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30721 epistolary economics -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This of course is what the very title of Hardt/Negri's _Empire_ denies. >The whole purpose of the book (insofar as it can be said to have any >purpose than using up some more paper pulp) is to submerge U.S. >imperialism within a gelatineous mass of "empire in the absract." So, Carrol - you read the book? Or is this just one of those "feelings" you profess to hate so much? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 4 15:33:17 PDT 2001

30722 Max imagines the sponsored future... -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec posted from a non-sub'd address - not Bacardi, Max! they support right-wing Cubans - now if Laphraoig wants to talk a deal...] XFrom: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: It Was the Best of Times, It Was Miller Time Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:46:42 -0400 Article in the NYT on Fay Weldon's latest novel. Seems she accepted compensation for using a company's name (some kind of jewelry shop) in her book, including in the title. Any day now in the LBO we'll see something like this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 4 14:04:23 PDT 2001

30723 half-assedness -- rank: 1000

[This just sent by Nike harasser Jeff Ballinger] Homer Simpson: "Lisa, if you don't like your job, don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 4 13:40:28 PDT 2001

30724 Brazil gets 40% cut on AIDS drugs -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >More important, I think, is that Brazil has a strong moral case and >ACT-UP doesn't. Brazil is a poor country with lots of sick people >who have no chance of finding anyone to pay first-world prices for >drugs. The U.S. AIDS-afflicted population lives in the richest >country in the world. > >There is a strong argument that charging first-world prices for AIDS >drugs in Brazil does nothing other than make more people die faster. >There is an equally ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 4 13:12:07 PDT 2001

30725 Hypocrisy Is So Sexy In a Call Girl -- rank: 1000

<LeoCasey at aol.com> wrote: >Looks like John Tierney, the rather obnoxiously 'market uber alles' >libertarian columnist of the _New York Times_ Metro Section, has >joined our Doug in the journalistic coverage [is that the right >term?] of Tracy Quan... Hey, what can I say? I set the agenda, and the "respectable" follow... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 4 11:29:17 PDT 2001

30726 Gramm out -- rank: 1000

[Wow - first Helms, now this. Will we be free of this noxious pest?] At 12:11 PM -0400 9/4/01, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >WASHINGTON _ Sen. Phil Gramm has told President Bush he will not >seek re-election, an administration official said.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 4 09:15:08 PDT 2001

30727 epistolary economics -- rank: 1000

[two letters inspired by the Wolfie & Stiggy stuff in the Financial Times] US Treasury must share blame for World Bank's predicament Financial Times; Sep 4, 2001 From Prof Robert Hunter Wade. Sir, How ironic that, of all people, Larry Summers, the former Clinton administration US Treasury secretary, should be "deeply troubled by the distance the (World Bank) has gone in democratic countries toward engagement with groups other than governments in designing projects" ("A world o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 4 07:27:40 PDT 2001

30728 China and Free Trade -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean quoted: >o Based on data from media research, more than 80 >U.S.-based corporations announced their intention to >shift production to China between Oct. 1, 2000, and >April 30, 2001, an estimate that may reflect only half >of all shifts, the study's authors state. The >estimated number of jobs lost as a result was as high >as 34,900, compared to 26,267 jobs lost to Mexico and >9,061 lost to other Asian countries. While the job losses are awful news for t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 4 07:21:01 PDT 2001

30729 Money -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >On the other hand, percipient working- and lower-middle-class >people would be aware that it was they, and not the rich, who >pay for the expenditures of the government. This awareness >might dampen their enthusiasm even for programs from which >they might be imagined to benefit, and certainly for those >from which others benefited. Well, not entirely. Rich people and corps wouldn't spend so much money on lobbyists if they weren't paying some of the bill - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 3 13:06:56 PDT 2001

30730 WPA -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't have the material at my fingertips any longer, but I know the >sneers at WPA as "make-work" are very wrong for two reasons. One is that >make-work (unless its solitary) is certainly better than isolation. The >other is that an enormous amount of WPA work was "make-work" only in the >sense that it wouldn't have produced a profit for a private concern but >was in fact of enormous public benefit. My father grew up poor in an Irish imm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 3 09:10:41 PDT 2001

30731 Money -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >But i think orthodox ideas about finance go deeper >than just fatcats on Wall Street. The average man on >the street now (and I imagine then) is always >complaining about the gummint wasting his tax dollars >(even if he doesn't pay much in the way of taxes) on >durnfool schemes. I suspect thinking on this was very different in 1937 than 1997. Also, if you ask Americans if government spending is wasteful, most will say yes. If you ask specific questions - do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 3 08:53:52 PDT 2001

30732 Tale of Two Guardians -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Is the Guardian in SF in any way connected with the Guardian in London? Only by name. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 3 08:38:00 PDT 2001

30733 Money -- rank: 1000

Lawrence wrote: > > And do you think they do that because they're stupid, or because >> maybe there's a class interest lurking behind? >> Doug > >I think they do it because they are risk averse, and politicians give in >easily to peer pressure and popular pressure, especially that "popular" >pressure whipped up by the media, and most people make a false analogy >between personal debt and government debt, and therefore there is the sense >that gove ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 2 08:51:46 PDT 2001

30734 Gore the bore -- rank: 1000

There's an article in today's New York Times on the troubles Al Gore is having with the Democrats' paymasters. Interestingly, they blame him for losing the election, not Ralph Nader. Doug ---- [an excerpt] >Rank-and-file Democrats still name Mr. Gore as their first choice >for the 2004 nomination, recent surveys show. But a number of >influential Democrats said Mr. Gore needed to be more effective in >courting the party's monied class if he wanted another shot at the >Oval Office. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 2 08:06:15 PDT 2001

30735 Money -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >And as for Japan, I say if they want cash, give 'em >cash! The problem with Keynesian solutions is that >people don't really, truly believe in them. So in >major depressions like Japan's or the U.S. in the >30's, politicians always try half-assed measures, and >the moment things start to get better, they do the >"responsible" thing and balance the budget again, >bringing everything crashing down. And do you think they do that because they'r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 2 07:30:46 PDT 2001