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33181 Why isn't Australia more like Argentina (or vice versa)? -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Maybe our relative >prosperity (relative, that is, to Argentina - we have slowly been going down >the international ladder of living standards throughout the century) According to the World Bank, your GDP per capita was 78% of the U.S. in 1975 (purchasing power parity basis), and was 77% of the U.S. in 1999. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 5 07:53:41 PDT 2001

33182 Bloomberg's sweat-shirts -- rank: 1000

Daily News (New York) - August 4, 2001 Mike's Sweatshop Shirts Human rights group rags his El Salvador-made togs By JOEL SIEGEL Daily News Senior Political Correspondent Michael Bloomberg has a Kathie Lee Gifford problem. Nonunion workers toiling for 60 cents an hour in Salvadoran sweatshops made the "Mike for Mayor" T-shirts that are being distributed by the billionaire's self-funded mayoral campaign. The National Labor Committee, an advocacy group for worker and human rights in Cent ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 5 07:32:23 PDT 2001

33183 Zionism vs. Black Nationalism -- rank: 1000

Art McGee wrote: >Make no mistake, WE created the >shit, no matter what the ruling class has told you. The >ruling class loves to muddy the waters by pushing that sort >of "multi-national" bullshit, so as to cover the tracks of >how they exploit and fuck over Black people. Look at how the >ruling class is now embracing so-called multi-racial >identity. Of course they want to do that, in order to dilute >Black consciousness. The Black Radical Congress wrote <h ...

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33184 RES: Goldman Sachs: scrap the strong dollar policy -- rank: 1000

Lawrence wrote: >Could you remind us what year America became a net importer of capital? There were a few quarters in the late 1970s when the U.S. was a net importer, the accounts went firmly into inflow in the third quarter of 1982, the very quarter the great bull market in stocks began (the stock-market low was in the afternoon of August 12, 1982). Doug

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33185 Goldman Sachs: scrap the strong dollar policy -- rank: 1000

Lawrence wrote: >Two questions: > >1.) You would agree that this is true, yes? A weak dollar would stimulate >demand for American exports and help the American economy? A strong dollar >during the boom helped dampen inflationary pressures? It's a risky business. Yes, a weaker dollar would help U.S. exports, and, by making imports somewhat more expensive, help push the trade balance in a more favorable direction, but a weaker dollar could also lead to a pullout of capital from the ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 5 06:33:46 PDT 2001

33186 Fwd: [SP-USA] Stick it to Dubya -- rank: 1000

Joanna Sheldon wrote: >What about it, comrades...? > >Joanna S. > >>Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:48:29 -0400 >>X-PH: V4.1 at router2.mail.cornell.edu (Cornell Modified) >>From: Socialist Party USA <announce at socialistpartyusa.org> >>To: "Socialist Party USA Announcement List @" >> <SPUSA-announce at socialistpartyusa.org> >>Subject: [SP-USA] Stick it to Dubya >> >>It's tax rebate season, and by now you've received ...

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33187 RES: RES: Goldman Sachs: scrap the strong dollar policy -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >-Hmmmm, not so bad, our debt is 45% of the GNP (but it didnīt change >too much from the 80īs). On the other hand, our current account deficit >is -4,5% (equal to yours), but I think that the fact that your debt is >your own currency will make some difference... Yeah, and we have lots of bombs too, which also helps. But that's a net debt figure I quoted - debts owed to foreigners less foreigners' debts owed to U.S. creditors. Is there any comparable figure fo ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 4 21:03:24 PDT 2001

33188 RES: Goldman Sachs: scrap the strong dollar policy -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >-What is the US external debt (both overall and expressed as % GNP)? As of the first quarter of 2001, U.S. net credit market debt was $2.2 trillion, or a record 22% of GDP. (Well maybe it was higher in the 19th century, but I don't have numbers on that.) If you throw in the balance on stocks and foreign direct investment, it falls to 19%. In the late 1960s, it was about +3% - and +7% if you include stocks and FDI. It went solidly negative in 1982, and has been headin ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 4 15:21:24 PDT 2001

33189 more on Horowitz -- rank: 1000

[Michael Pugliese sent a link while I was away to a dispute over a piece on the alleged death of paleoconservatism in the white supremacist American Renaissance <http://www.amren.com/paleoend.htm>. In a response, the antiracist Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com makes this interesting point <http://ww2.antiwar.com/justin/j120400.html> about David Horowitz. There's no end to Horowitz' evil.] >This proffered advice leads us to consider just what it is that >motivates such an unholy a ...

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33190 Nations...jews -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: > >Here's a simple key: there are oppressed nations and there are oppressor >>>nations. Not all nations are the same. > >Yeah, but try living in one that is both. Confuses everything ... Are you saying Australia is oppressed? Sure didn't seem that way to me, if you overlook the Aborigines and the folks in the immigrant detention centers. Doug

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33191 Fwd: IIRE News no. 21: Third World gays -- rank: 1000

X-From_: iire at antenna.nl Thu Aug 2 07:20:05 2001 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: iire at pop4.antenna.nl Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:45:55 -0700 To: <iire at antenna.nl> From: IIRE <iire at antenna.nl> Subject: IIRE News no. 21: Third World gays IIRE News no. 21 Co-director edits Third World gays book IIRE co-director Peter Drucker has been lecturing since his arrival on staff in 1993 about liberation movements of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people in the Third World. In ...

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33192 back.. -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote, quite some time ago: > >A bit >>unseeming to appear to gloat over the swaggeringly overpriced, overbearing, >>almighty US dollar, though > >Cruelly insensitive. Glow ye in thy shame, Douglas! Thou Pizarro. > >We actually have to live on those prettily-hued little kopeks y'know ... Sorry. They are very colorful, and with that transparent hologrammed bit, quite fetching. I was being cruel and insensitive. I was swayed by the memory of the fine foo ...

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33193 an economic model of adultery -- rank: 1000

"Simple 3-step Censored Quantile Regression and Extramarital Affairs" BY: VICTOR CHERNOZHUKOV Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Economics HAN HONG Princeton University Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=272499 Paper ID: MIT Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. 01-20 Date: March 2001 Contact: VICTOR CHERNOZHUKOV Email: Mailto:vchern at mit.edu Postal: Massachus ...

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33194 economics as a criminal enterprise (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[Can an analysis get more tortured than this?] "Why Do Blacks Live in the Cities and Whites Live in the Suburbs?" BY: MATTHEW E. KAHN Tufts University The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy PATRICK BAJARI Stanford University Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=263049 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.stanford.edu/~bajari/wp/housing/city.pdf SSRN only offers technical support ...

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33195 More self-ownership problems coming.... -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote, days ago: > [NYT] > >July 31, 2001 >Software Is Called Capable of Copying Any Human Voice > >By LISA GUERNSEY > >AT&T (news/quote) Labs will start selling speech software that it says >is so good at reproducing the sounds, inflections and intonations of a >human voice that it can recreate voices and even bring the voices of >long-dead celebrities back to life. The software, which turns printed >text into synthesized speech, makes it poss ...

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