Re: Bush Ousts O'Neill, Lindsey

2002-12-07 Thread Chris Burford
At 06/12/02 13:27 -0500, you wrote: i am sure you are all aware of this. i am posting the news since nobody has and i am interested in hearing your opinions. --ravi Unlike Greenspan e was unsubtle in taming the animal spirits of the stock exchange. But fundamentally he was

O'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Chris Burford
The news of O'Neill's forced resignation was reported on the BBC with television newclips of him looking uncomfortable wearing African dress on his trip with Bono. Either a fool or a hypocrite, or both. A pwerful quick visual message that he was incompetent with the global economy as well as

Re: Re: Bush Ousts O'Neill, Lindsey

2002-12-07 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 12/7/02 1:14:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bush is starting to run out of options, because whatever is done with the currency or taxes, fundamentally there is a finite global mass of exchange value. It is a zero sum game. The incessant drive of

Re: O'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Chris Burford wrote: O'Neill with hindsight looks like the uncomfortable pathetic puppet of finance capital he was. Eh? Why did Wall Street rally on the announcement of his departure, after taking an early morning hit on the weak U.S. employment report? They never liked him. It'll be very

Re: Re: O'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Nomiprins
In a message dated 12/7/2002 11:07:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eh? Why did Wall Street rally on the announcement of his departure, after taking an early morning hit on the weak U.S. employment report? They never liked him. It'll be very interesting to see if Bush

Re: O'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Sabri Oncu
Doug wrote: Eh? Why did Wall Street rally on the announcement of his departure, after taking an early morning hit on the weak U.S. employment report? They never liked him. Not only because he was not one of them but also because he did not represent their interests. It'll be very

Understanding and Reporting on Disability

2002-12-07 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, I am going to build an analysis of disability rights to create an economic foundation for integration of disabled people into the left movement. One serious problem on the left is understanding what disabled people are fighting for. The article pasted below and the web site

RE: Re: O'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32842] Re: O'Neill goes, Bono stays Chris Burford wrote: O'Neill with hindsight looks like the uncomfortable pathetic puppet of finance capital he was. Doug: Eh? Why did Wall Street rally on the announcement of his departure, after taking an early morning hit

Re: RE: Re: O'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] why not go for greatness, appointing another oil man to the job? Jim == Isn't Ken Lay looking for work? Ian

Sodexho-Workers-Colleges

2002-12-07 Thread e. ahmet tonak
We are in the process of starting a campaign against Sodexho (Simon's Rock College's dining hall sub-contractor which recently bought the previous sub-contractor Woods!!). Any information regarding the company and its labor practices is appreciated. Thanks. -- card

Re: RE: Re: O'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Devine, James wrote: why not go for greatness, appointing another oil man to the job? Because Treasury is supposed to be Wall Street's personal branch of government! Doug

RE: Sodexho-Workers-Colleges

2002-12-07 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32848] Sodexho-Workers-Colleges I would appreciate this info too, since they provide our food service on campus. (Despite the Jesuits' preferential option for the poor, they seem to prefer to contract out to companies that cut benefits the like.) Jim Devine [EMAIL

Re: Re: RE: Re: O'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Eugene Coyle
Ken Lay hasn't been pardoned yet. (Dubya doesn't want to presume guilt.) Elliot Abrams has already been pardoned but just took a different job. Ian Murray wrote: - Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] why not go for greatness, appointing another oil man to the job?

FW: Ditty

2002-12-07 Thread Devine, James
Title: FW: Ditty Sung to the tune: If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands If we cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq. If the markets hurt your Mama, bomb Iraq. If the terrorists are Saudi And the bank takes back your Audi And the TV shows are bawdy, Bomb Iraq. If the corporate scandals

Re: Sodexho-Workers-Colleges

2002-12-07 Thread Tom Walker
Ahmet, I did a dossier on Sodexho for the B.C. Hospital Employees Union about 6 months ago. A copy of it is online at: http://www.cupe.ca/downloads/sodexho_profile.pdf Tom Walker 604 255 4812

UK anxiety at US economic gloom

2002-12-07 Thread Chris Burford
US slide prompts Bush purge Treasury chief axed amid gloom Saturday December 7, 2002 The Guardian Washington has been alive with rumours for months that Mr Bush was not happy with the increasingly vain attempts of his plain-speaking treasury secretary to talk up the stockmarket and the US

Re: 'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Chris Burford
At 07/12/02 11:06 -0500, you wrote: Chris Burford wrote: O'Neill with hindsight looks like the uncomfortable pathetic puppet of finance capital he was. Eh? Why did Wall Street rally on the announcement of his departure, after taking an early morning hit on the weak U.S. employment report?

Re: Re: 'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Chris Burford wrote: But what sector of capitalism did he represent if it was not finance capital? Are you using this term in Hilferding's sense, as the unity of industry and finance on the mystical model of the Holy Trinity? I don't think things are so seamlessly joined. O'Neill came out

Re: Re: Re: 'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Eugene Coyle
I think it can be said that Bush's money comes out of Wall Street before oil. His grandfather, Prescott Bush was a partner (while in the Senate) at Brown Brothers Harriman, 59 Wall St., a commercial bank AND member of the NYSE. Brown Brothers Harriman was, early in its life, an

Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Neill goes, Bono stays

2002-12-07 Thread Doug Henwood
Eugene Coyle wrote: I think it can be said that Bush's money comes out of Wall Street before oil. His grandfather, Prescott Bush was a partner (while in the Senate) at Brown Brothers Harriman, 59 Wall St., a commercial bank AND member of the NYSE. Brown Brothers Harriman was, early in its

Skull Bones

2002-12-07 Thread Doug Henwood
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021216s=reading20021203 December 3, 2002 What Are They Reading? by DOUG HENWOOD SECRETS OF THE TOMB: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. By Alexandra Robbins. Little, Brown. 230 pp. $25.95. Secret societies are manna for

Bush fires Bono too.

2002-12-07 Thread Sabri Oncu
I lied. Sabri By the way, there is some info about Bush family here: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_carlyle.html Does anyone know who its author Michael Ruppert is? + Top Financial News 12/07 17:44 Bush May Consider Parsky, Archer to Be New U.S. Treasury

Re: Bush's Fire Plan Won't Work

2002-12-07 Thread Michael Perelman
Sabri is severely reprimanded for cavorting with Cato types the same day that he posts Mike Rupper's column. Ruppert is a conspiracy theorist. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]