[PEN-L:643] THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER ISSUE #6 (fwd)

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[PEN-L:641] FW: Some Report Of Interest Never Before Available

FYI From: Michael Ravnitzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Some Report Of Interest Never Before Available Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:13:27 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following selected reports have never been released to the public but are available from DTIC. Please t

[PEN-L:639] Re: Re: Re: Currency Values

At 09:39 AM 10/23/98 -0400, you wrote: >I'm not sure what the origin of this line of discussion is, but it is now >pretty well accepted, even in mainstream international finance, that the >trading of currencies for the purposes of financing trade (yen for pounds >to buy British sweaters) is largel

[PEN-L:637] Warning! Anti-Communist!

this is what we contend with here -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:15:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Jennifer Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Grad students <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ltr to (fwd) This is an letter to Chancellor Hooker of UNC written by the mother of

[PEN-L:632] Galbraith's on-line seminar

Pen-lers, This is the final reminder that Jamie Galbraith's seminar on his book Created Unequal will begin on this coming Monday, October 26. The book covers a lot of important issues, and so I'm looking forward to a lively and interesting discussion. To subsribe to the seminar, if you haven't alr

[PEN-L:642] Re: Re: Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Nairu,Kaizen Kaizen

I wrote: >>It's a good critique of the MF's NAIRU (or what the MF unscientifically calls the "natural rate of unemployment" as if there were anything natural about the economy). However, I don't see Jamie as dealing with other theories of the NAIRU. Put another way, he doesn't look for the "ration

[PEN-L:631] Economic Policy for South Africa

Colleagues, I've got a mission for some of you. I've been enlisted to help some fairly substantial progressive forces in South Africa obtain advice on macroeconomic policy from U.S. economists. As some of you may know, I wouldn't know beans about this myself. My role will be largely administra

[PEN-L:640] Re: Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Nairu, Kaizen Kaizen

Jim Devine wrote, >It's a good critique of the MF's NAIRU (or what the MF unscientifically >calls the "natural rate of unemployment" as if there were anything natural >about the economy). However, I don't see Jamie as dealing with other >theories of the NAIRU. Put another way, he doesn't look for

[PEN-L:630] RE: teaching in prison

Thanks for the post Mike. I would also like to here from anyone involved with teaching in prison and about teaching programs. I think the potential for reducing recidivism (along with other benefits to the incarcerated) makes these appealing programs. Jeff -- From: Mike Yates To: [EMAIL

[PEN-L:638] to the Prozac Economists Network List

Hope for Depression Sufferers Washington, D.C.: Researchers at the Federal Reserve Laboratories in Washington have discovered that economic depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brains of left-wing economists. According to Dr. Alan Greenspan, "A depression episode can be triggered w

[PEN-L:629] Re: Re: Currency Values

I'm not sure what the origin of this line of discussion is, but it is now pretty well accepted, even in mainstream international finance, that the trading of currencies for the purposes of financing trade (yen for pounds to buy British sweaters) is largely irrelevant in determining exchange rates,

[PEN-L:628] Re: What are we doing here

I know its not gemane to the central issue of the debate (and is in fact nit picking), but in reading the exchanges (Yen vrs Pound etc0 I have seen the following statement repeated uncritically several times: "the Bank of Japan reduces the supply of money (perh

[PEN-L:636] Re: Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Nairu,Kaizen Kaizen

At 08:46 AM 10/23/98 -0700, Tom wrote: >... In _Created Unequal_, Jamie Galbraith analyzed the conceptual incoherence of NAIRU and demonstrated its empirical irrelevance. It's not the first time that NAIRU concept has been deconstructed, but it is a very well reasoned and clear discussion. Galbrai

[PEN-L:627] Re: Student Feedback

Jim, What a wonderful story! I wish I'd had the chance to take your class. Re: selling it to your Administration, it seems like a course that's ripe for distance learning; sex is, after all, one of the few industries online to make a profit, and aren't you accademics supposed to be learning from

[PEN-L:635] Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Nairu, Kaizen Kaizen

Imagine a band of saffron-suited, saffron-tied devotees bobbing down the sidewalk pounding on drums and tamborines chanting, not Hari Krishna, Hari Krishna but Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Kaizen, Nairu Nairu, Kaizen Kaizen. Their heads are shaved except for a long pigtail to serve as a handle by which th

[PEN-L:634] Re: Of money, funds and forex

Valis asks: >Can ... someone else comment on the origin of debt as a corporate asset; the concept seems like such crooked thinking to me. I can't imagine average individuals transforming their debts into negotiables. Are governments doing the same thing in bilateral dealings?< There's nothing we

[PEN-L:633] Re: Re: What are we doing here

At 09:26 AM 10/23/98 -0400, you wrote: More than once, I wrote: >>the Bank of Japan reduces the supply of money (perhaps via an open-market purchase of Japanese treasury bonds, though I don't know how they do monetary policy), driving up the interest rate on Yen-denominated assets.<< Frank writes