[New York Times]
January 8, 2003
Running a Bankrupt Company May Be Executives' Path to Gold
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Adelphia Communications, the cable company laid low by the excesses of
its founding family, is negotiating to hire the former top executives of
AT&T Broadband to bring it out of bankr
PEN-L:
Greetings. Here's my take on the politics of education reform in the U.S.:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0107-07.htm
Seth
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Interesting point.
As for Bush's proposal: the idea that a benefit which replaces (at best)
half the wage and only one third on average will dissuade
people from looking for work -- unless they're pretty sure
they'll be called back from a layoff -- is just ridiculous.
I was listening to Jim Glas
The new voodoo economics
Mark Tran on why the Bush administration's $600bn economic plan could
imperil America's finances
The Guardian
Tuesday January 7, 2003
George Bush senior once memorably derided Ronald Reagan's tax cuts as
"voodoo economics" when the two were vying for the Republican
presi
I like this book a lot, but it is not suitable for undergraduate students.
It is not really an introduction, but a critical essay which gets a bit
technical at times. I was persuaded by their general position, however.
Peter
Bill Lear wrote:
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 09:26:35 (-0800
I have a bad feeling about this. Brazil was going to get full technology
transfer in the deal - one reason why the US pulled out of the bid and went
home grumbling. The factory for making the planes was going to be built in
Brazil itself. If you had to cut 750 million dollars out of somewhere,
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 09:26:35 (-0800) Devine, James writes:
>I've been reading GAME THEORY AND ECONOMIC MODELLING by David M. Kreps. It's
>a useful survey because it doesn't get bogged down in the technical details
>(as textbooks do) and provides some philosophical reflection on the whole
NY Times, Jan. 7 2002
An Exhibition That Borrows Brazenly
By CHRIS NELSON
It sounds like a plan for drawing hordes of screaming lawyers to your door:
create compilation CD's with sampled music from the likes of the Beatles,
James Brown and Johnny Cash, not to mention the voice of Dan Rather;
in
(I remember Kenneth Lipper well from my days at Salomon Brothers in the mid
1970s. Like Felix Rohatyn and George Soros, he used his investment prowess
as a springboard into broader political arenas. What the Times article
omits is his rather high profile as a Zionist apologist. I hope that he
Title: query: Game Theory
I've been reading GAME THEORY AND ECONOMIC MODELLING by David M. Kreps. It's a useful survey because it doesn't get bogged down in the technical details (as textbooks do) and provides some philosophical reflection on the whole GT project. Most importantly, it's not a
Title: Unemployment Insurance
Ellen writes: >the plan is also said to contain funds for "re-employment" rather than "unemployment" insurance. The idea is that the unemployed would receive a lump-sum payment which they could use to seek work or retrain. If they find work right away, they keep
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There may be no better way to begin to grasp the North Korean situation than
to take a look at a single image. The globalsecurity.org website posts
satellite images of, say, American bases in Qatar or Iranian nuclear
facilities. The other day it posted the single most s
http://www.itepnet.org/whopays.htm
New ITEP Report: Who Pays State and Local Taxes (PDF format) 1/7/03
Nancy, to twist Gramsci:
Realism of the mind, optimism of the will.
What are we fighting for?
Gene
Nancy Brockway wrote:
A realist, sad to say.
Regards,
Nancy Brockway
NH Public Utilities Commission
8 Old Suncook Road
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-2443
271-3878 (Fax)
there's a piece on it in today's NY Times.
mbs
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Subject: [PEN-L:33613] Re: RE: taxing dividends
Nobody seems to have mentione
Nomi writes:
>> So much for involuntary unemployment.
>
>Can you explain the details of this part a bit more?
Sorry for my cryptic economics terminology. What I mean
is that ultimately, though they won't really say it because it
doesn't make sense when exposed to the light of reason,
Repubs bel
I just saw the following GE documentary, which was very good in
exposing the anti-worker/anti-community corporate policy of GE. It may
be rented/purchased through the following email address of the
filmmaker, Mickey Friedman:
mickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The local
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Mohammad Maljoo wrote:
> According to Financial Times, Luiz Inácio Lula on Friday postponed a
> US$750m defence programme to use the defence funds in famine fight (I
> can't access FT).
[Here you go:]
Financial Times; Jan 03, 2003
Lula to use defence funds in famine fight
In a message dated 1/7/2003 12:12:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> This idea of eliminating the tax on dividends is outrageous on
> so many levels, one hardly knows where to start.
Ellen, this is an awesome post!
> Second. To the extent that this puts pressure on firm
This idea of eliminating the tax on dividends is outrageous on
so many levels, one hardly knows where to start.
First. Any money that flows to the stock market in search of
tax free dividends will almost certainly be coming from the
bond market, driving up yields.
Second. To the extent that th
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,868573,00.html
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:58:48PM +, Mohammad Maljoo wrote:
>
> According to Financial Times, Luiz Inácio Lula on Friday postponed a US$750m
> defence programme to use the defence funds in famine fight ( I can't access
>
According to Financial Times, Luiz Inácio Lula on Friday postponed a US$750m
defence programme to use the defence funds in famine fight ( I can't access
FT). Does anyone know anything about it?
Mohammad Maljoo
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STOP MORE S
Nobody seems to have mentioned this -- even at a time that the
municipalities are so crunched.
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:32:59AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
> yup. Current equity prices (for stocks that pay dividends) are slightly
> depressed by the expectation that the owner has to tax on divid
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33611] taxing dividends
yup. Current equity prices (for stocks that pay dividends) are slightly depressed by the expectation that the owner has to tax on dividends. With greater expectation that the dividend tax will go away (so that after-tax dividend incomes rise), there wi
Won't the end of the tax make municipal bonds less attractive, hurting
municipalities?
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Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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