At 09:24 15/03/01 -0500,
Dow falls below 10,000
Fear sweeps Wall Street as economic crises in Europe and Japan unnerve
investors
Is there yet definite evidence that the fall in stock values in personal
portfolios is leading to a cut in USconsumer spending because anxiety is
spreading about
I wish I could be so optimistic. Contrarry to the effusions of our friend
Nathan Newman, there is no countervailing power in the Democratic Party; it
is now clear than the if there was every any fight in the Dems, it is gone.
The left to the lweft of the Dems is dispersed and lacking any
The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 1, 2000
SECTION: THE FACULTY; Pg. A12
HEADLINE: Study Shows Colleges' Dependence on Their Part-Time Instructors
BYLINE: ANA MARIE COX
After relying for years on anecdotal evidence and outdated
statistics, the debate over the use of part-time faculty
Funny, last week in his op-ed piece in the Washington Post, Reich wrote
that the Democratic Party was DEAD. Maybe he's imagining that a new
anti-corporate party will surge to the fore by 2002?
Justin Schwartz wrote,
I wish I could be so optimistic. Contrarry to the effusions of our friend
I never know quite what to make of some of this stuff. Perhaps some Pen
People have some comments..
Cheers, Ken Hanly
-_-
ER2001-03-#05 Gaussian Corner
Economic Reform, Vol. 13, No. 2, FEBRUARY 2001
Copyright 2001 COMER
Another good alternative (from the American perspective) is the foreign
press online. They are usually more accurate on international stories,
and less biased on domestic ones.
I'd say they have a different bias than the domestic ones, but a different bias can be
useful. -- Jim
Devine
In the beginning
The never ending fight between good and evil!
In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.
And the Earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the
face of the deep.
And Satan said, "It doesn't get any better than this."
And God said, "Let there be
Speaking of the creation story, I was just noticing that the story is
roughly arranged in accordance to the decalogue (10 Commandments.) The
first and second commandments, on monotheism, arise from the act of
creation. The third commandment on not taking the Lord's name in vain,
was violated by
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/updates/lat_spysat010318.htm
Massive Spy-Satellite Program to Cost Billions
Aerospace: Southland firms will get a major boost from top-secret, two-decade
effort. Its scope could dwarf the Manhattan Project.
By PETER PAE, Times Staff Writer
A team of
Jeffrey Garten said:Everyone wants and expects the Federal Reserve to bail out the
economy, not only by lowering interest rates on Tuesday when the Open Market Committee
meets, but also by lowering rates over the next several months. But if Japanese
investors
sell off their American assets and
At 22:04 18/03/01 +, Jim wrote:
If the rich countries coordinate monetary policies to prevent this
scenario, then interest
rate cuts won't affect the demand for U.S. goods via exchange rates. It
would have to be
by a generalized reflation, by most of the rich countries.
This is likely.
This story is very nice, but I never heard it before. Did Keynes really
say that?
Ken Hanly wrote:
I never know quite what to make of some of this stuff. Perhaps some Pen
People have some comments..
Cheers, Ken Hanly
[I hope this isn't the second message on this subject.]
I wrote:If the rich countries coordinate monetary policies to prevent this scenario
[the
US grabbing demand from other countries], then interest rate cuts won't affect the
demand
for U.S. goods via exchange rates. It would have to be by a
The issue in assessing the effect on consumer spending is more complex due
to lifecycle issues (young adults have lowest homeownership and lowest
savings rates, generational (older citizens have vast majority of personal
wealth in their homes but spend the least of their income/wealth), race
There's no comparison. I get the Manchester Guardian Weekly, including
excerpts from the Guardian of London. Le Monde, and (for laughs) the
Washington Post; although the G LM have their angles, trhere is no
quesytion but that they provide real international news, and that means
American
03/18 17:53
Korea's Economy Probably Shrank 1.1% in 4th Quarter: BN Survey
By Seyoon Kim
Seoul, March 19 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea's economy probably contracted in the fourth
quarter for
the first time in 2 1/2 years, pulled down by falling factory production, weakening
exports and
shrinking
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