Will the Five-Day-Week Become Universal? IT WILL NOT!

2001-01-04 Thread Tom Walker
Pocket Bulletin, Official Publication of the National Association of Manufacturers, October 1926 The Five-Day-Work Week; Can It Become Universal? Presidents of Numerous Large Establishments Employing Hundreds of Thousands of Men in Various Lines of Manufacture, Declare Tendency to Less Work and

Re: Energy deregulation

2001-01-04 Thread kelley
just for you came off of Declan McCullagh's Politics and Technology List, http://reason.com/ml/ml010401.html

radioactive spoons again

2001-01-04 Thread michael perelman
http://www.ens.lycos.com/ens/jan2001/2001L-01-03-15.html -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Re: Energy deregulation

2001-01-04 Thread David Shemano
Eugene Coyle generously forwarded to me his report prepared for the American Public Power Association concerning the expected consequences of deregulating the electrical power industry, which I have been able to skim. It is very compelling and I am in agreement of much of what it says in its

Re: Massive jump in US population

2001-01-04 Thread Andrew Hagen
You noted that US economic growth of the 1990's coincides with population growth, and claimed that the LTV rightly connects the two. What, then, under the LTV, would account for the recent decline in corporate profits and economic growth? Andrew Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 02 Jan 2001

interesting job announcement

2001-01-04 Thread michael perelman
Job Announcement Senior Analyst/Economist Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy is a progressive, independent, non-profit think tank engaged in analysis, research, advocacy, and education-for-action on hunger and poverty, environmental degradation, and alternative development

BLS Daily Report

2001-01-04 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2001 Deteriorating economic conditions prompted the Federal Reserve to cut short-term interest rate targets by half a percentage point, a surprise move economists said sets the stage for further rate reductions and signals the central bank's commitment to

BLS Daily Report

2001-01-04 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2001 RELEASED TODAY: In November, 217 metropolitan areas recorded unemployment rates below the U.S. average (3.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted), while 108 areas registered higher rates. Forty-one metropolitan areas had jobless rates below 2.0 percent,