Re: [PEN-L] No recession

In fact, where has there been a recession anywhere in the world lately ? Is the business cycle obsolete ? Charles

[PEN-L] American Monetary Institute

This group now has a blog: http://moneyreform.wordpress.com/ Has this group any credibility among mainstream or other economists? Cheers, Ken Hanly Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html

Re: [PEN-L] American Monetary Institute

ken hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/2007 11:06 AM This group now has a blog: http://moneyreform.wordpress.com/ Has this group any credibility among mainstream or other economists? Cheers, Ken Hanly Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html

Re: [PEN-L] WSJ Venezuela article

Sounds like another display of WSJ ignorance. The architect of PDVSA policy for some time has been Bernard Mommer, an advisor to Ali Rodriguez both before and after the election of Chavez. (Ali headed up the re-strengthening of OPEC before becoming President of PDVSA.) Mommer is a director of

[PEN-L] Mike Gonzalez on Hugo Chávez

Since Venezuela in 2007 does not seem following the same path as Russia in 1917, it is understandable that some socialists might feel a certain kind of frustration. They accept that a revolutionary process is taking place, but only at the grass roots level. Operating on a kind of parallel

Re: [PEN-L] The flat tax and income inequality

sorry I was a bit obscure. I was sending an e-mail for the first (or second) time and didn't have time. I had written: (One of the reason why old laws often seem more progressive was that the balance of political power was more leftish back when the legislation was implemented.) Ken

Re: [PEN-L] No recession

Greetings Economists, On Nov 18, 2007, at 6:25 AM, Charles Brown wrote: In fact, where has there been a recession anywhere in the world lately ? Is the business cycle obsolete ? Doyle, Iraq. Like you wrote before there are spots. The question before us is systemic recession. As Roubini

Re: [PEN-L] Latest financial downturn

On Nov 18, 2007 7:36 AM, Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest financial downturn is the final nail in the coffin of the conservative free-market world-view I'd argue that the conservative world-view has nothing to do with the free-market. Dean Baker has written an entire book