You consume a bridge -- make use of it, wear it out
just a bit -- when you cross it. Or stand on it.
Or jump off it.
What proportion of total GDP is consumable ? How much is liquid ? What
proportion is in plant , equipment and bridges ?
Just full of questions.
CB
The Fed Gov says it's $89.9 trillion for the
U.S.
Some of it -- like the Brooklyn Bridge --
would
be hard to divvy up. Would you want a
share
in the Brooklyn Bridge? It would look nice
on
the wall.
mbs
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Charles BrownSent: Tuesday,
Title: more nader to moore
Unless there was
more than one MCI rally, I was there, and I don't
remember any equivocation
aboutNader v. Gore fromBro. Moore.
mbs
On "The Charlie Rose Show" last Thursday you repeated
the false statement that I promised to avoid the close
Yup. I heard it too. He corrected himself.
Fortunately for him, this is not the sort of
gaffe the R's can use against him.
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shane Mage
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dumbocrat
Dean did his Ph.D. at U-Mich.
Taught at Bucknell for a while,
worked at EPI for a while, then
started his own think tank:
http://www.cepr.net
Lots of good stuff there.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles
Brown
Sent: Tuesday, July 27,
why assume the membership will be smarter than
some elected, autocratic leaders? It ain't
necessarily so. I see leaders doing things they
know are dumb because the members want it.
Democracy is good in and of itself, but it isn't
costless.
mbs
I don't see why pushing to make labor unions
On budget deficits, Kerry is as bad as Clinton, which is pretty bad.
But Nader has never been particularly good and clear on this issue,
though I think that overall his programmatic message goes in the right
direction.
mbs
In that chapter, titled Appease the Bond Market: the Kerry Plan to Make
Just read a bit in Tax Notes that shows you cannot logically
separate financing arrangements from sticker price.
Some Brit department stores are trying to finagle
the VAT by characterizing part of the retail price
as a credit card processing fee, thereby shunting
taxable value added into
That's only half of Frank's argument.
I've been blazing through the book this
week. It's a lot of fun to read. Frank
also says Clintonesque center-hugging on
economics -- free trade, labor rights,
privatization, etc. -- causes the culturally-
conservative worker's decision to hinge solely
on
L: Nader's only about 30 percent of the way there,
though he's trying hard. The template is
absolutely anti-abortion, anti-gun control,
anti-gay marriage, etc. Nader appears at best
lukewarm or agnostic in dimensions like these
from a cultural-conservative standpoint. He's
still in
Angry Bear
The Big Picture
Kautilyan
ArgMax
D-Squared Digest
Nathan Newman
Billmon (Whiskey Bar)
You can get the links on my site (on the left)
lots of right-wing ones too, some knowledgeable,
some loony.
max
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Title: Today's Papers
I am somewhat short of startled, though
it's
a good sign.
http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/000623.html
mbs
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Devine, JamesSent: Friday, July 16, 2004 5:11
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: A Cronkite
moment?
From
Not to be confused with Paul Volcker, former chairman of
the Fed Board of Govs. -- mbs
Subject: Spam fraud moves up a notch
Usually I get requests from the families of disgraced dictators. Now look
who writes
me.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Assistance from you
I'd like one. If you don't like me,
I'll pay the postage myself.
mbs
By the way, as Michael pollak knows, you may even be able
to obtain a 20 Million Liras Turkish Banknote from me free of charge. I even
pay the postage. The only condition is that you have to be someone I like.
Sartesian has
Tajikistan is a dagger pointed at the heart
of Kyrgyzstan.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Doss
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 7:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TAJIKISTAN SHUNS UNITED STATES, TILTS TOWARD RUSSIA
I love Eurasia
here's something on current law:
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/datazone_uicalc_index
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devine, James
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: query: unemployment insurance.
where
Not trying to be a pest, but I don't think
this is quite right. The neo-cons are
cosmopolitan imperialists. Certainly
belligerent. Nationalism connotes a
limited view of self-interest. The
neo-con vision is international. I use
the term jingoism myself, perhaps
inappropriately, to simply mean
A new green book came out a month or two ago.
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/Documents.asp?section=813
max
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: query:
I beg your pardon, but I predict that the next
time there's a supply bottleneck or cartel tightening,
people will start talking about Hubbert's Peak again.
mbs
the big problem is that because no-one can predict the future, it's very
easy for superficial observers to confuse a short-term
thanks for ruining my weekend.
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine,
James
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 9:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: meanwhile in California...
Governor Shapes Up as Master PoliticianSteve Lopez
Class and Schools, by Richard Rothstein, a joint
publication of EPI and Teachers College of
Columbia Univ.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Lear
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 10:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The crisis in public
warped by graduate econ instruction.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Lear
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 3:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The crisis in public education
On Friday, May 28, 2004 at 15:32:11 (-0400) Max B. Sawicky
Cowen is a libertarian, so he's going to be
good on privacy and some law enforcement issues.
Not libertarian enough, unfortunately, to oppose
the war.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:42 PM
To:
Don't insult dogs.
I don't get the anthro
reference. His degree was in botany.
mbs
. . .
Savage is a despicable dog.
Louis Proyect:
-clip-
He also made sure to plug his credentials.
I'm going to give you one further example from my background as an
anthropologist just so
I'd like to note that in my post, I acknowledged
the obvious guilt of those in the pictures and those
who took the pictures. I don't mean to patronize them
as ignorant pawns. Pawns maybe, but not ignorant or
free of responsibility for what their roles.
mbs
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From:
My guess is that the present value of historic resource
rents (mineral, timber, land use) from colonial
areas is huge.
From a little essay I wrote:
For starters, Abdel-Fadil (1987) claims that colonial powers had seized 85
percent of the planet's surface area by 1914.
-Original
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From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: imperalist booty
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
My guess is that the present value of historic resource
rents (mineral, timber, land use) from colonial
areas is huge
From my untutored vantage point,
surviving for him and his boyz is a victory.
The U.S. said they were going to destroy
him, and they have climbed down from that.
The U.S. has to draw down eventually, he's
going to be there forever. He can replay his
uprising any time, and everybody knows it.
Walter's a good guy.
The worse this show gets, the more it stands to split
both parties. Buchananoids at one end and Nader
at the other. Nader has a way to scoop up both
types of voters.
I still ain't voting for him. I may run myself on
the ticket of the Pepperoni Pizza Party. Devine
will be
I believe the inhaled part.
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:43 PM
Subject: free press!
[The following story comes from the Santa Monica College student
newspaper, the CORSAIR ONLINE. Almost none of it is a
This sort of drivel reminds me why the U.S. left is so insulated
from political power.
mbs
Third World Resistance and Western Intellectual
Solidarity
by James Petras
Larry K is an interestingly perverse case.
He's done a lot of high-powered neo-classical micro re:
public finance, but over the past decade got obsessed with
generational accounts. (Other devotees include Alan Auerbach
and David Bradford, neither of whom are crazy.)
He thinks of himself as a
I appreciate the recirculation.
I'd like to note that in the beginning of the post I said
I was voting for Kerry, though that could change.
mbs
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From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:01 AM
Subject: Kerry's Tax
I heard some Randi Rhodes yesterday.
She had Nader on as a guest and kept
shouting over him with stupid questions
('who will you caucus with if you are
president?'). He wasn't too good either,
but there wasn't much he could do. He
hung up.
Otherwise her rap was ultra-partisan-
Democrat, not
My view of free trade is jaundiced, but I think Roberts
is wrong on some of this.
Noam Scheiber made this point in TNR. For comparative
advantage to be eliminated, there must be full mobility
of factors of production. Then production proceeds
according to absolute advantage. This does not
The trick is not getting in until 10:30 a.m.
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Job flight
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Inputs and outputs, though. I certainly
I agree on the big points, but all the LK memo seeks to do
is show that getting to 10 million and 4.1 in four years is
plausible in historical context. His memo does not attempt
to demonstrate that Kerry's plan gets us there. If he showed
40 million jobs and one percent unemployment, it would be
Yes, though less hard when there's no employment growth.
As for what Clinton 'did,' as opposed to who he did, the
biggest factors seems to have been the dot com bubble and
household debt stimulating demand. Obviously there were other ways
AD could have been boosted, but Clinton wasn't interested
It's true I've tended to think of public employment as a last
resort, rather than on an equal footing with counter-cyclical
and work time. There's no reason to do so. Politics at one
time or another may favor and disfavor any of them.
I hereby elevate it to my Sacred Threesome.
Active labor
There's always Bowie bonds . . .
Robert Scott Gassler writes: and Gary Becker thinks human beings are live
capital.
BTW, it's interesting that Marx had a critique of human capital theory in
vol. III of CAPITAL (pp. 465-6 of the Intl. Publ. ed.) two disagreeably
frustrating facts mar this
Speaking of which:
http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/economics/gordon/Productivity-Brookin
gs.pdf
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine,
James
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: the future of social
It sounds better than communism.
I came across this gem by chance:
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html
We've got Stanley Aronowitz.
It's interesting that all the authors cited are long dead. They wrote in the
time when there were mass socialist parties and capitalism had little
legitimacy with the working class. Today things are very different. Do we
just quote the classics at the masses and
I'm surprised. OTOH, many here are surprised when
the economy does well.
I have to admit that inflation-indexed Federal bonds
look pretty good now.
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:04 PM
To:
Yes he did, on trade, when Jeff Faux was still prez.
This was before he started driving the right into a
frenzy.
Since his New York Times militancy, such as it is,
he has not mentioned us until today. I have an
amicable email relationship with the keeper of his
unofficial website, so detente may
As D.C. goes TCF is pretty liberal on tax, budget, health,
and Social Security stuff. Worth reading, I would say.
I don't follow Texeira or their other material, which included
a big project on homeland security.
Of course the center moves all the time. In DC I'm a crazy
left-winger. In a
Acceptable to whom?
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Max B. Sawicky wrote:
In a meeting at EPI I said you could define
the working class as those who must work to finance a standard
of living, and somebody said that was a marxist definition.
What's the acceptable definition of the working class
Ask somebody at IPS.
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug
Henwood
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Haiti expert
I'd love to find someone who could talk about the history political
economy of Haiti on my
I was in front of my PC with my daughter in the next
room watching Bambi. At one point she started screaming,
Kill Bambi kill!!
mbs
Just recently I sat with my ten year old and watched an old Swedish film
My Life as a Dog,
a great movie that tells the story of a boy whose mother is dying of
Louis is the left's answer to Lazlo Toth.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis
Proyect
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 5:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reply to Daniel Okrent
The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
. . . Although Keisha Castle-Hughes is an Australian Aboriginal, she clearly
has an exceptional ability to make her character Pai come to life.
??
This is a sweet film. My wife talked me into watching it,
and as usual in those cases, I'm glad she did. I would
have thought it perfect for
Quoth Father Devine:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
as this fellow:
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
More Than Money
By DAVID BROOKS
It's 98% drivel, but there is this 2%:
. . . While conservatives were right about the basic nature of poverty,
Reminds me of Noriega's tortilla flour, described by
Colin Powell's invaders as cocaine.
Was any evidence of Noriega drugs ever turned up?
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis
Proyect
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:03 PM
To: [EMAIL
do that book
Anti-Samuelson ?
J.
- Original Message -
From: Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Why U.S. Labor Law Has Become a Paper Tiger
Anybody ever read Marc Linder?
-Original Message-
From
Anybody ever read Marc Linder?
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of andie
nachgeborenen
Subject: Fwd: Why U.S. Labor Law Has Become a Paper Tiger
luv it.
And don't forget Mojo Nixon's masterpiece, Don Henley Must Die.
He's a tortured artist
he was a Republican.
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: query
could you mean the Repub. Harold Stassen?
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:05:59AM -0800, Devine,
I can't figure out how this conference came off.
Edward Phelps, Jamie Galbraith, and Jim Heckman
were there too.
Jamie and McFadden were quoted all over the place
bashing Bush.
mbs
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis
Proyect
Sent: Monday,
Parasitic finance!!
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 6:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tuxedo Park (was Skull Bones)
In a way, the Skull and Bones/Loomis gap is similar to the
Wasn't it Jimmy Carter who did a number on airlines and trucking?
Anybody remember Alfred Kahn?
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eugene Coyle
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 6:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The economy - a new era?
Takes me back to when we thought Nixon would cancel the elections.
mbs
. . . 7. There will be no US presidential election in 2004.
Happy New Year, Lock and loadand face front because it's coming head on.
dms
I saw that movie. Denzel Washington arrests Bruce Willis
in the end, and everything goes back to normal.
Subject: Re: Heresy
Here's the scenario:
1. Police engage in violent assaults on demonstrators at GOP convention
2. Supposed terrorist plot to bomb convention is interdicted or
maybe they can find more Gurkhas.
mbs
Outsourcing!
mbs
BAKER TAKES THE LOAF
The President's Business Partner Slices Up Iraq
by Greg Palast
TomPaine.com
Monday, December 8, 2003
Curiosity gets the better of me.
Why?
mbs
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jurriaan
Bendien
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Antisemism and the Us Left
I am withdrawing from this list.
J.
I am not a Zionist and I do not favor the Law of
Return, but I am not sure why LCP's argument is
ridiculous. It may be perceived as ridiculous by
African Americans, but that just because they might
see Jews as just privileged white people -- I
speculate here.
Ditto. A law of return has
and beneficiaries of
the injustice, are they not?
David
--- Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ditto. A law of return has the same logic as the
reparations movement. Naturally, in that ideal
sense a law of return for Palestinians follows as well.
__
Do you Yahoo
One man's opinion:
http://webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/archives/bleiter/000542.html
thanks. that's Sawicky with a 'y', BTW.
See you in San Diego.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine,
James
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: congrats!
This morning on a local branch of US National
I did a similar piece on my website but in reference to
investment spending. Includes a colorful chart.
http://maxspeak.org/gm/archives/1569.html
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine,
James
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:33 PM
To:
Never got to it. Still want to.
max
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rakesh
Bhandari
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: O Connor Fiscal Crisis of the State
I had forgotten about James O' Connor's classic
Public debt after WWII was about 114 percent of GNP.
Pretty high. So reducing that to under 30% by the
70s was a non-trivial use of income tax revenue.
There wasn't much welfare $ in the 60s, compared
to the 50s (lots of highway spending). The big
run-up in domestic $ at the Federal level came
There's a lot on the blogs on this. Check the archives on
www.calpundit.com, www.dailykos.com, and www.talkingpointsmemo.com
mbs
Bill Lear wrote:
Has any one here written about the new wave of electronic voting
machines or know of any good material on the subject? My sister-in-law
is
I want the drugs this guy is using.
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From: Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 9:33 PM
Subject: cronysm? What cronyism?
washingtonpost.com
No 'Cronyism' in Iraq
By Steven Kelman
Thursday, November 6, 2003; Page
That's swell. Now all they need is some income to tax.
Business income is not easy to measure, flat rate or no.
A sales tax would make more sense. In neither case is there any
government to administer the tax. It's obviously a gesture.
If I was pro-consul, I'd have just two taxes: severance
this was great.
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis
Proyect
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Interview with Karl Marx
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yesP_Article=
12295
--
at 11:46:01PM -0400, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/index.cfm?CFID=10670887CFTOKEN=25180443
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ncseonline.org/NLE/CRS/index.cfm?CFID=10670887CFTOKEN=25180443
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: congressional research service
Does anyone have
http://www.jobwatch.org
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 1:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 200,000 jobs
Snow(job?) is predicting job growth of 200,000 per month. Does anybody
believe this
I would guess so.
Politically, the problem is that as the monthly number
goes positive, the Bushists will say we're moving in
the right direction, just like we told you we would,
and people won't hold them accountable for the damage
that has already been done.
What we need is people writing
You could be Osama. You've got the look
down pretty well already, but you'd have
to give up the bicycle.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: california/iraq
Anti-semitism nears complete redefinition as opposition
to Israeli policies. Anything you say otherwise has been
redefined as inconsequential. But if you're a critic of
Zionism, the slightest thing is grounds for opprobrium.
It's really remarkable. Not good for the Jews, I would say.
mbs
I'm all for torturing Alan Dershowitz.
mbs
You've lost me Louis, are you arguing for the necessity of torture?
Joanna
No, Dissent Magazine is. Sanford Levinson basically wrote a defense of Alan
Dershowitz there using formulations that were a bit less crude. If you
watch Dershowitz's debate
it's a nasty neo-con social policy think tank.
vouchers, anti-anti-racism, pro-Giuliani, welfare deform,
shit like that. Much like the right-wing stuff in
The Public Interest (which also has had some good
stuff).
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
SD are saying charge marginal cost (in effect, virtually
nothing) to poor countries. I didn't see that part in the
FDA statement. If the EU and Japan paid more for drugs so
that developing countries could pay much less, where's the bad?
A side benefit is that this is a nice demonstration of the
Look around here -- www.cepr.net -- for Dean Baker's
stuff. Also go here -- http://www.lessig.org/
max
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of e. ahmet
tonak
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: critique of
Int'l accounts were never my cup of tea. Can
someone tell me how to answer this question
(pls keep it simple; I'm not writing a
dissertation on this) using the nat'l/int'l
BEA data:
how much of profits of U.S. firms earned from
offshore operations are invested in plant and
equipment in the U.S.
It's not clear to me if this quote is from Brenner
or somebody else, but in any case . . .
I fail to see the material basis of the fatal antagonism.
Certainly culture and attitudes of the peasantry are an
issue, but how is the peasant any different from the worker
who owns some modest stock of
Workers can go either way too.
mbs
As I understand it, the French peasantry was unpredictable. You would
have two villiages in recent years seeming very similar in every
sociological and economic indicator: one would be solidly communist and
one would be very right wing. Nobody in France could
Hey I know him! Always been very nice. Seemed very smart.
Apparently not smart enough.
mbs
. . .
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan also charged a Wall Street consultant,
Peter Davis, with illegally providing the information to Youngdahl so he
could pass it on to Goldman traders.
The guy in the race to get behind is Jack Grisham,
formerly with the Dead Kennedys. Drugs, feh. Doesn't
everybody in California do drugs?
max
Kill the Poor (DKs)
Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away
source, please.
max
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine,
James
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: quote du jour
I was always dreaming about very powerful people, dictators, people
like Jesus, being remembered
By this criterion we would need ruthless destruction
of many threads.
I'd also like to have an example of a thread that
went somewhere, as opposed to nowhere.
from erewhon,
mbs
Right. If someone had something to say that has not already been said
here, fine, but the discussion the last few
Best religion movie is Elmer Gantry.
Have watched it many times.
mbs
Of course, the best movie about Jesus is still Monty Python's Life of
Brian.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Me too.
I own the video of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
mbs
I love Burt Lancaster!!!
In addition to _Kadosh_, I also recommend _Passions of Joan of Arc_
(1927) and _The Day of Wrath_ (1943), both directed by Carl Theodor
Dreyer. Cf.
that was the case for GE, I believe. Jack Welch
did not build the company by selling refrigerators.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of michael
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:11 PM
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Subject: question on finance capital
I went to Rutgers with Frankie. He used to monitor
our meetings, shadow our rallies marches.
mbs
Researching the theme of the Cuban-American community in the United
Sates, Salim Lamrani questioned him about certain covert actions carried
out by Frank Calzn, a CIA agent of Cuban origin who
Yes but I forget who. Somewhere I have a stack of papers
from a conference on this.
Capital gains rates, among other complexities, reflect
this purported intention of encouraging buy and hold.
Best recent book is Len Burman, The Capital Gains
Labyrinth.
Where ya been?
max
It got me
nice.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jurriaan
Bendien
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 5:51 PM
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Subject: Of Coase
(Julio Huato ask me to forward this to PEN-L List)
Ronald Coase's work deals with issues that bourgeois
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