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33541 America the depressive -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >That's an interesting idea. It should be testable, though. How do >economists measure job churn? I seem to remember reading in LBO that it's >noticably higher in the US than in Europe. But it is higher in the 90s >than it was in the 80s? What LBO reported, based on some OECD studies, was that there's surprisingly little difference between the U.S. and Europe Davis, Haltiwanger, and Schuh are the gurus of job creation/destruction in the U.S. They've got a bo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 12:32:22 PDT 2000

33542 Havel tries to defuse protests -- rank: 1000

[Further proof of why Havel is, in Alexander Cockburn's fine phrase, a sententious faker. From the World Bank's clipping service.] HAVEL IN BID TO STAVE OFF WORLD AID PROTESTS IN PRAGUE. Czech President Vaclav Havel brought leaders of the IMF and the World Bank together with their critics yesterday in the hope dialogue would replace demonstrations as the keynote of this week's gatherings, Reuters reports. Havel had hoped that high-level discussions between the financial institutions and critics ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 12:35:21 PDT 2000

33543 rumors -- rank: 1000

Anyone hear the rumor that Cheney will resign from the ticket just before the election - for "health" reasons - to be replaced by Colin Powell? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 11:47:59 PDT 2000

33544 New Economy rant -- rank: 1000

[Mike Davis cancelled his plenary appearance at the Rethinking Marxism conference, and the organizers pressed me into service at the last minute as a substitute. Here's what I had to say. - Doug] PLENARY TALK, RETHINKING MARXISM CONFERENCE University of Massachusetts-Amherst, September 23, 2000 by Doug Henwood It's a bit intimidating to be here. I'm used to speaking to thousands on the radio, but at least you can't see your audience drifting off to sleep or lunging for the tuner. It's also more ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 25 08:31:51 PDT 2000

33545 World Bank, Car freedom, oil -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >The reorganisation of the World Bank under the liberal-minded US >economics professor James Wolfensohn James Wolfensohn was an investment banker - who once worked for the CIA-associated Schroders, among others - and holds economists in pretty low regard. Under his reign, pro-poor softies have been purged, not encouraged. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 24 19:19:31 PDT 2000

33546 Gore etc. -- rank: 1000

[bounced for non-sub'd address] From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:58:35 -0400 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe R. Golowka" <joeG at ieee.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >I'm more interested in polls on those who don't intend to vote. I'm >especially interested in learning if Gore's recent upswing is due to him >taking votes away from other canidates or if it's the result of getting the >sup ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 22 07:13:01 PDT 2000

33547 retheorizing the toilet -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >well, as they say--shit flows downhill. and we are >accustomed to ours winding up a very great distance >from us. There's a South African restaurant in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn that has a poster from the SA Department of the Environment on the door. The poster is a cartoonish view of a poor township, with all kinds of advice on how to keep things reasonably clean and healthful. Their shit seems not to wind up a very great distance from them at all. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 21:59:06 PDT 2000

33548 retheorizing the toilet -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >So, Doug, what's your take on that ledge in the average Dutch toilet bowl - >y'know, the one where the health-conscious Dutchman can poke and prod at >his product in search of worms and the like, before it's shot off the ledge >by way of a lateral flush? Fascinating topic, the topic of much speculation when my companion & I visited A'dam this past June. Also fascinating was the Dutch habit of keeping a brush next to the toilet bowl, forcing the user to confront ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 21:51:10 PDT 2000

33549 Nader Doing Well in Florida -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Nathan at Newman wrote: > >> 43% Al Gore >> 43% George W. Bush >> 11% Ralph Nader >> 1% Harry Browne >> 0% Howard Phillips >> 1% John Hagelin >> 1% Pat Buchanan >> 0% Not Sure > >We're supposed to take seriously a poll with a 0% undecided? ...running neck-and-neck with Howard Phillips! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 21:20:41 PDT 2000

33550 profits -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >Can anyone save me some time? Where is a good web source for profits of >U.S. businesses? <http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn1.htm>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 17:21:25 PDT 2000

33551 Nader, conservative? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brucebartlett/printbb2000920.shtml> September 20, 2000 Nader -- a conservative? Bruce Bartlett The strongest evidence that Al Gore's current lead in the polls may not be all it seems is the increasingly shrill attacks on Ralph Nader by Gore's allies in the national media. This suggests that they are more worried about the election than the Gore campaign lets on publicly. On Sept. 18, for example, Nader received a one-two punch from Sebastian Mallaby of t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 07:03:04 PDT 2000

33552 FWD: [CrashList] debating the World Bank -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant quoted: >------Original Message------ >From: "Mark Jones" <jones118 at lineone.net> >To: crl <crashlist at lists.wwpublish.com> >Sent: September 21, 2000 8:40:45 AM GMT >Subject: [CrashList] debating the World Bank > > >[Follows an email exchange between Henry Liu and Mine Doyran, followed >by Doug Henwood's recent article in "The Nation". The subject-matter >is the fate of the World Bank's "World Development Repo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 08:19:05 PDT 2000

33553 geeks -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: > > And that != thing is a bit pretentious too. > >It means "does not equal". Fairly common shorthand in informal logic. When you're writing English prose for non-geek readers, it helps to use words they understand rather than symbols they don't. Part of the process of socialization, of trying to understand your audience. >I find merit in a Constitution. That you think this is not orthogonal to >being a libertarian proves my point. Ditto "no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 07:33:34 PDT 2000

33554 geeks -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >"Pure play" is a paradox, for one thing -- since very little on Wall Street >is playful, and nothing there is pure (apologies to Oscar Wilde). At any >rate, it signifies that the investment opportunity you are presented with is >a great idea because the company specializes in just one thing. How that is >supposed to square with another bit of Wall Street wisdom -- that >diversification is the key to all good things -- is anyone's guess. But > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 10:13:03 PDT 2000

33555 retheorizing the toilet -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >I trust this is a joke? The sad part is, it's so hard to tell these days... What's so preposterous about a study of the toilet? Dominique Laporte wrote a fascinating History of Shit, just published by MIT Press; he argued that the protocols that emerged in the 18th century for handling waste were crucial to the development of bourgeois individualism. Slavoj Zizek has a wonderful little riff about national toilet styles (and national pubic hair styles) and their relations t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 21 10:19:02 PDT 2000