Re: U.S. growthboundary=----=_NextPart_000_0039_01BD0228.10952880

1997-12-06 Thread Rebecca Peoples
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0039_01BD0228.10952880 charset="iso-8859-1" Shawgi, Would you please explain to me how the unemployment rate underestimates = the unemployment situation. And what is the difference between the = jobless rate and the

Re: U.S. growth

1997-12-06 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
Greetings, On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Rebecca Peoples wrote: Shawgi, Would you please explain to me how the unemployment rate underestimates the unemployment situation. And what is the difference between the jobless rate and the unemployment rate? Are they not one and the same thing.

Congressman Sanders Says IMF Asian Loans Are Illegal (fwd)

1997-12-06 Thread Michael Hoover
Forwarded message: Date: 05 Dec 1997 12:48:59 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Congressman Sanders Says IMF Asian Loans Are Illegal To: Recipients of conference [EMAIL PROTECTED] November 26, 1997 Sanders Deeply Concerned Over the Legality and

Railways in India

1997-12-06 Thread Louis Proyect
It is one of the banalities of liberal economic thought to consider private international foreign investments as a polarizing agent in the industrialization process of the recipient country; but the illusion that foreign investment in railways would, under all conditions, usher in a new period of

Re: Liberte, Legumite, Fraternite

1997-12-06 Thread maxsaw
From: John Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let the new motto of the revolution be: Liberte, Legumite, Fraternite, et Flactuation And long live the Potatoship of the Proletariat. MBS

Disposable Individual Income Decreases (Canada)

1997-12-06 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
According to the Research and Information Institution on Income, the financial situation of individuals has deteriorated in 1997. The Institute notes that in real terms the disposable individual income fell 1.2 per cent in 1996 and that the decrease has continued throughout 1997. It fell

Microsoft God :-) :-)

1997-12-06 Thread David Laibman
(Retransmitted) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Halverston) Date: Wednesday, 19 Nov 1997 Subject: Microsoft God FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Microsoft Corporation today announced its intent to purchase, copyright and upgrade God. The new product would be named, predictably enough, "Microsoft

re: Doug's question

1997-12-06 Thread James Devine
I had written: I can't speak for the Keynesians of any stripe, but I would point to the stagnation of wages relative to productivity, which has boosted the profit rate, and thus capitalist expectations of future profitability ("the marginal efficiency of capital"). This has boosted investment,