people who would normally save a little every month, were forced
into debt.
In the last 3/4 years we have a lot of companies (never seen before)
offering consumer loans (with rates up to 30%). Not a good thing in
my opinion.
Massimo Portolani
On 20/mar/07, at 13:02, Eugene Coyle wrote
federico fellini's 'prove d'orchestra' is an interesting movie, in
this regard
massimo
On 15/set/06, at 23:20, Jim Devine wrote:
The first violinist was the ur-conductor, so the conductor's role
wasn't totally new.
But I don't see why the job of conductor couldn't be rotated among
different
meet often to be
able to exchange ideas and
be a group and not individuals put together)
Massimo Portolani
[Natural justice is a utility pact, to prevent one person from
harming or being
harmed by another (Epicurus)]
from early age, and it
is difficult
that it will ever be implemented if the system feeds on selling more
goods
and convincing people that they buy a piece of heaven every time they
buy a good.
But what are the alternatives?
Massimo Portolani
On 26/ago/06, at 01:32, Michael Perelman wrote:
Randy
A friend of mine has it, but he will be back from holidays in about 2
weeks.
If you don't find it before I will inform you when available.
Massimo
On 22/lug/06, at 05:58, Michael Perelman wrote:
I do not have access to this book. If someone does, I would love to
find out more about which
wrote:
On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Massimo Portolani wrote:
May be you dind't hear Zidane himself saying that the so called
provocation had nothing to do with racism but rather with his sister.
To be honest I feel that this nonsense about italian racism is quite
Well, if it's sexist name
to settle all things with unpolite talk
rather than with
polite shooting like in a video game.
Massimo
On 14/lug/06, at 02:40, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Massimo Portolani wrote:
May be you dind't hear Zidane himself saying that the so called
provocation had nothing
On 14/lug/06, at 03:23, Louis Kontos wrote:
You forget that the Italian player put his arm around the French
player -- the provocation was thorough. The referees should have
called a penalty for that alone.
that is normal in any football match, and that particular one was not
certainly
an
don't really understand the technical background.
This is very sad because it enables the greediest and richest to make
money from the obvious and freezes development.
Massimo Portolani
On 16/apr/06, at 03:02, Michael Perelman wrote:
This is really weird. RIM paid almost a billion
uncomprehensible way
(to make silly things look complicated)
and lawyers to defend those papers afterwards.
Paper skills instead of real skills.
Very sad indeed.
Massimo
On 16/apr/06, at 16:25, Sandwichman wrote:
But of course that's the intention.
On 4/16/06, Massimo Portolani [EMAIL PROTECTED
I think that these are myths. China actually had very little religion,
either Tao or Buddhism or Confucianism
are ways of life, philosophies, not religions. China particularly has a
materialistic culture, nothing to do with India
or Thailand or Japan.
And actually Shintoism made Japan quite
the rules of battle and mentality of
confrontation.
There is a huge (and not so nice) change of moral values between a
fight face-to-face or at a close distance and
firing on somebody who doesn't see (to reach the awful limit of today's
video-game-like hi-tech wars).
Massimo Portolani
On 06/apr/06, at 18
I think the difference is that that paragraph or two was intelligible
by every person with a minimum education;
the 30 page paper can only be understood (?) by a few.
More mistery, more importance to the economists, capable of handling
complicated issues
and more possibilities of manipulating the
For the most part, in economicss math offers a refuge from reality.
woudln't less math and more ethics and politics benefit the category?
Massimo
Unspoken is the foolishness of the standard US strategy of trying to
compete with low-wage
countries by hammering down labor.
This is what they try do do everywhere, but it is hopeless. A chinese
lives better with $100 a month than any American or European with
$1000.
Massimo Portolani
I am quite happy with my Mac!
Massimo
On 31/ago/05, at 17:41, Carl Remick wrote:
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I used to get wonderful service from Dell, but they have become
increasingly
unhelpful. Not a smart place for cost cutting, unless you can shut
the
complainers
up.
Is
figures I would really be interested.
Thank you.
Massimo Portolani
On 31/ago/05, at 15:40, Jim Devine wrote:
August 30, 2005/New York TIMES op-ed
The Road to Hell Is Clogged With Righteous Hybrids
By JOHN TIERNEY
LOS ANGELES — Judgment Day has arrived in California, but not exactly
. They even tried to allow a
second mortgage, that is not possible now,
even if it will come, sooner or later.
Massimo Portolani
On 28/ago/05, at 18:53, Michael Perelman wrote:
One point hinted to in the article is the evolution of the attitude
toward debt. US
business worked hard, especially beginning
It seems to me that the major problem will be the increase in
consumption.
If you consider China - from where I just came back - in 10 years
bicycles
have disappeared from the road and there many traffic jams and car
market is booming. Same thing I have seen in India.
I am glad for them, because
1 EACH.
Massimo Portolani
On 05/lug/05, at 06:27, Michael Perelman wrote:
It works both ways. Adam Smith's student, John Millar, worked out the
capital logic
of the nuclear family. At the same time, it also leads in the
direction that you
say. That is why David's prof. seemed to make sense
I have recently read the following ( I found an italian translation in
a magazine):
The cuba diet
What will you be eating when the revolution comes?
Bill McKibben
Harper's Magazine
it seems they have learned in a few years, but, as I have seen going
there, they learned to live decently.
It is a
Thank you Michael for the link. I like very much this subject.
It would be interesting to read somewhere how many acres of land, how
many tons of water, how many tons of
fertilizers and how much work would be needed to obtain the equivalent
of the daily consumption of a country like the US.
Of
I am quite happy to receive a few hundred spam messages a day and be in
a 'plaza' where I can meet
presumably everybody, rather than losing freedom to some pretended
security.
And to be honest I think that most of the security problems affect
mainly users of one
particular operating system,
on their
conclusions (like regulating water use with a true market system) but
the fact remains.
Massimo Portolani
On 26/giu/05, at 18:40, Michael Perelman wrote:
I said there is debate. I think that the article is wrong.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:34:51AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
On 6/26/05, Michael
-bi).
At that point they will even make more dollars, to buy (or at least to
try to) some US assets.
Massimo Portolani
On 24/giu/05, at 20:10, Jim Devine wrote:
Actually I don't believe it at all. I was distracted while typing and
it came out all wrong. The renimbi is undervalued, not overvalued
long) goes on. It is still very
convenient over there!
Massimo Portolani
to central bankers with monetary targets in their minds.
In Europe the target of the ECB is keeping inflation low and they stick
to that, even if this means
unemployment.It seems to me that people in Fance or Holland, are
rejecting that type of policy.
Massimo Portolani
On 09/giu/05, at 17:01
people didn't mean to much to say no to that
particular constitution, they simply said no to Europe
as it is planned by its elites. I think we need good ideals; this is
what people are missing.
Massimo Portolani
sell their shares in time..).
I think we don't only need a minimum wage, a maximum wage would be
recommendable as well.
Massimo Portolani
On 19/mag/05, at 18:25, Michael Hoover wrote:
How would you like a 54 percent pay raise? That's how much pay jumped
last year for the chief executives of the 500
. If their future
union leaders could convince their employers as
european union leaders have done here, they will also work less and
enjoy more, for the benefit of all.
Massimo Portolani
these things to
take some vacation, have some leisure
for the benefit of us all.
Massimo Portolani
On 13/mag/05, at 18:53, michael perelman wrote:
Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why so Different?
BY: ALBERTO F. ALESINA
Harvard University
Department of Economics
Excuse me but it's quite late over here and I have to wake up early
tomorrow.
I will read the paper in details and I'll be glad to provide my point
of view asap
Good night
Massimo Portolani
On 14/mag/05, at 00:07, Doug Henwood wrote:
Massimo Portolani wrote:
Alesina is italian, as I am, and over
I think it is already difficult enough to measure some kind of
satisfaction.
To think to be able to measure happiness appears to me to be a good
measure of madness!
Massimo Portolani
Eugene Coyle wrote:
I don't think he talks about the production of happiness, but in
his new book, Happiness
On 14/apr/05, at 20:07, Jim Devine wrote:
On 4/14/05, Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... General disinclination to
wake up and smell the Fascism is one reason the antiwar movement has
sputtered
I also a qualitative difference between Nazism and fascism. Hitler was
Mussolini doubled or
If anybody in the list is interested:
From the latest exit polls the left has won 11 regions and the
coalition of the right only 2, (they thought they would be 6 to 7!).
The most interesting thing is that in Puglia it looks like the
candidate from
the Communist Party (Rifondazione Comunista) is
this. As I use to say to my customers when they
want something that must be produced
'I can't get it from a shelf', it takes time and effort to manufacture
it.
Massimo Portolani
On 23/mar/05, at 06:51, soula avramidis wrote:
What the article does not say is that after many years of import
to the freewheeling market,
where everybody thinks short term and expect others to arrange the
place for the party and clean the mess when
the party is over.
Massimo Portolani
On 15/mar/05, at 17:04, Louis Proyect wrote:
Salon.com
Running on empty
The leading energy analysts who foretold Enron's demise have
of no coordination appear to me to be terrible.
Massimo Portolani
Thank you very much for this piece from Woody Guthrie, I have found
that this song is in the
album 'the ballad of Sacco e Vanzetti' and I will try to get a copy of
it.
Giovanni Verga wrote that only artists can properly address social
issues.
I don't know if that specific text was ever
On 27/feb/05, at 20:06, Julio Huato wrote:
Massimo Portolani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that political and economic power go hand by hand,
so dollar dominance and political power are rather intertwined rather
than being one the reflection of the other.
I'm not sure what you mean, but do you
manufacturing over here!)
Massimo Portolani
P.S. This is an old article where they mentioned the Iraqi request to
be paid in Euros.
'The Economist Nov.23.2000 (print Edition): ..Tight demand on world
markets is encouraging Iraq to throw its weight around. Last month, it
demanded payment in euros rather
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