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On 06/17/99 at 07:36 PM, "Taylor, Professor Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1999:
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> Consumer prices held steady in May, the Labor Department reports, calming
> inflation fears fanned by a sharp April gain. The price of most
> components that comprise the CPI-U calmed considerably -- and in some
> cases retreated -- in May, compar
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French members of KFOR reportedly suspect some mem
BTW, there is no need to interrupt the anti-imperialist struggle, just make the
ADA Platform part of it. It was at one point.
Henry C.K. Liu
"Henry C.K. Liu" wrote:
> NASDAQ for the ADA Platform.
> Productivity is a GOP doctrine.
> As for tax cut, revive the distinction between earned and une
NASDAQ for the ADA Platform.
Productivity is a GOP doctrine.
As for tax cut, revive the distinction between earned and unearned income.
Keep earned income low and unearned income high.
Henry C.K. Liu
Brad De Long wrote:
> >Apologies for interrupting the anti-imperialist struggle,
> >but I'd li
>>> Max Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/17/99 03:14PM >>
What about the new role for
the US armed forces, imposing the US standards of morality on tin-pot
dictatorships all around the world?
(
Charles: US standards of morality are those of dictatorship, tin-pot and bigtime.
CB
>Apologies for interrupting the anti-imperialist struggle,
>but I'd like to know if there are any thoughts here on
>how to best index the minimum wage. Possibilities
>include the CPI, average wages, productivity, etc.
I would say productivity...
>>
Which would subsume the inflationary component
>>
I'll take your word for it, except that I was only using tax cuts for the
rich as an _example_, not the _only_ form of "stuff we don't like." Also,
tax cuts in 1986 and 1997 have _cumulative_ results after they are enacted.
>>
'86 was not a tax cut, but a big rearranging of the deck
chairs. I
I want to thank both Doug Henwood and Michael
Hoover (on pen-l) for having provided some concrete
answers to my inquiry regarding the recent and current
status of the economic embargo against Yugoslavia
(not just Serbia), although presumably the Serbian
province of Kosmet (hi, Jim, :-)) will
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From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: embargo of Serbia
>Still catching up, so I don't know if anyone answered Barkley's question
>about the embargo, but a quick glance at t
Doug Orr wrote:
>... setting the Min wage at one-half of the average... may not help US
workers much. As other posts have pointed out, average real wages in the
US have been dropping since 1979 (with very minor increases the past two
years). Thus, if the min wage was pegged to average wages, it
Max asked a very important question, which desrves more time and attention
than it can get in this forum, but tossing out some ideas may help get the
discussion going.
Peter Dorman wrote:
Max, I think there are arguments for both average wages and CPI as
indexing options, but I would offer this
>> I have a stupid question regarding the CPI and real wages. My
understanding is that real wages are today essentially where they were
in about 1972 or so. I also am under the impression that "real wage"
is obtained by taking the wage and discounting by the CPI. >>
Not stupid, just a little u
<< . . .
I think that there is some truth to Makara's statements though. There may
have been a "peace dividend," but it was mostly spent on stuff we don't
like, like tax cuts for the rich. . . . >>
The only tax cut stacked towards the rich since 1986 was in 1997.
The ones you refer to were in 198
Charles Brown wrote:
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> Charles: Henry, what is meant by this "destroying" ? I thought we were in an era of
>unprecedented prosperity. Won't this Wall Street bull run forever ?
>
> CB
Yea, like run for your lives.
Henry
>>> "Henry C.K. Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/17/99 12:46PM >>>
Which explains why they have modified their stand a little bit.
Indeed, Clinton said at one stage if the economy of East Asia is harmed,
then workers in the United States will be retrenched. I don't know if he
was influence
This is like a scene out of a Fassbinder movie. It Hitler had won WWII, Germany
would look very much like it is today.
Henry C.K. Liu
Louis Proyect wrote:
> Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1999, Thursday, Home Edition
>
> The path to peace;
> German force savors 'moral' postwar debut;
> Balkans: m
Mahathir Mohamad is a couragaeous leader of Asian economic nationalism.
His intereview is worth reading by all interest in Asia and globalization.
Examples:
I started, from the very beginning to find a way to deal with the problem
without resorting to the IMF [International Monetary Fund]. From
Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1999, Thursday, Home Edition
The path to peace;
German force savors 'moral' postwar debut;
Balkans: many older ethnic Albanians recall Nazi troops in WWII as
liberators from Serbs. Today's soldiers are happy to hold their heads high.
MARJORIE MILLER, TIMES STAFF W
>Apologies for interrupting the anti-imperialist struggle,
>but I'd like to know if there are any thoughts here on
>how to best index the minimum wage. Possibilities
>include the CPI, average wages, productivity, etc.
>
>Another issue is progressive tax cuts, to contrast
>with the proposed 15% ac
I have a stupid question regarding the CPI and real wages. My
understanding is that real wages are today essentially where they were
in about 1972 or so. I also am under the impression that "real wage"
is obtained by taking the wage and discounting by the CPI.
One: Is this correct? If not, how
Last Sunday I was in Philadelphia, speaking to the Brandywine Peace Center
- a peace and social justice group that has been doing good work there for
many years. Several old friends and members of Democratic Socialists of
America (DSA) came to hear me, fresh from a meeting of their own. Carl
Da
U.S. Details Embassy Bombing for Chinese
Beijing Officials Remain 'Skeptical' at Washington's Explanation of
Accidental Attack
By Michael Laris
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, June 17, 1999; Page A30
BEIJING, June 17 (Thursday)Af
He's the heir. Why else would Clinton nominate him?
>>
BTW, there was/is a flap about Clinton's appointment of James Hormel, an
open gay, as US ambassador to Luxemburg (or is it Liechetenstein?) I ask:
does he have any connection with the Hormel corporation?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &
htt
Hi Jim,
Well, he is one of "those Hormels" (old canned pork money, heh.) I don't
know if Hormel is owned by the family anymore, though. he's mostly a
philanthropist, funded a very lovely g/l/b/t reading & research room at the
new San Fran library and is very active in Democratic Party fundraising
Terrible injustice was done to the Yugoslav peoples and the Serbs in
particular. The question remains...
WHY?
In the well known movie about American Mafia "Il Padrino", a Mafia boss
explains to his colleague why he had to murder his cousin:
"It is strictly business - nothing personal!"
The col
The report below is an example of residual feudal culture in China despite
50 years of socialist construction.
Feudalism in China has aspects of what modern political science would
label as fascist, socialist and democratic. As a socio-political
system, feudalism is inherently authoritarian and t
I wrote: >>I think that there is some truth to Makara's statements though.
There may have been a "peace dividend," but it was mostly spent on stuff we
don't like, like tax cuts for the rich. . . . <<
Max writes: >The only tax cut stacked towards the rich since 1986 was in
1997. The ones you refer
There's quite a bit of stuff on the web, depending on what you are looking for.
I believe Rob Weissman has written in Mulitinational Monitor on the Tobacco/MAI/WTO
nexus. You can search back issues of the Monitor on their web site at
www.essential.org.
for other MAI stuff, what better place to
In the wake of yesterday's inflation report, I'd like to
acknowledge the piece by Dean Baker of the Preamble
Center that immediately followed the previous report,
available on their web site. (www.preamble.org)
It may be recalled that there was a hubub over last
month's report of an inflation spi
Apologies for interrupting the anti-imperialist struggle,
but I'd like to know if there are any thoughts here on
how to best index the minimum wage. Possibilities
include the CPI, average wages, productivity, etc.
Another issue is progressive tax cuts, to contrast
with the proposed 15% across-th
Bill writes: >I have a stupid question regarding the CPI and real wages.
My understanding is that real wages are today essentially where they were
in about 1972 or so. I also am under the impression that "real wage" is
obtained by taking the wage and discounting by the CPI.
>One: Is this correct
The tobacco industry, a state monopoly, is very powerful in China. China is
the biggest market for international tobaco. On this issue, China is among the
most backward nation in the world, although smoking has recently been banned in
public places in major cities. The reason for this backwardn
China Rebuffs Clinton Envoy On Bombing
BEIJING, Jun 17, 1999 -- (Reuters) China
rejected on Thursday U.S. envoy Thomas Pickering's explanation of a series
of intelligence blunders that led to NATO bombing Beijing's embassy in
Belgrade.
"The
Petar Makara writes: >The cold war is over for a decade now - but there is
NO Peace Dividend. NATO has to survive so that hundreds of billions of
dollars can be sucked out of the American people. Any excuse to prolong
NATO's life - is a good excuse.<
Glancing at the government's official statisti
By far, a better critique from a Canadian perspective of MAI is
Andrew Jackson and Matthew Sanger (eds.) *DISMANTLING
DEMOCRACY*, (CCPA/Lorimer, 1998). It is a superb collection of
critiques by various experts on many aspects of the MAI -- e.g. the
MAI and the Environment byMichell Swenarchuk
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1999
RELEASED TODAY:
CPI -- On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U was unchanged in May,
following a 0.7 percent rise in April. Energy costs declined 1.3 percent in
May, reflecting a sharp turnaround in the index for gasoline. ... The food
index, which
Max, I think there are arguments for both average wages and CPI as
indexing options, but I would offer this argument for average wages: it
has the potential to become an international standard. In thinking
about labor standards that might be pushed internationally, minimum
wages are central. It
>From Scott Shuger's SLATE column (copyright Bill Gates): >The WP reports
that the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Protestant
denomination and President Clinton's church, has rebuked Clinton for
declaring June as National Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, which the SBC finds
"contrary to
Kosovo Peace Accord (Z, July '99)
By Noam Chomsky
On March 24, U.S.-led NATO air forces began to pound the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia (FRY, Serbia and Montenegro), including Kosovo, which NATO
regards as a province of Serbia. On June
At 10:31 AM 6/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Apologies for interrupting the anti-imperialist struggle,
>but I'd like to know if there are any thoughts here on
>how to best index the minimum wage. Possibilities
>include the CPI, average wages, productivity, etc.
>
how about linking the minimum wage to
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