1994-08-15 President Names Krueger Chief Economist for DOL (fwd)

Any comments on this appointment? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 20:21-0400 From: The White House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: NYC uenmployment

lead to a return to prosperity. The FIRE boom did drive up costs, but the real estate glut helped keep them down. Meanwhile, social decay and the lack of a skilled labor force make it more difficult to do business here. Giuliani's cutbacks will only worsen this situation. Doug Doug Henwood

Re: NYC uenmployment

Unfortunately this session, which I tried to organize, has collapsed. You can reach Sean, who will be at the conference, at 516-223-8002. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 16 Aug 1994, Eban Goodstein wrote: >

Household of Minerva?

x27;s (at least in the US). Is this the owl of Minerva syndrome striking again? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

World Bank/IMF

contact Mimi Kleiner at EDF, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Household of Minerva?

public, privately paid, corporate child care; microwave dinners; and sending out the laundry. Of course these marketized household services are disproportionally provided by women workers, functions that women have largely performed without pay in the household for centuries. Doug Doug Henwood

Re: Population

t includes the education of women as one of their prime strategies. Now no right-thinking person could ever object to the education of women. But what do you do when World Bank fatheads take up the cause for the wrong reasons? Of course, with the Bank and USAID, the Norplant probably isn't far

Re: URPE = UPE?

I don't get this distinction. Does it mean that technique now takes precedence over the challenge to power? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 30 Aug 1994, Peter.Dorman wrote: > This is interesting. My ma

Re: Re[2]: Population

On Tue, 30 Aug 1994, Ajit Sinha wrote: > > As I see it, three issues have been raised in the population discussion: > (1) Urbanization as population policy (Cindy Cotter), > (2) Education as repressive device (Doug Henwood), and > (3) Education as an essential device (Peter Ro

free BBS time!

, posting stuff, getting involved with normal (i.e. nonacademic) people. Any volunteers? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: dull, dangerous, dead-end growth jobs

press does on a regular basis, I think. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Fri, 2 Dec 1994, Blair Sandler wrote: > Excellent Dec. 1 Wall Street Journal article discusses rapidly > growing jobs that are dull, dangerous, de

Re: junk bonds, etc.

ruck's The Predators Ball. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Fri, 2 Dec 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anybody out there recommend a good book or article that can explain > junk bonds, mergers and acquisitio

Re: junk bonds, etc.

PS: Also, The Deal Decade, ed. by Margaret Blair, published by Brookings, has lots of interesting post mortem stuff. Doug On Fri, 2 Dec 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anybody out there recommend a good book or article that can explain > junk bonds, mergers and acquisitions, hostile takeov

radio punditry

u can speak demotic English. As they say in the ads, minorities and women especially encourage to apply. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Freeman and Rogers study

Yeah please broadcast this info to the whole list. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 7 Dec 1994, HEATHER GROB wrote: > Can anyone have a copy of the labor-management study showing workers' beliefs on &

Re: Rubin as Secretary of Treasury

On Wed, 7 Dec 1994, Jim Devine wrote: > Since when does being a bond seller qualify one for being Treasury > Secretary? I thought that only prepared one to be Secty of State! > :-) Do the names Mellon, Dillon, and Regan strike a familiar note? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECT

Canada, via Barron's

According to Koch, Klein is quite popular, with an approval rating of 61%. Any comments? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: federal Reserve taxes

Accordin to table 3.2 of the NIPAs, the Fed paid $16.0 billion to the US government in 1993, out of a total of $143.0 billion in corporate profit tax accruals (the Fed included). Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 10

Re: federal Reserve taxes

43.6 1980 11.770.3 1985 17.876.3 1990 23.6 116.4 1993 16.0 143.0 source: NIPA table 3.2 Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: federal Reserve taxes

money! Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: federal Reserve taxes

er the Fed - which is, of course, quite intentional. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

neolib primer

I got a call from an organizer/activist type who was looking for a primer on neoliberal orthodoxy - intellectual history, official rationale, sharp critique, etc. I was stumped. Does such a thing exist? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874

Re: quiz

family businesses with dad the managing director, mum the trade unionist and the son the proletariat." - Lech Walesa, quoted in the Guardian, 11/2/90. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 13 Dec 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

Sir Jimmy & GATT

h belongs with Buchanan and Perot among that icky company. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: quiz family values/family wage

ished, and the bullied come most of the= =20 progress in the world and in Silicon Valley. Tubular, eh? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Fri, 16 Dec 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And the winner isGeorge Gilder! >

Rogers/Freeman study

ngent workforce. Not that it invalidates the results, but that should be kept in mind when consuming it. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Middle class

t;150%. By these definitions, the US has the smallest middle class and highest share of poor and near-poor of any of the dozen or so countries covered by the LIS. Needless to say, $120k is a lot more than 150% of the median. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-

Re: Middle Class

Upwardly mobile? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Mon, 19 Dec 1994, Cotter_Cindy wrote: > My husband and I have a combined income of $120,000. I feel like a fool > calling myself working class. But my husband'

Re: Middle Class

he working class represent a social judgment on the kind of lifestyle appropriate to the reproduction of that subclass of laborer? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

[PEN-L:3550] Prop 187 support

argument that it's those facing labor market competition from immigrants who are most supportive of curbs. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) --- "

[PEN-L:3551] Michigan budget help

ome. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

[PEN-L:3557] Re: New Paty's...

antitrust enforcement - does that mean we're populists and believe in competition among smallish units? Have we all become Herb Gintis, with a born-again faith in the magic of the marketplace? Or is there another, more planned/socialist position? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] L

[PEN-L:3558] Re: New Paty's...

" thrive on the identification of outsiders, the Not Us, who are outside the circle? Aren't many communities full of superstition, xenophobia. Isn't the outside world a zone of liberation, and antidote of a suffocating insularity? Doesn't trade, properly conceived, enrich?

[PEN-L:3566] Re: Merry Xmas, Orange County USA

sts? Control of oil has been one of the sacredest of cows even throughout the period of Salianstroika - but Big Oil wants a piece of Mexico, and by god, they're gonna get it. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

[PEN-L:3567] Re: query: humor

An economist is someone who talks in other people's sleep. Oh, and also a person with a flair for numbers who lacked the personality to be an accountant. But you probably knew that one. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

[PEN-L:2259] India & Vandana Shiva

dia? Were there no classes and no oppression of women before the White Man spoiled things? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2275] Re: Vandana Shiva

r, the primitive quality of the scientific material by which we attempt to decipher her clues, then truly we can speak of a man-made ignorance, criminal or pitiful, depending on your point of view, in our relations with Gaia." Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10

[PEN-L:2289] Re: NZ Experiment

es, usually misidentified as economists. Not all debt crises are phony. The bigger your debts, the more power your creditors have over you. Keynesians & social democrats who are blase about running up debts get all bent out of shape when the creditors remind them of their power. Tax the rich,

[PEN-L:2321] EuroSlack

result in plant closures, consolidations, etc.? Has anyone quantified this - or contribution of the suicidal tight money, tight budget policies imposed by Maastricht and Buba, also a byproduct of unification? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212

[PEN-L:2328] Re: HELP! (need publisher address)

th or so. I need to know the PUBLISHER so I can call them and place an >order using a credit card IMMEDIATELY. Anyone who can help me RIGHT NOW >(THursday afternoon) please bleeb me a message privately. Thanks so much. The New Press, 212-629-8802 voice, or 212-268-3647 fax. Doug -- Dou

[PEN-L:2336] Compuserve's morality

nse to legislation pending in Congress against "indecent" >digital content in an effort to bolster CompuServe's reputation as a morally >responsible online service provider. (STERN Infomat 03/96) If you think this reeks, as I do, tell Compuserve: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Doug

[PEN-L:2341] Re: "Euroslack"

5.3% 76.8% 10.2%100.0%192.5% UK10.3%149.3% 12.5% 122.5%121.4% US 6.9%100.0% 10.2%100.0%147.8% Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2343] Re: Australian trade unions

ourselves, and they can't be changed without the socialization of ownership. But for the green agenda to have more than volatile political support, it has to explain better how less can be more. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 v

[PEN-L:2369] Shiva, again

on been completely abandoned by the post-Marxist left? Are the only choices between giant dams, which flood and displace, and the embrace of tradition and magic? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2380] India, again

prevails now? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2382] Big Brother

rties Union receives more complaints about abuses by employers than about abuses by the government." Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2392] Re: Vandana Shiva

o funds Jeremy Rifkin, who is not without influence. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2402] Re: Vandana Shiva

At 5:53 PM 1/17/96, John William Hull wrote: >On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I find them to be influential, in pure or diluted form, in anti-development >> NGO circles and among funders. Though deep ecology and ecofeminism are >> reported to be at odds

[PEN-L:2405] women & technology

quot; Myths, it seems to me, that are reinforced rather than challenged by ecofeminism. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2450] VS

nceded that this was probably true. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2462] Sid

At 7:15 PM 1/19/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sid - >Get a life. Stop posting this crap. Here we go again. Lay off Sid; I like what he posts. I swear I won't say anything about America Online. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-2

[PEN-L:2465] Re: Sid

hank him personally at his address listed below: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't forget a simple recapitalization would yield: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAI

[PEN-L:2479] Tom Michl

Anyone here know how to get in touch with Tom Michl? I don't think he's on PEN-L. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2481] re: The high tech jobs of the future

w from 483,000 in 1994 to 928,000 in 2005. The only other high-end job is "general managers and top execs," slated to grow from 3,046,000 to 3,512,000. RNs are, of course, skilled workers, but the rest of the list features some of the cliches of postindustrial shitwork. Bob Reich seems not

[PEN-L:2484] Re: The high tech jobs

-growing segments include personnel supply services; data processing services; auto parking, repair, and services; and health services, with a skew towards the low-end (aides, orderlies, etc.). Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-

[PEN-L:2485] practical Marxism

15 11 8 * Asked of one-half the respondents. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2523] Re: Valuing nature

on the subject in English as far as I've seen. >(Disclosure: I'm in the Santa Cruz editorial group.) > >For subscription info email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have nothing to do with CNS, but I agree. Some of the most original thinking on on politics etc. around. Doug -- Doug Hen

[PEN-L:2544] Re: Reich questions (fwd)

recommend to boost low-end earnings and reduce social polarization, which he actually seems to care about? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2568] Re: Help on defense budget

st payments as the "cost of past wars." Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2570] Re: Help on defense budget

, you're not missing all that much (there may be CIA activities hidden in the embassy budget, e.g.). Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

[PEN-L:2592] Re: High Tech J

ve been rising in real terms while men's have been falling, and there's nothing in store for women that can compare with the effects of deindustrialization on men. I'm certainly not trying to conclude from this that women aren't discriminated against in thousands of ways, but it's

[PEN-L:2600] Re: Women's wages

we've seen in the aggregate figures. Still, women's entry into previously all-male professions isn't an insignificant social development. And I brought up the point only to dissent from the view that the restructuring of the labor force has been/will be particularly hard on women. Doug

[PEN-L:2608] Re: womens wages

male LFPR is projected. * Though the BLS doesn't address this explicitly, it looks like working class women will fare much worse than managerial/professional/technical women, as clerical work is automated and health care restructured. So it's quite possible there'll be more women lawy

[PEN-L:2622] Larry Summers on globalization

breathless tone about technology. I think Summers may have an important point here; both capital's publicists and its enemies (such as they are) seem to fall prey to the breathlessness tone he describes. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>

Re: RE: Re: Economists for Bradley

Max Sawicky wrote: >Good argument for a third party, tho unfortunately >neither the Labor Party, New Party, nor Greens seem >to have grasped the importance. Does the U.S. really need an expansive fiscal policy right now? Unemployment the lowest in decades, real wages rising... Seems to me we s

Re: steve cohn

Who's Steve Cohn? Doug

Re: Rush Limbaugh and Marxist Theory

Michael Perelman wrote: >Kuczynski, Alex. 2000. "Radio Squeezes Empty Air Space for Profit." >New York Times (6 January). In my role as resident gossip, let me report that the author is the daughter of Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, investment banker and author of the 1988 book Latin American Debt (Ba

Re: CA tax initiative

ature," Economic Development in the States No. 1 (Washington?: The Council of State Governments, 1989). Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 On Sat, 1 Jan 1994, Jim Devine wrote: > happy new year!! A friend asks me to ask pen-l the following questions:

Socialism finito, sez Nation

this article." I hope PEN-Lers rise to the challenge once they've read the piece. It's funny that a mag that has published virtually nothing on socialism in living memory (with the exception of the Pollin-Cockburn piece sometime back) decided to give such prominence to an obituary. You

Re: Salinas' fax number

es in central Mexico / Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020

Re: Kim Moody's book

And don't forget Mike Davis' Prisoners of the American Dream. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 On Mon, 10 Jan 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I second Sean's praise for Moody's book on the decline of the US > labour > move

Re: Lynn Turgeon's report of the AEA discussion of Feldstein, et al.

them - an ironic result of vulgar Keynesian policies, after all, that increase debt without neutralizing the social power of the rentiers. Subduing the bond market would be a lot more revolutionary than it may sound. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 On M

Re: Lynn Turgeon's report and discussions of monetary policy

This is the tragic fate of those who don't subscribe to Left Business Observer, the publication that tells all about the Fed, the bond market, the sadomonetarists, and all the other fun sorts who own and control money. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874

Logrolling & the bond market

Objective confirmation of Bob Pollin's advertisement for himself and his collaborators from an economically disinterested source here: the volume he, Dymski, and Epstein edited for the Economic Policy Institute, Transforming the U.S. Financial System, is excellent stuff.

Re: Mail and no mail

On Thu, 20 Jan 1994, Anthea wrote: > January is not a stellar time for academic lists...lots of them get quiet and > many get silly in the late-December/January period; but PEN-L has never just > totally *GONE*, disappeared, before. Even Doug Henwood is silent! > My god. What hap

Re: Does International Trade Lower Wages in the 1st World?

well in the recent slumpish years. Does markup theory focus too much competition among capitalist and not enough on the relation between K and labor? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020

Re: Apple and the Unionization of Silicon Valley

This is some of the best news I've heard in a long time. Wonder if I should do a Marketplace commentary about it and scare all the rentiers in the audience? Where could I find out more? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) O

Re: Free trade and wages

Is this vast wedge between pay & productivity sustainable? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) PS: I'd like to hear more about your work on SK steel. On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Anthony D'Costa wrote: > Low wages i

Re: Bank on Asian Miracles

Reflecting their good cop/bad cop pairing, the World Bank is exquisitely sensitive to criticism, unlike the IMF, which pays no attention to its critics. So the WB is a good place to make a stink. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax

Greenspan's inflation fears

bond pits), and you're talking Jimmy Carter all over again. It's lunatic, for sure, but that's how these guys think. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Wed, 2 Feb 1994, Dale Tussing wrote: > Yesterday&#

Fed follow-up

ely to see more words than action in the next few months. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

No Subject

Terry Allen, editor of Cover Action Quarterly, is looking for people to write about the emerging global economic order - the WTO, G7, IMF, and the rest of it. Anyone interested should contact her at 202-331-9763. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice

Re: fed rumblings

ue in the new budget, begin to bite. A typical recession lasts 4 quarters - ending then in the spring or summer of 1996 - election season. Bush screwed up the whole damned election cycle. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Full employment upon us!

urselves blue in the face and they won't listen. Here's what passes for consensus thinking in the bond pits and on the trading desks: Clinton is a socialist, the economy is too strong, and the Fed should squeeze. For this, people "earn" six and seven figure salaries. Doug Doug H

1994-02-07 First Release of Budget Using CD-ROM Technology (fwd)

For those who don't subscribe to the White House PR machine Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 18:46-0500 From: The White House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Carving Up the "Superhighway"

Irrelevant personal detail: [Nick] Negroponte is the son of John N, who [allegedly] supervised torture in Brazil in the 1960s for the CIA and who, as ambassador to Honduras, supervised part of the contra war in the 1980s. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020

Re: query re: Cdn. foreign debt

ties; internal ethnic divisions; an elite that feels more allegiance to the US than to Canadian; etc. Or do I misread Canada? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 10 Feb 1994, bob ages wrote: > I am writing a short p

Re: on urban violence (fwd)

The US is one of the least densely populated countries in the world, yet it's one of the most violent. NYC is our most densely populated city but its violent crime rate is lower than the overgrown suburbs called Dallas and Atlanta. Can't be density, can it? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL

RE: on urban violence (fwd)

United States, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster this fall. Apologies for the self-promotion, but such are the pressures of commerce. Apologies too for any formatting oddities. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St NY NY 10024 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-

Re: query re: Cdn. foreign debt

Of course I know that Canada is a rich country, not a Third World one. Do I have to state the obvious before drawing the parallels between Canada and the Third World, though? Maybe I'm too fond of economy in expression, but it didn't really seem necessary. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL

Karl on Krisis

Somewhere - I think it was the Grundrisse - Marx said there is no such thing as permanent crisis. Now I can't locate the quote. Can anyone help me out? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

RE: Karl on Krisis

Thanks a million. So where does that leave the Monthly Review school and their theories of permanent/irreversible/etc. crisis? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Sat, 19 Feb 1994, Michael Lebowitz wrote: > In Message

Re: Interest rates and politics

environment of the late 80s-early 90s, it was served by low rates. In both cases, the coupon-clippers' bacon was saved. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On 21 Feb 1994, Paul Cockshott wrote: > Trond asks what is

Re: Karl on Krisis

years? It may do immense social and natural damage, but is that crisis? Or just the normal operation of a frightfully dynamic thing? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Tue, 22 Feb 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "P

Re: Interest rates and politics

are Pinochet and Thatcher, repressive centralizers both of them. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 24 Feb 1994, Blair Sandler wrote: > Interest rates change not only for economic and political (a la M. > Hen

Re: interest rates

were nicknamed Certificates of Confiscation. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 24 Feb 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Devine wrote: > > >> Behind this were the limits > set by class society: inter

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the CHIPS wire becomes capital in Marx's sense, that of engaging living labor? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Thu, 24 Feb 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Loanable Funds and rentiers don't strike me as useful c

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etirees is the last thing on the Fed's mind. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax)

Re: Carving Up the 'Superhighway'

Actually parentage has more than a little to do with the transmission of social power. I confess to being coy about the "irrelevance" issue. Sorry. In the future, I'll be more heavy-handed. Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-

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globe? How too did banks keep the spread between loan and deposit interest rates high during the recent, and now apparently fading, period of low interest rates? Doug Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 212-874-4020 (voice) 212-874-3137 (fax) On Fri, 25 Feb 1994 [EMAIL PROT

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