The manufacturer does not produce shoes because he knows that Jones needs
them. He produces because he knows that dozens of traders will buy certain
numbers at various prices because they (or rather the retailer they serve)
know that thousands of Joneses, whom the manufacturer does not know,
Counterpunch, October 18 / 19, 2003
Clintonomics: a Reappraisal
The Hollow Boom
By ROBERT POLLIN
[
Watch what we do, not what we say.
-- John Mitchell, Attorney General under President Richard Nixon
It's the economy stupid, was the one memorable slogan to have emerged out
of Bill Clinton's
NY Times Business Section, October 19, 2003
The Revolution Is Coming, Eventually
By KATIE HAFNER
SHORTLY before noon on a drizzly day in late August, George Gilder had a
housekeeping announcement to make during his annual technology conference
at the Squaw Creek resort in Lake Tahoe. The weather
[the 'papers' are on-line now...]
http://www.joanrobinsonconference.net/program.html
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for
originality. There aren't any. [Les Paul]
Does anyone know if George Gilder is a descendant of Carnegie's
associate named Gilder?
Gene Coyle
Louis Proyect wrote:
NY Times Business Section, October 19, 2003
The Revolution Is Coming, Eventually
By KATIE HAFNER
SHORTLY before noon on a drizzly day in late August, George Gilder had a
Title: moore critique
These are from the nitpickers (they help
keep lice from spreading) at
http://www.spinsanity.org/
Dude, Where's My Intellectual
Honesty?
By Bryan Keefer
October 16, 2003
In his latest book Dude, Where's My Country? -- a polemic against
President Bush -- liberal gadfly
In the course of trashing Michael Moore's latest book, www.spinsanity.com says:
Bush's policies towards Iraq come in for particular criticism - and, in
several cases, gross distortions. Moore writes that There were claims
that the French were only opposing war to get economic benefits out of
Has there ever been a sustainable job-loss recovery? I see a number of
signs of recovery, but they seem relatively superficial. Business week
says that the positive earnings is deceptive. Is this apparent recovery
going to be sufficient to give Bush a second term?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics
It seems to me that the lower value of the US dollar
and the increased sales to foreign markets will be
seen in quarterly corporate profit reports just in
time to give the stock market a boost and Shrub just
the push he needs to get himself re-selected.
Best,
Mike B)
=
My god, if this is the best that Moore's critics can come up with --
particularly when compared with the howlers that Bush and Blair came up
with on WMD, Saddam's ties to El Quaida, etc. The whole Bush/Blair
compaign was (deliberate) lying through the teeth. Compared to the
reporting of CNN and
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001768998_contracts18.html
Close-up
Trade secrets in Iraq: Profits not revealed in rebuilding contracts
By David Wood
Newhouse News Service
WASHINGTON - Profits earned by U.S. companies engaged in the
multibillion-dollar reconstruction of
Moore or less. . .we need a thousand moores . . .and a million Alexander Cockburns!
What many left nitpickers -- of whom I am one -- fail to understand is that the left requires a constantly replenishing supply of propagandists, particularlygifted ones like the above mentioned. And I'm using the
--- Brian McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Moore or less. . .we need a thousand moores . . .and
a million Alexander
Cockburns!
And a billion Guy Debord's. ;D
Mike B)
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A man's maturity consists in finding once again the
Presidents fall out over money
John Aglionby in Bangkok
Monday October 20, 2003
The Guardian
China's president, Hu Jintao, yesterday rejected a personal appeal from
his American counterpart, George Bush, to revalue his country's currency
and adjust other policies that Washington claims give
Business Week had an interesting article on WallMart. Here are a few
facts I culled. The part on China at the end might be most interesting.
Bianco, Anthony and Wendy Zellner. 2003. Is Wal-Mart Too
Powerful? Business Week (6 October): pp 100-10.
102: “With $245 billion in revenues in 2002,
http://www.iht.com/articles/114369.html
Douglas Jehl/NYT NYT Monday, October 20, 2003
U.S. fears money may finance attacks
WASHINGTON American investigators have evidence that $3 billion that
belonged to Saddam Hussein's government is being held in Syrian-controlled
banks in Syria and
Business Week suggests that a revalued currency might be a disaster for
Chinese Banks. The Chinese may be renegages (Mao might have been more
attuned to the course of Chinese communism than we have credited him),
but I don't think that their leaders are stupid or crazy.
--
Michael Perelman
And a phalanx of Joel Kovels, a storm of Lenny Bruces and. . . .in the Guy DeBord tradition, a whale of Phil Ochs. . .also a suicide. . .
For more on Debord. . .
Michael Perelman wrote:
Has there ever been a sustainable job-loss recovery? I see a number of
signs of recovery, but they seem relatively superficial. Business week
says that the positive earnings is deceptive. Is this apparent recovery
going to be sufficient to give Bush a second term?
If
A System Going Under?
Projected Pension Shortfalls Turn Focus to Reform
By Albert B. Crenshaw
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 19, 2003; Page F01
During his 35-plus working years at Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore, Melvin
Schmeizer endured blazing heat and freezing cold, layoffs and
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