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Argentina: Province Erupts in Protest (Weekly News Update of the Americas)
Michael Pugliese
-Original Message-
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
G'day Penpals,
Have been at my musing again, and doing the rounds of my fave miserabilist
sites - am going to bed with the following dark forebodings ...
There's a bloke called Stephen Jen, who reckons the greenback will land softly
much in the way an asteroid does:
Regarding Rob's musing about the dollar, Ellen's question was where would
people flee if they dumped the dollar? Given the conditions that Rob
mentioned -- turmoil around the world -- gold would be the likely spot,
except that gold is an inflationary hedge. In a deflationary environment
-- if
Quoting from Michael:
I am seeing more and more stories doubting that a recovery is on the
near horizon. Notice the quote below
We think the economy has got
real problems that won't be
rectified quickly, said William
Dudley, an economist with
Goldman Sachs Co. in New
York. We think monetary
Michael Perelman wrote:
Regarding Rob's musing about the dollar, Ellen's question was where would
people flee if they dumped the dollar?
Flee? Dumped? You could have a marginal movement out of dollar assets
into euro assets without crashing asteroids and other apocalyptic
fireworks. Why is it
[was: Re: [PEN-L:16153] Re: WB/IMF reconstructing capitalism yet
again - !!??]
Steve Diamond wrote:
In any case, let's look at what Maurer himself says: since he
thinks
finance discourse is not understandable on its own terms -
Securitization, thus, is not obvious or self-evident - he
Hi Jim,
The scary thing is that things are that bad for workers in China,
especially in the SOE sector that what the Times reports here is pretty
accurate. This is a big part of the reason for the recent censorship of
the left, Maoist cadre run journal published out of Beijing. The journal
has
- Original Message -
From: Steve Diamond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian,
Really, you can't back down now... you were the one who introduced
the piece
by referring to reconstruction, after all.
=
What? No playful provacativeness in the headers anymore? :-)
Your
Does this article violate the DMCA?
Friday August 17
- By Grant Gross -
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/17/207208mode=thread
In the three years since the U.S. Congress passed the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the law's anti-
circumvention provisions have now gone head to head
Current estimates by the Congressional Budget Office
of the 10-year budget surplus, after netting out the
tax cut, are $3.968 trillion. If you want to try and
hoodwink the public and subtract Social Security Trust
Fund surpluses, it's $1.484 trillion. If you want to
try even harder and subtract
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 04:00AM
Spinoza and Marx would love the above; if the CB can create $ ex
nihilo and risk is ultimately going to be socialized then what is the
justification for the allocation of the rewards to those who don't
bear the risks because they can displace them onto
[WashingtonPost]
World Bank Leader Receives A Critical Accounting
By Nora Boustany
Wednesday, August 22, 2001; Page A14
The September/October issue of Foreign Policy carries an investigative
piece that is sharply critical of World Bank President James D.
Wolfensohn's style of personalized
http://www.foreignpolicy.com
Reluctant Missionaries
By Marina Ottaway
Can't shut down Big Oil? Then browbeat companies like Shell and
ExxonMobil into preaching the gospel of human rights and democracy to
their developing-world hosts. As appealing as this strategy seems to
global do-gooders,
((
CB: Since it was bailed out when it lost its bet, LTCM was taking
zero risk. It was the opposite of a high risk taker , yet it is
rewarded the most of all because it claims to take risk.
(((
===
Ex ante it took the risk. Ex post, the risk was diffused. Socialism of
risk
Alex Izurieta wrote:
In conclusion, it all points, day by day, into a direction that confirms the
analysis deployed in the Implosion ... paper and elsewhere (e.g. Dean
Baker had an insightful presentation during the URPE Summer school). On the
other hand, it looks to me that there is a lot of
forwarded
=[ r t s / n y c ]
GROWING RESISTANCE IN GLOBAL SOUTH TO CITIGROUP
MEXICAN ACTIVISTS BOMB CITIBANK/BANAMEX BUILDINGS
Hi folks,
August 10th's New York Times reported that 5 bombs were
placed in Banamex branches; three of which went off. No injuries were
reported, but
What is Neoliberalism?
A Brief Definition for Activists
By Elizabeth Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and Arnoldo Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
March 22, 2001; CorpWatch
Neo-liberalism is a set of economic policies that
have become widespread during the last 25 years or
so. Although the word is rarely
Penners,
Does any good work exist on the political economy of music (popular, classical,
jazz, etc), the music industry, and/or the noncommercial/private production (or
consumption) of music? I'm interested in more than in current trends related to
the Internet.
Thanks for any leads.
Eric
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 02:12PM
((
CB: Since it was bailed out when it lost its bet, LTCM was taking
zero risk. It was the opposite of a high risk taker , yet it is
rewarded the most of all because it claims to take risk.
(((
===
Ex ante it took the risk. Ex post, the
At 12:46 PM 08/22/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Regarding Rob's musing about the dollar, Ellen's question was where would
people flee if they dumped the dollar?
Flee? Dumped? You could have a marginal movement out of dollar assets into
euro assets without crashing asteroids
I wrote: isn't indicating what is REALLY going on the fundamental
conceit of Marx, too (in a non-deconstructionist way)? Marx would look at
something like securitization and say that common-sense understandings are
hardly enough, because in capitalism, the stream of interest income
At 11:02 AM 08/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
To his critics, Wolfensohn has promoted favorites, ignoring bank
regulations on staff advancement and prompting talentedsenior staff to
leave. They also say he has caved in to New Age economic fads and
interest groups, sacrificing the bank's intellectual
I am not sure I understand Doug's remarks (appended below), but probably it
is because I was not clear in the first place. Lets see:
1) There seems to be (for me and other observers) convincing evidence that
we are leading to a recession.
2) How deep and how long I do not know, but
-Original Message-
From: Institute for Public Accuracy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:35 AM
Subject: The Incredible Shrinking Surplus
Institute for Public Accuracy
915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
(202)
- Original Message -
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16184] Re: WB/IMF reconstructing capitalism yet again-
!!??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/22/01 02:12PM
((
CB: Since it was bailed out
I wrote: isn't indicating what is REALLY going on the
fundamental
conceit of Marx, too (in a non-deconstructionist way)? Marx would
look at
something like securitization and say that common-sense
understandings are
hardly enough, because in capitalism, the stream of interest income
- Original Message -
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16187] Re: WB
At 11:02 AM 08/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
To his critics, Wolfensohn has promoted favorites, ignoring bank
regulations on staff
Michael Pugliese aka Herr Goebbels, wonders why the AFL-CIO
isn't lobbying for this. Fascism is a matter of taste... Comrade
Molotov after signing the Molotov-Ribbentroff Pact in 1939.
From: Jason Schulman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8/22/01 12:27:19 PM
All I can say is:
Michael, please do not take your stuff from LBO here. We want none of
that.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:03:01PM -0700, michael pugliese wrote:
Michael Pugliese aka Herr Goebbels, wonders why the AFL-CIO
isn't lobbying for this. Fascism is a matter of taste... Comrade
Molotov after
WORLD BANK BONDS BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 22, 2001
CONTACT: Neil Watkins 202-299-0020 or Carolyn
Bninski 303-444-6981
As DC Demonstrations Against World Bank Approach,
Boulder City Council Adopts World Bank Bonds
Boycott
City Joins 4 Municipalities, 12 Unions, 10
Great activist, Betita is, I worked with her and members of
CofC, FRSO and ex-Line of March cadre on a conference at UC,Berkeley.
Betita for having worked in the deep South in SNCC, and in the
70's being a leading member of the M-L group, the democratic
Workers Party here in the 70's
David,
I have been away for several days, and clearly
this thread has gone all over kingdom come. I also
understand that Michael P. wishes it would go away.
Furthermore, I am probably going to have to drop off
the list again soon due to work crashing down on me
with the new editorship.
I have a section on it in my forthcoming book on intellectual property.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Penners,
Does any good work exist on the political economy of music (popular, classical,
jazz, etc), the music industry, and/or the noncommercial/private production (or
consumption) of music?
Performing Rites: On the value of Popular Music, by Simon
Frith, Harvard Univ. Press. Blurbed by Greil Marcus. I used to
read Frith and David Craig, in , Marxism Today, the Eurocommunist
glossy monthly of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the
80's. Rock and roll is here to pay. Rebee
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16199] Re: Political Economy of Music
I have a section on it in my forthcoming book on intellectual
property.
==
Which, of course, 'your'
So, Charles Mueller would obviously consider
him to be an evil Marxoid.
Barkley Rosser
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:55 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15990] Re: From Brad De Long
I will pass commenting on
http://www.feer.com
Mahathir to the Rescue
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is leading a charge to restructure
debt-burdened conglomerates. It's long overdue, but if sustained it
should attract foreign investors
By S. Jayasankaran/KUALA LUMPUR
Issue cover-dated August 23, 2001
SIGNS ARE
I was only responding to Rob, whom I [mistakenly?] thought was suggesting such
a possibility -- not predicting anything.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Regarding Rob's musing about the dollar, Ellen's question was where would
people flee if they dumped the dollar?
Flee?
Dean Baker has a full-blown scheme for a non-copyright,
socialized system. Check out http://www.cepr.net/
mbs
I have a section on it in my forthcoming book on intellectual property.
Michael Perelman
--- Original Message ---
From: Rich Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8/22/01 2:33:55 PM
RWWATCH -- August 22, 2001 (please forward)
[We featured Al Ross's organization, the Institute for Democracy
Studies (IDS, http://institutefordemocracy.org), several times
last year
there will have to be a deal.
the U.S. Congress is not going to let a bunch
of frog-biters and sausage chewers tell them
how to further screw up the corporate income tax.
That's their turf.
mbs
[more secrecy?]
Senator-Zoellick sees no need to appeal WTO ruling
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON,
Alex, I saw your response to Goldman this morning already. I thought that I had
appended the entire article. Sorry. The quote came from:
Rebello, Joseph. 2001. Fed Cuts Funds Rate 0.25-Pt To 3.5%; Sees Slowdown
Risk. Wall Street Journal (21 August).
Alex Izurieta wrote:
Quoting from
[more secrecy?]
Senator-Zoellick sees no need to appeal WTO ruling
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Robert
Zoellick does not think the United States should appeal a World Trade
Organization ruling that declared a U.S. corporate export subsidy
program
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23045
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: New Scientist
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Steve Diamond wrote:
Shown on CSPAN tonight, the representative from 50 Years is Enough
was asked by Bloomberg News what would do about the crisis in
Argentina, their representative literally had no answer.
Really? I'm sorry to hear that, because it was precisely the
Land grab makes black farm workers homeless
War veterans leave 20,000 to sleep by the roadside
Special report: Zimbabwe
Andrew Meldrum in Hwedza
Wednesday August 22, 2001
The Guardian
Twenty thousand black farm workers and their families were thrown out
of their homes this week as President
(in ref. to the quoted below)
Didn't Hoover use food as a political tool
in famine-threatened, post-war Europe (ca. 1919)?
I seem to recall he kept food from going to people
in communist areas. A convincing argument under
the circumstances, probably, as in:
Better fed than red.
--Chris Brady
[From down Rob Schaap's way..Michael Pugliese suggested...]
http://www.greenleft.org.au/
Gwisai: `The time for toy internationals is over'
I was just going over some publications, cleaning up my desk. Any
archaeologists out there want to join me? I found a copy of the CES ifo
Forum Spring 2001 with a pessimistic article by Dudley -- the person Alex
asked about. He says that the Goldman Sachs Financial Conditions index is
tighter
Barkley --
Let me preface by thanking Michael for indulging me. That said, on to the
polemics.
You want to stress the systemic issue. In other words, even if Lenin
committed murder, the murder should be attributed to the idiosyncracies of
Lenin and the circumstances he faced, and not to the
David, I don't think that this is very constructive. You say that people
were killed to actualize communism. My God. I don't want to continue
with the death accounting -- I wish that Barkeley had not revived this
presumably dead thread -- but millions of people have been killed to
actualize
The 50 Years is Enough rep was Soren Ambrose, so I expected something
reasonably substantive, but he punted.
Stephen F. Diamond
School of Law
Santa Clara University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ZIMBABWE: Socialists confront Mugabe dictatorship
http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism%40lists.panix.com/msg2.html
Mugabe `talks left, acts right'
Tafadzwa Choto, ISO Zimbabwe's national coordinator, urged activists
protesting at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane in
[NYT]
August 23, 2001
NEWS ANALYSIS [aka spin]
From No Aid to a Bailout for Argentina
By JOSEPH KAHN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 - Despite negotiations that covered 12 days and
several midnight bargaining sessions, many of the people involved in
emergency talks to bail out Argentina's floundering
-Original Message-
From: Duane Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:38 PM
Subject: [ASDnet] Economic report
--
A very long time ago, the President use to issue an annual report called
The Economic Report of the
- Original Message -
From: Michael Pugliese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pen-l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:27 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:16220] Fw: [ASDnet] Economic report of the President
http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/
I've tried a number of times to unsubscribe, temporarily from PEN L, but
with no success. Will you please unsub me at this point? Thanks very much.
[When I initially tried to sub to PEN L, I had trouble. Once on, I found I
couldn't post. Now, after three days of trying, I can't get off of it.
At 22/08/01 15:37 -0400, Alex Izurieta wrote:
1) There seems to be (for me and other observers) convincing evidence
that
we are leading to a recession.
2) How deep and how long I do not know, but (WITHOUT EFFECTIVE POLICY
CHANGES) we could think of something between the UK case and
Ian,
Really, you can't back down now... you were the one who introduced the piece
by referring to reconstruction, after all.
In any case, let's look at what Maurer himself says: since he thinks
finance discourse is not understandable on its own terms -
Securitization, thus, is not obvious or
At 21/08/01 21:41 -0700, Ian wrote:
He does go into how one
material medium's relation to time--paper--affected the bundling of
asset streams and how computer programs for bundling, unbundling
and
rebundling in the quest for the dream of liquidity and market
Rob writes:
I'm watching Stanley Fischer assure John Pilger (who's positing the
debt-as-stick argument) that debt is not a problem for the world's poor
(all
they need is education and an incorruptible government, after all isn't
debt a
good thing when we want something? [beaut analogy, Stan]),
It's war as Major takes on Thatcher over leadership
Nicholas Watt, political correspondent
Wednesday August 22, 2001
The Guardian
John Major will today throw his weight behind Kenneth Clarke in the Tory
leadership contest, intensifying the party's civil war in
the wake of Margaret Thatcher's
Penners
Hot on the heels of the state-sponsored scuppering of Michael Portillo's
attempt to lead the Conservative Party (many agree he would have been
the strongest candidate able to work out an internal compromise and win
back votes) comes the latest timely revelation, this time concerning
Publish or be damned
London Underground's attempt to
conceal the PPP report erodes our
right to freedom of information
John Kampfner
Wednesday August 22, 2001
The Guardian
Tomorrow sees a new twist in the tragicomic battle for the tube. Three
appeal court judges will consider a leave to
[was: Re: [PEN-L:16153] Re: WB/IMF reconstructing capitalism yet again - !!??]
Steve Diamond wrote:
In any case, let's look at what Maurer himself says: since he thinks
finance discourse is not understandable on its own terms -
Securitization, thus, is not obvious or self-evident - he is here
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/21/01 04:50PM
In reply to Charles:
CB: I would acquit Lenin of homicide on the defense of necessity. It
would not change my opinion of Lenin and his leadership.
Res ipsa loquitor.
(((
CB : Proletarian jurisprudence of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, J.D., member of
Steve Diamond wrote:
Re:
Forget Locke? From Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Logics of Finance
Bill Maurer..
[snip]
Who is Bill Maurer? In what post from whom was he introduced? What is
this post about?
Carrol
http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/9903/0798.html
http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0101/0357.html
Michael Pugliese
-Original Message-
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:55 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:16160] Mens rea of
[from that famous pro-union newspaper, the New York TIMES, August 22, 2001.]
Workers' Rights Suffering as China Goes Capitalist
By ERIK ECKHOLM
DONGGUAN, China The two young women were strolling through a sterile
factory zone in China's roaring southeast, enjoying a rare day off. Trade
At 08:24 PM 8/21/01 -0700, you wrote:
[NYT]
August 22, 2001
Argentina Gets $8 Billion Aid From the I.M.F.
By JOSEPH KAHN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 - After nearly two weeks of negotiations, the
International Monetary Fund announced tonight that it would provide up
to $8 billion in emergency aid to
Regarding Jim's question, I think that what I saw about Argentina is
extraordinary. Usually, we can deconstruct what is going on, despite the
obfuscation. The Argentina articles are almost impossible to penetrate.
We know a crime is happening. We know who the villian is, but the
curtains are
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