanford in 1984, Gregory Clark was a young assistant professor. We used to chat. He also wrote a very catty review of Invention of Capitalism. I have read some of the articles on which the article is based. He is very clever, but I was not convinced. -- Michael

Re: [PEN-L] query

2006-11-01 Thread Michael Perelman
://www.coolhanduke.com We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. — George Orwell -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

[PEN-L] Stern Reort on Global Warming

2006-11-01 Thread michael perelman
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm Ian Murray thought that the UEL would be of interest. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Ralph Johnson

2006-11-01 Thread michael perelman
... (Adolf Hitler speaking about the place of journalism) : Hitler's speech (Hitler's Table Talk by Hugh Trevor-Roper) -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901

Re: [PEN-L] Bubbles rapacious behavior

2006-10-31 Thread Michael Perelman
the dollars back into the USA, where they money filters through the economy as investment capital. I assume this is occurring because the foreigners believe the USA is a better place to invest than outside of the USA. Go USA! David Shemano -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: [PEN-L] Quick thought on Oaxaca

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Perelman
Thank you. I hope that you will continue to keep us informed on this. Sure beats abstract speculation. On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:18:22PM -0500, Julio Huato wrote: Looking forward, Oaxaca will prove to be to the PFP what Iraq is currently to the U.S. armed forces. -- Michael Perelman

Re: [PEN-L] Stan Goff on fascism/ process logic of a reactionary bourgeois democracy

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Perelman
Thanks. I think everyone else has also. On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:23:47PM -0500, Charles Brown wrote: The discussion has been interesting, but I've exhausted whatever I had to say. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail

Re: [PEN-L] Seth Sandronsky Interviews Michael Perelman!

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Perelman
@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:37:40 PM Subject: Re: Seth Sandronsky Interviews Michael Perelman! can you summarize J.M. Clark's main contributions? On 10/24/06, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Maurice Clark, the American institutionalist, addressed his

[PEN-L] Bubbles rapacious behavior

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Perelman
intractable than a typical stock market crash. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Bubbles rapacious behavior

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Perelman
at 06:08:10AM +0200, Patrick Bond wrote: Michael Perelman wrote: holding down wages, which restricts the profitability of potential real investments. I cannot be certain but this kind of bubble may prove more intractable than a typical stock market crash. This I don't get, Michael

[PEN-L] Quick thought about the foreign dimension

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Perelman
, often through investment vehicles known as collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs. These divvy up pools of bonds into slices with different levels of risk and return. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] FDR and Hitler...

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Perelman
promised. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Process (was Third Worldism)

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Perelman
is essentially about winning over other people to your political vision and program of action. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Process (was Third Worldism)

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Perelman
We don't need to carry disputes from other lists onto this one. On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:42:14PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: I wouldn't have unsubbed you if you hadn't defied my instructions to stop writing about Iran for a week or so. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California

[PEN-L] victory in Bolivia

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Perelman
more than $1.5 billion in oil and gas exploration and exploitation in recent years. The nationalization ``has assured significant investments, put the most important is the recovery of our sovereignty over our natural resources,'' YPFB President Juan Carlos Ortiz said. -- Michael Perelman

[PEN-L] Rapacious Finance Capital At Work (Long)

2006-10-29 Thread michael perelman
situation for our members. Private equity owns a huge swath of the economy, and it's growing. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] The US Acknowledges the Risks of Electronic Voting

2006-10-29 Thread michael perelman
York Times (29 October). -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Process (was Third Worldism)

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Perelman
.) Carrol -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Be confident in electronic voting, please

2006-10-28 Thread Michael Perelman
Absolutely, which makes the whole article so ridiculous. On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:33:13PM +0200, Rui Correia wrote: For my edification - does low(er) voter turnout always favour Republicans, or does it favour the incumbent party? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

Re: [PEN-L] Whiter the Iraq War [was: Third Worldism]

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Perelman
Kurdistan is also the major source of water for the country. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] a possible pen-l principle

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Perelman
contributed to the problem, but how about we ban the words fascism, Nazism, and conspiracy from pen-l? -- Jim Devine / I wanna be with you in paradise / And it seems so unfair / I can't go to paradise no more / I killed a man back there. -- Bob Dylan. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

[PEN-L] Colbert on the Economic Nobel

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Perelman
suspect a monkey as smart as I am can milk a cow. SC: Are there monkeys as smart as you? PA: I'm sure there are quite a few, quite a few. SC: Oh really? Mmhum. Do they give a Nobel prize for throwing your own feces? PA: That's the Economics prize, I think. -- Michael Perelman

[PEN-L] Be confident in electronic voting, please

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Perelman
to discourage participation. My sense of irony is overwhelmed. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Iran in a Typical Western Leftist's Imagination

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Perelman
. (2) I said some good stuff about Iran. (3) Does that mean that I am _not_ a typical Western leftist? (4) To whom is she referring? Name some names, Yoshie! someone on pen-l. Michael Perelman says -- correctly -- that we should refrain from characterizing others' points of view. That is, we

Re: [PEN-L] Third Worldism [was: Iran in a Typical Western Leftist's Imagination]

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Perelman
/ http://mrzine.org http://monthlyreview.org/ -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[PEN-L] doug henwood on kpfa

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Perelman
http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=16826 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] U.S. Left was Re: [PEN-L] Response to Stan Goff

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Perelman
to them as much as possible. -- Jim Devine / I wanna be with you in paradise / And it seems so unfair / I can't go to paradise no more / I killed a man back there. -- Bob Dylan. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael

Re: [PEN-L] Response to Stan Goff

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Perelman
(if anyone hears them) would probably think, hey, why not let Washington invade any country it likes anyhow? There is nothing there to defend. -- -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [PEN-L] Stan Goff on fascism - 62% South say invade against 34% North . . .Why?

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Perelman
-0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think I can handle the economics of ketchup. Melvin P. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Response to Stan Goff

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Perelman
This discussion now seems to be between Yoshie Lou. Time to take it off list? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Stan Goff on fascism - 62% South say invade against 34% North . . .Why?

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Perelman
sells for the same price as eight pints and thinks he's told you something useful. But I can't remember who actually said it. Maybe Samuelson? best dd -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: 25 October 2006 23:26 To: PEN-L

Re: [PEN-L] query: metaphors, similes

2006-10-23 Thread Michael Perelman
beautiful mind on something like that? – Barbara Bush -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

Re: [PEN-L] Libraries in a Corporatized University

2006-10-23 Thread Michael Perelman
and noble, where there are books just lying about and people pick them up and read them, or where they just come and hang out. thanks for the heads-up on this article, michael. i'm going to go take advantage of my academic access to lexi-nexis and grab the whole thing. :) -- Michael Perelman Economics

Re: [PEN-L] Libraries in a Corporatized University

2006-10-23 Thread Michael Perelman
wrong with libraries becoming more welcoming and less intimidating to students? And what's wrong with treating students as customers when their parents are shelling out $45K per year? Ellen -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321

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