According to a colleague who contributes to the
writing of these agreements, the 1988 agreement gave
ample considerations to Japanese banking needs.
Japanese banks at the time had much capital gains and
so the agreement allowed them to convert 40% of
capital gains into permanent capital. This of
Today's Feed daily is my plea to Free Mike Milken!
http://www.feedmag.com/templates/select_template.php3?a_id=1581.
Doug
It seems to me that Governor Gray Davis has a easy solution to the current
energy crunch, which seems to have shut pen-l down for awhile: he could
allow electricity retail prices to rise, while allowing California
consumers to write off electricity costs on their state income taxes this
year.
Dave,
Wouldn't it have been better by your analysis to let that big hedge fund go bankrupt
recently, like normal capitalism ?
Charles Brown
problem is a lot of folks pay little or no income
tax but still pay utility bills.
mbs
It seems to me that Governor Gray Davis has a easy solution to the current
energy crunch, which seems to have shut pen-l down for awhile: he could
allow electricity retail prices to rise, while allowing
then, make it a refundable tax credit, or lower the state sales tax further.
At 11:55 AM 1/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
problem is a lot of folks pay little or no income
tax but still pay utility bills.
mbs
It seems to me that Governor Gray Davis has a easy solution to the current
energy crunch,
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2001
Regional and state unemployment rates were steady in December with all four
regions reporting little or no change and 43 states recording changes of
less than 0.3 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. ... (Daily
Labor Report, page D-8).
The
Michigan town's pain signals hard times
Cadillac feels first ripples of an economic slowdown
Dale Young / The Detroit News
Jon Anderson of Four Winns rests on a boat mid-assembly line. The plant closed four
days before Christmas, leaving 500 workers jobless. The company is looking for a
World Auto View
Depend on GM for your livelihood? Reasons adding up for you to worry
By Daniel Howes / The Detroit News
FRANKFURT, Germany--If there are virtually no problems in today's auto industry
that can't be cured with great cars and trucks, as Nissan President Carlos Ghosn says,
Sven Larsen posted this to another
list. The interesting part, for me, is
the subjective nature of what is, or is
not productive -- sort of like the
discussion we had long ago about
measuring GDP. Economics attempts to
project itself as some sort of objective
science, but
A Danish woman
In response to my request Bob Naiman is
posting Dean Baker's Economic Reporting
Review. We've also then getting Paul
Kniesel's antifascist compilation. My
own thinking is that the latter is a bit
off topic for us, since many people are
concerned about the excessive crush of
pen-l posts. Maybe
Milken got screwed. He was not charged with, and never convicted of,
insider trading. In fact, I bet there is not a single person on this list
who has a clue what he was charged with and how trivial the charges actually
were. The fact is he did more to democratize capital than anybody alive
David Shemano wrote:
Milken got screwed. He was not charged with, and never convicted of,
insider trading. In fact, I bet there is not a single person on this list
who has a clue what he was charged with and how trivial the charges actually
were.
Even more challenging: who were the victims of
Doug Henwood wrote:
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Milken got screwed. He was not charged with, and never convicted of,
insider trading. In fact, I bet there is not a single person on this list
who has a clue what he was charged with and how trivial the charges
actually
were.
Even more challenging:
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Just quickly: Jim, are you proposing to funnel public money to the utilities
by them charging customers higher prices and then the customers get re-imbursed
out of the state treasury? Utilities get more money, customers come out even,
but taxpayers pay?
Not very appealing to me. For
from SLATE:
USA [Today] ... tops its front with the capture yesterday at a Colorado RV
park of four of those Texas prison escapees. Rather than also surrender, a
fifth shot himself, and the remaining two convicts are still at large. The
cops got their key tip from a viewer of
America's Most
At 03:41 PM 01/23/2001 -0800, you wrote:
. The
fact that Marc Rich was pardoned and Milken was not is conclusive proof that
Clinton is really as corrupt as he appears.
hey, man! you're dissing the man who ended welfare as we know it and showed
the Sudan who was boss!
;-)
Jim Devine [EMAIL
Michael Perelman posted:
Sven Larsen posted this to another
list. The interesting part, for me, is
the subjective nature of what is, or is
not productive -- sort of like the
discussion we had long ago about
measuring GDP. Economics attempts to
project itself as some sort of objective
science,
Nobody commented that he also freed Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans -- the
latter, you may recall, asked for help from pen-l.
Yes, Rich is slime. He also engaged in union busting, if I recall
correctly.
Stewart is a better place to look for what Milken did.
Stewart, James B. 1991. Den of
[Yet more on the phlogiston that is "the free market"]
http://www.iht.com/articles/8510.html
As Asian Reforms Go Into Eclipse, Growth Outlook Darkens
Michael Richardson International Herald Tribune Wednesday, January 24, 2001
SINGAPORE: The signs are surfacing across Asia.
.
In South Korea,
The following Guardian article probably comes as much from economic
considerations as political. In order to maintain the central integrity of
Russia and to dominate the strategic oil area of the Caucasus, Putin played
the Chechen card and won the presidential succession to Yeltsin.
The
The tax write off answer is better than no solution at all, but there are two
problems:
1. It doesn't address the basic issues -- deregulation has caused shortages
and rampant energy price inflation.
2. It assumes that consumer will have enough money to pay quickly escalating
costs and then
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