Melvin P. writes:
Any
impartial investigation of the plantation belt of the South after the
Civil Wall will reveal who owned what. Wall Street imperialism owned the
vast majority of the land, possessed the capital and political
will...
Melvin P.
Could you give some more details on the ownership
Summary
The entire city of Basra's water supply was cut last Friday (affecting some
1 million people). For a heavily populated third world city in the desert,
no water (and thus also no sanitation with the resultant epidemics) can
lead to tens of thousands of deaths. This is what happened in
Jim Devine wrote:
right. I've been telling people that I fully expect the US
to win the war (especially since Honor is At Stake and we
wouldn't want a repeat of Somalia) but then lose the occupation. I think
I've been right: the US will be trying to run a Gaza Strip the size of
California.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N25115325.htm
Reuters continues to follow the story, although it does not seem to have
the specifics. Note: Condoleezza Rice is flying to NY today (Teusday) to
meet urgently with Annan in person. It would not seem likely she would do
so at such time if
Further to my post yesterday. The article, posted from Brussels, is short
on specifics: exactly what has the US\UK proposed, what is in the draft
resolution circulated in NY and being discussed in a closed Security
Council Meeting today. Am not aware of any reporting from the UN or
Just found this on the wire - according to Google News this is the only
such report. The big issues seem to be out on the table yet I still know
of very little reporting in the press or tv.
Looks like yesterday's France's position at the Brussels meeting may lead
the US/UK to postpone trying
Ken Hanely wrote:
Is there really any possibility that the US would allow the UN to be in
charge of post-Hussein Iraq? Of course they want a do-gooder role for the
UN so that the cost of humanitarian aid and reconstruction can be shifted
from the destroyers to critics of the war. But isnt it
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/03/20/042.html
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003. Page 7
Report: U.S. Plans to Tap $40Bln Iraq Account
In itself, the current proposal of Kofi Anon is technical and almost
required: the residual unspent amounts left over from the sale of Iraqi oil
under the
I just did a quick web search of the press coverage of the AEA
meetings. In a way, it jibs with the thrust of Ellen Frank's remarks.
The Post and the Boston Globe leave an impression of establishmentarian
discomfort with the Bush tax proposals (at one panel Allen Sinai of Wall
Street and
Anyone out there willing to comment on the ASSA meetings? Some questions
(feel free not to address these):
For the AEA:
What was the tone? (continuing triumphalism of the NeoLibs?; hedging bets
by giving a bit more space to the long neglected Stiglitz\Solow wing?)
What were the 'star' big
Yea...I threw it in because it is one of the more overlooked aspects of the
Lat Am debt crisis of the '80s. Only a small slice was sovereign
debt. The biggest single slice was parastatals (with government guarantees
ranging from none to limited) and this debt carried the resultant risk
cowardly and selfish leadership; how
disingenuous of the Bretton Woods institutions to help push this along.
At 07:13 AM 1/15/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Paul A.,
Thanks again very much for your very interesting comments. A few
responses below.
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Paul_A wrote:
Hi Fred
Hi Fred,
Thanks to you for your post and, more to the point, your hard work and
serious contributions to precisely this question over a number of years.
Yes, D L are very measured on this point. In fact they explicitly limit
themselves to just presenting the stylized facts. Still, since
Jim,
Thanks for your reply and apologies for my delayed reply (difficulty in
reading). The draft pamphlet, from the link you posted, is really
quite good. I hope you plan to finalize and put it out - it will be
a useful resource.
But I am still nagged by the big
picture question. IF, IF indeed
There is a 'must-see' article in URPE's RRPE, Fall issue (latest?) by
Dumenil and Levy. The most salient point is that they see a LONG
RUN upturn in the rate of profit since 1982 which was the bottom of a 34
year decline. So far, as of 2000, there has only been a partial
recovery (since 1982
You make a very valid point. Also, as I understand it, you are saying that
the measurement is empirically difficult but not conceptually flawed (since
we are unabashedly measuring the cost of capital in the context of a ratio
and NOT pretending to 'measure capital' to then make 'what if'
Jim Devine writes:
Shane,
you've opened up a can of worms much larger than I can stomach at this
point. Instead of trying to do so, I'll simply agree to disagree:
1) I find that Marx's theory of unproductive vs. productive labor to be
superior to other versions of that
theory (e.g., those of
Isn't this a bit out of date? The Japanese had been bashed for not running
large fiscal deficits but for the last few years DID turn to fiscal
Keynsianism, and on a large scale (sorry, I don't have the numbers handy).
What is significant - and scary - is how little it has worked. Perhaps
this
I wrote:
Isn't this a bit out of date? The Japanese had been bashed for not
running large fiscal deficits but for the last few years DID turn to fiscal
Keynsianism, and on a large scale (sorry, I don't have the numbers handy).
Jim Devine writes:
If it's out of date, I'd like to know. I'm not a
Jim writes:
To see a structural deficit, there would have to be (1) legislated tax cuts;
(2) legislated transfer-payment increases; and/or (3) increases in
government purchases. Have these happened in a big way?
Yes. In a very big way (especially #3). And that is why it seems to be
such an
A new congressional study puts the price tag of the savings and loan
debacle at $ 480.9 billion, much higher than previous estimates of the
government bailout.
Question: what are the tangible effects of putting $500 billion into a
financial system - directly and without links to productive
If you think there's no difference between a Clinton-Gore EPA and a
Bush-Cheny EPA you need to have your brain overhauled.
Brad: Surely by now you have caught the point: people don't feel there is
ENOUGH of a difference to endure a permanent abandonment by the Democratic
Party of many of its
Sorry, I don't think you want to listen (and this has been the larger
problem all along) and I'd rather not continue in this tone. Signing off
for now.
PA
PS I am not a faction
You shoot yourself in the foot and then look around for someone else to blame?
Why not be an adult, recognize that
Am I right that the tragedy in Bolivia REALLY needs to be brought out at
A-16? Are these a few relevant points?:
1) Bolivia is hardly an exception. For a number of years the WB has made
privatization and imposing higher prices for basic drinking water supply to
the poor a centerpiece a
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