At 04/10/01 21:08 -0700, you quoted
And what can he hope to achieve? What can he realistically ask the
general to provide?
It depends on how he can facilitate communications with Vajpayee. Blair
will be active *and discrete* in this area.
WTC should persuade India that it cannot safely
Penners
The post-presidential roles performed by ex-Finnish head of state Martti
Ahtisaari have been discussed here before, mostly in connection with the
International Crisis Group, co-headed up by ex-Foreign Minister of
Australia Gareth Evans. Another outfit Ahtisaari has got himself
involved
Solid foundation is needed to withstand shaky times
The Freedom Forum's strategy worked well in the bull market but has
since suffered.
Financial Times, Oct 4, 2001
By ROBERT CLOW
The Freedom Forum, an Arlington, Virginia-based foundation, thought it
was being pretty conservative putting most
Bondholders in US company try to block takeover
Financial Times, Oct 3, 2001
By ROBERT CLOW
Bondholders in a US packaging company have filed a suit to block its
acquisition by a US rival in a case that could prove an important test
of US bankruptcy law.
Under the terms of Temple-Inland's
The troubles with technical trends
Professionals have lost sight of the risks but cannot blame day traders
for the outcome, writes Barry Riley
Financial Times, Oct 05 2001
For eight years I contributed a weekly Financial Times column - recently
labelled Investment Watch - on developments in
BLS Chief On Verge of Becoming A Statistic
Administration Looking To Replace Commissioner
By John M. Berry
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 5, 2001; Page A35
The Bush administration is seeking a replacement for Katharine G.
Abraham as commissioner of labor statistics,
Seymour Hersh was interviewd on NPR the other day and he spoke of his
numerous high up contacts in the CIA revealing to him that there's noo way
a white paper could be drawn up by the administration today, there just
isn't enough evidence that's convincing enough. I think he has an article
Did you get these income and savings #s from FoF?
Christian
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Subject: [PEN-L:18104] Re: RE: Re: RE: fiscal policy
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
Doug - so are you
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, OCTOBER 4, 2001:
Almost 100,000 U.S. workers lost their lives over a 16-year period as a
result of work-related injuries, according to two new documents released
by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The leading
causes of
Apropos of the queries on Realism etc. in international relations. The
essay isn't long; from the latest issue of the European Journal of
International Law:
http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol12/No3/art1.pdf
RELEASED TODAY: Payroll employment fell by 199,000 in September, and the
unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today. Sharp job losses continued in manufacturing, and
employment also fell in services, wholesale trade, and retail trade.
New
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Would it be possible for the list members to add their e-mail addresses to
their signatures?
there is at least one good reason why folks do not do this any more:
spammers collect addresses of people from usenet and mailing list
posts. some of the better list
From: Michael Keaney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The troubles with technical trends
Professionals have lost sight of the risks but cannot blame day traders
for the outcome, writes Barry Riley
Financial Times, Oct 05 2001
... Now there is a global economic recession in the offing. It has become
evident
I wrote:
The news tells us that the US may soon institute $60-$75 billion in new
anti-recession relief in the form of tax cuts and emergency spending in
the near future. If the multiplier is 5, then the impact would be $300 to
$375 billion. If, as more likely, the multiplier is 2, that's only
At 11:07 AM 10/5/01 -0400, you wrote:
the question i have for michael perelman is: do economics professors
and theorists usually frequent lap dancers? ;-)
I never inhaled.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
G'day Carl,
... Now there is a global economic recession in the offing. It has
become evident that herd behaviour caused by the risk reduction procedures
of big institutions can be disruptive and lead to irrational valuations.
Dog bites man -- read all about it!
It does seem the markets
full piece at:
http://www.thenation.com
Signs of the Times
by NAOMI KLEIN
[snip]
Many political opponents of anticorporate activism are using the
symbolism of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks to argue that
young activists, playing at guerrilla war, have now been caught out by
a
Just read a suggestion for a new National Motto in a ltter to the editor
of the Minneapolis Tribune, Oct. 5:
Spend your money--maybe you'll get your job back!
suggeted by James Johnson, Minneapolis.
Stephen Philion
Lecturer/PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
2424 Maile Way
Social Sciences
Fwd:
Subject:What to do with Bin Laden
What to do with Bin Laden
The problem is what do you do with him even once he's
found?
Kill him - he becomes a martyr...
Don't kill him - he's a hero to the extremists
Solution: Capture him alive, convict him of his crimes,
By Michael Kinsley
Friday, October 5, 2001; Page A37
Now may seem like an odd moment to be worrying that one person's terrorist
is another person's freedom fighter. If ever there was a man of violence who
didn't pose this issue, it is Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden is triply easy to
At 01:51 AM 10/6/01 +, you wrote:
the golden rule
remains that an Al cut is worth a four-day rally. I really don't know why the
man bothers ...
in theory, he doesn't care about what happens to the stock market (or
shouldn't care). He's supposedly trying to help Main Street, not Wall
It might not work. One of the great Afghani heroines, fearing that the
warriors were about to retreat from a British attack ripped off her black
veil (forget the proper name) and using it as a flag charged at the
British lines only to be shot down. But this act supposedly inspired the
Afghans to
great piece by kinsley. didn't congressman dick cheney classify mandela and anc
comrades as terrorists? it gets so murky because don't you remember pres reagan
touting the muhajadin as the Founding Fathers of their country. at any rate,
which political affiliations will prevent a foreign
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For members of PSN who have followed the Hart-Rudman reports, and its
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In which theory??
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:56:39AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
in theory, he doesn't care about what happens to the stock market (or
shouldn't care). He's supposedly trying to help Main Street, not Wall Street.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We (Drew University) have an opening for an adjunct faculty member to teach a
course in Spring semester on the social and economic development in Eastern Europe
and Russia. The course can be as broad or narrow in its geographical dimensions as
the faculty member desires, but it must include a
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:56:39AM -0700, I wrote:
in theory, he [Alan Greedspan] doesn't care about what happens to the
stock market (or
shouldn't care). He's supposedly trying to help Main Street, not Wall
Street.
At 12:28 PM 10/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
In which theory??
the one that
At 08:41 AM 10/3/01 -0700, you wrote:
You might be interested in looking at the e-magazine,
http://www.thecommoner.org
It has a number of articles on the war as well as some interesting
theoretical articles. Its previous issue concerned primitive
accumulation.
the latter had an article by
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I also believe that this type of write-downs may happen faster now. But who
will be that somebody who will have to eat the losses after the write-downs?
Is this not also important in the nature or speed of the recovery?
Best,
Sabri Oncu
It's the people holding
If write downs come too quickly, the process can destabilize the system --
since they necessitate real changes that can cause further write downs.
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:30:50AM -0700, edickens wrote:
It's the people holding the liabilities of the corporations to be re-structured
that
Paul Phillips said
Why a full blown sex change of course! And then send him back to his
home of Afghanistan to live out the rest of his life as a woman under the
Taliban government
(((
CB: I was thinking he might get a sex change as a disguise so he could escape.
according to a SLATE summary of an article in the WEEKLY [DOUBLE]
STANDARD, An article scorns
Edward Said specifically and post-colonial theory in general. As Said has
watched his dream of an alliance between Western liberalism and Arab
nationalism crumble with the World Trade Center, he has
from SLATE -- And what could be a more traditional value than
insensitive stupidity? The [Washington POST] reports that the
Rev. Louis Sheldon, chairman and founder of the Traditional Values
Coalition, said yesterday that the public and private relief agencies
providing assistance to Sept. 11
Title: Re: [PEN-L:18153] Edward Said
Jim Devine asks:
according to a SLATE summary of an
article in the WEEKLY [DOUBLE] STANDARD, An article scorns Edward Said specifically
and post-colonial theory in general. As Said has watched his dream of
an alliance between Western liberalism and Arab
At 04/10/01 23:54 +0100, I wrote:
according to Marx's description of capitalist
crises, interest rates ought now to be rising:
Marx refers to a money
famine.
Yet the most perceptive conventional commentators are now pointing to a
liquidity trap - that the central banks cannot reduce interest
At this rate , in about six months from now, the amount of media coverage of the
September 11 events will equal that of the coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial .
CB
Now that's going too far. A lot of hard working journalists busted their
ass during the OJ Trial to make sure that nothing ever gets more
coverage...
Hey, what's OJ's take on 9/11?
Sorry, I'm l think Charles, it comes down to the media squeezing as much
blood money as it can outta this
Center for Full Employment and Price Stability
University of Missouri, Kansas City
New Working Papers
L. Randall Wray (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Financial
Instability, Working Paper No. 26, Center for Full Employment and Price
Stability, Kansas City, September, 2001.
Sergio
That's where the Fed comes in. No corporation has to write-down liabilities that the
Fed will give a bank the money to prop up.
Michael Perelman wrote:
If write downs come too quickly, the process can destabilize the system --
since they necessitate real changes that can cause further
You are correct, but then the Fed will re-inflate the bubble and then
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:21:28PM -0700, edickens wrote:
That's where the Fed comes in. No corporation has to write-down liabilities that the
Fed will give a bank the money to prop up.
Michael Perelman wrote:
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