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29701 The Panic Spreads - article -- rank: 1000

Chris Beggy wrote: > >>They also have a book, _Can Japan Compete?_: >> >> So what's their answer? > >It's the canonical business school answer, "If you do what we >say, you will succeed!" > >I haven't read it, but here's a blurb from an HBS review: Confirms my suspicions there's not much point in reading it. Hasn't just about everything published in English on the Japanese economy said exactly that for the last 10 years? And for the 10 years before ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 10:55:12 PST 2002

29702 The Panic Spreads - article -- rank: 1000

Chris Beggy wrote: >"dlawbailey" <dlawbailey at netzero.net> writes: > >> Sorry, the article was "Fixing What Really Ails Japan" by >>Michael Porter >> and Hirotaka Takeuchi in the May/June '99 issue of Foreign Affairs. > >They also have a book, _Can Japan Compete?_: So what's their answer? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 11 06:57:40 PST 2002

29703 Robeson & the USSR -- rank: 1000

I came across an .mp3 - unfortunately truncated, but it's more than enough to get the idea - of Paul Robeson singing the Soviet National Anthem. It's gorgeous, except maybe for the part about "Stalin our leader..." I put it up at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/RobesonSovNatAnth.mp3> for anyone who wants to listen. DOUG

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 18:16:34 PST 2002

29704 economists getting cheerier -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 05:55 PM 02/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: >>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Forecasters are growing more confident that >>the U.S. economy is on a path to recovery from the recession that >>began last March, according to a survey released on Sunday. > >Yup, yup, that recovery is juuuust around the corner. Ya'll just >keep watching now!. > >I'll tell you something though, from my little corner of the >universe. There are NO jobs for technical writ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 17:42:36 PST 2002

29705 Challenging compulsory patriotism -- on prime time! -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 06:39 PM 2/10/02 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>>there was no challenge to the underlying dynamic that creates >>>patriotism, in any event. it's just patriotism reborn in a way >>>people on the left will find palatable. >> >>EVERYONE? How's that patriotic by any normal definition? > >key phrase: underlying dynamic. I'd thought the underlying dynamic of patriotism is that one's fellow citizens take priority - and, usually, that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 15:58:35 PST 2002

29706 Challenging compulsory patriotism -- on prime time! -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >At 06:21 PM 2/10/02 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >>Chris Kromm wrote: >> >>>Not sure how many of you watched the NBA All Star game tonight, but a >>>remarkable thing happened. R&B singers Alicia Keyes and Angie Stone were >>>slated to sing "America the Beautiful" before the game. They started into >>>the song, but after about 6 bars, immediately shifted to singing "Lift Every >>>Voice and Sing," othe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 15:39:53 PST 2002

29707 Challenging compulsory patriotism -- on prime time! -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Not sure how many of you watched the NBA All Star game tonight, but a >remarkable thing happened. R&B singers Alicia Keyes and Angie Stone were >slated to sing "America the Beautiful" before the game. They started into >the song, but after about 6 bars, immediately shifted to singing "Lift Every >Voice and Sing," otherwise known as the Black National Anthem, written by >poet and civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson. > >After ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 15:21:34 PST 2002

29708 Was boom a dream? -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >Wouldn't the revision down of the "income" side only make no difference if >it were revised in such a way as to still be plausibly within the range of >statistical error for income? I don't get what you mean. >Also,I was wondering, as I was recently perusing the NIPA tables, about >measuresof private saving. If you discount capital consumption, this would >put US saving at roughly 3% in the most recent quarter, which I can believe. >But a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 15:20:03 PST 2002

29709 Was boom a dream? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Lasch is now dead, and there's another Bush in the White House, but >maybe Enron will finally give the nation that needed jolt and a >growing awareness that the ruling elite's priorities are quite >different from most Americans'. Optimist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 14:18:35 PST 2002

29710 economists getting cheerier -- rank: 1000

Sunday February 10 12:28 PM ET Survey: Experts More Optimistic WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Forecasters are growing more confident that the U.S. economy is on a path to recovery from the recession that began last March, according to a survey released on Sunday. The February survey by the newsletter Blue Chip Economic Indicators showed more than 95 percent of economists expected the recession would be over by the end of March. That was an improvement on a January poll which showed 90 percent of economi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 13:38:19 PST 2002

29711 Was boom a dream? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> What really matters here is whether investors' faith in the numbers >> is fatally shaken. If it is, the stock market could languish for >> years. > >I don't get this. Even is the numbers are accurate, the market is still >overvalued. Yup. But if broad numbers of people come to believe that all the numbers are a crock, and the game is rigged, then we could be talking about a real long-term shift away from stocks, l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 13:25:59 PST 2002

29712 The opposite of twinkling -- rank: 1000

P.J.Wells at open.ac.uk wrote: >In an earlier post I asked what the opposite of twinkling was, if it >existed. > >Would Chuck, or another consensus-minded person, like to describe/suggest a >non-disruptive alternative to booing, slow-handclapping, etc.? The middle finger, of course. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 11:24:10 PST 2002

29713 Heartfield's week -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:02:00 +0000 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com, revo-readers at egroups.com From: James Heartfield <James at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Subject: Blair, Europe The WEEK ending 10 February 2002 BLUE SKY THINKING 'In business, if you see someone ringing up consultants, you sell the shares' (Chris Haskins, New Statesman, 11 February 2002). Chris Haskins, the former chair of Northern Foods, is one of the hundreds of consultants the British gov ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 11:02:05 PST 2002

29714 sado-monetarism -- rank: 1000

Chris Brooke wrote: >>Keynes did not use the term, I think. The first source I encountered was >>Doug Henwood. > >I think the person who coined the phrase was British Labour >politician Denis Healey, probably in the early 1980s, when he was >attacking the Geoffrey Howe/Margaret Thatcher monetarist >experiments. His book, "The Time of my Life" is probably the place >to look, though I don't have a copy to hand. I got it from Susan George, who credited Heale ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 10 10:28:47 PST 2002

29715 love & sex -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 12:07:29 -0500 From: Johnny Phenothiazine <thorazine at butterfly.net> joanna bujes wrote: > > ...how could men experience this ....and continue to treat women > the way they do? About one man in ten thousand, here in the dismal real world, actually gets more sex/love from women than he has a use for. That's not any theoretical capacity for sexual gratification, just what actually takes place. About one man in a hundred ge ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 10 10:18:28 PST 2002