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29896 Sno'Neill? -- rank: 1000
Reuters NEWSMAKER-U.S. Treasury nominee Snow has echoes of O'Neill Monday December 9, 1:42 pm ET By Glenn Somerville (Updates to confirm White House nomination, adds details) WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - John Snow, the rail mogul tapped by the White House on Monday to slip into the driver's seat at the Treasury Department, goes into the job loaded with political and corporate credentials. Adept on Capitol Hill and in the boardroom, he still must prove to a skeptical Wall Street there is a real ...
Document Size: 11193
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Dec 9 11:31:23 PST 2002
29897 Lott on Thurmond -- rank: 1000
Lott criticized for racial hints in Strom tribute By Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi has provoked criticism by saying the United States would have been better off if then-segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948. Speaking Thursday at a 100th birthday party and retirement celebration for Senator Thurmond, R-S.C., in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Lott said, "I want to say this about my state ...
Document Size: 8460
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Dec 8 21:01:05 PST 2002
29898 Gilder on Trust -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Didn't Gilder lose all his money by trusting the dotcom bubble all the >way to the bottom? At last report, there was a lien on his house and he was broke. The guys he trusted - Winnick, Lay, & Co. - all got out at the top. George kept holding the bag. Doug
Document Size: 4612
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Dec 8 08:21:50 PST 2002
29899 Wilkinson's claims about inequality & health -- rank: 1000
Miles Jackson wrote: >Granted, W's book is not a >comprehensive literature review. Nevertheless, Jenck's >criticisms (as I've heard them summarized) are not the >slam dunk refutation that Doug assumes. It's not a "slam dunk refutation" - the evidence isn't conclusive either way. Here's what Jencks wrote me last year: >I do not think the results are at all clearcut either way. There >MAY be something real here, but it is far from certain. > >With a handful of e ...
Document Size: 7341
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 7 10:38:39 PST 2002
29900 Gilder on trust -- rank: 1000
[as far as I know this is not a hoax - where's Herman Melville when you really need him?] <http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/1223/234_print.html> Forbes - 85th Anniversary issue - December 23, 2002 The Confidence Game Why I trust the most disgraced chief executive more than I do the most reputable public servant. George Gilder Why do I trust Gary Winnick and Jeffrey Skilling--nefarious former chief executives of notoriously bankrupt companies--more than I trust Senator John McCain of vaunt ...
Document Size: 22098
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 7 10:28:58 PST 2002
29901 the Bush shake-up -- rank: 1000
Bradford DeLong wrote: >>[If DiIulio is right, this is all about image and politics rather >>than policy. Do they have an economic policy, other than cutting >>taxes for rich folks?] > >If that is a genuine question, I'm surprised you're asking it: the >answer is "no." > >If it is a rhetorical question, it's a good one. Nope, it wasn't a genuine question - it's pretty clear they have no other policy. Oh, I forgot deregulating everything. All the stories ...
Document Size: 5161
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 7 07:57:51 PST 2002
29902 was marx wrong about falling rate of profit? -- rank: 1000
Bradford DeLong wrote: >Not if the price of machinery relative to the price of labor is >going down--as it has for the past two hundred years. With a falling >price over time of machinery, the rate of accumulation has to be >higher than the labor force growth rate plus the rate at which the >labor-time price of machinery is changing in order for Marx's >predictions to have even a chance of coming true. > >And, in fact, it hasn't. The physical capital-labor ratio keeps > ...
Document Size: 5668
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 7 07:55:54 PST 2002
29903 Wilkinson's claims about inequality & health -- rank: 1000
Michael Pollak wrote: >In today's FT, Michael Prowse approvingly cites Richard Wilkinson's claim >that unequal societies are less healthy. He does say the claim is >"controversial," but also says that outside researchers have confirmed the >claim and bases his whole argument on its truth. > >My impression last time this got discussed onlist was that Wilkinson's >data and math didn't support his claim at all, and all reputable health >researchers, including many ...
Document Size: 5602
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 7 07:51:47 PST 2002
29904 power -- rank: 1000
Gordon Fitch wrote: >Gordon: >> > machines, there are historical examples of societies which >> > did not have >> > coercive institutions. > >Wojtek Sokolowski: >> Such as? > >The Dukhobors, at least until their communities were socially >and culturally destroyed by the governments of Canada and >British Columbia in the 1950s. Hmm, that's one, and they were done in by another society with no scruples about coercion. This is not a compelli ...
Document Size: 4853
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 6 15:22:10 PST 2002
29905 the Bush shake-up -- rank: 1000
[If DiIulio is right, this is all about image and politics rather than policy. Do they have an economic policy, other than cutting taxes for rich folks?] WSJ online - December 6, 2002 Bush Ousts Treasury's O'Neill, Economic Adviser Lindsey By JOHN D. MCKINNON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- President Bush began overhauling his economic team on Friday, as the White House ousted Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and top adviser Lawrence Lindsey amid concerns about lagging gro ...
Document Size: 10177
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 6 15:21:03 PST 2002
29906 Rev Al on the election -- rank: 1000
New York Post [Page Six] - December 6, 2002 By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON Rev. Al blasts 'beige' Clinton THE Rev. Al Sharpton is blaming his Harlem neighbor Bill Clinton for the Democrats' stunning election losses, calling it a personal failing of the former horndog in chief. "For him to say that the Democrats failed to bring out a message is wrong," Sharpton fumed to the Washington Times. "He was the messenger, he was the one out there and helped run the ...
Document Size: 7167
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 6 14:40:11 PST 2002
29907 bible-thumpers less popular than lesbians! -- rank: 1000
<http://www.abpnews.com/abpnews/index.crm> Associated Baptist Press - December 5, 2002 Unfavorable image of evangelicals shows power of labels, Barna says By Mark Wingfield VENTURA, Calif. (ABP) -- Non-Christians in the United States view evangelical Christians somewhat more kindly than prostitutes but with less affection than lesbians and lawyers. That's according to new data released by the Barna Research Group, which recently conducted a national telephone poll of adults who do not cons ...
Document Size: 7726
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 6 14:18:35 PST 2002
29908 Fwd: Fw: My reply to Cockburn -- rank: 1000
[Dennis Perrin forwarded me his response to Cockburn. Here 'tis.] Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 13:30:04 -0500 From: Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> Subject: Fw: My reply to Cockburn "Actually, I strongly doubt whether Hitchens ever looked at our web page, since he told me the last time I saw him that his Internet skills are confined to reading his e-mail. I also doubt he's ever read Baraka's poem, or his subsequent defense, both of which are well worth studying and far less deserving ...
Document Size: 6755
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 6 12:04:44 PST 2002
29909 more Negri -- rank: 1000
[fresh material for all you Negri-haters out there, translated by listmember Thomas Seay] <http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1317232> The following is a dialogue with Anne DuFourmantelle from Negri's recently published "Abecedaire Politique"(Calmann-Levy 2002), and was translated by Thomas Seay. E as in Empire Anne DuFourmantelle: What can you tell us about the concept of Empire that you developed with Michael Hardt? Toni Negri: Our work together has been most ...
Document Size: 12651
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 6 09:36:25 PST 2002
29910 Manhattan DA on the Central Park jogger -- rank: 1000
At 10:08 AM -0500 12/6/02, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote: >Citing new evidence and a flawed original prosecution, the Manhattan >district attorney has asked a judge to vacate the convictions of the >five young men found guilty in the Central Park jogger case. The >D.A.'s remarkable and chilling report is at: > >http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cpjoggera1.html >
Document Size: 5060
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 6 09:32:35 PST 2002
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