Search LBO-Talk Archives

28891 Unacceptable face of capitalism? -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >The other night a retired Nortel guy I always chat with about the market >while he and his wife eat pizza said something like, you know, maybe the >communists were right about capitalism leading to it's own destuction A point today's NY Times Week in Review helpfully clarifies. Under the headline "Could Capitalists Actually Bring Down Capitalism?," Wall Street reporter Kurt Eichenwald reviews the recent scandals, and then reassures himself and others with this pass ...

Document Size:	6239
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 30 11:47:57 PDT 2002

28892 announcement -- rank: 1000

New York Times - June 30, 2002 Lily Harfouche and Strider Wasilewski Emira Lily Harfouche, the daughter of Jane Mandy Harfouche and Emir Hassan Harfouche of Malibu, Calif., is to be married today to Strider Rasberry Wasilewski, a son of Jain Irvine of Venice, Calif., and Martin Wasilewski of Aups, France. Red Star, a Native American of the Chumash tribe and a ceremonial leader, is to perform a nondenominational ceremony at Stone Manor, an estate in Malibu. Ms. Harfouche, 24, is known as Lily. Sh ...

Document Size:	5564
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 30 11:45:34 PDT 2002

28893 lbo-talk-digest V1 #6387 -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 01:14 AM 06/29/2002 -0400, jks wrote: >>May it will turn out that there was no boom in the 90s--just a bubble. jks > >Duh. Well, there was also a reversal of the long slide in real wages, and the lowest black poverty rate on record. Doug

Document Size:	4687
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 30 10:46:34 PDT 2002

28894 Why was there low unemployment in the 90s? -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Or, alternatively, that rapid aggregate productivity growth drove a >wedge between the wage increases workers aspired to given low >unemployment and the price increases firms needed to maintain and >expand profits, and thus low unemployment was consistent with stable >inflation... ...except that profits peaked around 1997, as productivity was accelerating, bringing the boom to an end. And the evidence is that productivity gains were concentrated in a few in ...

Document Size:	5318
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 29 14:16:52 PDT 2002

28895 Fwd: FW: Email Filters - 6/02 -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] X-From_: crdbronx at erols.com Fri Jun 28 20:37:57 2002 From: Christopher Rhoades D˙kema <crdbronx at erols.com> To: "LBO-TALK" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com>, "DemocraticLeft" <DemocraticLeft at yahoogroups.com> Subject: FW: Email Filters - 6/02 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 20:38:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2 ...

Document Size:	9739
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 29 14:12:39 PDT 2002

28896 fun-loving first fillies update -- rank: 1000

New York Post - June 29, 2002 PAGE SIX By JARED PAUL STERN with Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson Richard Johnson is traveling June 29, 2002 -- This Bud's for the Bush twins HARD-PARTYING presidential progeny Jenna and Barbara Bush have been caught in the act of boozing once again. On Wednesday night, the 20-year-old, fun-loving fillies sucked down Budweisers and smoked like chimneys at Stetson's, a Texas-themed Washington saloon, reports the Washington Post. The women, who were with a group of fr ...

Document Size:	7204
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 29 09:45:53 PDT 2002

28897 ciao Salon? -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] Salon Down to Last $1.5 Million in Cash By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO -- Online magazine publisher Salon Media Group Inc. faces the prospect of going out of business if it can't raise more money this summer, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As of March 31, San Francisco-based Salon said it was down to its last $1.5 million in cash -- enough to keep its business running for three or four months, according to the company's annual repor ...

Document Size:	5786
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 29 09:34:39 PDT 2002

28898 Data Request - International Energy Expenditures -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Hey all; Can you help point me to some international energy >expenditure information please? It is easy to dig up GDP tables to >compare GDP sizes between countries. It is easy to dig up energy >consumption tables to compare energy consumption between >countries. But I can't seem to find any tables tell how much a given >country *PAID* for the energy it consumed. In short I can't find >any tables or even nation by nation descriptions that will allow me ...

Document Size:	5560
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 28 17:35:42 PDT 2002

28899 bumper crop of fucks -- rank: 1000

Date: 28 Jun 2002 09:14:06 -0000 To: List Member <dhenwood at panix.com> From: "The FC Network" <info at fuckedcompany.com> Subject: FC Sporadic for Friday, June 28, 2002 Hey, I know none of you Sporadic subscribers give a fuck about business n stuff... but still, I have to say... we're in red-alert mode. FC usually receives a few internal memos everyday, but it's usually stupid shit like cafeteria menu changes, office supply bandits, and "stop stealing my lunch out of ...

Document Size:	9241
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 28 17:21:58 PDT 2002

28900 I love a man in a uniform -- rank: 1000

[state and religion are doing a lot better than capital!] <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020628.asp> POLL ANALYSES June 28, 2002 Americans' Confidence in Military, Presidency Up; Big Business, Organized Religion Drop Confidence in military is 20 percentage points higher than confidence in any other institution by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE Send to a Friend Printable Version Message to the Author PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' confidence in organized religion and big business ha ...

Document Size:	7147
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 28 17:04:58 PDT 2002

28901 it's an epidemic! - now XRX -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Where I want to know is where is Double D, the Doughty Defender of the >accounting profession, now in their hour of need :o) Were the guys that >signed off on this stuff even trying to find irregularities? This newest >batch of "classification errors" seems like absurdly straightforward fraud >when compared with Enronomics. No? Xerox was kind of old news, but still it's an amazing procession, isn't it? And the numbers are so big. I bet national ...

Document Size:	5301
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 28 17:07:13 PDT 2002

28902 A good zinger from Cockburn -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >My only regret about the recent Supreme Court ban on executing imbeciles is >that it removes forever even the remote possibility that Bush might land on >Death Row. >-- NY Press Who in NY Press? I hear that NY Press has new investors who aren't as right wing as Russ "Mugger" Smith. The paper has gotten duller over the last year. And do we really need to revive Jim Goad? Doug

Document Size:	4868
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 28 16:30:15 PDT 2002

28903 it's an epidemic! - now XRX -- rank: 1000

<http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/020628/tech_xerox_5.html> Friday June 28, 5:55 pm Eastern Time Reuters Business Report Xerox Restates $6.4 Billion By Franklin Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) - Xerox Corp. (NYSE:XRX - News) on Friday restated five years of results to reclassify more than $6 billion in revenues in yet another scandal battering confidence in Corporate America's accounting. The move rattled investors, who were shaken by the revelation earlier this week that U.S. long-distance and data carrie ...

Document Size:	5353
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 28 16:25:51 PDT 2002

28904 first ENE criminal charges -- rank: 1000

At 11:32 PM +0000 6/27/02, CBS MarketWatch Alerts wrote: >6/27/2002 7:19:31 PM ET > >Breaking News Bulletin: First criminal charges filed in Enron case > >http://cbs.marketwatch.com/p.asp?dateid=37434.7910532407-800069768&d=bnb

Document Size:	4816
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 27 16:38:44 PDT 2002

28905 Fwd: New Poll from Pew Research Center for The People & The Press -- rank: 1000

X-From_: anonymous at netcampaign.com Thu Jun 27 15:59:49 2002 Date: 27 Jun 2002 19:59:45 -0000 To: Subject: New Poll from Pew Research Center for The People & The Press From: mailprc at people-press.org Our latest poll finds voters wanting Congressional candidates to discuss domestic issues as much or more than the war on terrorism. The survey indicates rising unease about job opportunities and frustration with Washington's efforts to deal with issues such as health care, education and the ...

Document Size:	6481
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 27 15:54:31 PDT 2002