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30211 music industry can't blame file sharing -- rank: 1000

[wow, I beat my age group by 4.48 times!] AtNewYork.com - April 30, 2002 Music Fans Rip More, Spend More By Robyn Greenspan Fierce opponents of music downloading may not appreciate the findings of research conducted by Jupiter Media Metrix indicating that experienced file sharers are 41 percent more likely than the average online music fan to have increased their music spending levels. The music industry has been outspoken about its disdain for Internet file swapping, with former Recording Acade ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 30 11:26:33 PDT 2002

30212 Danger signs for U.S. Dollar -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >So, lower dollar means: > --improving balance of trade (cause exports are cheaper?) Over time. It takes a while for trade to respond to currency changes. And since currency values can change instantly, for a while the trade balance could worsen - the notorious J-curve effect (dollar decline = cheaper exports and more expensive imports, but if volumes are unchanged, exports decline in value and imports rise). > --debt becomes less expensive >but &g ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 30 11:22:10 PDT 2002

30213 Danger signs for US dollar -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Ok, I'll bite...Who are the members of the usual Gang >of Bears? People like James Grant, who publishes the eponymous Interest Rate Observer, and, traveling down the ladder of prestige, Charles Biderman of Market Trim Tabs. And assorted goldbugs and Hayekians, also mostly out of the Wall Street mainstream, who think Alan Greenspan has been a monetary roundheels. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 30 10:46:49 PDT 2002

30214 progress in economics (cont.) -- rank: 1000

"Suspense" BY: WILLIAM M. CHAN University of Hong Kong School of Economics and Finance PASCAL COURTY London Business School Department of Economics Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) HAO LI University of Toronto Department of Economics University of Hong Kong School of Economics and Finance Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=306767 Paper ID: CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3251 Date: March 2002 Contact: WIL ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 30 08:44:35 PDT 2002

30215 Danger signs for US dollar -- rank: 1000

For what it's worth, today's daily from Ed Hyman - Wall Street's favorite economist, nicknamed "Newsboy" by my late friend John Liscio for his habit of clipping headlines and writing comments next to them, often pasting them in columns labeled "good news" and "bad news" - is about this. Hyman wonders if the weakness of the U.S. stock market (it's the weakest major market over the last two months) is a sign of a brewing dollar crisis. He also points to "breakdow ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 30 08:11:55 PDT 2002

30216 Nature mag weighs in on Le Pen -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > > Aren't there about 100 members of Congress who are to the right of Le Pen? > >Le Pen says that 80% of the immigrants in France are illegal where >reputable statisticians put the number at 5-10%. He says he wants to >round up that 80% and deport them immediately and then pass a law that any >child born in the country to a non-French person would not get French >citizenship. And of course he would also ban all legal immigration, which >is cur ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 30 07:42:35 PDT 2002

30217 Nature mag weighs in on Le Pen -- rank: 1000

Aren't there about 100 members of Congress who are to the right of Le Pen? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 29 16:56:50 PDT 2002

30218 CIA booming, still not adequate to task -- rank: 1000

AFP - April 28, 10:59 AM Top CIA official warns next terror attack unavoidable A top Central Intelligence Agency official has warned Americans that a new terrorist attack is unavoidable, despite all efforts to prevent it and the fact that the CIA is now "stealing more secrets" than ever. "Now for the hard truth. Despite the best efforts of so much of the world, the next terrorist attack -- it's not a question of if, it's a question of when," CIA Deputy Director for Operation ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 29 16:55:34 PDT 2002

30219 Fwd: NEW DEM DAILY: The French Center-Left Melts Down -- rank: 1000

[if only the Froggies had embraced the Third Way, there'd be no LePen to worry about!] ================================== NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE -- NEW DEM DAILY -- Pithy news and commentary from the DLC. ================================== [ http://www.ndol.org ] 29-APR-02 The French Center-Left Melts Down Most of the reaction in this country to the first round of French presidential voting on April 20 focused on the shocking second- place finish of the darling of the far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 29 11:13:48 PDT 2002

30220 China "running dog of European imperialism" - US Trade Rep -- rank: 1000

pms quoted: >GDP is a large, intrinsically useless aggregate, telling us about net >consumption, with a little bit of arbitrarily chosen investment thrown in >and the wasteful state included, but its components can be revealing. Huh? Net consumption? Then why do they call it *gross* domestic *product*? And why is it a "little bit" of "arbitrarily chosen" investment? Since when does $1.6 trillion worth of houses, plants, machinery, software, and inventories deserve ei ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 29 11:08:50 PDT 2002

30221 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

X-From_: zalmay_f at hotmail.com Mon Apr 29 11:46:10 2002 X-Originating-IP: [203.89.157.4] From: "zalmay farooq" <zalmay_f at hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:46:09 +0500 Dear Comrades hope all of you are fine,we are working since 1999,against Captalisam,fundamentalisam,and so on.We are working for Scialism and workers.We are struggle in Afghanistan and Pakistan,as all of you know the hard and bad situation of our poor country,where is war from 25 years,now once agian USA ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 29 08:56:32 PDT 2002

30222 Buffet on Bubbleheads -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Charlie and I are disgusted by the situation, so common in the last few >years, in which shareholders have suffered billions in losses while the >CEOs, promoters, and other higher-ups who fathered these disasters have >walked away with extraordinary wealth," he said. > >http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=3296714 > >could he really believe this was an isolated few years? Fuck Buffett. He's one of the richest guys on earth, who once w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 29 07:23:21 PDT 2002

30223 Lebed -- rank: 1000

So the NY Times reports in its obituary for Alexander Lebed that he was the "midwife of Russian democracy." Since he on several occasions expressed a desire to be a Russian Pinochet, I guess that means that Pinochet is the midwife of Chilean democracy. Chris Doss, how is Lebed seen in Russia today? Does anyone care? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 29 07:16:48 PDT 2002

30224 canned Reagan tribute -- rank: 1000

Heer, Jeet (National Post) wrote: >One perk of working for a newspaper is that you can read obituaries ahead of >time. Bob Hope... ...is still in the ahead of time category? I'm stunned. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 26 16:09:58 PDT 2002

30225 Goldman Sachs on a war on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Goldman Sachs US Economics Analyst April 26, 2002 The Bush Administration may have already decided to broaden the war against terrorism to Iraq, with the explicit goal of toppling Saddam Hussein from power. Such a decision could have important implications for the US economy through several channels including: defense outlays and the federal government budget, and the global oil supply and oil prices. Moreover, a broader war would have implications for monetary policy, the trajectory of bond and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 26 13:56:41 PDT 2002