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28981 The Age of Equality -- rank: 1000

RangerCat67 at aol.com wrote: >Actually, I do have one question: How is this "negative income tax" >thing supposed to work? Wouldn't it simply depress wages, just like >the repeal of the minimum wage that's supposed to go along with it? Everyone files an income tax form. If your income is below the prescribed minimum, you get a check from the government to make up the difference. The effect on wages all depends on how high the minimum is. If it's the equivalent of an $8/hr wag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 15 08:47:57 PDT 2002

28982 more dollar bearishness -- rank: 1000

A section headline in Goldman Sachs' weekly economic letter: >The Dollar: Next Step in Deflating the US Bubble?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 15 08:32:59 PDT 2002

28983 Euroright bad news for USD? -- rank: 1000

[The Euroright isn't as market friendly as Hale thinks, is it? Esp since it draws some votes from a disgruntled left, annoyed by the soc dem's market friendliness.] Financial Times - June 14, 2002 COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Europe revisited By David Hale The odds are very high that a majority of European Union countries will have centre-right governments this autumn. During the past two years, parties of the right have won victories in Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and the Netherlands. F ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 14 13:33:43 PDT 2002

28984 factoid -- rank: 1000

Credit Suisse First Boston points out in their weekly economic commentary: >Defense spending contributed as much as 0.7 ppt to GDP growth in the >first quarter (more than twice its average annual contribution to >growth in the defense build-up years of the 1980s)

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 14 13:14:10 PDT 2002

28985 Padilla -- rank: 1000

How many cases are there really of serious criminals being released on technicalities? And, analagously, how many "ticking bomb" cases are there of the sort used to justify torture? Both sounds like instances of pseudo-plausible but extreme examples used to justify the erosion of normal rights. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 14 11:37:46 PDT 2002

28986 Rove's PP show -- rank: 1000

At 10:14 AM -0400 6/14/02, BuzzFlash wrote: >Yes, a Karl Rove power point presentation on Republican election >strategy was lost on a Washington street. (We are not making this up.) > >Read this article from Roll Call for details: > >http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/hoh/ > >And courtesy of a Pennsylvania political site, you can view the actual >power point presentation! > >http://www.politicspa.com/mehlman-rove_files/v3_document.htm >

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 14 08:57:16 PDT 2002

28987 the threat -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] THREAT [These chilling Al Qaeda document excerpts were provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute. It is apparently by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy and leader of the Egyptian Jihad organization.] "Why is the world surprised?! Why were millions of people astounded by what happened to America on September 11? Did the world think that anything else would happen? That something less than this would happen?!" . . . "What happened ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 13 15:36:04 PDT 2002

28988 irrational voters -- rank: 1000

"Are Voters Rational? Evidence From Gubernatorial Elections" BY: JUSTIN WOLFERS Stanford GSB Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=305740 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://gobi.stanford.edu/ResearchPapers/Library/RP1730 .pdf SSRN only offers technical support for papers downloaded from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection location. When URLs wrap, you must copy and paste them into your browser eliminating ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 13 11:36:37 PDT 2002

28989 HBO labor doc, "American Standoff" -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The Overnite strike was ripe for revealing similar issues involved in the >Teamsters in the context of the TDU-Hoffa tension, but Kopple just didn't >seem to reach as far as she could have. I'm not sure why. She waw spending too much time in the Hamptons? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 13 11:17:26 PDT 2002

28990 Shekel Rate, Interest Rate, Stagflation and 'Good' Inflation -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >Actually, between Klein and Bruno was Jacob Frenkel, who comes from the >University of Chicago Ah, right - another IMFer, too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 13 08:03:53 PDT 2002

28991 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Today, on my radio show, (WBAI, New York, 99.5 FM and <http://www.2600.com/offthehook/hot2.ram>, 5-6 PM NYC time): * Robert Brenner, lbo-talk lurker and author of The Boom and the Bubble, just out from Verso <http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/brenner_r_boom.shtml>, talking about the book and his interpretation of current economic news. * Gilberto Buenano, Vice Minister of Planning and Regional Development in the Chavez government in Venezuela, talking about the coup, its aftermath, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 13 07:56:08 PDT 2002

28992 NJ Dems Supporting Unions -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The US essentially has 435 separate parties loosely affiliated, but with no >party discipline. What about the cash the national parties hand out? And the network of funders they provide access to? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 13 07:36:46 PDT 2002

28993 whole articles -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Mostly I post the full text of stuff that's short (one screen of >text), > > >How much is that in dog text? I mean, in my e-mail thingy it never goes to >page 2. About 500-600 words, 3-4k. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 12 14:59:53 PDT 2002

28994 Shekel Rate, Interest Rate, Stagflation and 'Good' Inflation -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >When the market raises interest rates sharply don't central bankers raise >the shorter interest rates just to keep up appearances? Then feed a bunch >of catch phrases to the press to explain what's going on to us Rubes? Soemtimes it's hard to say who's leading, the market or the central bank. But if bond rates rise sharply, any central banker is likely to conclude that inflation fears are rising, and they raise rates accordingly. It's not to keep up appearances - it's what ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 12 14:48:28 PDT 2002

28995 Say it ain't so Martha -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >In what sequence? And to what resolution? Mom first, I think. Dunno the resolution. Perhaps it's in the new bio of Ms Martha. A friend of mine who (to his great humiliation) briefly worked for Martha said that you have to sign a nondisclosure agreement for even the most mundane of jobs. So the richest sources of gossip, disgruntled ex-employees, can't talk about her, though I gather there's no shortage of disgruntlement. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 12 14:19:01 PDT 2002