Tom writes:
If the FRB does the right thing by the global economy and lowers U.S. rates,
it will also shoot down the dollar -- the domestic consequences would be a
sharp inflationary shock and a jump in unemployment. A more likely scenario
is that U.S. officials and the IMF will continue their
Returning to the global economy and finances, [Mexican Finance Minister Jose
Angel] Gurria said: "What worries me is who is running this show. There is
an enormous vacuum of leadership worldwide. Where are the consensus-building
and decision-making mechanisms to face situations like Russia and
(Take note of the reference to Russians asking Argentina for advice about
how to set up a currency board. It turns out that Nestor was onto something
after all.)
September 3, 1998
SUMMIT IN MOSCOW
As Clinton Meets With Russian Opposition, Dire Forecasts Circulate
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
MOSCOW
Max,
I'm going to look into this later, but I definitely recall older,
religious Jews going to the gas chambers and young Zionists going to
Palestine. At least part of the thing about creating a Jewish state ws
creating a New Jew. The kibbibutzim were founded on socialist principles,
and more
Just wanted to comment on my use of the word "goyim." I was speaking
within the context of the young Jewish wish to create a new Jew. Hope no
one was insulted.
fb
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote:
Max,
I'm going to look into this later, but I definitely recall older,
The leader of this group, if I remember correctly, was Jabolosky (sp? or
something like that). Netanyahu's father was his secretary, I think.
Wha? If you're referring to Jabotinsky,
he was the leader of the right-wing section
of zionism, called Betar if memory serves.
Begin was his
No one,
in recent emeory at least, has a shitting party.
My social calendar is pretty full,
so I'll have to decline any invitations.
Actually, a counter-example is a movie
celebrating an entire resort devoted
to your last reference called The
Road to Wellville.
MBS
A symbol of the "progress" New Zealand "reforms" have made -
Seven cases of tuberculosis have been identified at Tangaroa
College, Otara, Auckland, the first mass outbreak of the disease in
New Zealand for more than a decade. More are expected according to
Auckland medical officer of health,
By now there is no hipness in calling
for the Fed to lower interest rates.
Krugman did a piece on it.
James Glassman, the Post's libertarian
financial columnist has done it. Today
Robert "no relation" Samuelson chimed
in, along with Jack Kemp. Kemp is
also calling for world adoption of
the gold
Quoth Max, who also dreamed up that award for the world's tallest midget:
[At EPI we're considering the
inauguration of a new award, to the
economist who destroys the most economic
output by the age of 40. Obviously
Summers and Jeff Sachs are leading
contenders. Other nominations are
At 05:08 PM 9/2/98 +, James Craven wrote:
Dear Marco,
Thanks for the note. I hope that you continue serious scholarship on
some of these vital questions. When I was a Tribal Judge at a recent
UN-sponsored Tribunal in Vancouver, B.C. we had some solid evidence
of torture techniques used on
I'm going to look into this later, but I definitely recall older, religious
Jews going to the gas chambers and young Zionists going to Palestine. . . .
Sounds right to me. The orthodox had
a doctrinal opposition to zionism and
leftism which contributed to their
failure to avoid mass
Dave Richardson continues to supply us with the excellent reports. This
one struck me as curious:
Rising health care costs over the past 20 years have hit employers
harder than employees, the Employee Benefit Research Institute says.
Despite rising health costs in the last two decades and
Trevor Evans wrote,
Yesterdays Financial Times (2 September 1998) quotes estimates by US
Federal Reserve economists that 3 to 5 per cent of gains in asset prices
are spent on consumption, and that given a rise over the last three years
of $4,500 bn in houshold wealth this would imply that rising
--
From: michael perelman:
Dave Richardson continues to supply us with the excellent reports. This
one struck me as curious:
Rising health care costs over the past 20 years have hit employers
harder than employees, the Employee Benefit Research Institute says.
Despite rising health
Alexander Cockburn, NY Press:
Face it, a big slice of the world is depressed already. The core problem is
overcapacity in manufacturing, a problem capitalism has been plagued with
from the start. Overcapacity helped send the Southeast Asian economies down
the tubes, and as they try to hike
Some corporations want to lock up copyright even tighter. Some naive
intellectuals want to abandon copyright altogether. Where is a "do-nothing"
Congress now that we need one?
by Charles C. Mann
Atlantic Monthly
ABOUT twelve years ago I walked past a magazine kiosk in Europe and noticed
the
On 3 Sep 98 at 9:49, Max Sawicky wrote:
. . .
that there are some references--e.g. certain Zionist leaders
collaborating with Nazis to get young and religious Jews to Palestine and
leave older and more secular Jews to the gas chambers . . .
Although I've read some about nazi-zionist
At 10:45 AM 9/3/98 +, Jim Craven wrote:
On 3 Sep 98 at 9:49, Max Sawicky wrote:
. . .
that there are some references--e.g. certain Zionist leaders
collaborating with Nazis to get young and religious Jews to Palestine and
leave older and more secular Jews to the gas chambers . . .
Max,
The leadership of the Jewish Agency in Hungary, Dr. Rudolf Berger et al cut
a deal with Eichmann to get 1350 rich Conservative Jewish families out of
Hungary . . .
I would say the key factor was "rich."
If you mean "conservative" in the religious
sense (I don't think there was any such
Thomas Kruse wrote:
Gunther Grass had a great aside in the _The Flounder_ about how we pay an
awful lot of attention to what goes into the body (food) and how (social
rituals, meals, etc.), but preciousl little to what exits, and how. No one,
in recent emeory at least, has a shitting party.
The leader of this group, if I remember correctly, was Jabolosky (sp? or
something like that). Netanyahu's father was his secretary, I think.
. . .
that there are some references--e.g. certain Zionist leaders
collaborating with Nazis to get young and religious Jews to Palestine and
leave
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, valis wrote:
((SNIP))
Each generation of hapless Jewish children is in turn sandbagged with
stories implying that
a) every Jew is/was a blameless soul who only react(s)(ed) to
the malevolent thoughts and actions of others, and
b) there is a gene for
What's this world coming to?
***
CHINA TO THE RESCUE? While President Clinton linked
additional economic assistance to concrete reform
measures, China is willing to provide $540 million in
aid to Russia, according to Britain's "The Guardian." On
3 September, the newspaper quoted Chinese Foreign
Tom, tell us about the literal, not figurative, fires in your part of the
world. Are they as bad as the news suggests? Is this a new phenomenon?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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Electronic Telegraph (UK)
3 September 1998
[for personal use only[
Plot thickens in the struggle for power
By Alan Philps in Moscow
THE crisis in Russia has all the elements of a Hollywood scare movie:
an
ageing and obstinate president, a ruined economy, a disaffected army
controlling a vast
But then the Hebrew of Israel is a synthetic
language that is not that of the ancients. One of its
more striking features is a significant Slavic
influence grammatically and in other ways. Of course
there is a Hebrew influence on Russian, most notably in
the presence of certain
Moscow Times
September 3, 1998
Now, a Real Crisis: No Potato Crop
By Natalya Shulyakovskaya
Staff Writer
First there was the financial crisis. Then the financial crisis and
the
political crisis. Now, Russia faces the financial crisis, the political
crisis ... and the potato crisis.
A summer
Regarding:
hence I don't understand its [asshole] perjorative
use
See Mary Dougals, _Purity and Danger_, old but very good. Looks at how such
ideas are socially/culturally constructed. Clear implications for
understanding "purity" as one of the bases for racism. Also for why asshole
is
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, James Michael Craven wrote:
How to Confront Holocaust Deniers
3) Do not discuss only the Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust
Unless you're trying to open a Holocaust museum in New York, in which
case you'd better not mention anybody but Jews and certainly not
At 09:49 3/09/98 -0400, you wrote:
. . .
that there are some references--e.g. certain Zionist leaders
collaborating with Nazis to get young and religious Jews to Palestine and
leave older and more secular Jews to the gas chambers . . .
Although I've read some about nazi-zionist
transactions,
and what about President Brendan O'Yeltsin? I'm afraid this story is very
reminiscent of that of the 1840s Irish spud shortage. People driven to
small plots of land to grow taters; tubers taking a larger and larger share
of the diet; a blight hits the crop while capitalist greed prevents relief
At 02:31 PM 9/3/98 -0500, you wrote:
What's this world coming to?
***
CHINA TO THE RESCUE? While President Clinton linked
additional economic assistance to concrete reform
measures, China is willing to provide $540 million in
aid to Russia, according to Britain's "The Guardian." On
$540
I am afraid articles of this nature may not be as dominant in the
immediate future as they were in the immediate past. They will be - as
Louis suggested, reflecting on encountering an old free-market-ideologue
outside Columbia U - a sign of the past; a sign of a sinking ideological
ship no longer
On 3 Sep 98 at 10:26, Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote:
Just wanted to comment on my use of the word "goyim." I was speaking
within the context of the young Jewish wish to create a new Jew. Hope no
one was insulted.
fb
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote:
Max,
I'm
(I'm sending this to pen-l, also, since it seems of interest.)
Brad deLong writes: Arthur Okun and company thought that the NAIRU had
successfully been breached in the 1960s--that they could run the U.S.
economy without structural changes at 4% unemployment and 2% inflation
forever. The result
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More in consonance with the current thread, rather than my usual something
on the theme "Countdown to Armaggeddon", I offer the following:
Todays internet issue of Moscow Times has an article on the "grand opening
Wednesday of the nation's first Holocaust museum, part of a new
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
Well, I would note the work of Norman O. Brown and
some other Freudian Marxist types back in the 1960s who
argued that capitalism is an anal complex. Capital
equals feces being saved to give to one's parents, etc.
Oh but credit changes all that, replacing the
Arrrghhh! This is what got me started writing a book on the American Indian
and Marxism. A Maoist was debating Russell Means in Pine Ridge in the early
'70s and defending "dialectical materialism" which meant assimilating into
white capitalist society and giving up Indian identity and beliefs. To
In pondering the shit thread, I rememberd the following. On necessity of
race purification for Bolivian "development" in the 19th century, prominent
statesman Gabriel Rene Moreno wrote:
"If in any way the indians and cholos [poorer peoples of peasant-indian
extraction, who have left the
Michael wrote:
Tom, tell us about the literal, not figurative, fires in your part of the
world. Are they as bad as the news suggests? Is this a new phenomenon?
News? We're in the News? Hot Damn! Do send on a clipping, this IS exciting!
I suppose the refernce is to the burning that
Well it was Marx (or was it Engels?) who noted that
the gold standard was popular in Catholic countries with
salvation by works, whereas credit money emerged in
Protestant, especially Calvinist like Scotland, countries
where one got salvation by faith.
1st vol. of capital.
--
I've written a snappy 4000 words about
progressive consumption tax reform.
If the masses and powers that be are
willing, I will post it and, after
imbibing a few to dull the pain, invite
comments.
MBS
Quoth Wojtek, in part:
. The messianistic cults which, if memory serves,
were the brainchild of the Hegelian right, had two distinctive features:
(1) they claimed that members of a national- or ethnic-identity group
experience suffering more than those of any other groups,
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Yesterdays Financial Times (2 September 1998) quotes estimates by US
Federal Reserve economists that 3 to 5 per cent of gains in asset prices
are spent on consumption, and that given a rise over the last three years
of $4,500 bn in houshold wealth this would imply that rising stock prices
have
Choice quotes:
"The political price of complying with the markets' demands are finally
hitting home," said Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman, Sachs Co.,
which was an investor in Asia and has been deeply involved in the bailouts
of South Korea and Russia. "And they simply seem too high."
Oh, sure. One couldn't say hamburger and french fries in ancient hebrew.
But you can say it in modern (hamboorgeria ee cheeps is the
transliteration.)
frances,
who just displayed half of her hebrew. I can also say "I drink coffee" in
Hebrew, but I'll save that for another day.
On Thu, 3 Sep
Certainly $540 is 'peanuts' (well, peanuts in comparison with the social
costs currently and, maybe, eventually to be borne)
I was commenting on the irony of it all. Whilst most developed
capitalist states are (like Japan) in dire straits or (like the EU
countries) have pledged to abstain from
I may be trying to create a problem where none exists, but I worry about
how we understand and respond to recent cracks in the mainstream
free-market consensus. It is of course very satisfying to see criticisms
of the IMF/WB or free market policies from unexpected sources. And groups
like the
Louis,
Have you seen Worster's early book, DUST BOWL (I think it's about
1979)? It's quite good, providing an insightful analysis of the
un-ecological biases of the agronomy used by USDA to help address
the conditions of agriculture at the time.
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At 01:02 PM 9/3/98 -0400, Frances Bolton wrote:
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, valis wrote:
((SNIP))
Each generation of hapless Jewish children is in turn sandbagged with
stories implying that
a) every Jew is/was a blameless soul who only react(s)(ed) to
the malevolent thoughts and actions
To begin with, torturing people is a horrible act in itself, whether
perfomed by ex Nazis or not. Thus focusing on the "nazi connection" does
not add anything to the moral condemnation of the practice in question.
To
. . .
that there are some references--e.g. certain Zionist leaders
collaborating with Nazis to get young and religious Jews to Palestine and
leave older and more secular Jews to the gas chambers . . .
Although I've read some about nazi-zionist
transactions, this is the first I've heard
of
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Well it was Marx (or was it Engels?) who noted that
the gold standard was popular in Catholic countries with
salvation by works, whereas credit money emerged in
Protestant, especially Calvinist like Scotland, countries
where one got salvation by faith.
1st
Dead On.
In the film the Russia House, the central character, Barley Scott
Blair, a drunken, cynical, "a-political", publisher of a failing
publishing house he inherited, is drunk in this dacha with Russina
friends and he is waxing eloquent and says:
"If there is to be hope, we must all
From the World Book Encyclopedia, circa 1920
"What is a Mexican? Mexico had in 1910 a population of about
15,112,600 people; an accurate census has never been taken because of
the superstitious fears of the people. When a census taker appears
they conceal from him as many facts as possible,
I just ordered it today. I will then own five of his books. I am absolutely
blown away by his powers of analysis. It's funny how I stumbled across him.
Amazon.com makes recommendations based on previous purchases and "Under
Western Skies" popped up. I am particularly interested in the way his
(Donald Worster, "Under Western Skies," pp. 98-101)
Any attempt to understand the cultural roots of the Dust Bowl must begin
with a scrutiny of Great Plains rural society in the late 1910s and the
1920s. Before that time there were, of course, forays by farmers into the
fragile shortgrass
Well, I would note the work of Norman O. Brown and
some other Freudian Marxist types back in the 1960s who
argued that capitalism is an anal complex. Capital
equals feces being saved to give to one's parents, etc.
Barkley Rosser
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 12:01:11 -0400 Doug Henwood
[EMAIL
On 3 Sep 98 at 12:14, Andrew Mathis wrote:
just what the hell is the matter w/you, anyway? haven't you gotten the
message? your contributions to the nizkor-l list turned out to be
something less than appreciated, if not exactly for the reasons you
fantasize
why not just call it a day?
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Organizers now target all
Well it was Marx (or was it Engels?) who noted that
the gold standard was popular in Catholic countries with
salvation by works, whereas credit money emerged in
Protestant, especially Calvinist like Scotland, countries
where one got salvation by faith.
Don't know about the
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Class, while we debate subjects that have reduced better schools
than this to throat-throttling rabbles, a character of provocative
bent has stolen in on cat feet. What do you think?
valis
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