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27736 dangerous men -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Jocks epitomize the conventional gender roles Serena and Venus Williams? Or does this apply only to male "jocks"? Is the term as gendered as the supportive garment? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 9 14:09:34 PDT 2002

27737 How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >The US also sold Saudi Arabia $66billion+ in weapons over the past >decade or so >and surely some of that gear and know-how ended up in the hands of ObL's >friends; so what's "our" responsibility in reversing that error? I didn't say anything was "our" responsibility. I said it's a very weak argument to say that because "we" sold them stuff, "we" have no standing to criticize now. Partisans of reparative justice could make ex ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 9 14:08:28 PDT 2002

27738 How did Iraq get its weapons? We sold them -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >THE US and Britain sold Saddam Hussein the technology and materials >Iraq needed to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of >mass destruction. I don't get this argument. If the U.S. and UK sold weapons to Iraq, and if Iraq really is a danger to the world (not a position I'm taking except for the purposes of this argument), then the U.S. and UK bear special responsibility for reversing the error. The same goes with the creation of the Taliban and al Qaeda as an unin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 9 13:39:13 PDT 2002

27739 Elliott waves and Cambridge -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Because it's the only effective lever of macroeconomic control that >we have, given the Congress's... limited... ability to conduct >discretionary fiscal policy in a timely fashion... What's the state of thinking these days on the monetary transmission mechanism? Lately in the U.S. it seems to operate via effects on the stock market, the housing market, and psychololgy. Investment hasn't responded to the lowest interest rates in a generation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 9 09:36:38 PDT 2002

27740 Slavoj speaks (in Boston) -- rank: 1000

Lecture "An evening with Slavoj Zizek," featuring Slavoj Zizek, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. September 19, 7:30pm, Gasson 100, Boston College

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 9 09:24:48 PDT 2002

27741 Hedonic Indexing -- rank: 1000

Alexander Nekvasil wrote: >in Austrian journals there is this econ guru from >St. Gallen management school, Friedmund Malik, who, in a >series of articles, makes one gloomy forecast for the US >economy after the other. One of his recent pieces was >about hedonic indexing, a device used by US >statisticians which values goods not at their price, but >at price times a factor that supposedly makes up for the >value losses due to rapid innovation, most notably in >compute ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 9 09:15:24 PDT 2002

27742 9/11 warnings -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - September 7, 2002 Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored By Kate Clark in Kabul Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored Weeks before the terrorist attacks on 11 September, the United States and the United Nations ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on American soil. The warnings were delivered by an aide of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 9 08:55:28 PDT 2002

27743 NC and neo-Hegelianism -- rank: 1000

Away for the weekend and just catching up... topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: >http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/chomskysept97.htm > >"These radical changes in the conception of human rights and >democracy were not >introduced primarily by legislation, but by judicial decisions and >intellectual >commentary. Corporations, which previously had been considered artificial >entities with no rights, were accorded all the rights of persons, >and far more, >since t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 9 08:39:31 PDT 2002

27744 Elliott waves and Cambridge -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>Bradford DeLong wrote: >> >>>Will you allow me to say that lowering the interest rate is likely >>>to raise the number and aggregate total cost of investment >>>projects with positive risk-adjusted net present value? >> >>In theory, but why then do changes in interest rates do so little >>to explain aggregate investment? >> >>Doug > > >Because other things--business cash flow, expectations of f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 9 08:41:25 PDT 2002

27745 freedom is noncorrelated responses to common shocks -- rank: 1000

Here's a piece of "economic" analysis from Credit Suisse First Boston - the people who brought you Frank Quattrone! Wasn't that diversity of responses to 9/11 remarkable? Doug ---- >Credit Suisse First Boston >US Economics Digest >9 September 2002 > >Shocked But Undaunted > >American society has been subjected to monumental shocks in the last >twelve months, beginning with the September 11 attacks and >continuing with scandalous revelations and allegations ab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 6 14:04:45 PDT 2002

27746 that's class warfare, baby -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > >> she said, "what do they want us to do, die?" >> >> Of course. Why do you think insurance accountants call payments to >> cover patient care "losses"? > >But if they die, they stop paying premiums. Ideal sequence: pay premiums for a long time, file no claims, then drop dead suddenly. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 6 13:56:02 PDT 2002

27747 that's class warfare, baby -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >the other day, i was standing in line at the pharmacy. the lady >next to me was told her insurance wouldn't pay for her meds -- >insurance adjusters are more in tune with medicine than doctors are >as we all know. she said, "what do they want us to do, die?" Of course. Why do you think insurance accountants call payments to cover patient care "losses"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 6 13:09:27 PDT 2002

27748 Can you say, Stagflation? -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Aren't lots of folks just refinancing at lower rates and thus >dumping some debt >even as the value of their homes has gone up since the last time they >refinanced? Most of the refinancings involve taking cash out of equity - around $150 billion last year and somewhere in that neighborhood this year. The lower interest rate itself frees up surprisingly little cash. Mortgage debt is rising smartly. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 6 10:30:35 PDT 2002

27749 Hitchens: kill 'em before they start -- rank: 1000

A reminder: when responding to posts, there's no reason to quote the whole thing to make a short point. Please excise material wherever possible. Doug Justin Schwartz wrote: >Hmas may be popular among Palestinians becausew of its resistance to >the occupation. There is evidence its religious views are not >popular among Palestinians. Earlier in the summer someone posted a >poll of Palestinians on their goals, and something less than 5% >supported the idea of an Islamic state, as I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 6 10:28:34 PDT 2002

27750 Can you say, Stagflation? -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >ECRI US Inflation Gauge 109.0 In Aug Versus July 107.0 > >NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- An index designed to anticipate cyclical turning >points in inflation rose to 109.0 in August from 107.0 in July, the Economic >Cycle Research Institute said Friday. >The smoothed annualized growth rate of the index rose to 18.8% in August >from 15.7% in July. > >ECRI said the gauge was pushed up by a continued surge in real-estate loan >growth, stronger job growth, and a ti ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 6 10:08:44 PDT 2002