In a beautifully sarcastic article which I picked up in the International
Herald Tribune today, Paul Krugman exposes Bush's Freudian slip on oil markets:
NEW YORK President George W. Bush said something interesting about
economics the other day. No, really. It wasn't his usual line about
http://finance.yahoo.com/mo
A site called newsmax.com is running a story titled Greenspan Reportedly To
Quit which claims that administration sources have said that Greenspan will
retire by year-end. Briefing.com has never heard of newsmax.com and, needless
to say, this is an unlikely place to
August 7, 2001
Productivity Revisions Tarnish New Economy
By Dean Baker
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The lower productivity numbers should raise
serious questions
about stock prices.
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The second
Looks like a silly right-wing site. Featured with the Greenspan rumour is
Friday's Dresdner bank forecast of a 1.5% productivity revision. The
productivity revision is out and it's 2.5%. So much for the Apocalyse. Maybe
some folks went on a shorting binge and are hoping to start a stampede
before
Tom Walket writes:
... Featured with the Greenspan rumour is Friday's Dresdner bank
forecast of a 1.5% productivity revision. The productivity revision is
out and it's 2.5%. So much for the Apocalyse. ...
and why do these financial whizzes care about a statistic for only one
quarter, one that
Michael Perelman wrote:
Can anyone tell me why I get the messages from this virus from
people that I do not know at all?
the virus picks up email addresses from sites you may have
visited. additionally, both mozilla and outlook have a facility
for collecting email addresses from messages you
Jim Devine wrote,
and why do these financial whizzes care about a statistic for only one
quarter, one that will likely be revised within the next year or so? (See
Dean Baker's comment on these stats, how revisions make the New Economy
look more paltry.) They deserve their fate if they are so
Conflicting info:
Recently it was reported that natural gas production in the USA is up
less than 2% over a year ago, despite a huge increase in drilling sparked
by high prices. So we're running out of gas? Can't find any
more?
Not so fast.
There is a report of a new gas field in California --
The International Herald Tribune reprints this under the more pointed titles
Argentina Loses Faith in the Economic Reform It Embraced
Last Tango With Capitalism?: Many Companies Suffered in 'Free Markets'
At 06/08/01 20:08 -0700, you wrote:
Argentina Doubts Market Wisdom
Crisis Weakens
Michael Perelman wrote:
Can anyone tell me why I get the messages from this virus from
people that I do not know at all?
I read somewhere that sircam not only gets target email addresses from
the infected PC's Outlook address book but also from parsing web pages
left in that PCs browser
I sent the piece on Argentina along to a list of energy advocates, organizers,
lawyers and enviros. I noted that the remarks by economists in it are
the same
as they've been hearing about California and electric de-reg generally
-- It
will work if you keep doing it. Sounds like someone who
The ruins Tony Blair should visit
Forget Cancun, globalisation has destroyed the real Latin America
Special report: globalisation
Isabel Hilton
Wednesday August 8, 2001
The Guardian
Tony Blair is unlikely to be troubled on the beaches of Cancun in
Mexico - where he is taking a much needed
[the new Brit tolerance for dope smoking doesn't kick in 'till after
the ridiculous 2nd paragraph]
The spirit of Mill returns to stifle visionary public projects
The public realm is again in hock to fast-buck private finance
Jonathan Glancey
Wednesday August 8, 2001
The Guardian
Do you
http://news.independent.co.uk
Pressure building on Bush to reveal his energy advisers
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
08 August 2001
A United States government watchdog is poised to take legal action
against the Bush administration over its refusal to divulge the names
of advisers secretly
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