Re: South Korean fire sale

2000-04-23 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Louis Proyect crossposted New York Times, April 22, 2000 Renault Agrees to Buy Troubled Samsung Motors [text deleted] Actually, a fine example of the new hegemons at work. Samsung got into the auto biz way late, I think in 1995 or so, and has pretty limited industrial

Labor Disputes in China on the Rise

2000-04-23 Thread Stephen E Philion
Chinese Workers Are Showing Disenchantment Official Statistics Show Number of Labor Disputes Has Soared as Workers Complain of Late or No Pay, Layoffs, Corruption By John Pomfret Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 23, 2000; Page A23 BEIJING—The number of labor disputes in China has

Re: Re: RE: plateaus

2000-04-23 Thread Doug Henwood
Rod Hay wrote: Doug was stretching it a bit. The downturn in the market hit in 1913, before the war started. Here's the real (CPI-deflated) annual average of the Cowles Commission index, the SP 500's predecessor: 1900127.27 1901162.27 1902167.47 1903138.19 1904134.96 1905

Globalization by Samir Amin

2000-04-23 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
Al-Ahram Weekly, 20 - 26 April 2000 Issue No. 478 http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2000/478/in4.htm Democratising globalisation By Samir Amin The European Union and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) had two different agendas prepared for the