All Hail Creative Commons
Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal
insurrection
By Hal Plotkin, Special to SF Gate
February 11, 2002
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL
Stanford law professor and author Lawrence Lessig and a
NATIONAL MARCH IN WASHINGTON AGAINST WAR RACISM!-
SATURDAY, APRIL 27
please post widely -
(preceded by a week of mass actions)
-West Coast mobilization in San Francisco-
Tell President Bush:
* WE DEMAND MONEY FOR JOBS, EDUCATION, HOUSING HEALTHCARE - NOT FOR
WAR
CORPORATE GIVEAWAYS!
*
Does anyone know the origin of the phrase double tax on savings. I'm
teaching public finance and must address the issue of double taxation on
savings as the textbook makes a big deal out of it.
For the life of me I don't see how taxing income and then taxing capital
gains/interest constitutes
Dividends (under a classical rather than imputation system) are paid out of
income on which corporation tax has already been paid, but are counted as
taxable income to the stockholder.
-Original Message-
From: Eric Nilsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 February 2002 18:39
To: Pen-l
Won't this squeeze investment and make recovery more difficult ?
Charles
^
For the past few months, I have repeatedly warned about the commercial
papers market freezing up. It precipated the Enron and Global Crossing
bankruptcies. Now it is widespread. The mother of all CP issuers is of
What is politeness?
It involves--says an old anthro book--recognition that every
competent adult member of a community has a public self image, a face
and thus a fear of losing face (humiliation or embarrassment) as a
result of being insulted or ignored. To be polite is to attend to
face in
Have you got two weeks?
I've written a lengthy underground (i.e., unpublished)
masterpiece on this issue.
The idea is that if you receive a dollar of wage
income that is subject to tax, then save a portion
of the remainder, the tax on returns to saving the
remainder is a 'second' tax on the
Thanks Max for the information and for sharing part of your underground
classic.
Max wrote,
A more neutral way of describing this is to note that
if you earn a dollar and save it, as opoosed to spending
it immediately, you pay more tax in the first case then
in the second.
To help me
A useful discussion by Peter Warburton, whose book Debt and Deflation is a
valuable read (many on this list are no doubt familiar with Warburton but
this column seems a useful reminder of the kind of world we live in.)
The debasement of world currency: it is inflation,
but not as we know it
by
Ian suggested that I send this to the list.
Monday, Feb. 18, 2002
Bush in Deflation-Devaluation Debacle
TOKYO (Reuters) - President Bush's wayward way with words sent financial
markets wobbling Monday when he mixed up
deflation and devaluation.
Traders couldn't believe their ears when Bush
Ruthless criticism, as I understand, means a willingness to follow
analysis for every may lead. And if your main interest is in furthering
ideas, then politeness and respectful communication with seem to be the
best strategy.
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
I also think the importance of freeing our
This is very interesting. Where did it appear?
Steve Diamond wrote:
The avalanche of non-bank credit that has swept across the economic landscape
over the past 20 years has altered it
beyond recognition. On the one hand, it has enabled the monetary aggregates
to grow much more slowly than
Lessig gave my forthcoming book a very generous blurb.
Charles Brown wrote:
All Hail Creative Commons
Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal
insurrection
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_01/warburton041801.html
Stephen F. Diamond
School of Law
Santa Clara University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Financial Express
February 13, 2002
Japan stock-buying body to detail timetable soon
Tokyo, February 12: Japan's stock-buying body will decide soon on the period
during which banks will be able to sell it their unwanted stockholdings, an
official at the body said on Tuesday.
Banks'
this author writes:
The avalanche of non-bank credit that has swept across the economic
landscape over the past 20 years has altered it beyond recognition. On the
one hand, it has enabled the monetary aggregates to grow much more slowly
than the credit aggregates, helping to keep inflation
gold bugs! -- Jim Devine
-Original Message-
From: Steve Diamond
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2/18/02 3:41 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:22981] Link for Warburton piece
http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_01/warburton041801.html
I think that the massive power of speculators can overwhelm central bankers. I
recall that Doug H. was skeptical of this view.
Devine, James wrote:
Michael Perelman writes:
Doesn't this mean that the central banks have much less power?
yes, since the CB controls money but not credit. But
what's kept inflation low in the US has been low oil prices, low raw
material prices in general, and the high dollar.
JDevine
And the excess capacity in manufacturing world wide that has
increased competition and prevented the excercize of monopoly
pricing. No?
Paul Phillips,
This particular Warburton piece was posted by gold bugs but he is not a gold
bug per se. He is fanatic about debt - and who can blame him? What he and
others like David Tice and Doug Noland contend is that non-money forms have
distorted the economy. That is the strength of their argument in my
Greetings Economists,
Rakesh makes some points he feels strongly about,
Rakesh,
recognition that every
competent adult member of a community has a public self image, a face
and thus a fear of losing face (humiliation or embarrassment) as a
result of being insulted or ignored. To be polite
Jim writes,
what's kept inflation low in the US has been low oil prices,
low raw material prices in general, and the high dollar.
The first two certainly have help lots. But I'm no convinced about the high
dollar. After all if the dollar is high then other currencies are low.
But the other
what's kept inflation low in the US has been low oil prices, low raw
material prices in general, and the high dollar.
JDevine
And the excess capacity in manufacturing world wide that has
increased competition and prevented the excercize of monopoly
pricing.
right.
Jim D.
Structural endogeneity --the branch [of the theory of monetary endogeneity]
that appeals to [Robert] Pollin and me--holds that central bank attempts to
constrain the growth of credit are frequently evaded through creative
finance (Wall Street 218).
I wonder if, pace Warburton's article, the
Steve Diamond writes:This particular Warburton piece was posted by gold
bugs but he is not a gold bug per se. He is fanatic about debt - and who
can blame him? What he and others like David Tice and Doug Noland contend
is that non-money forms have distorted the economy. That is the strength of
Not disagreeing, but monopoly pricing has also caused excessed capacity,
by restricting demand.
In my IP book and in my new Pathology book, I try to make the case that we
have a 2 tier economy. Cars, food, etc. are commodities with low profit
margins. Goods with IP protection are monopoly-like
I wrote:what's kept inflation low in the US has been low oil prices,
low raw material prices in general, and the high dollar.
Eric says: The first two certainly have help lots. But I'm no convinced
about the high dollar. After all if the dollar is high then other
currencies are low.
But the
Michael Perelman wrote,
Bush is bringing back everybody except Fawn Hall. Maybe she is next.
Not likely. Fawn ratted, however reluctantly.
I've been poindering the Pondexter appointment all day and I think I've
solved the riddle. The Bush II admin needn't have appointed Abrams, Reich,
What Poindexter is up to.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0917/news-genoa-09-17-01.asp
Tom Walker
what's kept inflation low in the US has been low oil prices, low raw
material prices in general, and the high dollar.
JDevine
And the excess capacity in manufacturing world wide that has
increased competition and prevented the excercize of monopoly
pricing. No?
here's the latest on the John Firewall Poindexter caper:
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0218/web-darpa-02-18-02.asp
Feb 18, 2002, DARPA spokeswoman confirms appointment.
Tom Walker
From the CPSR Newsletter, Winter 1993:
Computer Security Authority
During the 1980s a debate arose in Washington about whether authority for
computer security shouId be entrusted to a civilian agency or an
intelligence agency. A presidential directive signed by President Reagan,
NSDD-145
The Information Awareness Office (IAO) develops and demonstrates information
technologies and systems to counter asymmetric threats by achieving total
information awareness useful for preemption, national security warning and
national security decision-making.
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/
Tom
February 14, 2002 by the Inter Press Service
Argentina's Rebellion in the Neighborhoods
by Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 13 - Neighborhood assemblies are springing up in
cities
throughout Argentina, particularly in the capital and surrounding
areas, as
a groundswell of people seek to
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