Medicare Bill Would Enrich Companies
$125 Billion More for Employers, Health Firms
By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 24, 2003; Page A01
The Medicare legislation that passed the House near dawn on Saturday and
is moving toward a final vote in the Senate would steer
Law Aims to Change Acquisitions
Defense Agencies to Mimic Private Firms in Buying Services
By Anitha Reddy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 24, 2003; Page E07
The defense authorization bill, which President Bush is expected to sign
today, includes a provision designed to improve
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 michael perelman wrote:
It is a perfect wedge issue...It also hits at Dean.
Perhaps not. It could be that Dean might have the perfect riposte: that
he's not for gay marriage, he's for gay civil unions. The NYT article
linked below argues that that may well be the position
At 4:51 AM -0500 11/24/03, Michael Pollak wrote:
[I]f civil unions could nationalized so that they included
citizenship rights along with health and housing entitlements and
inheritance, it would be a huge step forward.
And then maybe the way to take the next step forward towards
normalizing
* The International Herald Tribune
October 14, 2003 Tuesday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 821 words
HEADLINE: Korea romance: South meets North
BYLINE: James Brooke
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE: SEOUL:
BODY: The daughter of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, is pouting
in the suite of a
Last night PBS's Now with Bill Moyers aired an interesting show on how
the American working class is being screwed. You can read a transcript
at: http://www.pbs.org/now/
Bob Pollin, who has been talked up in Alex Cockburn's Counterpunch
newsletter and Nation Magazine articles (which usually
* Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:32:56 -0500
From: Mark Lause [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Marxism] Democratic Co-creators of Growing Inequalities in America...
The Democratic role in creating a massive black hole in the Middle
East for resources and lives should not eclipse its importance as the
The old Washington Consensus (= free trade for the poor,
protectionism for the rich) has crumbled, doomed by its own excess:
* washingtonpost.com
New Doubts About Bush Trade Agenda
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 22, 2003; Page E01
MIAMI, Nov. 21 -- Another
This is a response to Paul's post of ten days ago (Nov. 13) on recent
trends of the rate of profit in the US economy (see below). Paul, thanks
for your post and sorry for my delay in responding. It is a busy time of
the semester, and I had to find some time to take a look at Wolff's paper.
In
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I have always been an admirer of your work, and your very careful attention
to what Marx actually says in his writings, and I would like to take the
opportunity to ask some questions (I don't know if you have time to answer
them). Your RP is an average value RP pertaining to the sphere of
I wrote:
Your RP is an average value RP pertaining to the sphere of
production only, but quantitatively its magnitude depends a lot on the
definition of (Uf) (whether it enters in the nominator or denominator, since
if it does not enter in the denominator, it enters into the nominator; an
Monday, November 24, 2003 · Last updated 9:13 a.m. PT
Boeing fires execs for unethical conduct
By DAVE CARPENTER
AP BUSINESS WRITER
CHICAGO -- Boeing Co. fired its chief financial officer Monday for
negotiating the hiring of a missile defense expert while she worked for
the U.S. government and
Alas for the CEOs, Clinton raised their taxes, for which they never
forgave them. Bush, however, cut their taxes - thus the shower of
campaign donations.
A few years ago, Ron Blackwelll told the story of meeting with some
Fortune 500 CEOs. He said something like: I don't get it. Profits
are way
Mon 11.23.03| Goodbye to All That
The "New Economy" promised stock market riches and fulfilling high tech work for all, as well as an end to the business cycle. That is, until the bubble burst. Doug Henwood has written a post-mortem of the 1990s that looks at inequality, globalization, and --
Illusion of grandeur
The dollar's weakness is buoying up the euro, but that's not necessarily
good news for the eurozone economies, writes Mark Milner
Monday November 24, 2003
The Guardian
During the next couple of days the eurozone finance ministers will be
wrangling over what to do with
(from Marxmail)
I think that it is important to grasp the context in which steel and auto
jobs came to be unionized. Both were unionized in the late 1930s and early
1940s. In the US there was a real left movement, and this was very helpful
in terms of organizing and helping workers to grasp the
I don't see anything here or in Lou's comments that Bob Pollin would
disagree with.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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small world of big war profiteers
Date:
Fri, 21 Nov 2003 23:12:32 -0800
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Wally Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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U.S. Retracts Report of G.I. s Being Mutilated
November 24, 2003
By DEXTER FILKINS
The two soldiers that had died Sunday had gunshot wounds to
the head and their bodies were been pulled by Iraqis from
their car and robbed of their personal belongings.
OK. Alternative reality show: How to Insult a Millionaire!
Contestants compete for the best letter (250 words or less) telling
upper management exactly what
they think of them.Winner HAS to make public the name of the company and
walks away with 1/2 a mill.
Three left-wing Siskel and Eberts
British workers will do unpaid overtime worth £23bn this year, according to
a TUC survey today which showed that millions of people are putting in the
equivalent of an extra day's work every week for no additional financial
reward. The survey found that more that five million workers average seven
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