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33256 What's Stock, Really? (was Damage caused by options and derivatives) -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >The few times I owned stock, it didn't seem to me that I owned >any part of the capital stock and profits it produced. > >I read your book, and I think I understand the use of stock >to mark ownership, but at my level, "ownership" is so >attenuated it doesn't seem like ownership at all. > >I can't walk into a company and give orders like an owner >can. Not with my couple of hundred shares. > >I may share in the profits, but then I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 26 07:37:00 PDT 2001

33257 terminology -- rank: 1000

[Posted from non-sub'd address. The answer to the question is "economic journalist," since I ain't got no credentials, and the party of economists is not one I'm all that eager to crash undocumented.] Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:42:13 +0950 From: "Catherine Driscoll" <cdrisc01 at adelaide.edu.au> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re: Re: famous Doug the economist really? i have been known to describe you as an economist, if with various admittedly contradic ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 16:33:29 PDT 2001

33258 How Feds Spend More on Suburban Educ. than in Poor Schools -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >This is certainly true in principle, but what is your empirical >basis for the statement? Most evidence leans in the direction >of the tax burdening capital. I'm guessing that corps wouldn't spend all that money on lobbying for tax breaks if they thought they were passing along the costs to workers and customers. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 14:14:03 PDT 2001

33259 Damage caused by options and derivatives -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Stock just serves as a mechanism to distribute the risk >associated with said exploitation. Hey, don't forget the profits. Stocks are certificates of ownership of the capital stock and the profits it produces when humans put it to work (or vice versa, as it sometimes seems). The use of "risk" really deserves some careful scrutiny. The risks that the shareholders and senior managers of a large public company faces are pretty different from those your average w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 25 13:01:06 PDT 2001

33260 Fwd: Friday Night - Benefit for the INDYPENDENT -- rank: 1000

Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://www.rtsnyc.org FRIDAY NIGHT 7-midnight APRIL 27th INDYBENEFIT for the INDYPENDENT, the newspaper of the NYC Independent Media Center (nyc.indymedia.org) Indian Vegan Feast - $5 DJ * Art Show * Bar PLUS: VIDEO FOOTAGE FROM QUEBEC CITY WHERE: Umbrella House Avenue C between 2nd and 3rd Streets This benefit is to raise money for printing costs of the INDYPENDENT PLEASE COME, and PLEASE FORWARD

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 25 11:46:02 PDT 2001

33261 famous Doug the economist -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >but ya still love me, i know. anyway, you're consistently described >as extremely intelligent, witty and...an economist! But I'm not an economist, I swear! Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 11:47:28 PDT 2001

33262 QUEBEC CRACKPOTS -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >What are you talking about? I don't see anything here that resembles >propaganda by the deed. I'm not being deluded by anything currently, >other than the hope that this list of academic leftists Gazing over the sub list, I see a minority of academic addresses. > will drop their >current pointless discussions and instead spend some time talkking >intelligently about Quebec City. So what's not being said that should be? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 11:16:34 PDT 2001

33263 How Feds Spend More on Suburban Educ. than in Poor Schools -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > >NN- One more reason why tax equality matters as much as total spending-NN > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> > >-That's not what this piece demonstrates. At all. >-In net terms the Fed income tax is still progressive, >-the homeowners' tax preferences notwithstanding. It >-does show how much more progressive it could be, and >-how paltry Federal aid to education is. > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 25 10:25:23 PDT 2001

33264 QUEBEC CRACKPOTS -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >the null term, "middle class." It may be fairly meaningless in the "objective" sense, but it carries lots of ideological weight. So it's not "null" by any means. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 10:23:04 PDT 2001

33265 more creative financing -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 25, 2001 Plan Allows Families to Save for College Each Time They Make a Purchase By JENNIFER JACOBSON Taking a page from airline frequent-flier programs, a Massachusetts college-savings company formally unveiled a plan Tuesday to help families accrue tuition money by buying from AT&T, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola, among others. After registering for an account with the college-savings company, Upromise Inc., families can accumulate money each ti ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 10:09:10 PDT 2001

33266 Fwd: wbai 4-28 demo -- rank: 1000

DEFEND FREE SPEECH RADIO AND LABOR RIGHTS PACIFICA BOARD HIJACKERS MUST GO! BOYCOTT THE WBAI FUND DRIVE! Make your voice heard! Join the MARCH Across the Brooklyn Bridge and RALLY at our station -WBAI SATURDAY, APRIL 28 NOON - Assemble at Borough Hall, Brooklyn trains: 2, 3, 4, 5, R to Borough Hall; A, C, F to Jay St. - Borough Hall 1:00 PM - March thru downtown Brooklyn and across the bridge 2:30 PM - Rally at WBAI - 120 Wall Street (east of Water Street) trains: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Wall Street Since ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 09:50:12 PDT 2001

33267 circles of proletarians muse over the latest from the RCP! -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >Question: Has the RCP dropped its "bourgeois >decadence" rap against queers? (Remember their symbol, the pink triangle >with a line through it?) What a bunch of dicks. Hey, why not drop by the program party at your local Revolution Books and ask? There must be one in Ann Arbor, no? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 25 09:49:35 PDT 2001

33268 circles of proletarians muse over the latest from the RCP! -- rank: 1000

[reformatted to remove hideous line breaks - otherwise pure & intact revolutionary prose product!] X-From_: vette49 at juno.com Tue Apr 24 17:47:09 2001 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:17:46 -0400 Subject: Announcing new draft programme of RCP From: Roberta A Williams <vette49 at juno.com> Sisters and brothers, I'm writing to let you know about the release of the draft of the new programme of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). I also want to invite you to participate in the revolutio ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 24 14:58:20 PDT 2001

33269 Officers Charged for Kosovo Killings/Rugova associate shot dead -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Tuesday April 24 4:11 PM ET >Officers Charged for Kosovo Killings > > >BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Nearly 200 Yugoslav army officers and soldiers >have been charged with committing war crimes in Kosovo, and the trials of >some have already started, military officials said Tuesday. Can we indict the Joint Chiefs of Staff next? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 24 14:35:36 PDT 2001

33270 Fwd: FC: IMC responds to post about FBI visit and court gag order -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:51:33 -0500 To: politech at politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> Subject: FC: IMC responds to post about FBI visit and court gag order X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/ X-Author: Declan McCullagh is at http://www.mccullagh.org/ X-News-Site: Cluebot is at http://www.cluebot.com/ ********** Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:30:23 -0700 From: Micah Anderson <micah at indymedia.org> To: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com> C ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 24 13:28:53 PDT 2001