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29971 Stiglitz on Russia -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss had asked me to ask Stiglitz what he thought about Russia. I've just gotten a transcript, and here's what he said: >That's another interesting case. It wasn't until '98 and the >devaluation which resulted from the crisis, which the IMF had >oppposed, that growth began. It wasn't until the default that growth >began. So it was when the country finally put aside the IMF that it >began actually to grow. Now, the devaluation combined with high oil >prices did provide a s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 15:41:56 PDT 2002

29972 The Nation: "dreary" -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Sorry, my mistake. At some point in the early to mid 90s, several of >the regular columnists were threatening to leave. Can't remember if >this involved Pollitt, Cockburn, or Hitchens. I just remember being >miffed enough to not renew my subscription (combined with the Nation >cruise bullshit). They cut Cocky back from two pages to one - "the end of Beat the Devil as a discursive column" he said to me as he was about to write the last two-pager - but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 14:28:39 PDT 2002

29973 P Diddy parties like it's 1999 -- rank: 1000

>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:01:55 -0400 >From: editor at thesmokinggun.com > >Dear Friends: > >Sadly, TSG was not invited to P. Diddy's ostentatious bash following >last night's MTV Video Music Awards--though someone did slip us the >invitation package to the supposed "Greatest Party of All Time." And >we're immediately forwarding this priceless American artifact to the >Smithsonian Institution. Ridiculous details at: > >http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 12:23:09 PDT 2002

29974 good news! -- rank: 1000

A sentence from the new issue of the Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, which uses some mystical mumbo-jumbo to anlayze the markets, and which thinks we're in a mega-bear market and depression. Commenting on the scandals: "So, the repercussions to date are still just a prelude to a more organized and potent attack on corporate America, markets and capitalism itself." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 12:13:25 PDT 2002

29975 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >I am taking a class in labor law with Linder in >fact...interesting fellow Yup. His last few books, though legal treatises in genre, have been full of interesting quotes and historical detail on the control of workers' time. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 11:57:29 PDT 2002

29976 Help, oh all-knowing economists! -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I'm doing a story on US investments in Russia in 2000-2002. Anybody >know where I can get some quick and easy stats? Thanks. <http://www.bea.gov/bea/di1.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 09:34:01 PDT 2002

29977 Greenspan: who knew? -- rank: 1000

[why does this guy still have a good reputation?] Greenspan: Not Much Fed Can Do on Bubbles Fri Aug 30,11:06 AM ET By Glenn Somerville JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (Reuters) - Federal Reserve ( news - web sites) Chairman Alan Greenspan ( news - web sites) on Friday defended the Fed's lack of action during the ill-fated 1990s stock market boom, saying there was little the central bank could do to identify and fight emerging asset bubbles. Greenspan said there was not a reliable enough guide to allow a cent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 09:27:37 PDT 2002

29978 The Nation: "dreary" -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >I used to be a Nation subscriber, but dropped my subscription after >they started pitching the cruise and the special credit card. Their >purge of interesting op-ed writers didn't help either. Purge? Of whom? The most unfortunate departure from The Nation was Andy Kopkind, who wasn't purged, but died. He had wit, style, and good politics, and is badly missed. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 09:17:39 PDT 2002

29979 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >your show gets better and better, doug. no foolin' > >anything it's to do with the fact the old pacifica board is gone? >if so, tell squeaky from radio nation. Thanks. I will say it's nice the civil war is over, and people aren't being fired. I'd say more, but discretion constrains me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 09:11:32 PDT 2002

29980 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >I was not aware Prof. Linder spoke to mere mortals.... >Doug, this must mean you are "The Man." Well done. > >Ask him about whether all workers should be salaried >or hourly, or if there is a principled reason for the >difference..I am curious about what he thinks. Got this too late to ask the question. I hadn't realized he was so exalted - this is the third or fourth time I've had him on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 09:02:17 PDT 2002

29981 Grubman & Ebbers: here comes the bribe -- rank: 1000

New York Post - August 30, 2002 HERE COMES THE BRIBE By JESSICA SOMMAR Disgraced Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman was so close to WorldCom Chairman Bernie Ebbers that he attended Ebbers' wedding - and then expensed the trip to his firm, records obtained by The Post show. A 1999 expense report shows that Grubman racked up a bill of $1,111.88 attending the Ebbers nuptials in Jackson, Miss., as well as meetings. Perhaps most incriminating is a stamp on the report indicating that the expens ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 08:50:48 PDT 2002

29982 Iraq attack: Nov 30? -- rank: 1000

New York Post - August 30, 2002 HEY, SADDAM, CIRCLE NOV. 30 - WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU By URI DAN and NILES LATHEM The United States will launch its all-out attack to oust - and kill - Saddam Hussein by Nov. 30, according to a new report. Israeli military sources, quoted by the respected Israeli newspaper Maariv, disclosed that a U.S. military delegation revealed the outline of the plans in briefings with Israeli and Jordanian military officers. One visiting U.S. officer told the Israelis that Pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 08:44:37 PDT 2002

29983 forwarding -- rank: 1000

I gather people are subscribed to this list using forwarding addresses. Unfortunately, when posts bounce back to me - most typically because a mailbox is full (a problem esp with AOL, Hotmail, and Yahoo) - I get the message from the final destination, and it's often impossible to figure out what the sub'd address is. Soooo, if you do this, please 1) let me know, or 2) make sure the sub'd address bears some decipherable relation to the destination address. It gets mighty annoying to get scores of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 30 08:39:53 PDT 2002

29984 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On my radio show very soon - 5-6 PM eastern US time, WBAI, 99.5 FM, NYC and <http://www.wbai.org>: * tag-team reporting from Jo'burg and the WSSD - Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus (who was denounced earlier today by the SA president's office), Njoki Njehu, and others * Marc Linder, labor law prof at Iowa, on overtime in the US It should be up on the radio archive tomorrow <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 29 12:45:48 PDT 2002

29985 Edgar Allan Jacko -- rank: 1000

[more Jacko news, via Sam Smith] GUARDIAN, LONDON - Just when you thought Wacko Jacko couldn't get any weirder, the bizarre superstar has agreed to play Edgar Allan Poe in a new movie and will be coached for the role by Marlon Brando. Gary Pudney, a longtime pal of Michael Jackson, told "Access Hollywood" the self-proclaimed "King of Pop" is moving full speed ahead with a movie about the famed author of "The Raven" and other classic horror tales. The project - call ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 29 08:51:45 PDT 2002