New York Times May 15, 2001
Signs in China and Taiwan of Making Money, Not War
By CRAIG S. SMITH
KUNSHAN, China, May 11 - Despite the visions of war conjured by
President Bush's suggestion that the United States could help defend
Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, the social and economic
Brad DeLong writes:
The availability of IMF loans gives countries facing financial crises
a *few* more options: Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes
created it for a reason, after all. They were not dumb.
If you want to know how the international financial system would
function in its
On Monday, May 14, 2001 at 19:40:00 (-0700) Brad DeLong writes:
I don't think that we need to bicker about the IMF. It is a tool of the
oppressors and does terrible harm.
Now, now.
If there were no IMF--if there were no one willing and able to loan
Argentina $40 billion to try to get it
The larger point is that vigorous discussions that include debating
strongly held views is not incompatible with a pen-l that is mostly
free of personalized attacks. We're in this together, after all.
Andrew Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[driving a wedge between blue-green alliances?]
http://www.latimes.com
Tuesday, May 15, 2001 |
Labor Courted on Bush Reform Plan
Politics: The meeting with union leaders prefaces today's
counterproposal by Democrats.
By RICHARD SIMON, EDWIN CHEN, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON--The Bush
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: Labor productivity rose in 1999 in more than two-thirds
of 119 U.S. manufacturing industries, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
reports. Slightly more than half of the industries registering
productivity growth also posted
Mr. Proyect posted:
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[This is from a letter from stockbroker Peter Camejo to his customers,
which can be read in its entirety at www.camejogroup.com. While Camejo
apparently sold Progressive Assets Management, a so-called social
investment
Mr. Proyect, I have a semi-serious question for you. Do you put your money
where your mouth is? Assuming you have some money to invest, do you (would
you) avoid SP 500 funds, and instead invest in funds that short the market,
or gold, or other bearish funds? Where are the investment funds that
For some reason, human beings, needing God,
This is simply not true, either as a general statement or as an
empirical summary of human experience. Most humans (including most of
those who claim, if asked, to believe in god) get along very well
without any god.
are born into a
world in
Brad DeLong writes:
The availability of IMF loans gives countries facing financial crises
a *few* more options: Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes
created it for a reason, after all. They were not dumb.
If you want to know how the international financial system would
function in its
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Brad DeLong wrote:
The answer to what is happening to world income distribution
turns out to depend heavily on whether countries are weighted by
population, and whether income in different countries is measured
in PPP terms or by using actual exchange rates.
Why
The Nation May 28, 2001
Editorial
Rogue Nation
News that the United States has been voted off the UN Human
Rights Commission and the UN international drug monitoring board
has elicited vows of revenge from conservatives in Congress. They
threaten to withhold payment on the long-unpaid
An interesting discussion of the economics behind
desalination plants in Southern California follows.
Remember that water sells for $75/ acre-foot in
northern california, but that residential uses in So.
Cal. pay about $520/ acre-foot.
WATER SUPPLY DEVELOPMENT
Metropolitan board to look at
What is done with all the salt?. I assume it is a mixture of salts.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
- Original Message -
From: Tim Bousquet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PEN-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:05 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:11549] Desalination in Southern California
An interesting
There used to be a lot of literature about using nukes for desalization.
Maybe would could make an artificial salt bed to store the wastes.
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:38:16PM -0500, Ken Hanly wrote:
What is done with all the salt?. I assume it is a mixture of salts.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
--
HighGrader Magazine March/April 2001
Balaclavas and Jackboots
Private security armies on the picket lines
by Brit Griffin
The days of the Pinkertons may be back. At the turn of the last
century, the Pinkerton detective agency was a strike-breaking army for
hire. Companies regularly turned to
At 01:48 PM 5/15/01 -0700, you wrote:
There used to be a lot of literature about using nukes for desalization.
Maybe would could make an artificial salt bed to store the wastes.
why not in Texas, near Bush's alternative White House (in Crawford?)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A Broadband Mandate?
Communities and Workers Win a Round in Internet Legislation
by Nathan Newman, special to THE PROGRESSIVE POPULIST
They're fighting over telecom legislation on Capitol Hill again.
Long distance companies and Internet Service Providers are fighting with
local Bell
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGAQH0W1WKC.html
has a discussion of some of some of the environmental
issues connected with the Tampa bay plant.
Tim
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There used to be a lot of literature about using
nukes for desalization.
Maybe would could make an
This looks very good, but to be more convinced I'd like
you to state the other side's progressive arguments, such
as they are, at more length, along w/your refutations.
max
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nathan Newman
Sent: Tuesday,
- Original Message -
From: Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This looks very good, but to be more convinced I'd like
you to state the other side's progressive arguments, such
as they are, at more length, along w/your refutations.
The arguments come from very progressive consumer-style
WTO ruling on EU-US tax break row expected Monday
GENEVA, May 15 (Reuters) - A panel set up by the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) to resolve a multi-billion dollar row between
Washington and the European Union over U.S. export tax breaks should
issue its findings on May 21, diplomatic sources
What are the odds that the WTO will actually challenge the US?
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:06:46PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
WTO ruling on EU-US tax break row expected Monday
GENEVA, May 15 (Reuters) - A panel set up by the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) to resolve a multi-billion dollar
Re: the opposing argument, if it's up to the Bells where
to wire, how does a regulation to allow others to use
their existing wiring give them any incentive to go into
areas neglected because of profit considerations?
It seems like a uni-service requirement included in
the legislation
The best argument NetAction and other folks have after the Rush-Sawyer
amendment is that the Bells are wily wabbits who have often managed to
wiggle their way out of other regulatory mandates.
Netaction has a whole white paper on How The Bells Stole America's Digital
Future at
David Shemano wrote:
Mr. Proyect, I have a semi-serious question for you. Do you put your money
where your mouth is? Assuming you have some money to invest, do you (would
you) avoid SP 500 funds, and instead invest in funds that short the market,
or gold, or other bearish funds? Where are the
At 07:40 PM 05/14/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I don't think that we need to bicker about the IMF. It is a tool of the
oppressors and does terrible harm.
Now, now.
a classic patronizing phrase.
If there were no IMF--if there were no one willing and able to loan
Argentina $40 billion to try to get
Now it's unlikely that democracy will prevail on a world scale in
the near
future (since, heck, it doesn't even prevail in the U.S.) As a
compromise,
perhaps we could return the IMF to the original role that Keynes and
White
recommended it. Given the way in which the IMF has screwed things
http://election.independent.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=72520
Blair risks wrath of left in public sector reforms
By Andrew Grice Political Editor
16 May 2001
Tony Blair will unveil a Labour manifesto today outlining sweeping
reforms of the public sector that will give private firms a greater
From a bankruptcy lawyer's perspective, the concept of requiring the Bells
to license their lines to competitors has turned out to be pipedream. The
DSL industry has imploded over the past year.Several of the companies
that licensed the lines (Northpoint, Rhythms) have already filed for
British and Canadian broadcasting is bad for you. One of the
authors has been under discussion here recently.
NBER WORKING PAPER
Who Owns the Media? Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh, Tatiana
Nenova, Andrei Shleifer NBER Working Paper No. W8288
May 2001
Abstract: We examine the patterns of media
David Shemano wrote:
From a bankruptcy lawyer's perspective, the concept of requiring the
Bells to license their lines to competitors has turned out to be pipedream.
The DSL industry has imploded over the past year.Several of the companies
that licensed the lines (Northpoint, Rhythms) have
I understand that David Rockefeller used to invite Stephen Hymer to
discuss things because he had such good insights. Business Week always
keeps some lefties on board.
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:44:37PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
Some Marxists have gone to Wall Street (e.g., as a result of being
I thought that MCI and some of the others were cherry picking ATT before Greene's
decision.
Rob Schaap wrote:
I'm left wondering ... if Greene had kept ATT as was in'82 (regulated wire
monopoly across local loops and long-distance), and the government had allowed
providers of other delivery
[No mention of US role in kakistocracy formations; nor the corps
hiring of security firms to lay mines to secure construction zones;
see second piece below article]
full piece at http://www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2001
Chad's Wait for Wealth From Its Oil May Be Long
By NORIMITSU ONISHI with NEELA
No.
Britain and Canada are outliers in their regression. Think of
Malaysia, or China, if you want a typical country in which the
government has a large media share.
The government media-inferior health and the government
media-inferior education correlations made me think of a possible
Michael Perelman quoted:
NBER WORKING PAPER
Who Owns the Media? Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh, Tatiana
Nenova, Andrei Shleifer NBER Working Paper No. W8288
May 2001
Abstract: We examine the patterns of media ownership in 97
countries around the world. We find that almost universally the
Brad DeLong wrote:
No.
Britain and Canada are outliers in their regression. Think of
Malaysia, or China, if you want a typical country in which the
government has a large media share.
The government media-inferior health and the government
media-inferior education correlations made me
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I thought that MCI and some of the others were cherry picking ATT before
Greene's
decision.
Absolutely. Under the regulatory structure established by the FCC and the
states, ATT had to rebate 40% of all the costs of a long
Is Brad blaming NPR for the kids here without health insurance?
Gene Coyle
Brad DeLong wrote:
No.
Britain and Canada are outliers in their regression. Think of
Malaysia, or China, if you want a typical country in which the
government has a large media share.
The government
Britain and Canada are outliers in their regression. Think of
Malaysia, or China, if you want a typical country in which the
government has a large media share.
The government media-inferior health and the government
media-inferior education correlations made me think of a possible
tie-in
From pp. 4-5:
We then consider the consequences of state ownership of the
media To this end, we run regressions of a variety of outcomes
across countries on state ownership of the media, holding constant
the level of development, the degree of autocracy, and overall state
ownership of
Hello Pen-l,
Below are details about an upcoming UC Davis conference on the conflicts in
Colombia.
Seth
The Wars in Colombia:
Drugs, Guns, and Oil
May 17-19, 2001
A conference sponsored by
The Hemispheric Institute on the Americas (HIA)
University of California, Davis
Conference
Brad DeLong wrote:
No.
Britain and Canada are outliers in their regression. Think of
Malaysia, or China, if you want a typical country in which the
government has a large media share.
The government media-inferior health and the government
media-inferior education correlations made
Is Brad blaming NPR for the kids here without health insurance?
No. The U.S. has a very small government-owned media share. It ought
to--or rather their regressions predict--that the U.S. should have
better health outcomes than it does...
India is the new Pakistan
America's proposed missile defence system is causing a frantic
realignment of alliances in south Asia
Luke Harding
Wednesday May 16, 2001
The Guardian
For students of south Asian politics, the diplomatic choreography of
the past week has been intriguing. Over in New
[Is this what they mean by randomness in the EMH? :-)]
Slip of finger that cost City dearly
Jill Treanor, deputy city editor
Wednesday May 16, 2001
The Guardian
An incidence of fat finger syndrome - inadvertently pressing the
wrong button on a computer keyboard - landed an American investment
I'd written:
What makes Britain, Canada, France, New Zealand, Australia, Japan,
and Singapore 'outliers' and China and Malaysia 'inliers', ferchrissakes?
And Brad replied:
That there are a lot more countries like China and Malaysia than like
the OECD countries with broadcasting monopolies:
G'day Ian,
[Is this what they mean by randomness in the EMH? :-)]
Slip of finger that cost City dearly
Yep, a network is as capacious, fast and reliable as its smallest, slowest and
least reliable node. And that's us ... whom nature is not likely to make any
bigger, faster and more
Greetings Economists,
Rob Schaap writes,
Rob,
Yep, a network is as capacious, fast and reliable as its smallest,
slowest and least reliable node. And that's us ... whom nature is not
likely to make any bigger, faster and more reliable for a few thousand years
yet.
Doyle
Human minds are robust
Brad DeLong writes:
Britain's march to socialism halted in 1976 by IMF! *Snort*.
=
A cocaine habit might explain how it is you would actually believe most of
what you contribute here.
In fact, as you are probably aware, there was a protracted struggle within
the ruling Labour Party at
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