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32041 Fed wonders - where's the rebound -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Why would they have expected to see *anything* before September? Long and >variable lags are... long and variable. For the real sector, yes. But quoting more of the story: >First, when the Fed cuts rates, the value of the dollar usually >falls, making U.S. exports cheaper for foreign buyers and thus >stimulating U.S. production. But that hasn't happened this year. The >dollar has kept rising, and exporters are furious. > >Second, lower rates usually gi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 21 12:17:52 PDT 2001

32042 academic economics -- rank: 1000

Christine Peterson wrote: >My question for you is what do you think of this idea broadly, and >specifically, do you have any suggestions for wording of a >resolution that would tie together higher ed and prisons. Do you >think it's bad to have rivaling unions? Normally I'd say yes, but the prison guards are pretty awful, and the relative pay of guards and teachers reveals a lot about state priorities. I think if it's done right, the public would be open to the argument. So I say gofo ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 21 12:02:01 PDT 2001

32043 Fed wonders - where's the rebound -- rank: 1000

[Berry is extremely well-connected, one of the Fed's prime leakees. So this counts as a virtual press release for official thought.] Analysis Fed Wonders: Where's the Rebound? Policymakers Worried by Economy's Unusual Resistance to Rate Cuts By John M. Berry Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 21, 2001; Page A01 As U.S. economic growth remains stubbornly sluggish, some Federal Reserve officials are growing increasingly concerned that unusual developments may be clogging the main channels ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 21 11:58:16 PDT 2001

32044 WB virtual conference -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - June 21, 2001 World Bank Tries Teleconferencing Maybe it's a little ironic that a conference on poverty is about to take place on the Internet, home of the "digital divide." Still, the World Bank is about to give it a go, proclaiming that the interactive format will make the event "more inclusive," since armchair economists will be able to participate via e-mail. Whether the event will also be more inclusive for hacktivists remains to be seen. Why did the Wo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 21 10:22:39 PDT 2001

32045 Dead Horse Dept. -- rank: 1000

From: "Jesse Lemisch" <utopia1 at attglobal.net> New Politics, Summer 2001, carries a symposium: "The Nader Campaign and the Future of Independent Politics," organized by Joanne Landy. The papers making up the symposium <<http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue31/cont31.htm>www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue31/cont31.htm> were originally presented at the Socialist Scholars Conference, New York City, April 2001. They are: Thomas Harrison, "The Democrats: No Way to f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 20 13:11:41 PDT 2001

32046 bipartisanship -- rank: 1000

The lead of a story in this week's Business Week: >In a speech last March in Washington, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman >delivered such an impassioned argument for giving religion a greater >role in society that one member of the audience could hardly contain >himself. John J. DiIulio Jr., the Bush appointee who heads the White >House Office of Faith Based & Community Initiatives, jumped to his >feet and yelled: "Joe Lieberman for President!"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 20 12:01:03 PDT 2001

32047 Americans' favorite institutions... -- rank: 1000

..the army, the church, and the cops... <http://www.gallup.com/poll/indicators/indconfidence.asp>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 20 10:32:43 PDT 2001

32048 Gates, Coke, & AIDS -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] GATES AND COCA COLA HELP ASSAULT ON A.I.D.S. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday announced a $100 million donation to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's fledgling Global AIDS and Health Fund, but other major American foundations so far aren't following suit, reports the Wall Street Journal (p. B1) reports. While some philanthropies are modestly increasing funding for their own anti-AIDS programs, no other foundation has answered Annan' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 20 08:27:02 PDT 2001

32049 Fwd: DEBATE: Genova, the G8 will not float -- rank: 1000

From: "Franco Barchiesi" <f_barchiesi at hotmail.com> To: debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za Subject: DEBATE: Genova, the G8 will not float Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:09:37 +0200 From today's "Il manifesto" (Rome) some more pieces of surreal news that testify the total panic and mental confusion where the new Italian government has plunged before the G8 in Genoa. Few days ago, the DIGOS (political police) had transmitted a report according to which demonstrators from the movem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 20 07:30:53 PDT 2001

32050 disability & unemployment -- rank: 1000

"The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment" BY: DAVID H. AUTOR Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) MARK DUGGAN University of Chicago Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=271732 Paper ID: MIT Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. 01-15 Date: May 2001 Contact: DAVID H. AUTOR Email: Mailto:da ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 20 07:06:44 PDT 2001

32051 capitalism hits Russia (again) -- rank: 1000

[via Johnson's Russia List] Christian Science Monitor 20 June 2001 Capitalism hits home in Russia Next month, the Kremlin unveils a plan to wean the country away from housing and other subsidies. By Fred Weir Special to The Christian Science Monitor The USSR collapsed 10 years ago, but for most Russians, Communism never really ended. It has lived on in the form of nearly cost-free housing, municipal services, heating, and electricity. But a capitalist jolt is on the way. In early July the Kremli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 20 06:52:11 PDT 2001

32052 action figures -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Foucault: <http://www.theory.org.uk/action.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 19 17:34:00 PDT 2001

32053 top 50 endowments -- rank: 1000

[top 50 of 568 from the Chronicle of Higher Ed] University & college endowments, market value (in thousands) ($1,000s) rank (2000) 1999 2000 change 1 Harvard U 14,255,996 18,844,338 32.2% 2 Yale U 7,197,900 10,084,900 40.1% 3 U of Texas System 8,128,298 10,013,175 23.2% 4 Stanford U 6,005,211 8,649,475 44.0% 5 Princeton U ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 19 15:17:23 PDT 2001

32054 academic economics -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > >>The trustees, and apparently ultimately the legislature, has decided >>it wants to put UIC on the academic map. Can anyone explain the logic >>of this? Does it make economic sense, or is it mainly vanity? > >Since the money for these hires are no doubt being made with funds from rich >donors - who are no doubt putting their names on buildings an ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 19 13:24:51 PDT 2001

32055 academic economics -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >UIC [don't they have McCloskey] Yes, another Fish hire. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 19 13:07:15 PDT 2001