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27766 Zipcar? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Any of you NYers try this yet? > >http://www.zipcar.com/ Not me. Wow. There's one only .42 mi away. What's the catch? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 4 06:42:31 PDT 2002

27767 GS on AG -- rank: 1000

Goldman Sachs economist Bill Dudley had this reaction to Greenspan's Jackson Hole speech in today's commentary: >My reaction to the speech is that it is premature to reach such a >conclusion. One needs first to have a better understanding of >the consequences of the burst bubble. If the US turns out like >Japan, then clearly more should have been done earlier to prevent >the bubble and its accompanying imbalances from having grown so >large. In contrast, if the US economy gr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 3 14:55:40 PDT 2002

27768 Sandy Weill ain't fat -- rank: 1000

A while back, during a thread on the rarity of corpulence at the senior levels of American business, Carl Remick claimed that Citi's Sandy Weill was "muy gordo." There's a full-length pic of him in the current Business Weak. He's no Bob Rubin, but he ain't gordo either. Carl, what are you basing this on? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 3 14:44:51 PDT 2002

27769 black block -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >This is a baseless argument commonly used by liberals and other >wankers in the anti-glob movement to marginalize anyone who >advocates tactics more militant that holding up a banner at some >rally. This argument was trotted out frequently after Seattle and it >always falls on its face. Sabotage and property destruction does not >piss off the public. There was no hue and cry after Seattle by the >public about the property destruction. We can still march ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 3 14:32:39 PDT 2002

27770 top economists -- rank: 1000

For a list of the top 1000 most-cited economists, see <http://www.columbia.edu/~xs23/1000%20top%20Citations.pdf>. Xavier Sala-i-Martin has the most annoying website I've ever seen for an academic that I've ever seen <http://www.columbia.edu/~xs23/home.html>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 3 12:11:57 PDT 2002

27771 black block -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >As for the destruction in Genoa, it has been revealed in painstaking >detail that this was the work of agent provocateurs and the police. Which is an interesting point. Cops often use agents provocateurs who promote sabotage - or do the work themselves. They do this in part because they know it discredits movements among a larger public (which either doesn't exist or doesn't matter, I forget which, in CoxWorld). I'm not opposed to violence in principle, but I think it' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 3 11:04:33 PDT 2002

27772 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

christian11 at mindspring.com wrote: >Which Cambridge Controversy book was it, do you remember? Geoffrey Harcourt's. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 3 09:28:32 PDT 2002

27773 health news: drink wine -- rank: 1000

New York Post - September 3, 2002 DIVINE WINE STOPS HEART ATTACKS A little bit of wine may not only prevent heart disease, but help people who've already had one heart attack prevent a second one, French researchers reported yesterday. Middle-aged men who had had one heart attack and who drank two or more glasses of wine regularly were 50 percent less likely than nondrinkers to have a second heart attack. Dr. Michel de Lorgeril, of the Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble, studied 353 men who h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 3 09:08:11 PDT 2002

27774 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >On the other hand, there are big and deep problems with the Solow >production function view that are completely unconnected with the >Cambrdige Controversy... Such as? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 3 08:48:58 PDT 2002

27775 a critique of the march on Sandton -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >>I don't think the only two paths open are 1) burning down >>convention centers or 2) listening to blowhards drone on. No one >>burned anything down in Seattle. A few windows were broken, which >>is more than fine with me, but no one thought to castrate the Space >>Needle. > >So, should people in Argentina stop burning banks down? I don't know that it's accomplishing very much - it seems more like an expression of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 3 08:46:49 PDT 2002

27776 a critique of the march on Sandton -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >This is where we fundamentally disagree. Political transformation >never happens after people are tamed into listening to speakers and >leaders. > >Was Seattle about getting our ya-yas out? > >Perhaps we should have obediently filed into the stadium to listen >to hours of speeches from the officially-approved labor leaders? I don't think the only two paths open are 1) burning down convention centers or 2) listening to blowhards drone on. No one burned ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 2 14:29:43 PDT 2002

27777 new Iraq poll -- rank: 1000

Poll: Americans Support Attack on Iraq Mon Sep 2,10:39 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 60 percent of Americans support military action to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites), but a majority of those believe the United States should win international backing first, according to a poll released on Monday. A Los Angeles Times Poll showed an even larger majority, 64 percent, supported a ground attack on Iraq if President Bush ( news - web sites) decided to launch one. Twenty-eig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 2 12:20:50 PDT 2002

27778 CNN & the White House -- rank: 1000

[wow, the standard model is the government manipulating the press - but here CNN was taking the initiative] U.S. News & World Report - September 2, 2002 Extreme TV, CNN-style: Bush on the dog gassing With the popularity of reality shows, "extreme TV," and news programs like 48 Hours, is it any wonder that staid CNN is a tad jealous? Maybe that's why network bigs thought up their own brand of extreme news, theirs featuring President Bush. Whispers learns that the network offered to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 2 11:26:47 PDT 2002

27779 good news! -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Well I've seen many elliot wave charts in articles by the gold buggies, so >I'm familiar with the waves. So far I have not been able to delve into one >of the articals for any long period though. That's why I wonder what you >find "mystical". What's mystical is the idea that prices of speculative assets should follow these patterns, and that you take your "knowledge" of these patterns and try to apply them to the semi-random inkblot-like price charts ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 2 11:12:15 PDT 2002

27780 lbo-talk-digest V1 #6632 -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Who would like to point out that he has never used the Elliott Wave Theory >in any piece of research which he has distributed to other people for money Ah, but does it influence you secretly? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 2 11:08:46 PDT 2002