RE: Re: Re: Re: RE: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-06 Thread Max Sawicky
What is this, a plague of Henwoodism? first Louis, and now the dominoes start falling... once we start down that slippery slope... ;-) BTW, I don't predict the future. Part of the nature of the current boom (as with previous ones) is that there's tremendous amounts of uncertainty. What'

Re: Re: Re: RE: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-06 Thread Jim Devine
>I'm a Henwoodite in predicting big global aspects of the future, but just >an observation. What is this, a plague of Henwoodism? first Louis, and now the dominoes start falling... once we start down that slippery slope... ;-) BTW, I don't predict the future. Part of the nature of the current

Re: Re: RE: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-06 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Devine wrote: > Concerning "My Three Bears" [my op-editorializing piece], Max writes: > >The Euro hasn't looked like much of a threat to the dollar, nor has > >inflation been sensitive to the exchange rate, has it? I'm not the > >best person to judge this, but this is what casual observati

Re: RE: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-06 Thread Jim Devine
Concerning "My Three Bears" [my op-editorializing piece], Max writes: >The Euro hasn't looked like much of a threat to the dollar, nor has >inflation been sensitive to the exchange rate, has it? I'm not the >best person to judge this, but this is what casual observation suggests to me. You're r

Re: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-05 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: >I ran across an article by Harry Braverman in the '56 American Socialist >that makes almost the identical point. And only 6 months earlier there is >an article on automation by Harry or co-editor Bert Cochran (they went on >to launch Piel's Beer after the magazine collapsed)

Re: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-05 Thread Jim Devine
At 11:47 AM 4/5/00 -0400, you wrote: > >Summary: The cheering of the U.S. economy's success should be tempered by > >the fact of private debt accumulation. > >I ran across an article by Harry Braverman in the '56 American Socialist >that makes almost the identical point. yeah, and there was no si

RE: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-05 Thread Max Sawicky
If you really want to publish this . . . First thing is it's too long. Columns should be 750 words. Second, the paragraphs are too long. It's a newspaper, not the AER. Third, you used Randy Wray's title. When he sues you I'm sure he won't ask for too much. Fourth, you need to state in the f