11 September
The fence at Kilometre Zero
'Soon after the Uruguay Round Agreement [of the WTO] was settled, Korean
fellow farmers and myself realized that our destinies were out of our
hands. We were utterly powerless. We could do nothing but look at the
waves that destroyed our lovely
[ a few years ago Brian Rotman also wrote a great book on the role of zero
with regards to the institution of money and accounting: "Signifying
Nothing." Given all the zeros manipulated by Govs. and the likes of
Enron...]
Explaining nothing, brilliantly
Nicholas Lezard finds Charl
[Decidable?]
China's Ticket Into WTO Foreshadows Revolution
By John Pomfret and Philip P. Pan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 11, 2001; Page A01
HENGSHUI, China -- Sun Guoyin and her daughter Hou Roufang once led a
dreary existence as employees of a drab, state-owned departme
Chris Burford wrote:
>
> I shall take silence as consent.
Oh, come on Chris. There are *laws* against that kind of reasoning.
Mark
At 30/06/01 07:15 +0100, I wrote:
>I would appreciate criticism on whether the connection I make is
>reasonable, and whether Schweickart in his gentle exposition is doing
>violence to a) the facts b) marxist political economy.
>
>Otherwise I suggest the list takes the implications of this argume
Schweickart does not specifically discuss situations, arguably like the
present, when the average interest rate minus inflation in the US is
virtually zero.
However he does discuss the "purpose" and significance of having an
interest rate at all, and the effect of the differenti
I meet five of the nine criteria! Can I be a
Congressman???
Tim Bousquet
--- ravi narayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> > Can you imagine working for a company that has a
> little more than 500
> > employees and has the following statistics:
> >
>
> see:
>
> http://
Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> If you ask me, being stopped is serious business. But for that matter I
> think all of them are criminals just for voting for the bombing of
> Yugoslavia, embargos against Cuba and Iraq, etc.
>
i wouldnt disagree with that at all (add bombing sudan etc),
--rav
At 03:26 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Louis Proyect wrote:
>
>> Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500
>> employees and has the following statistics:
>>
>
>see:
>
>http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm
>
> --ravi
>
So this is an "urban legend"
Louis Proyect wrote:
> Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500
> employees and has the following statistics:
>
see:
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm
--ravi
--
--
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500
employees and has the following statistics:
29 have been accused of spousal abuse.
7 have been arrested for fraud.
19 have been accused of writing bad checks.
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupt at least 2 businesse
Time to watch Jean Vigo's _Zéro de conduite [Zero for Conduct]_
(1933) again Yoshie
* Metro Snack Patrol Puts Girl in Cuffs
Ansche Hedgepeth had practically never been in trouble, let alone
arrested. Then the officer clicked the metal cuffs on the
12-year-old's wrists
Indusrtial trends show hardare cost for PC/internet access will move
toward zero with purchase of access contracts. The day is fast
approaching that incentive cash will be paid to customers up front at
contract signing. Finally PCs are going the way of telephones and cell
phones. Soon auto
Full article by Ed Yardeni of Deutch Bank can be accessed at
http://www.yardeni.com/weain.html
Henry C.K. Liu
DEFLATION WATCH
Central Bankers Vs. Deflation.
Central bankers around the world finally understand that deflation is no longer a
risk: It is a clear and present danger. From Frankfurt
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
> Hyperinflation will not help Japan. Krugman is wrong. Because both the
> debtors and creditors in Japan are Japanese and they both use yens.
The secret of Keynesianism is that you don't just print money, you use it
to *buy stuff*. That means changi
I think Dennis, you may need to have a better understanding of international
finance.
To begin with, the entire federal surplus for the next 15 years is estimated to be
$1.5 trillion. So it will take America 10 years to pay back the Japanese in full
even if the entire surplus is devoted to debt p
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
> Where is the party? Who is celebrating and celebrating what? A lot of working
> people in America are finally going to lose their jobs and companies are going
> to go under.
The US owes Japan $1 trillion. Lessening the interest burden on that debt
is
>Hooray! It's time to party! Japan is going to fuel a massive reflation and
>finally kick in the Long Boom of 2000-2025.
>
>-- Dennis
Yes, I see a long wave coming myself. I read it in the Financial Times
horoscope.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, michael perelman crossposted:
> > The Globe and Mail Report on Business February 18, 1999
> > BANK OF JAPAN PUSHES SHORT-TERM RATES NEAR ZERO
> > Bill Spindle, Jathon Sapsford
> > The Wall Street Journal, Tokyo
> >
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Sid Shniad wrote:
> The Globe and Mail Report on Business February 18, 1999
>
> BANK OF JAPAN PUSHES SHORT-TERM RATES NEAR ZERO
>
> Move bolsters perceptions the governme
[From J.R. Miller's "Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential
Schools"]
The French effort in the seventeenth century failed for reasons that become
depressingly familiar to generations of assimilators the early nineteenth
century onward. First and foremost was parental resistance to se
At 01:55 PM 3/21/98 -0800, Michael wrote:
>The idea of a zero marginal cost of information [in the sense that once
>produced it costs little to reproduce] is an old one. Marx discussed the
>discovery of the binomial theorem, which once discussed cost nothing to
reuse.
>In an ear
Michael Perelman wrote:
>Books cost virtually nothing to produce. We even send the publishers disks
>that eliminate the cost of typesetting, yet prices skyrocket.
Publishing isn't a high-profit industry though, except maybe high-end
sci/tech and financial publishing. Trade publishers earn less
The idea of a zero marginal cost of information [in the sense that once
produced it costs little to reproduce] is an old one. Marx discussed the
discovery of the binomial theorem, which once discussed cost nothing to reuse.
In an earlier book, I emphasized the point that many manufactured goods
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