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29281 Peruvian turmoil -- rank: 1000

[The father of the NYT's finest writer, Alex Kuczynski, is out of work.] Peru Cabinet Crumbles, Changes Seen on Friday Thu Jul 11, 1:03 PM ET By Jude Webber LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Peru's economy and prime ministers -- both darlings of Wall Street -- said on Thursday they were leaving the unpopular year-old government of President Alejandro Toledo in a sweeping reshuffle designed to inject new life into the stuttering administration. Toledo, whose popularity is down to less than 16 percent, is st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 11 11:23:29 PDT 2002

29282 build a virus from scratch! -- rank: 1000

At 1:06 PM -0500 7/11/02, newsletter at newscientist.com wrote: >NEW SCIENTIST - NEWSFLASH > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Scientists build polio virus from scratch > > >Scientists have built the virus that causes polio from scratch in >the lab, using nothing more than genetic sequence information from >public databases and readily available technology. > >The feat proves that even if all the polio virus in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 11 11:11:20 PDT 2002

29283 PIMCO quotes Minsky -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >This idea of "uncertainty" looks weird to the kind of personality >psychologically unable to face such uncertainty. Do you include in this category socialists who object to the "anarchy of capiatlist production," and view planning as more rational than the chaos of the market? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 11 10:33:40 PDT 2002

29284 Tim Wohlforth, Bogdan Denitch, David McReynolds -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: >Ah, am I hallucinating? "Really existing socialism, " and , >"True Socialism, " make their reprise. Still waiting for your suggesetions on how to maintain a socialist revolution in the face of the implacable hostility of the U.S., esp. if you're 90 miles from its coast. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 11 10:17:48 PDT 2002

29285 PIMCO quotes Minsky -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>Bradford DeLong wrote: >> >>>>Do you read Wall Street economics? >>>> >>>>Doug >>> >>>Clearly not as much as I should... >> >>If you have no professional reason to do so, don't bother. Most of >>it's crap ... > >Hmm, and the difference from academic economics is? Most of it is crap too, but a smaller share. And they're ba ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 10 13:27:15 PDT 2002

29286 PIMCO quotes Minsky -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>Do you read Wall Street economics? >> >>Doug > >Clearly not as much as I should... If you have no professional reason to do so, don't bother. Most of it's crap (though Goldman Sachs does good work). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 10 12:13:36 PDT 2002

29287 vouchers - public opinion -- rank: 1000

[If you're a poll connoisseur, Ruy Teixera's weekly opnion report is an excellent source. If, like Gore Vidal, you think they're rigged, you won't care.] The latest edition of Public Opinion Watch covers the time period of July 1-5, 2002. This edition and past editions of Public Opinion Watch are available in PDF and HTML formats on The Century Foundation's website at: http://www.tcf.org/Opinions. Public Opinion Watch is now available on the Tom Paine website, http://www.tompaine.com. ********* ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 10 11:30:03 PDT 2002

29288 Canadian numbers -- rank: 1000

[A moment of Canadian content. Hill Times? Is Canada governed from a hill? Or is this further American influence?] X-From_: Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca Wed Jul 10 10:34:58 2002 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:34:56 -0400 From: Todd Archer <Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca> Organization: Measurement Canada X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Some interesting numbers Status: O X-Status: Hi, Doug. Here are some interesting numbers compiled by The Hill Times. If you think ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 10 09:32:51 PDT 2002

29289 Cheney sued -- rank: 1000

<http://www.judicialwatch.org/2088.shtml> VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY SUED PERSONALLY FOR ALLEGED STOCK FRAUD Alleged Fraudulent Accounting Practices Occurred At Halliburton PRESS CONFERENCE Date: July 10, 2002 Time: 9:00 A.M. Location: Sheraton Hotel Parlor 1, 495 Brickell Ave Miami, FL JUDICIAL WATCH, the group that investigates and prosecutes corruption by government officials, announced today that it is filing a shareholders suit in Dallas, Texas, against Vice President Dick Cheney and the o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 9 16:22:55 PDT 2002

29290 U.S. Political Right Reactions to 9/11 & Middle East Crisis -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >No Right Answers: >How the U.S. Political Right Reacted to 9/11 and the Crises in the >Middle East >By Chip Berlet >May 5, 2002 > >Now online: http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/911/reactions.html You include Raimondo & the his kind of libertarian on there without much comment, but what do you make of them? They're not racists. Rockford/van Mises are more problematic, but they're not Duke or Buchanan. How bad are they on your spectrum? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 9 16:21:25 PDT 2002

29291 Cuba - Tim Wohlforth, Bogdan Denitch, David McReynolds -- rank: 1000

Yeah it sucks that Cuba doesn't have civil liberties; I don't think they're some bourgeois swindle. But these sorts of comments rarely address the issue of how you sustain a socialist revolution facing the implacable hostility of the U.S., esp when you're 90 miles offshore. Boggy, Michael, David? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 9 15:50:26 PDT 2002

29292 Dog bites man -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick quoting the WSJ: >As an example of that approach, Sen. Lieberman says Democratic >moderates should oppose pending proposals that would require >companies to account for stock options as business expenses. The >change, he warns, might choke off stock-option grants benefiting >middle-income workers.... Wow, Lieberman's worse than Greenspan on this. <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/20020503/default.htm> >I fear that the failure to expense s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 9 12:27:46 PDT 2002

29293 Hi from Estonia -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >5. The USSRs foreign debt was all taken on by one of the republics, >Russia, in 1991 in a really, really stupid move. But didn't Russia get most of the assets too? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 9 08:40:50 PDT 2002

29294 PIMCO quotes Minsky -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: > >Bradford DeLong wrote: >> >>>But this is low Keynesianism: the paradox of thrift; the fallacy of >>>composition; et cetera, et cetera, et cetera... >> >>Actaully, how often is Minsky cited in the AER? JEP? Journal of Finance? >> >>Doug > >PIMCO's Fed-watcher actually wrote: "Minsky certainly was a fiscal >expansionist, too, perhaps even >more Keynesian than Keynes himself!" What's high Keynesianism? P ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 9 08:16:39 PDT 2002

29295 shareholders try to gag Pilger -- rank: 1000

New York Post - July 9, 2002 SHAREHOLDERS GAG AT U.S.-HATING RAG By PAUL THARP Cries of outrage arose yesterday after a London newspaper's July 4 front-page attack on America called President Bush a "criminal" at the helm of "the world's leading rogue state." Under a front-page headline reading "Mourn on the Fourth of July," The Daily Mirror article said "Bush's policy of bomb first and find out later has killed double the number of civilians who died on Sept. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 9 07:57:28 PDT 2002