The Chretien Liberals have presided over a massive restructuring of
the unemployment insurance system which has made it more and more
difficult for workers to qualify to receive benefits. The latest
figures released by the Finance Department indicate that $5 billion
more were collected in
Well doug, now you know you are in the know, with a pathetic review like this
one. All the typical shit of the pro-capitalists: bash you by comparing the
worst of socialism with the best of capitalism, conveniently forgetting
slavery, the slaughter of Native Americans, etc., etc., etc.
I'd
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Well doug, now you know you are in the know, with a pathetic review like
this
one. All the typical shit of the pro-capitalists: bash you by
comparing the
worst of socialism
Jim,
What did your grandad do to get axed by the infamous SLA?
Jason
Not so Doug Henwood, the middle-aged publisher of the Left
Business Observer newsletter, and the host of a show on
geo-politics on WBAI, a New York leftist radio station.
God, do I feel old
Henwood has written Wall Street, a book that amply
illustrates his nasty ad hominem
On Sat, July 12, 1997 at 08:43:22 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes, quoting
the execrable Paul J. Isaac:
[one big fat SNIP]
What a whining, pathetic, and cowardly review---just what you'd expect
from a Wall Street toadie, I suppose. This pastiche of Henwood's book
predictably avoids addressing
Apologies if this seems too self-promotional.
Paul J. Isaac may "consider himself a Wall Streeter," as his i.d. line
says, but last I heard, he was unemployed because he lost piles of money
during one of the great bull markets in human history.
Doug
[from Barron's, July 14, 1997]
In my opinion, there is another reason why markets never had such an
importance as the one which is given them today : from a macroeconomic
point of vue, markets are only a second order mediation. In the National
Accounts, markets appear only, and as a result, under the foreign trade
balance
The MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment) sparked a long
discussion on globalisaton in May, but here's a more specific
question about this (type of) agreement that I'm puzzling over.
The basic question is this: what is the (e.g. OECD, WTO) orthodox
economist's rationalisation for such a
