in my recent draft article that i sent to you the last paragraph says:
However, in as much as the growth of US capital can be dependent on the growth
in global tensions, the pricing of oil in dollars and resource inflows, it will
also reveal itself to be independent of that. Such independence
(We are distributing this announcement outside of
New York because we have had students from outside
New York. For instance, last year two students
from California came to New York for two months
to attend our course on Capital, Volumes 2 3.)
Winter Spring 2007 Courses at The New SPACE, New
Whew! Finally! Corporate media will at last be MORE corporate
friendly...
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February 9, 2007
Fox to Begin a More Business Friendly News Channel
By EDWARD WYATT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/business/media/09fox.html?_r=1oref=sl
ogin
No one has ever accused CNBC, the
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/world/middleeast/08israel.html
February 8, 2007
Noted Arab Citizens Call on Israel to Shed Jewish Identity
By ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM, Feb. 7 — A group of prominent Israeli Arabs has called on
Israel to stop defining itself as a Jewish state and become a
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/7/154510/6825
Originally published in Z Magazine, February, 2007 Volume 20 #2.
Reposted with permission.
Review: Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
Doubleday Canada, 2006, 304 pp.
By George Monbiot
George Monbiot's Heat: How to Stop the Planet
On 2/9/07, Jayson Funke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whew! Finally! Corporate media will at last be MORE corporate
friendly...
it looks like Fox may be jumping the shark with this one.
BTW, how leveraged is News Corporation? is our Rupert running on too
much debt? (What's the name of the media
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 9, 2007, at 6:39 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
BTW2, does pen-l have anything to say about Anna Nicole Smith?
Doyle;
She embodied her working class roots in her struggle to gain attention
in the media. Great wealth exposed her to cruel and demeaning images
of herself.
Yoshie posted:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/world/middleeast/08israel.html
February 8, 2007
Noted Arab Citizens Call on Israel to Shed Jewish Identity
By ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM, Feb. 7 — A group of prominent Israeli Arabs has called on
Israel to stop defining itself as a Jewish state
In my new book, The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right Wing
Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression, I wrote
about the Koch Foundation. Imagine my surprise, when the foundation
mailed me the following announcement:
Powerful conservative foundations have
BTW2, does pen-l have anything to say about Anna Nicole Smith?
On 2/9/07, Doyle Saylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
She embodied her working class roots in her struggle to gain attention
in the media. Great wealth exposed her to cruel and demeaning images
of herself. There is not much solace
Stolen from OPE-L
Chavez comments on Build it Now: Socialism for the Twenty-first Century (New
York:
Monthly Review Press, 2006)
Chapter 7, .The Revolution of Radical Needs: Behind the Bolvarian Choice of a
Socialist Path.
Michael Lebowitz sent me a good work,[.]a chapter of a book about
Dear Friends,
The 3rd annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take place concurrently in
Toronto, Montreal, New York City, London, Oxford, etc. between February
10-17 2007. It will be a week-long series of events organized by a coalition
of different groups in the city and will feature
Econ-Utopia: The Northeast's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
By Matthew Riddle, CPE Staff Economist
Feb. 9, 2007
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, grabbed headlines in
Massachusetts recently when Governor Deval Patrick signed onto it,
committing Massachusetts to a cut in its
On 2/9/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW2, does pen-l have anything to say about Anna Nicole Smith?
All power to ANS. She is a vivid example of the type of people that
the meritocratic capitalist system rewards.
-raghu.
Very few good things came out of Great Britain during Margaret Thatcher's
rule except punk rock and some made-for-TV movies, each of which amounted
to gobs of spit in the face of bourgeois triumphalism. Long after this
miserable experiment in neoliberal economics is forgotten, people will
still
On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
There is not much solace from being rich, and then you
die.
The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place
at the top of this society; the idea that the rich do not know what
to do with their money; the idea that the
On 2/9/07, raghu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/9/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW2, does pen-l have anything to say about Anna Nicole Smith?
All power to ANS. She is a vivid example of the type of people that
the meritocratic capitalist system rewards.
-raghu.
Ouch, I just
On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
There is not much solace from being rich, and then you
die.
Doug Henwood wrote:
The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place
at the top of this society; the idea that the rich do not know what
to do with their money;
On Friday, February 9, 2007 at 12:30:45 (-0800) Jim Devine writes:
On Feb 9, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
There is not much solace from being rich, and then you
die.
Doug Henwood wrote:
The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place
at the top of this
On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Mills was right, but it's still true that money can't buy happiness,
since money can't buy good social relationships (or mental health).
Mills writes on the next page:
As for the happiness of the rich, that is a matter that can be
neither proved
Happiness certainly seems a difficult thing to measure, but apparently
there is no lack of researchers trying. Jayson
From The Science of Happiness
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/happiness_formula/4783836.stm
Happiness researchers have been monitoring people's life satisfaction
for
Jim Devine wrote:
BTW2, does pen-l have anything to say about Anna Nicole Smith?
Travus T. Hipp did a fitting tribute.. In a way, sort of a Valentine.
His biker background shows.
[February 09 2007] Travus T. Hipp Morning News Commentary: ‘Living In
Aluminium’ - There’s Only Two Things In The
I wrote:
Mills was right, but it's still true that money can't buy happiness,
since money can't buy good social relationships (or mental health).
The problem is that a lot of rich people don't realize this and keep
on grasping for more more money, seeking the token that promises
happiness
Greetings Economists,
On Feb 9, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place
at the top of this society;...is, in the main, merely a way by which
those who are not rich
reconcile themselves to the fact. Wealth in America is directly
Jayson Funke wrote:
Happiness certainly seems a difficult thing to measure, but apparently
there is no lack of researchers trying. Jayson
Ask of the learned the way? The learned are blind;
This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind;
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it
On 2/9/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place
at the top of this society; the idea that the rich do not know what
to do with their money; the idea that the successful become filled up
with futility, and that those born
Regarding the happiness of the rich, I previously asked the following question,
which apparently triggered little interest, but I will ask again:
Let's imagine a hypothetical 50 year old investment banker. He owns a mansion
in Connecticut and Upper East Side apartment, has a beautiful second
Anyone know anything about this act?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
http://blog.thehill.com/2007/02/09/free-choice-act-protects-workers-right-to-unionize/#more-2391
Free Choice Act Protects Workers Right To Unionize
February 9th, 2007
Yesterday, my subcommittee held a hearing into whether
employees are
ken hanly wrote:
Anyone know anything about this act?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Whenever there's no danger of the legislation passing the Dems tend to
introduce all sorts of hurrah-for-labor legislation.
Carrol
On 2/9/07, David B. Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regarding the happiness of the rich, I previously asked the following question,
which apparently triggered little interest, but I will ask again:
Let's imagine a hypothetical 50 year old investment banker.
He owns a mansion in Connecticut
He owns a mansion in Connecticut and Upper East Side apartment, has
a beautiful second wife, vacations at the finest resorts around the world.
God. What abject philistinism. It makes me feel like the unabomber.
THE POLITICS OF TRAVEL
IS TOURISM JUST COLONIALISM IN ANOTHER GUISE?
by DAVID
On 2/9/07, David B. Shemano wrote:
Let's imagine a hypothetical 50 year old investment banker. He owns a mansion in
Connecticut and Upper East Side apartment, has a beautiful second wife, vacations
at the finest resorts around the world.
I'll assume (for argument's sake, of course) that a
Jim's answer was quite good. Let me add on other point: Bush always talks
about
taxes telling people it's your money. Couldn't we say the same about expoited
profits. By should Bill Gates be applauded for getting to decide how to
distribute
society's resources which he extracted in the first
On 2/9/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We can say something in general about the subclass to which he
belongs, i.e., the rentier capitalists. By retiring, he's become a
full-scale rentier. Seen from a societal perspective, he's a parasite,
no matter how happy he may be. He's not
On 2/9/07, David B. Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's imagine a hypothetical 50 year old investment banker. He owns
a mansion in Connecticut and Upper East Side apartment, has a
beautiful second wife, vacations at the finest resorts around the
world. He loves wine and art, and has a
On 2/9/07, Sandwichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/9/07, David B. Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's imagine a hypothetical 50 year old investment banker. He owns
a mansion in Connecticut and Upper East Side apartment, has a
beautiful second wife, vacations at the finest resorts around
On 2/9/07, Sandwichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/9/07, David B. Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's imagine a hypothetical 50 year old investment banker. He owns
a mansion in Connecticut and Upper East Side apartment, has a
beautiful second wife, vacations at the finest resorts around
On 2/10/07, Sandwichman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So may I make the observation that David's investment banker and the
banker's second wife are abstractions. The wife may be attractive or
hot but she's not beautiful because she is neither true nor
particularly good. Although, he spends his time
Isn't 1.4 million realtors enough?
David Lereah, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors,
said membership in the trade group was nearly 1.4 million in 2006.
Hagerty, James R. and Anjali Athavaley. 2007. Amid Slump, Real-Estate
Agents Hang Up Their Blazers. Wall Street Journal (7
On 2/9/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doesn't that line of thinking only help people go into Peter Singer's direction?
Nope. If he wants to go to heaven, he's got to give it all away. Camel
passing through the eye of a needle and all that. I think it's about
time for the
On 2/9/07, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Agents Hang Up Their Blazers. Wall Street Journal (7 February): p. B
Oh, sure, WSJ, blame it all on bad style sense.
--
Sandwichman
On 2/9/07, David B. Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Mills was right, but it's still true that money can't buy happiness,
since money can't buy good social relationships (or mental health).
According to survey results, though, rich people are
Sandwichman wrote:
On 2/9/07, David B. Shemano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Mills was right, but it's still true that money can't buy
happiness,
since money can't buy good social relationships (or mental health).
According to survey results,
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