South Korean Farmers Cut off Fingers in Protest

2000-07-26 Thread Stephen E Philion
http://www.thenews.com.tw/world/27/25/08136100.html Steve

RE: the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney ticket

2000-07-26 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Max, Yeah. We're over a barrel, in more ways than one. Seth RE: the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney ticket by Max Sawicky 25 July 2000 I heard a good one from Kevin Phillips . . . it's the first all-oil ticket. (Also, all-Texas) cheney is a big player in nat'l petroleum influence peddling.

query

2000-07-26 Thread Rudy Fichtenbaum
Is anyone aware of any empirical studies on the tendency for the rate of profit to equalize across industries over time? Rudy begin:vcard n:Fichtenbaum;Rudy tel;fax:937-775-2441 tel;work:937-775-3085 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.wright.edu/~rfichten/home.htm org:Wright State

The stock market

2000-07-26 Thread Louis Proyect
NY REVIEW OF BOOKS August 10, 2000 All Too Human JEFF MADRICK Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller 296 pages, $27.95 (hardcover) published by Princeton University Press (order book) A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel 499 pages, $16.95 (paperback) published by

Pollution for Siberia Natural Gas for China

2000-07-26 Thread Ken Hanly
This sounds like another Chernobyl waiting to happen. At least the fish and berries from the region will not spoil quickly. They have been well irradiated. Cheers, Ken Hanly Siberia-Environment: Plans to Build More Nuclear Plants Assailed Inter Press Service IRKUTSK, Russia, (Jul. 23) IPS -

BLS Daily Report

2000-07-26 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2000 Average hourly earnings rose 3.6 percent in June, to a seasonally adjusted $13.71, from a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says. But by 1982 dollars, adjusting wages for inflation, earnings fell 2 cents to $7.86 (Wall Street Journal, "Work Week"

Krugman Watch: Pharmaceuticals

2000-07-26 Thread Jim Devine
July 26, 2000 / New York TIMES RECKONINGS / By PAUL KRUGMAN Prescription for Failure In denouncing President Clinton's plan to extend Medicare coverage to prescription drugs, and in touting their own counterproposal, Republicans have rolled out the usual rhetoric. They excoriate the

Re: BLS Daily Report -- frictional U and political suppression

2000-07-26 Thread Timework Web
Once one gets beyond the quips of a Conference Board wag, one finds a residue of "so-call frictional employment", to the extent that "Even in the nation's burgeoning high-tech hubs, thousands of well-educated people are out of work." Following the excerpt from the BLS, I have appended a

Re: query

2000-07-26 Thread Bill Burgess
At 09:59 AM 26/07/00 -0400, you wrote: Is anyone aware of any empirical studies on the tendency for the rate of profit to equalize across industries over time? Rudy This may not be quite your topic but if I remember correctly, in a 1991 _The Canadian Geographer_ D. Rigby showed that

The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 21 July 2000 -- 4:59 (#444)

2000-07-26 Thread Paul Kneisel
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Re: query

2000-07-26 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a [PEN-L:22198] query, el 26 Jul 00, a las 9:59, Rudy Fichtenbaum dijo: Is anyone aware of any empirical studies on the tendency for the rate of profit to equalize across industries over time? Rudy DUMÉNIL, Gérard; LÉVY, Dominique. The field of capital mobility and the

Re: needed fast!

2000-07-26 Thread Chris Kromm
Michael, The Institute for Southern Studies -- where I am director -- recently published, "Private Gain, Public Pain: How Privatization Harms Communities." To my knowledge, it was the first study to analyze privatization across different program areas to determine the negative impacts on

[fla-left] [news] Orlando not as friendly to workers as tourists (fwd)

2000-07-26 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover Published Monday, July 24, 2000, in the Miami Herald Orlando not as friendly to workers as tourists Many cannot afford housing BY MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO -- The cost of apartment rentals in Orlando may seem cheap compared with those