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33601 110K Dow -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >He bases his estimate on stock market gains of about 12 percent a year -- That's still pretty optimistic, even if it is less than we've seen lately. Total nominal return, including reinvested dividends, was 10% a year from 1900-99. Coming after a period of spectacular returns (17% from 1982-99), that would be pretty unusually high. But hey, America's the land of opportunity. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 17 12:06:54 PDT 2000

33602 Law & Medicine & Intellectuals (was Re: geels) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I've >never known anyone with enough money to go to an analyst Wow, I guess New York really is different from the rest of the country. I know grad students - who notoriously don't have much money to spare - who are in 4x a week analysis. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 17 11:56:02 PDT 2000

33603 Stiglitz etc. -- rank: 1000

[The Nation didn't put this on their website. They also cut a longish discussion of the growth vs. distribution controversy, and a discussion of the Dollar/Kraay paper, Growth Is Good for the Poor, a version of which discussion will appear in the next LBO, now returning from its long summer vacation while its editor was scribbling about the New Economy.] The Nation - October 2, 2000 Stiglitz and the Limits of 'Reform' Doug Henwood It's global protest time again. When Bill Gates and other members ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 11:58:10 PDT 2000

33604 Welfare State/Economics? -- rank: 1000

Widely cited, but never read by me, is Gosta Esping-Andersen's The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (still in print, ships in 24 hrs from Amazon). Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 11:53:38 PDT 2000

33605 Brit Unions foaming at the mouth on productivity.. -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >(1) Equity capital doesn't correlate to investment; >just look at Japan (low stocks, high investment rates) or the US (high >stocks, low investment). Yup, but equity capital demands high returns, so U.S. firms are under a much stricter profit discipline. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 16 11:45:27 PDT 2000

33606 Law & Medicine & Intellectuals (was Re: geels) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Now, unlike during the times of Freud, we have much more knowledge >(which has made Freud himself obsolete except in the humanities) >about many illnesses & effective treatments. Ever seen an analytically oriented shrink? Ineffective is not a word I'd use to describe the experience. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 11:14:48 PDT 2000

33607 Nader & NOW -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >This is a great process for identifying the pet poodles of >the Democratic Party's corporatist sponsors. The ad >hominem stuff coming from them is outrageous. Imagine >the reaction if some of it came back on them. Kissing ass >is a career and a way of life for these people. Feminism, >anti-racism, and anti-homophobia all pressed into service >for free trade, public sector shrinkage, deregulation, and >'welfare reform.' It's enough to make me go tr ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 11:10:49 PDT 2000

33608 Nader & NOW -- rank: 1000

[From NewsForChange.com, "brought to you by Working Assets." Nader's "women's issues" web page is at <http://www.votenader.com/issues/women-issues.html>.] Nader blasts NOW Stung by criticism, Green candidate claims he's been fighting for women's issues since 1957 By Matt Welch / NEWSFORCHANGE 9.14.00 | OAKLAND, California--Criticized by the head of the National Organization of Women as being "ill-informed about abortion rights," presidential candidate Ralph Na ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 15 09:48:19 PDT 2000

33609 The backward state of Texas -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >And elsewhere. He has written a book attacking the US Constitution asa >reactionary document, arguing that it makes our society reactionary, rather >than vice versa. That's a bit unfair. He argues that the structure of government set up by the Constitution is fundamentally antidemocratic, and consciously so: fragmentation of sovereignty via the three branches and the multiplicity of subfederal jurisdictions, the antidemocratic reliance of liberals on courts rat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 15 09:01:31 PDT 2000

33610 abortion -- rank: 1000

More on abortion... Just to make things clear in advance, I'm not arguing that the Dems are "worse" on the issue - just that they're not as good as NOW seems to believe. Between 1988 and 1992, the number of abortion providers fell by 8%; from 1992 to 1996, it was down 14%. When's the last time Clinton offered a strong endorsement of the right to abortion? Here, according to a search of the White House web site, is almost everything of substance he's said on the issue this year. His def ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 15 11:07:07 PDT 2000

33611 abortion -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >while it's certainly an issue, i think it's a little loopy to >suggest that it's all clinton's fault. kelley also wrote: >i have no shame and happily say something extreme to get a rise out of people. Evidently. Who ever said "it's all Clinton's fault." I said that he's not the friend of abortion access that Patricia Ireland would have us believe, nor are the Republicans quite the obstacle. I'm open to arguments to the contrary, but I haven't heard any good ones ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 15 10:02:48 PDT 2000

33612 abortion -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Are you concerned that the abortion issue may scare the women who >might otherwise vote for Nader into voting for Gore? Yes. Case in point: Katha Pollitt. > But you said yourself that the polling figures had not shown a >gender gap for Nader. That there is no gender gap is itself a gender gap: the more leftish candidate might be expected to attract more female than male supporters, so the fact that Nader's 4/4 is a sign of his weakness among women. > W ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 15 09:58:06 PDT 2000

33613 Fwd: Voucher Gains Overstated in Study -- rank: 1000

[Is Martin "Conroy" is Martin Carnoy?] New York Times - September 15, 2000 New Doubt Is Cast on Study That Backs Voucher Efforts By Kate Zernike Two weeks ago, prominent researchers released a study showing significant gains by black students who had been given vouchers to help pay for private school. The finding lent support to backers of voucher programs at a time when they have become an election-year issue. But now a company that gathered data for the research in New York, one of t ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 15 09:29:17 PDT 2000

33614 abortion -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >I am not pro-Gore, but like the Cockburn argument that Gore had an antichoice >voting record way back when, the suggestion that a Democratic victory would >threaten abortion rights strikes me as misguided. Gore is now prochoice; he >will appoint prochoice Justices. Bush won't. Better attack Gore in areas >where he really is vulnerable, and there are lots of them --jks Access to abortion has been shrinking despite the fact that it's still legal. I want to ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 15 08:59:18 PDT 2000

33615 abortion -- rank: 1000

Lots of pro-Gore lefties are making the argument that a vote for Nader is a vote to end abortion. Here's the history of U.S. abortions, according to the CDC (the 1997 numbers are preliminary). The rate of abortions actually declined more quickly during the Clinton years than during the Reaganbush years. This is not to argue that a high abortion rate is good in itself, and I'm sure there are lots of complications behind these numbers, but still... Doug ---- ABORTION RATIO AND RATE, U.S. ratio ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 14 13:06:23 PDT 2000