Re: [PEN-L] embarrassing question

My backers are Visa and Mastercard. Hey Max, I just noticed that your initials MBS is same as the abbreviation for Mortgage Backed Security. Are you backed by prime or subprime? Sabri Never

Re: [PEN-L] embarrassing question

The answer is 6.24. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list on behalf of John Gulick Sent: Wed 12/12/2007 8:07 AM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Cc: Subject: [PEN-L] embarrassing question I am loath to pitch this

Re: [PEN-L] How is cost-benefit analysis possible?

If C-B is not possible, sports fans, how would your preferred from of government make a decision about whether or not to undertake a project?

Re: [PEN-L] query: Austan Goolsbee

I've had some contacts with him. He's basically centrist, or maybe several clicks left of center, I would say open-minded and not a stereotypic Chicago-type. I blasted him for rehashing some cliches about entitlements and budget deficits and he took it in good humor. (Though apparently it

Re: [PEN-L] Ruminations on the antiwar movement

Tom is a good egg. He was a fat guy when he was just a low-level apparatchnik for SEIU and Campaign for America's Future. It has nothing to do with his advancement in MoveOn. My impression is he doesn't do much lobbying. He's more of an organizer, albeit over the Internet. These Internet

Re: [PEN-L] Is there a tax expert in the house?

Actually I was referring to illegal tax evasion, made possible by lack of IRS enforcement, rather than legal tax avoidance. The illegal piece is estimated at $350 billion a year. The legal piece is approximated by the data on tax expenditures, reported every year by OMB. The components of the

Re: [PEN-L] Why economics sucks

Yes. Also the disjunct between the elite pure Econ Dept people and the masses of practitioners in non-Econ departments (Urban planning, area studies, African-American/Latino studies, sociology, geography, public affairs, etc.) and outside academia. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list

Re: [PEN-L] Why economics sucks

Boxes of Heterodoxy, or Why Economics Sucks By Max Sawicky ... I'm no big theorist; I'm a dissatisfied consumer. good line! 1. Supply and demand, 1. This celebrated and most basic economic model while in principle multidimensional in practice obscures anything interesting that affects market

Re: [PEN-L] query: racism

Haven't read it, only heard about it, but maybe Michael Eric Dyson? http://www.michaelericdyson.com/cosby/index.html -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:39 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: query:

Re: [PEN-L] query: racism

Have no idea. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:53 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: [PEN-L] query: racism interesting. Does Manning Marable have anything? On 7/10/07, Max Sawicky [EMAIL

Re: [PEN-L] he may be getting out

He goes straight to Venezuela, then we get a chorus about the threat to the Panama Canal. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 4:27 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: [PEN-L] he may be getting out

Re: [PEN-L] national health care and terrorism

Just the reverse. With globalization, borders to medical professionals come down. Your Mexican dentist could plant a polonium time bomb in your tooth, set to go off when you attend your next NASCAR rally. Oh the humanity. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PEN-L] a neoliberal manifesto

neoconservatism, as I understand it, is totally a matter of foreign policy approaches. Some neocons lean toward New Deal liberalism on domestic issues, I'm told. The neocon foreign policy approach seems a matter of the US is the world hegemon, so let's impose our values on the world (though this

Re: [PEN-L] a neoliberal manifesto

Hi folks. I'm back. I was never really gone. Didja miss me? Don't answer that. Fr. Devine I think is just painting neo-libs as old-tyme classical laissez-faire liberals, which I think is wrong. N-Ls accept the mixed economy as a political reality; their shtick is to work like termites on the

Re: [PEN-L] Government miscalculation?

Here is his web site: http://www.gillespieresearch.com/cgi-bin/bgn/ -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:28 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Government miscalculation? The numbers behind the lies

[PEN-L] NYC Teach-in

Some students run a pretty good blog -- entitled Against the War on Terror, and are organizing a teach-in in NYC. http://againstwot.com/teach_in/teach_in.html It's 2/25/06 at CUNY.

[PEN-L] More on Tommy Lee Jones

Could be we done him wrong. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/border_justice_the_three_burials_of_melq uiades_estrada_20060204/

Re: [PEN-L] More on Tommy Lee Jones

:57 AM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: More on Tommy Lee Jones Huh? I must have missed some post. Who did who wrong how? And what does the movie review have to do with it? Max Sawicky wrote: Could be we done him wrong. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item

Re: [PEN-L] Witch hunt at UCLA

To be precise, w/o prejudice to LP's intent or point, Genovese was forced out of Rutgers U. (two years before I got there) for saying: Those of you who know me know that I am a Marxist and a Socialist. Therefore, unlike most of my distinguished colleagues here this morning, I do not fear or

Re: [PEN-L] SEIU contest

I'm outraged because none of my equally banal proposals made it to the finals. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sandwichman Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:46 AM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: SEIU contest The SlicedBread blog

Re: [PEN-L] Chavez as anti-Semite?

And the SID (Socialists in Denial) award goes to . . . He's talking about the decendants of the people who crucified christ... the ROMANS. From sick minds, come sick ideas --Adbusters

[PEN-L] Marxological Question

On capital allocation: 1. one idea is that with perfect competition capital flows to best uses first, then to less lucrative projects, and so 'on the margin' productivity of capital and the rate of profit fall. In the extreme, the rentier is euthanized as capital becomes so plentiful that the

[PEN-L] If you're not with us, you're against us

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Re: [PEN-L] melting, melting (by Mike Davis)

See also the book Bayou Farewell re: the Gulf Coast. The rate of land loss there is incredible. I wrote about it on my site, if anyone's interested. The problem with moving when you retire is you have to be able to afford to retire. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL

[PEN-L] Trade Smackdown

Baker v. Barkley v. Bivens (in the comments section) http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/001747.html

Re: [PEN-L] History Channel on the Crusades

KoH was really dumb. I saw it the other night. Somehow noble Romans (Gladiator, Rome on HBO) are more convincing than conscience-stricken Crusaders. Maybe it's just Orlando Bloom, who looked wrong without his little bow and arrow and some troll chasing him. I liked Kenneth Branagh in Henry

Re: [PEN-L] NC economics

A pretty good sociologist once summarized his complaint on economics (really NC) to me: you individualize everything. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David B. Shemano Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:45 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU

Re: [PEN-L] Ben printing press Bernanke

It is a fact, but it does suggest that BB may have an incentive to overcompensate a bit at the first opportunity. Sort of like bluffing early in a poker game. Wall St is cheering his apointment because they apparently think he is Mr. Easy Money. I suspect that Ben is going to try very hard to

Re: [PEN-L] FWIW: National Review on Bernanke

NRO has this remarkable stable of total fools writing about economics. He's one of them. The only one with a brain is Bruce Bartlett. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 5:37 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU

[PEN-L] Game Theory Skepticism

For any interested, this post and its links provide the views of a progressive economist-blogger from Oz. http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/13/whats-wrong-with-game-theory/#more-3 912

Re: [PEN-L] good piece on CAFTA

Yoshie has done a great job with it. mrzine is fast becoming the best site in the country for left labor reporting and analysis. All of the labor peices can be accessed by clicking on Labor's Corner at the upper left of the screen on the site. Michael Yates

Re: [PEN-L] Todd Gitlin says Marxism is theology

I'm verging out of my depth -- make up your own joke -- but I would think practice need not have anything to do with it. Calculus isn't related to any particular practice, but nobody would call it theology. Ironically, some of Marxism's inaccurate purported predictions that are raised to liken

Re: [PEN-L] NBA or NFL?

I'd like to believe this. What's the source? -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Scanlan Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 6:15 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: [PEN-L] NBA or NFL? NBA OR NFL? 36 have been accused of spousal abuse 7

Re: [PEN-L] Ancient Caucasians

I thought this thread was about Perelman. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:09 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: Ancient Caucasians

Re: [PEN-L] Schwartzenegger's awful attack on labor

What's the good side? -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 4:52 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Schwartzenegger's awful attack on labor

Re: [PEN-L] Technology question

You're ignoring the subscription price. Hard drives are getting cheaper faster than TIVO is. I saw a deal this week-end for a 160 gig, $39.95 after rebates. I just bought a nifty TV tuner card (Hauppage, 150 PVR) ($80) for the Univac. Plug a cable box into that baby and you can record all you

Re: [PEN-L] Tax Cuts to Rescue N. Orleans

$1.6 billion? Do you mean just for L.A.? how could they cut coporate taxes any more than they have already? (in 1962, corporate tax revenues were 20.5 billion. In 2004, there were 1.6 billion. That's nominal, non-inflation-corrected, dollars. It's not corrected for the large rise in the size

Re: [PEN-L] Tax Cuts to Rescue N. Orleans

Not to rub salt into the wound, for FY05 it took a big jump, though probably a temporary one. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:38 AM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: Tax Cuts to Rescue N.

Re: [PEN-L] Tax Cuts to Rescue N. Orleans

is reduced, so there is a tax benefit to the taxpayer and a loss to the Gov. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:05 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: Tax Cuts to Rescue N. Orleans On 9/2/05, Max

Re: [PEN-L] Iraq spending diverted money from levee upgrades

It's impossible to bash Bush too much, but I shouldn't have to tell anybody here that both major parties share richly in the incompetence and neglect underlying the impact of the hurricane. If there was ever a time for radical criticism, it's now. The Iraq angle is juicy, but there is more to be

Re: [PEN-L] Iraq spending diverted money from levee upgrades

Course not. In D.C., we can barely handle snow. Speaking of complacency, some of the biggest quakes in US history have hit the East of the Sierras. Are you guys ready? -- Jim Devine Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] Long run interest rate projections public finance

A mainstream, optimistic estimate for stocks alone (e.g., Jeremy Siegel at Wharton) is six percent (real terms). Once you mix in bonds and Gov securities, it obviously goes lower. -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Lantsberg Sent: Friday,

Re: [PEN-L] Data Manipulation

I work with people at EPI who are intimately familiar with BLS and BEA and have heard nothing about any data manipulation. Mbs This sort of critique is dumb. The BLS and BEA do a very good job. It's hard work getting this stuff out in a month or three. Revisions go in both directions - there's

[PEN-L] It's a gas gas gas

Check this out, sports fans: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/08/chart_of_the_we_3.html

Re: [PEN-L] query

Start here: http://www.bls.gov/cba/home.htm -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:38 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: query where can I get time series data on the percentage of private-sector

Re: [PEN-L] query

-sectional for just the last couple of years. On 8/17/05, Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start here: http://www.bls.gov/cba/home.htm -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:38 PM To: PEN-L

Re: [PEN-L] Public Choice Economics

Dennis Mueller's surveys discuss literature with models founded on much more diverse assumptions. Even the right-wingers have models where politicians, bureaucrats, and 'agenda-setters' constrain voters' decisions. If you think that capitalism is ruled by a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie,

Re: [PEN-L] Political question

Weren't you the one who told me foolish optimism was a touchstone of human behavior? -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:49 AM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Political question Why do

Re: [PEN-L] forced saving

If we grant for the sake of argument that workers save nothing and capitalists save all, in an open economy where investment (and some implied benefits to workers from working in a setting where productivity is higher) is not determined by domestic saving, why should we care about national saving?

Re: [PEN-L] good jobs!

Check this out too: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/07/data_point_vers_1.html Barry is a sharp Wall Street business economist. Honest, politically centrist by and large. Very useful site.

Re: [PEN-L] Indexing Social Security benefits

Is it Bush who proposes this, Doug? Or some GOP Congresscreep? Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Nobody has formally proposed a switch to wage indexing. The Bushoids have talked this and a number of options, but have evaded endorsing any in particular thus far. See below:

[PEN-L] FW: Realized capital gains

here you go: http://www.treasury.gov/offices/tax-policy/library/capgain1-2004.pdf

[PEN-L] Progressive Cheese Crackers

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