[PEN-L] Paulson Credit Fund Rises Fivefold on Subprime Bets

Paulson Credit Fund Rises Fivefold on Subprime Bets (Update1) By Jenny Strasburg Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Paulson & Co.'s biggest credit hedge fund rose fivefold in 2007 after the New York-based investment firm with $20 billion in assets under management bet U.S. subprime-mortgage defaults would so

[PEN-L] Brazil economy to grow 5 pct in 2007 - finance min

Reuters.com UPDATE 1-Brazil economy to grow 5 pct in 2007 - finance min http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN0331790720070803 Fri Aug 3, 2007 (Adds details, background) SAO PAULO, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Brazil's economy is on track to grow at least 5 percent in 2007 and could maintai

[PEN-L] bin Laden praises Chomsky, blasts Democrats

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/09/new-obl-tape-ir.html New OBL Tape: Iraq, Democratic Control September 07, 2007 2:15 PM ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: ABC News has obtained a transcript of the latest taped message from Osama bin Laden. Sources tell ABC News the tape, bin Lade

[PEN-L] rich to the rescue?

SLATE moneybox: Commentary about business and finance. Hey, Big Spenders Will the rich save the economy? By Daniel Gross Posted Friday, Sept. 7, 2007, at 1:18 PM ET For the last several years, personal consumption has accounted for about 70 percent of gross domestic product. This decade, Americ

[PEN-L] Jeff Garlin's new movie

Warning! Not political! http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/i-want-someone-to-eat-cheese-with/

Re: [PEN-L] Kerala model questioned

On 9/7/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NY Times, September 7, 2007 > Border Crossings > Jobs Abroad Support 'Model' State in India > By JASON DePARLE > Professor Franke, the Kerala admirer, said the economic forces that lead > people to migrate were beyond the state's control. "But w

[PEN-L] Propaganda 101: Lose the content - Did You Know Osama is over 6'4" and needs regular dialysis?

...and it's a longstanding tradition in U.S. media. F'rinstance, Who knows what Martin Luther King Jr. had to say about the Memphis Tennessee sanitation operation and it's worker's strike? Repeat after me: Irrelevant factoids are important, irrelevant factoids are important, irrelevant factoids a

[PEN-L] It takes a crisis

It Takes a Crisis Naomi Klein looks at free-market fundamentalists and economic turmoil http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_03/846

Re: [PEN-L] Oped News: On new investigation of 9/11 WTC collapses

Please, let us leave this off the list. We have already been over it enough. On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:49:35AM -0700, The Buffalo In Da' Midst wrote: > 007 09:50:13 -0700 > X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-2.40 required=5.00 > Status: O > X-Status: > X-Keywords: > X-UID: 12954 > > Ahhh! > > An RPI Grad

Re: [PEN-L] Oped News: On new investigation of 9/11 WTC collapses

Ahhh! An RPI Grad! Here's one of Dr. Hirschhorn's colleagues now living in Santa Cruz: http://img130.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0092si2.jpg His spyspace blog: http://www.myspace.com/robertpinky "There's a fine line between genius and stupidity" - Anonymous lcm On 9/7/07, Paul Zarembka <[

[PEN-L] Klein's Shock Doctrine

A couple of videos about the Shock Doctrine are at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/video/2007/sep/07/naomiklein Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html

[PEN-L] Kerala model questioned

NY Times, September 7, 2007 Border Crossings Jobs Abroad Support ‘Model’ State in India By JASON DePARLE TRIVANDRUM, India — This verdant swath of southern Indian coastline is a famously good place to be poor. People in the state of Kerala live nearly as long as Americans do, on a sliver of the

[PEN-L] Oped News: On new investigation of 9/11 WTC collapses

[As we approach the first Tuesday 9-11 since 9-11-2001, P.Z.] Former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Senior Staff Member Calls for New Investigation of 9/11 www.opednews.com/articles/genera_alan_mil_070905_former_congressional.htm extract: “First, let the technical truth emer

Re: [PEN-L] comparative advantage

But isn't this entire notion, "comparative advantage," derived as it is from Smith's division of labor, simply baloney? Where is the specialization on a national basis in the world economy? Anywhere? Textile production in Guatemala in India, in Mali, was comparatively advantaged to textile produc