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30991 talking within & without -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug, you are smart but not too >smart. Right. I don't know what I'd do without you to judge and advise. Daily doses, almost for free. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 15:57:42 PDT 2001

30992 Anthrax, in music -- rank: 1000

I put up an MP3 of the Gang of Four's classic song "Anthrax" on the (long-neglected) LBO website: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Gang_of_4-Anthrax.mp3>. I made it from my vinyl LP, so excuse the pops. And this was posted to the metal band Anthrax' website: >ANTHRAX (the band) Vs. ANTHRAX (the disease) > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: > >In light of current events, we are changing the name of the band to >something more friendly, "Basket Full Of Puppies" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 14:48:36 PDT 2001

30993 Cockburn: Can war save the economy? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Considering how quickly those jobs are being blown away, that >achievement seems pretty fluffy to me. Let's see - 24.4 million jobs created between 2/92 (the trough) and 5/01 (the recent peak); 364,000 lost since. Sounds like a wash, you're right. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 14:39:07 PDT 2001

30994 Iraqi sanctions -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Paul Rogers I remember that guy from the Gulf War - always talking up Iraq's power, forecasting the worst for the U.S. Turned out about 90% wrong, as I recall. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 14:24:23 PDT 2001

30995 Cockburn: Can war save the economy? -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >> Profitability for non-financial corps rose pretty steadily from 1982 >> to 1997, and has been going sideways to down since. > >But over the period 1980-2000, it's still way off 1950-80 rates, you'd >concede. The peak was in 1966; it slid from then until around 1982, and then rose for the next 15 years. So the mid-90s peaks were below the peaks of the 195 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 13:35:21 PDT 2001

30996 Cockburn: Can war save the economy? -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Now Doug, please subtract the 1990s fluff... Eh? How do you specify and measure the "fluff"? Was the lowest unemployment rate in 30 years part of the fluff too? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 13:33:14 PDT 2001

30997 Cockburn: Can war save the economy? -- rank: 1000

Randy Steindorf wrote: >Shouldn't these figures be averaged according to the business cycle, >from peak to peak. Since business cycles don't coincide with the >beginning and ending of decades, these figures don't reflect how the >economy expands and contracts. True, but the text referred to decades, not bizcycles. In GDP growth terms, the current/recent expansion was slightly faster than the 1980s expansion (1982-90) and slow than the late 1970s (1975-80). But the differences are in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 12:41:50 PDT 2001

30998 economics Nobel -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >This is a question spurred by my extreme ignornace, but isn't Stiglitz >supposed to be a friend of sorts to the left? Yes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 12:33:57 PDT 2001

30999 Query: per week or per month -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >here is one explanation. >I can't vouch for it, but it >looks authoritative: > >http://slate.msn.com/code/Explainer/Explainer.asp?Show=10/9/2001&idMessage=8414 > >mbs > > > >What are the figures for deaths per week? month? of Iraqi children? And >what is the source of these figures? UN is a bit vague. > >Carrol > >P.S. Whatever the answer to this question, the sanctions and bombing of >Iraq certainly come a lot closer to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 12:28:24 PDT 2001

31000 economics Nobel -- rank: 1000

Juan Jose Barrios wrote: >did doug say that Stiggy is absent-minded because of the cab/subway >thing or just because he knows the man and he is really a typical >absent-minded prof. of economics?? The latter. The cab/subway thing was an illustration of his general out-of-itness. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 12:19:40 PDT 2001

31001 "Clerical fascism" -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Here is a clip from Griffin's introduction to fascism: > >"Fascism [ is a ] modern political ideology that seeks to regenerate the >social, >economic, and cultural life of a country by basing it on a heightened >sense of national belonging or ethnic identity. Fascism rejects liberal >ideas such as freedom and individual rights, and often presses for the >destruction of elections, legislatures, and other elements of democracy. >Despite the ideal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 11:48:30 PDT 2001

31002 "Hate America" Left -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I know this has nothing to do with the post, but with >all these companies laying tons of people off after >the tragedy, how come no one is questioning the >patriotism of the corporations? Because shareholder value is the most important value of all! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 11:43:13 PDT 2001

31003 economics Nobel -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Hmm, Stiglitz's actions there seem more illustrative of >hoity-toityness than absent-mindedness. If he'd merely been >absent-minded, he would have taken the subway and wound up at Far >Rockaway or somesuch. His reflexive preference for a cab seems >similar to that of many Manhattanites who would never mix it up with >the mob down in that grotty subway, even if the subway gets you >where you want to go a lot faster. He's a very decent, likeable, modest, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 11:42:26 PDT 2001

31004 Cockburn: Can war save the economy? -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm quoted Alexander "Ace" Cockburn: >Obit writers for the great boom of 1995-2000 usually avert their eyes from >the fact despite all the exuberance of those giddy years, in terms of growth >of gross domestic product, of per capita GDP, wages and productivity the >Nineties did worse than the Eighties and the Eighties worse than the >Seventies. I'm guessing Ace, as he was calling himself last year, cribbed this from Robert Brenner, who lurks here, but this isn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 10:50:31 PDT 2001

31005 humanitarian catastrophe -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] U.S. WARNED OF HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE IN WAKE OF AIR ASSAULT. Grim evidence of widespread hunger and the migration of refugees in Afghanistan emerged this week to underscore the urgent need for the restoration of conventional food and medical aid supplies, reports the Financial Times (p.2). As US officials reviewed daunting immediate and long-term needs in light of this week's interruption of supplies because of the air raids, the controversy over ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 12 08:10:02 PDT 2001