In yesterday's Washington Post we saw one of
the first signs of realization that indeed the national
debt is really an asset after all. Next Tuesday is the
last sale of new one-year Treasury bills. Lots of
contracts are indexed on that bill and now it is going
to disappear. Talk is that
[How long before fetuses are full fledged commodities?]
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36617-2001Feb21.html
Nobel Laureates Back Stem Cell Research
Group of 80 Recipients Sends Letter Asking Bush Not to Block U.S. Funding for
Studies
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
I just read the article that Barkeley
recommended regarding anti-sematism. It
didn't quite seen quite like
anti-sematism to me. Class seem to be a
much more common factor. Hayek
distinguished between the recently
arriving Polish Jews and the
distinguished families.
What seemed to rankle
To give some idea of what a difference it would make to cut the payroll tax than
income taxes, or in addition to income taxes, consider the following. While the
bottom half of tax paying income earners pay around 4% of the total income tax,
the same group pays just under 20% of the total payroll
I am not sure about this. Do other people find this a bit far-fetched?
Certainly stocks associated with the military-industrial complex are likely
to prosper but I would think that the touting of the NMD system has as much
or more to do with this as the specific instance of bombing Iraq.
http://www.bu.edu/ssw/MYERSCENTER/subjectMNOP.htm
Negative Intelligence: The Army and the American Left, 1917-1941
Maybe, this is the book.
M.P.
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No, but that book is really good too. The Goldstein came out in the late
70's, no? The one I'm not finding yet is only a few yrs. old.
M.P.
P.S. The early Alan Wolfe book from the early 70's on repression and the
Isaac Balbus, "Dialectics of Legal Oppression, " Murray Kempton book on the
Panther
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trade talks from going ahead, this did not mean
there would not be trade negotiations at the WTO.
On the contrary, a whole new set of WTO talks
Robert J. Goldstein, Political Repression in the United States? --jks
On political repession cf., "??? (can't find the title anywhere!
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Ruling class opinion received a jolt
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Although the Battle of Seattle was successful in preventing a new comprehensive
round of global trade talks from going ahead, this did not mean there would not
be trade
NY Times, February 21, 2001
Management: Discarded Dreams of Dot-Com Rejects
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
They are young, smart and bitter. They are the victims of the recent wave
of layoffs in the high-technology industry, and many of them cannot believe
how clumsy their former employers were in
On political repession cf., "??? (can't find the title anywhere! From a
university press, a few years ago. On US Army intelligence spying on Blacks
after WWI, www.bn.com has a lousy search function. You can type in an
author's name and find stuff that under the title they say they don't have!
And
21 February 2001
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BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: "Consumer Price Index: January 2001": indicates that the
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.6 percent
in January, before seasonal adjustment, to a level of 175.1 (1982-84=100).
For the 12-month
All Good No Bad
Thomas Frank (editor of The Baffler)
Markets may have made their peace with activism, rebellion, radicalism,
revolution, change-agenting, hierarchy-questioning, sacred-cow-killing,
power-seizing, apple-cart-overturning and everything else on the exciting
menu of New Economy
Speaking of the FBI, there was a biography of Marcus Garvey on television the other
day. It stated that J. Edgar Hoover got his start as the Master Spy of the U.S. Secret
Police by spooking on Garvey. Most estimations of the U.S. political system fail to
take account of the role of
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Ruling class opinion received a jolt yesterday when it was discovered that
top FBI spy Robert Philip Hanssen was working for the Russians since 1985.
He identified Soviet double-agents for the Kremlin in exchange for cash,
usually delivered in garbage bags underneath designated bridges.
In some
The federal law on joint operating agreements ( JOA's) for newspapers is a recent
example of the expression of the Leninist principle of state-monopoly. The Detroit
News and Free Press used this monopoly in defeating the recent six year strike by
newspaper workers.
Charles Brown
(((
Just a reminder to one and all that there will
be a roundtable on the economics of Lynn Turgeon
this Saturday at 2 PM in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in
New York City at the Eastern Economic Association
meetings. Even if you are not attending the meetings,
you can get a free badge to attend this
Michael,
Deirdre and Donald are very closely related,
very closely indeed
Barkley Rosser
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I was just wondering if Deirdre was related to Donald. Nevermind.
Michael Pugliese
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So, to slow down this potentially destabilizing effect
is a strong argument for a tax cut. What is needed is to
make sure that it is not so heavily tilted to the upper end
of the income distribution as the current proposals coming
from the president.
Barkley Rosser
of course, this
Pkers and Pen-lers may be interested in the following at the EEA Saturday
morning at 9am. There will be fewer and fewer opportunities to see Heilbroner,
especially squaring off against the likes of Auntie Deirdre. Ingrid is also a
treasure. Kenen is an accomplished mainstream international
The Environmental Impact of the Israeli Occupation by Jad Issac
14 March 2000 -- Part of the "Fertile Crescent," historic Palestine
is positioned at the crossroads between Eurasia and Africa. It hosts
over 2,500 species of wild plants, 800 of which are rare, and some
140 of which are limited
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The U.S. trade deficit reached a
Well, this argument was made in the book
_The End of Science_ by John Horgan. But, it
is clear that Horgan way overdid it.
Barkley Rosser
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:47 PM
At 10:26 PM 2/21/01 -0600, you wrote:
To give some idea of what a difference it would make to cut the payroll
tax than
income taxes, or in addition to income taxes, consider the
following. While the
bottom half of tax paying income earners pay around 4% of the total income
tax,
the same group
At 08:43 PM 2/21/01 -0800, you wrote:
Whether the striver imperfectly adopts
the demeanor of his betters or whether
he betters he his betters, he is
violating the norms of class.
but the point is that ethnic groups have been assigned to different class
positions. Even though class plays a big
Curious on this I just checked the DLC website. Did a search "payroll tax"
50 hits.
http://www.ndol.org/index.cfm
Michael Pugliese
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From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:15 AM
Subject:
from SLATE, 22 February 2001:
today's papers
Pardon For The Course
by Scott Shuger
The NY [TIMES] and LA [TIMES] lead with the revelation that lawyer Hugh
Rodham, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother, received fees totaling
about $400,000 for his involvement in supporting a pardon
In the article, for example, Hayek distinguishes between the well bred
Hungarian Jews and the recent immigrants from Poland. Keynes, also, had great
affection for certain kinds of Jews, but associated Jews in general with
striving, moneygrubbing behavior.
Just as Colin Powell can sit next to
Ken wrote:
I am not sure about this [Chossudovsky on Iraq bombing]. Do other people
find this a bit far-fetched? Certainly stocks associated with the
military-industrial complex are likely to prosper but I would think that
the touting of the NMD system has as much or more to do with this as
Please tell us your conclusions rather than tantalizing us with hints.
At 08:41 AM 2/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
Curious on this I just checked the DLC website. Did a search "payroll tax"
50 hits.
http://www.ndol.org/index.cfm
Michael Pugliese
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From: Jim Devine [EMAIL
At 08:50 AM 2/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
There are usually a couple of professors murdered each year, where their
attack
has something to do with their professional duties. Usually it's a
disgruntled
graduate student.
Some grad student at Berkeley sent a copy to his own Ph.D. advisor of an
Heh, I have a B.A. in Sociology not in the dismal science. I joined pen-l
to get the benefit of all your wisdom!
On a very cursory glance looks like the DLC since '98 or so (see the Bob
Kerrey speech?) has advocated a tax credit equivalent to 15% of the payroll
tax. But, again I look to
At 09:19 AM 2/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
Heh, I have a B.A. in Sociology not in the dismal science. I joined pen-l
to get the benefit of all your wisdom!
On a very cursory glance looks like the DLC since '98 or so (see the Bob
Kerrey speech?) has advocated a tax credit equivalent to 15% of
Wouldn't the students rationally expect what their teachers would tell
them without going to class. So why couldn't they just sell the diploma
and be done with the university?
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:10:26AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
It turns out there's a Mises University, in Auburn Alabama
Michael Pugliese wrote that cutting payroll taxes
Seems like a good idea to me. I see by my paystubs that the bulk of the
bite in my bracket is for payroll taxes. But, I don't like to agree with
the DLC.
even Milton Friedman has been known to be right when the moon is blue. So
we can't
Seems like a good idea to me. I see by my paystubs that the bulk of the bite
in my bracket is for payroll taxes. But, I don't like to agree with the DLC.
Would prefer the House Progressive Caucus proposal to give the bottom 80%
(?) a check for $500. In general, I dislike GOP or neo-lib tax cuts,
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/02/2001022201u.htm
Chronicle of Education
Thursday, February 22, 2001
'Automatic Professor Machine' Is
Unveiled -- by a Longtime
Technology Critic
By
that would be more efficient.
At 10:27 AM 2/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
Wouldn't the students rationally expect what their teachers would tell
them without going to class. So why couldn't they just sell the diploma
and be done with the university?
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:10:26AM -0800, Jim
There are also more or less "Mises Colleges" one is Hillside or Hillsomething in
Michigan, and they do do some 'unplanned' experiments--like not having any paths
to and from buildings, as an experiment in "spontaneous order."--I'd heard this
somewhere don't know if it's true. Richard Ebeling
Jim Devine wrote:
Further, I'm
sure they're more interested in helping the rich as a whole -- and their
friends and political allies -- than the stock market _per se_.
In the absence of an active (and growing) working class movement there
is a tendency for marxists to develop goofy
By the by the way way, Somehow I got on the Mises Institute mailing list, and
veryone should get their Mises Review and another thing they put out maybe Mises
Newsletter. Beside the "enemy research" angle, some of their stuff is just so
entertaining! And useful for the classroom. One thing they
but they don't believe in rational expectations. not at all. Lachmann was very
close to Shackle in many resepcts. Lachmann is considered by some Austrians to
be a "nihilist" because he takes the Austrian notion of radical uncertainty so
seriously he almost doesn't get market coordination or
Lew Rockwell teaches there. See www.lewrockwell.com
A number of yrs. ago at the yearly confabs of the Randolph Club (or is it
Society?) in Philadelphia he let out a blast on the neo-cons. Russell Kirk
and Murray Rothbard (and Sam Francis of the racist Council of Conservative
Citizens agreed) in
they aren't right, though. yes payroll taxes, but there is much more to the
story. first, size of the cut. dlc is way way too low. second they are obsessed
with debt reduction, which is ridiculous. i haven't looked at the biz week thing
yet, but the dlc piece i looked at is more of the same
"Social Capital" uttered by the toad Blair.
Michael Pugliese
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but they don't believe in rational expectations. not at all. Lachmann was very
close to Shackle in many resepcts. Lachmann is considered by some Austrians to
be a "nihilist" because he takes the Austrian notion of radical uncertainty so
seriously he almost doesn't get market coordination or
Didja say Illuminati?!
http://www.illuminati-news.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=chossudovsky+illuminatibtnG=Google+Search
Michael Pugliese
P.S. It's a joke Carrol.
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From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thursday,
reminds me that one of the controversies between the GMers and the Auburners was
that the latter received donations from certain political groups that were
against (certain kinds of) immigration and then suddenly Auburn was arguing
against (certain kinds of) immigration. The GMers take their
Hillsdale. A comrade of mine runs a left wing bookstore in Hillsdale. --jks
There are also more or less "Mises Colleges" one is Hillside or
Hillsomething in
Michigan, and they do do some 'unplanned' experiments--like not having any
paths
to and from buildings, as an experiment in "spontaneous
Hillsdale. Where the long time leader George P. Roche III had a decades long
affair with his son's wife. When it all came crashing down last year, she
killed herself in front of the admin. bldg.
Hillsdale students accept no gov't $ for tuition or living expenses. No Pell
grants.
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Aiding America's victims
Litigation awards a lot to a few but no-fault insurance may be fairer - and
cheaper
Published: February 21 2001 19:34GMT | Last Updated: February 21 2001 19:42GMT
Suppose three refinery workers in Texas are maimed by burns that cover 70 per
"Forstater, Mathew" wrote:
There are also more or less "Mises Colleges" one is Hillside or Hillsomething in
Michigan, and they do do some 'unplanned' experiments--like not having any paths
to and from buildings, as an experiment in "spontaneous order."
That would probably work. The office
Regardless of Schackle and Lachmann, the only way that you can get the spontaneous
coordination is that the participants have foresight.
"Forstater, Mathew" wrote:
but they don't believe in rational expectations. not at all. Lachmann was very
close to Shackle in many resepcts. Lachmann is
Ian wrote:
Not to mention leaving spontaneous and efficient pretty undefined.
yes, but that is no different between neoclassicals and Austrians, if anything
more true of neos as far as spontaneous. and though neos may be more specific on
efficiency it is because efficiency means
At 01:27 PM 2/22/01 -0600, Mathew Forstater wrote:
>reminds me that one of the controversies between the GMers and the Auburners was
>that the latter received donations from certain political groups that were
>against (certain kinds of) immigration and then suddenly Auburn was arguing
>against
cant get into it now, but i dont think that is right. now i dont accept you
actually get spont coord. (obviously!), but they have an argument that doesnt
depend on it. it is based on Schutzian sociology. (and conversely i dont believe
you get spont coord. with rat ex, even in theory!) but it will
FEBRUARY 22, 15:25 EST
Minorities Behind in Economic Boom
By GERALDA MILLER
Associated Press Writer
DETROIT (AP) Dina Owens has already spent two weeks without a job this year, the
result of a temporary layoff by DaimlerChrysler AG. She doesn't like how it feels.
Owens, a 32-year-old
Jeffrey Beatty writes:
Mat's comment is consistent with what I know of Llewellyn Rockwell, whose
libertarianism and Austrian economic perspective seem to be a smokescreen
for an attempt to resuscitate John C. Calhoun as well as the rest of the
"Lost Cause" of the old Confederate states.
I
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2001:
RELEASED TODAY: "Extended Mass Layoffs in the Fourth Quarter of 2000"
indicates that in the fourth quarter of 2000, there were 1,905 mass layoff
actions by employers that resulted in the separation of 374,320 workers from
their jobs for more than
Protests from abroad to gov't approving rightist textbook
TOKYO FEB 22 JPS -- Alarmed at the Education Ministry's moves to pass a
rightist history textbook in the ministry's screening, Asian and other
countries are expressing protest.
Akahata of February 22 reported that criticism has come from
Laos sees China, Vietnam as successful socialist model
Kyodo News Service
VIENTIANE, Feb. 10 (Kyodo) - By: Supalak Ganjanakhundee
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) will continue leading Laos
toward the goal of realizing a socialist society patterned after the
'successful models of
Concluding paragraphs of "William Stanley Jevons and the Coal Question" by
Brett Clark and John Bellamy Foster, in "Organization and Environment"
(Vol. 14, Number 1, March 2001)
Although the Jevons paradox [increased efficiency in using a natural
resource, such as coal, generates increased
[from Ellen Gould]
http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/016_2001-02-19/HAN016-E
.htm
Mr. Bill Blaikie (Winnipeg—Transcona, NDP): Mr. Speaker, my question is
also for the
Minister for International Trade.
The minister seems to not appreciate the seriousness of the fact that
Cynical as I am, I'm surprised by the recent twists of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page. First, after years of haranguing about the
national debt, is no longer a problem. They want tax cuts. Also, on
yesterday's editorial page ahead an article arguing that the elimination
of the dreaded
Just by the way, the Mises Institute is on the perimeter of Auburn's campus
(the "loveliest village on the plain" as they call it here); it doesn't have
much to do with Auburn's campus or the way it's run. (Indeed, the university
is currently micromanaged by a local banker who resembles _the
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