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22231 [lbo-talk] ooops -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >You could just use BLS local-area CPI figures, right? I know they have them >for metro areas, maybe they have state data too. They just do them for about 20 metro areas, and not in much detail. A real PPP exercise is a lot of work, comparing prices on anywhere from several hundred (in very poor countries) to several thousand (in very rich contries) items. For a quickie descrip, see <http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/ICPEXT/0,,contentMDK:201182 ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 12:19:11 PDT 2004

22232 [lbo-talk] auditing the CPA -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 22, 2004 UN auditors attack US occupiers over spending of Iraq's oil revenues By Thomas Catan and Gareth Smyth United Nations-mandated auditors have sharply criticised the US occupation authority for the way it spends Iraqi oil revenues and say they have faced "resistance" to performing their job by coalition officials. In an interim report obtained by the Financial Times, KPMG said the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), which is managed by the US-led Coalition Pro ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 12:05:24 PDT 2004

22233 [lbo-talk] Re: naderphobia -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >soon, we'll hear that camejo isn't a real latino He's from an upper class Venezuelan family - is that "real Latino"? What is a real Latino, anyway? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 11:26:29 PDT 2004

22234 [lbo-talk] ooops -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >Can we have the comparisons for US states? I don't know of any PPP data for U.S. states. The Timbro paper just uses the BEA's per capita GDP by state figures. If you're going to use PPP measures for countries that in some cases are smaller than U.S. states (Norway is about half the size of NYC), then you should use them for our states. A $12,000 income in rural Mississippi would buy you a rather different life from the same income in the Bronx. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 10:49:58 PDT 2004

22235 [lbo-talk] David Brooks answers his fact-checker -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a1835.asp> [...] When Philadelphia magazine sent a reporter to exurban Pennsylvania, where you had set a number of first-hand anecdotes about life in semi-rural, "red" America, the reporter discovered a list of small inaccuracies and overreaching generalizations. On the one hand, it was extremely petty. On the other, it raises questions about your methodology. A couple of things. First, if you applied that sort of standard or investigati ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 10:30:36 PDT 2004

22236 [lbo-talk] book notes -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fleshbot.com/archives/dessarae-and-alec-baldwin-016498.php> Dessarae and Alec Baldwin Dessarae Bradford is an angel-faced young woman we met at Erotica LA who had an interesting experience involving her dog, a strap-on, and Alec Baldwin on all fours: "In Sept. 2002, I fu**ed Alec Baldwin in his a** in a hot, sweaty, nasty sex romp. Read the story that will change lives." Whether or not the story will change anyone's life besides Dessarae's (and Alec's) is open for deb ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 07:50:01 PDT 2004

22237 [lbo-talk] the age of excess returns -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 22, 2004 WE HEAR . . . . . . THAT Vince Vaughn, Wyclef Jean and Lauren Bush were among the well-heeled celebs who accepted a goodie bag worth $35,000 at Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" bash the other night . . .

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 07:45:58 PDT 2004

22238 [lbo-talk] Nader AZ Effort Piggybacks Anti-immigrant Initiative -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The petition collectors were working for a GOP outfit, and were collecting >signatures for two high-profile ballot initiatives. One is the "Protect >Arizona Now" initiative, which is an anti-immigrant effort. Fascinating. I wonder how Camejo feels about this? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 07:28:24 PDT 2004

22239 [lbo-talk] Ted Glick on Nader/Camejo -- rank: 1000

Nader/Camejo By Ted Glick June 22, 2004 W hat an emotional roller-coaster the Green Party Presidential nomination contest has been! What a fascinating development, Independent Ralph Nader choosing Peter Camejo, the 2002-'03 Green Party California gubernatorial candidate and, as the AP reported, who "ran for president as the Socialist Workers Party nominee in 1976," as his Vice-Presidential running mate, doing so despite his often-expressed and carried-through on plans to reach out to d ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 07:26:16 PDT 2004

22240 [lbo-talk] WMT suit certified -- rank: 1000

[big news in this household...] WSJ.com - June 22, 2004 Wal-Mart Faces Class Action In Sex-Discrimination Case By ANN ZIMMERMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL June 22, 2004 9:57 a.m. A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that a gender-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could move forward as a class action, allowing the lawsuit to apply to as many as 1.6 million current and former female employees who worked for the company since Dec. 26, 1998. The move makes the case ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 07:10:08 PDT 2004

22241 [lbo-talk] McReynolds for Senate -- rank: 1000

[McReynolds is excellent, and Schumer is a creep.] POLITICS IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT (statement by David McReynolds) On June 11th I met with Gloria Mattera and two other members of the New York Green Party, at my apartment, to discuss the possibility of my being the Green Party candidate for US Senate this fall, running against the incumbent, Charles Schumer. As a result of that meeting, Gloria and the "search" committee is recommending that the Green Party select me as its candidate. ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 22 07:02:17 PDT 2004

22242 [lbo-talk] Hardt interview -- rank: 1000

I'm going to have Michael Hardt on the radio soon, perhaps as soon as Thursday. Any questions you'd like me to ask him? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 21 17:15:15 PDT 2004

22243 [lbo-talk] ooops -- rank: 1000

[Sorry, I screwed up and copied from the wrong spreadsheet - GDP per capita in 1995 U.S. dollars converted at market exchange rates. Here's what I'd promised, GDP per capita at purchasing power parity exchange rates. Ok, so the EU is as poor as Mississippi, though that sure isn't the way it seems. We have more Hummers, for sure.] 01 World 21.9% 02 Low income 5.9% 03 Middle income 16. ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 21 17:05:26 PDT 2004

22244 [lbo-talk] GDP per capita -- rank: 1000

[The report from the Swedish think tank that had European living standards around those of the Mississipi delta got me crunching some numbers. Here are the per capita GDP figures for 2002 expressed as a percentage of the U.S. level, based on World Bank data. GDP is figured using purchasing power parity - i.e., an exchange rate designed to measure real buying power, with the distortions of market exchange rates stripped away. There are some problems with PPP, practical and conceptual, but it's th ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 21 16:06:43 PDT 2004

22245 [lbo-talk] new WP/ABC poll: Bush losing ground on "terrorism" -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: IRAQ & THE ELECTION - 6/20/04 Bush Loses Ground on Terrorism Amid Concerns about the Iraq War Amid rising disenchantment with the war in Iraq, George W. Bush has lost significant ground on the issue on which he's staked his presidency: Fighting terrorism. For the first time in ABC News/Washington Post polls, more than half of Americans, 52 percent, say the Iraq war was not worth fighting. Seven in 10 call U.S. casualties there "unacceptable," a new hi ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 21 14:46:20 PDT 2004