deflation?

Record fall in US prices prompts deflation fears Heather Stewart Saturday November 10, 2001 The Guardian A record fall in American factory gate prices prompted fears yesterday that September 11 has sent the US into a deflationary spiral. At the same time, the Japanese government blamed the

Proponents of laissez faire are hand-waving propagandists

Apologies if this has already been posted. It gets better and better as it goes on. Bill BACK PAGE - WEEKEND FT: Self-serving bunk that backs the pay gap argument: PAUSE FOR THOUGHT: If common sense suggests chief executives are appallingly greedy, common sense is probably right, writes

Is China-WTO zero-sum in the short run?

[Decidable?] China's Ticket Into WTO Foreshadows Revolution By John Pomfret and Philip P. Pan Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, November 11, 2001; Page A01 HENGSHUI, China -- Sun Guoyin and her daughter Hou Roufang once led a dreary existence as employees of a drab, state-owned

RE: multiple-choice test

Jim, I have a uniform random number generator I wrote a while ago, whose range I can set to anything I like, as long as it is finite, so I set it to [1,8], since this range is homeomorphic to [a,g], and drew one number. The draw was 3 which means my answer is c. How do you like my random number

Anti WTO protest in Mike Moore's home town

At midday on 9 Nov a protest against the WTO took place in WTO Director-general Mike Moore's home town, Christchurch, to coincide with the opening of the talks at Doha. It took the form of a tour of capitalist greed. You can see photos at http://www.interactive.orcon.net.nz/frontpage.html The

Australian general election

G'day all, Well, John Howard's social-conservative-yet-economically-neo-liberal-zealot-yet-spending-whatever-marginal-seats-require outfit walked shamelessly into an election with nothing but a firm conviction to keep Afghan and Iraqi refugees off our blessed shores - it was all they went on

please post this notice about the Nov-Dec issue of CD to youre-mail list. Thanks

Title: please post this notice about the Nov-Dec issue of CD Please post this to your e-mail list. Thanks. The November-December issue of Canadian Dimension magazine is almost entirely devoted to the so-called "war against terrorism". It features articles by James Petras, Ellen Wood, Aijaz

Re: please post this notice about the Nov-Dec issue of CD to your e-mail list. Thanks

Title: please post this notice about the Nov-Dec issue of CD Cy should have also mentioned that I have a piece in the next issue of Canadian Dimension. - Original Message - From: Cy Gonick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Doha

http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/0113.htm Poor nations may decide Doha meet outcome DOHA, NOV. 9. In an unusual development, the outcome of the fourth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation could well be determined not by the traditional big players at the WTO, the Quad

Is theory the opiate of the academic class?

[I spent yesterday at a wonderful anti-WTO-anti-Imperialist demo that morphed into a solidarity demo with several hundred Somali's --rally total just under 1,000-- who were terrorized by the seizure of their grocery store under the pretense of using the wire transfer system to support ObL. It was

Re: Anti WTO protest in Mike Moore's home town

I like the poster, no war but the class war. Just do it. Bill Rosenberg wrote: At midday on 9 Nov a protest against the WTO took place in WTO Director-general Mike Moore's home town, Christchurch, to coincide with the opening of the talks at Doha. It took the form of a tour of capitalist

another set of takes on Empire

http://www.hinduonnet.com BOOKS A British view of the Empire GOVIND TALWALKAR Ornamentalism: How the British saw their Empire by David Cannadine; the Penguin Press; pages 264, $25. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage; Cambridge University Press; pages 239, $19.95.

[ATTAC-CHAT] ATTAC in Britain

The participants in this discussion might be interested to know that there is an initiative to launch an ATTAC group in Britain. As a first step, the UK chapter of the Friends of Le Monde diplomatique is organising a large public meeting in London on 17 November to test the waters, to see if

Please ignore if you have already received this. Thanks

Title: Please ignore if you have already received this. Than Please post this message from CD to your e-mail list. THanks. The November-December issue of Canadian Dimension magazine is almost entirely devoted to the so-called "war against terrorism". It features articles by James Petras,

the economics of has-beens

[Financial Times] Weighing workers' worth By Ed Crooks - Nov 08 2001 10:31:46 Our people are our greatest asset. No matter how much the sceptics scoff, corporations and governments just cannot stop making that claim. The idea, presumably, is to make people feel valued and nurtured but the