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32251 Japan -- rank: 1000

International Strategy & Investment is a Wall Street research boutique and money manager run by Ed Hyman, who's Wall Street's favorite economist (according to years of Institutional Investor polls). One of his economists, Nancy Lazar, just got back from a client visit in Japan. She reports: "Then, there's the 'Koizumi revolution.' Right now, he's enjoying a honeymoon period. Investors stressed that Japan must have political and eocnomic reform, even if it causes the pain Koizumi's plan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 2 10:42:56 PDT 2001

32252 NYC Baffler benefit -- rank: 1000

Folks in & around NYC - there's a benefit this Thursday, July 5, 9 PM, for The Baffler, which needs to raise some cash because its office burned down. It'll be at Tonic,107 Norfolk St (between Delancey and Rivington) on the Lower East Side. Closest subways: F to Delancey or J/M/Z to Essex. Editor Tom Frank, assorted luminous contributors, and some bands will play too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 2 10:07:21 PDT 2001

32253 gay-bashing Serb nationalists -- rank: 1000

Saturday, 30 June, 2001, 21:05 GMT 22:05 UK In pictures: Belgrade gay march clashes Hundreds of Serbian nationalists have attacked gay and lesbian rights activists who were holding their first ever march in the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade. Reports say police fired warning shots in an attempt to stop the scuffling in the city's central square. At least five people, one of them a policeman, were reportedly injured. Some went on to stone the offices of a political party that backed the extradition o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 1 09:49:31 PDT 2001

32254 FW: WHICH ROAD TO QATAR: FOOD FIRST OR EXPORT FIRST? -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Do farmers not want to export their crops? > > >Which farmers? And why would the "farmers" in question want to export their >crops? Well let's ask them. I know U.S. farmers certainly like exporting their crops. What about Indian farmers? Have we heard from them, or is V. Shiva the designated spokesperson for them in their speechless subalternity? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 1 09:15:56 PDT 2001

32255 Jude -- rank: 1000

I forwarded Eric Beck's corrections of Jude Wanniski's errors to the man himself, who apologizes, and says they were short-handed today becuase of the holiday. I mentioned that some of my left friends find my continuing interest in JW's work to be odd (I do myself sometimes). Jude responded (referring to himself, ominously, in the third person): >Tell your left friends that Wanniski is, at heart, a Marxist. Did you ever >read my long essay on Marx? You should send it around. For one thing, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 13:27:19 PDT 2001

32256 Defining Capitalism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >In principle profit *levels* would seem to be meaningless. >Other things equal, I'd rather own a small company making >10% than an equivalent piece of a large company making 5%. Why? The large company is more likely to pay better, offer health insurance, pollute less, and provide a less risky workplace. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 12:51:02 PDT 2001

32257 Reply to Ted and Brad -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I'm not sure I buy this argument completely. But it is a powerful >one. Pursuit of profit creates an extremely strong incentive to >display images that magnify people's beliefs about their material >"needs," and they then warp their lives to achieve them. As if an >invisible hand is dealing to the world from a deck full of jokers... Brad, what do your fellow economists say when you go on like this? And how do you reconcile this with the conventional a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 10:42:39 PDT 2001

32258 quack -- rank: 1000

At 11:59 AM -0500 7/3/01, Cringely at bdcimail.com wrote: >Quacking up > >On a lighter note, how about this for a case of >corporate humor gone wild? After a spy sent me a tip >about Deutsche Bank/National Discount Brokers, I >called them at (800) 888-3999 and waited for option >seven. The recorded message said, "If you would like >to hear a duck quack, press 7." I pressed 7, a duck >quacked, and the phone hung up! The humble duck is >part of the company l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 10:20:27 PDT 2001

32259 Jude & Slobo -- rank: 1000

[more strange fellows in that bed all the time...] From: rbrosnan at polyconomics.com (Polyconomics Inc.) Subject: Memo on the Margin: A Fair Trial for Milosevic? Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:56:13 -0400 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Memo Mailing List >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 10:16:52 PDT 2001

32260 Defining Capitalism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Might it not be correct to say that "shareholders" (the 1% or so who >count) have _always_ determined the policies of the corporations, but >that during the glory days of the '50s and '60s their errand boys were >doing such a "good" job that there was no need to waste one's time >interfering? Yeah. They always had the potential power, but it didn't become actualized until the late 1970s/early 1980s (in the U.S., that is). Though in the old da ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 08:22:32 PDT 2001

32261 Defining Capitalism -- rank: 1000

Brenda Rosser wrote: >On reading Galbraith (The New Industrial State) I wonder what people >on this list regard as 'capitalism'. Galbraith said that 'the >ownership of production' is not where economic power lies anymore >(ie not with the shareholders or single entrepreneurs). Rather, he >asserted it was with the 'technostructure' of large corporations >(management). That was sort of true of the 1950s and 1960s, when Galbraith was writing things like that, but no longer. Now, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 3 07:36:26 PDT 2001

32262 delinking does not equal autarchy -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Doug, if you oppose this strategic thinking, what's your plan? I'm about to head off to Germany for the Zizek Lenin conference, and I'm trying to finish up a bunch of stuff before I leave, so I can only do this in a hurry, but there are lots of very promising new movements and styles of doing politics - Seattle, the World Bank bond boycott, the newish campus activism in the U.S. (which involves lots of links with labor), Porto Alegre - stuff that has the bourgeoisie a bit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 31 06:56:27 PST 2001

32263 Empire: Hardt responds -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Hollywood liberals getting up >on their soapbox about endangered civil liberties while exporting putrid >celluloid crap to the world. So why is the stuff so damned popular? Dennis Redmond posted a link to the EU's stat site the other day showing that 75% of EU box office receipts go to U.S. films - in countries with their own film industries. It's not like they're forcing people to see the "putrid celluloid crap." What's up? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 31 05:45:21 PST 2001

32264 demons did Gore in -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >WWN is one of the best publications around. Ed Anger's "My America" column >is always excellent. Read between the lines and I think you have some pretty >progressive people with a well-developed sense of irony. But I'm just >speculating. Ed Anger's column in the Jan 30 issue is about how the U.S. has gone to hell ever since Nixon gave a bad name to public lying. The headline - really, I'm not making this up - is "Lying & cheating made America GR ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 31 05:50:20 PST 2001

32265 Neoliberal Zaps (was Re: a healthy and lucid disgust) -- rank: 1000

Maureen Anderson wrote: >A bunch of coy, deceptive, educated, urban cosmopolites are "really" >running things in Chiapas. Now I get it: Marcos et. al. are really >Elders of Zion! I assume this is a joke. >I've heard many impressions at odds with your Turkish friend's, and >it raises the question: under what circumstances could one take a >visit to Chiapas and obtain an accurate idea of the relation between >the Zaps and local communities? I don't know. My guess ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 30 12:50:27 PST 2001