Strange bedfellows dept. Chossudovsky and Jared Isreal are cited in the
newsbriefs section of the latest issue of The New American, the magazine of
the far right mainstay in the USA, the John Birch Society. Two pgs. before,
Gerhard Schroeder is identified as a Marxist (!) but, not Chossudovsky.
At 06:50 PM 05/08/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>PPP?
>
>I probably have asked this before, but I doubt I'm alone in my inability
>to keep _all_ the abbreviations permanently in memory.
PPP = purchasing power parity. It's a theory of how exchange rates are
determined in the long run. The assumption is
I wrote:
> > Keynesian tax cuts -- including Dumbya's -- affect consumer spending
> much more than (real) investment. That in turn could create the markets
> that businesses require if they want to invest in new plant and equipment.<
Christian writes:
>What's the theory behind this--ie tax cuts
This is long, but interesting and no doubt debatable in places.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
In Yugoslavia, the IMF has become the steadfast financial bureaucracy of the
Western military alliance, working hand in glove with NATO and the US State
Department.
ECONOMIC TERRORISM
by
Michel Chossudov
PPP?
I probably have asked this before, but I doubt I'm alone in my inability
to keep _all_ the abbreviations permanently in memory.
Carrol
Business Week May 2, 2001
Free Trade? Someone always has to pay
>From Seattle's riots to the Quebec protests, not even the
thickest cloud of tear gas can obscure the truth that
globalism hurts workers
By B. Kite
From Seattle's riots to the Quebec protests, not even the thickest
clo
[Ecological Economics, anyone?]
Published on Tuesday, May 8, 2001 in the Guardian of London
Evolution Is In Our Hands, Say Scientists
Biologists warned to focus on the future, not the riddles of the past
by James Meek
Evolution scientists today warn of the spread of a global "pest and weed"
envi
This article gives a nice summary of some of the issues in
measuring inequality.
Wade, Robert. 2001. "Winners and Losers." The Economist (28
April).
Global inequality is worsening as the distribution of income
becomes more unequal.
The answer to what is happening to world income distribution
turn
Jim Devine wrote:
> Keynesian tax cuts -- including Dumbya's -- affect consumer spending much more than
>(real) investment. That in turn could create the markets that businesses require if
>they want to invest in new plant and equipment.
What's the theory behind this--ie tax cuts affect demand
Rebello, Joseph. 2001. "The Richest 20 Percent of the Americans
Did Most of the Spending Fueling Late '90s Boom." Wall Street
Journal (5 May): p. BA 7.
"The consumer-spending spree that fueled the U.S. economic boom
of the late 1990s was nearly entirely the doing of the richest
20% of Americans."
Again with reference to the Air Canada takeover of Canadian Airlines, the
experts for CAW Local 1990 argue that Canadian Airlines was by far the more
cost effective operator but was done in by its heavier debt servicing costs.
Stuart wrote:
>We can see that finance capital
>drove a great deal of
Again with reference to the Air Canada takeover of Canadian Airlines, the
experts for CAW Local 1990 argue that Canadian Airlines was by far the more
cost effective operator but was done in by its heavier debt servicing costs.
Stuart wrote:
>We can see that finance capital
>drove a great deal of
At 01:33 PM 5/8/01 -0400, you wrote:
>[The call letters EVD stand for Eugene Victor Debs, whom the station
>honored at its inception. It has been the voice of liberal/radical Jewry
>for many decades.]
the call letters of radio stations often include vestiges of history. In
Chicago, where I'm fro
I don't remember if anyone referred to this study, but if not here is
the abstract that I just came across.
Paul Phillips
Economics,
University of Manitoba
NBER WORKING PAPER
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTRY
Dollarization and Economic Pe
[The call letters EVD stand for Eugene Victor Debs, whom the station
honored at its inception. It has been the voice of liberal/radical Jewry
for many decades.]
Friends -
In NYC, there's a similar struggle unfolding at another independent radio
station fighting a corporate takeover. WEVD, a news
Louis' post provided a great deal of food for thought. My question is what
capitalist sector gained most from the restructuring of the US airline
industry, and has this restructuring altered the distribution of profits
higher up the economic food chain? Wall Street, the aircraft
manufacturers, an
Jim, I agree with you. I only said "suggests." Maybe I am too
suggestable.
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:47:53AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> At 09:06 AM 5/8/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Also, it [the decline in labor productivity] suggests that, contrary to
> >the wishes of the new economy types,
> >th
At 09:06 AM 5/8/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Also, it [the decline in labor productivity] suggests that, contrary to
>the wishes of the new economy types,
>that Robert Gordon was correct in insisting that much of the recent
>productivity growth was cyclical.
yes, but it's hard to tell from one quarter'
They'll want to contact Lisa Keister in the Sociology Dept. of Ohio State;
she's the author of Wealth in America [Cambrige UP 2000]. She's got tons
of good info...
Ian
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work if investors
> are so risk averse that they will not invest the money given to them by
> the government. They'll just pocket it. In short, the wheels are stuck
> in the mud, and no one is getting out to p
>
> http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
>
> htt
We would like to ask you for your help. We are looking for time series of the
wealth
distribution in the United States (e.g. in form of the gini coefficient) or
of the world as a whole that go back as long as possible
(e.g. the. beginning of the century or earlier).
It is because we are about to
At 11:33 AM 5/8/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Instead of the expected increase at a 1 percent annual rate, US
>productivity declined in the first quarter of this year. The
>preliminarly BLS results, seasonally adjusted, annual rates, were
>
> -0.4 percent in the business sector and
> -0.1 percent in the
[This Marxism list exchange is extraordinarily interesting.]
Dear Gary,
Having worked in large and medium sized factories from 1964 to 1989 as an
industrial mechanic(10 years or so of that as an active revolutionary) I am
more than a little aware of the conditions and attitudes among the workers
>
> I'd heard that Philip K. was schizophrenic. Maybe he was
self-medicating...
>
> I still admire Dick's MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, which is about what would
> have happened if Hitler had won WW2. In one scene, it's heard that Hitler
> is dying and Americans in the unoccupied zone are wondering and
[was: Re: [PEN-L:11275] RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: CA energy crisis -- one solution ]
At 08:29 AM 5/8/01 -0400, you wrote:
>You know, up to about a year ago I would receive email from valis as if he
>were Mulder being pursued by the cigarette-smoking guy. He'd always post
>from some Internet cafe, somep
isk averse that they will not invest the money given to them by
the government. They'll just pocket it. In short, the wheels are stuck
in the mud, and no one is getting out to p
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/prod2.nr0.htm
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010508/bs/economy_productivity
An op-ed piece in today's NY Times by neoliberal super-pimp Thomas Friedman
reminds me why I love Bruce Cockburn's song "If I had a Rocket Launcher".
Friedman tells his mostly middle-class American readers that the people of
Ghana should happy to receive crumbs from massa's table:
---
NY Times, M
You know, up to about a year ago I would receive email from valis as if he
were Mulder being pursued by the cigarette-smoking guy. He'd always post
from some Internet cafe, someplace that he'd prefer not to divulge the
location of. I thought that he was easing his defenses with me, since he
always
Responded Rob :
> Here, our 'first way' government has worked it out with insurers that
> taxpayers should help pay out a collapsed insurance company's $1 billion
> obligations and that other insurers should impose a levy on all the country's
> policy holders to help. As shareholders are a more
I meant to write:
"Here, our 'first way' government has worked it out with insurers that
taxpayers should help pay out a collapsed insurance company's $1 billion
obligations and that other insurers should impose a levy on all the country's
policy holders to help. As shareholders are a more impor
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