[PEN-L:11554] Re: Urban Regional Econ: Help!

1997-07-31 Thread Michael Hoover
Urban and Regional Economics. Barney Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Peter Smith, *City, State, Market: The Political Economy of Urban Society* Michael Peter Smith Joe R. Feagin, eds., *The Capitalist City* Susan Fainstein, et. al., *Restructuring the City: The Political

[PEN-L:11556] Re: Urban Regional Econ: Help!

1997-07-31 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
Barney: I found myself in a more or less same situation, being propelled to teach environmental planning. In my search for teachinng material, I discovered the site at U of Cal at Santa Cruz (it used to be a cool place before it was transforemd into a bedroom community for the Sillicon Valley

[PEN-L:11560] FW: Daily Report

1997-07-31 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1997: RELEASED TODAY: Most state unemployment rates showed little change in June, as 44 states and the District of Columbia recorded shifts of 0.3 percentage point or less from May. The national jobless rate increased to 5.0 percent over the month.

[PEN-L:11563] Re: Child tax credit

1997-07-31 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 97-07-30 07:47:46 EDT, you write: If you include only the cash income, then the effective wage is actually about $1.50/hr. In strudel, Tavis I didn't realize it was THAT low. As an aside, the rent subsidies were reinstated because the landlords were having appoplexy

[PEN-L:11564] Re: That's What.

1997-07-31 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Response (Jim C): I have read some interesting and informative missives from the above author and really this level and type of response is saddening as he is obviously capable of a higher level of discourse. The tone and level of sophistication of this response is more in line with the

[PEN-L:11565] Re: Urban Regional Econ: Help!

1997-07-31 Thread Michael Hoover
Urban and Regional Economics. Barney Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] re: regional economics Ann Markusen has authored/co-authored a bunch of articles and books. ..book titles include: *Profit Cycles, Oligopoly Regional Development* *Regions: The Economics Politics of Territory*

[PEN-L:11569] Re: The silence of Mandela

1997-07-31 Thread Patrick Bond
Sorry about the gunk here; have primitive system and am too rushed to clean up; but for those following SA's erratic foreign policy with a keen eye it may amuse... 31 July Business Day Online - News JAKARTA - Indonesia!-- on Wednesday -- yesterday denied a Portuguese news repo rt that!--

[PEN-L:11568] Thanks!

1997-07-31 Thread ZAHNISER STEVEN SCOTT
I would like to thank all the PEN-Lers who responded to my question about the home mortgage deduction. I will try to put your suggestions to good use! Steven Zahniser [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:11567] Kim Young Sam Fascict Clique Penalize Students

1997-07-31 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
Pyongyang, July 30 (KCNA) -- The south Korean "civilian" fascist clique, at the puppet Seoul district court on Monday, staged a trial of students prosecuted for the inauguration of the fifth-term South Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) and demanded prison terms

[PEN-L:11561] Re: time to sell...

1997-07-31 Thread Louis Proyect
Yeah, I just printed this out and am looking forward to reading it. The problem, it seems to me, is that people have been saying this for years now. Barron's almost every week makes the same point. The discrepancy between dividend yields and price-earnings ratio is greater than they've ever been.

[PEN-L:11562] So What?

1997-07-31 Thread James Michael Craven
Every day, African-American, American Indian, Female, Working-class, Hispanic, poor-White and immigrant schoolchildren in America read history books that mention nothing or at best present caricatures of the roles and forms of suffering of African-Americans, American Indians, Women, Workers,

[PEN-L:11559] time to sell...

1997-07-31 Thread James Devine
when SLATE magazine's Michael Kinsley asks How can everybody be 40 percent richer when the economy's grown by only 4 percent? in his article "The Stock Market Chicken-Counting Orgy," it's time to sell the stock market short. Reality is beginning to sink in with the punditocracy. Check it

[PEN-L:11555] That's What.

1997-07-31 Thread Max B. Sawicky
From: "James Michael Craven" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:11549] Re: Home Mortgage Deduction an enormous legacy of theft and violence that didn't come to pass in some dusty antiquity. Did you think that railroads, telecommunications, oil companies, ATT, Nike, etc.