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34066 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Folks can't quantify Greenspan's role in the boom versus those other things >either, yet they go on about how Fed policy is this all powerful force that >dominates every other aspect of macroeconomic policy. Not exactly. The argument, as I'd make it, is that once underway, an expansion tends to feed on itself, unless it comes to a bad end through a financial collapse, a realization crisis, or a central bank tightening. We had none of these in the U.S. since the ear ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 16:56:52 PST 2000

34067 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And while I can't quantify it - and thus for economists it doesn't exist - I >actually think unionizing has mattered tremendously in a lot of sectors. In 1993, when Big Bill took office, 15.8% of workers were union members, and 11.5% of private sector workers. In 1999, 13.9% of all workers were union members, and 9.4% of private sector workers. The first number was unchanged from 1998's; the second was down 0.1 point. Now I have my problems with economists' propensity ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 15:03:50 PST 2000

34068 Addiction, Advertising, & Easy Virtue (was Re: How far do we go?) -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: > > Garcia just didn't play heroin the way he >> could play guitar. > >My objection only came because I thought Garcia a poor example, Q: What did the Grateful Dead fan say when s/he ran out of pot? A: This band sucks! Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 14:39:34 PST 2000

34069 renouncing whiteness -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: No, even Al Gore had to admit that currently in the U.S. there >is general phenomenon of police discrimination against Black people >and other "darker" people in the form of racial profiling. Not to be too cynical, but Gore & Co. like this issue because it's a way to appeal to black voters on a topic that is barely a federal issue, and doesn't involve any federal dollars. A (white) friend who lives in the black Brooklyn neighborhood of Bed-Stuy go ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 13:10:32 PST 2000

34070 Intellectual Pissing Contests -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Hmmm.. what exactly makes it more vulnerable? Corporate profits are record >high, Actually, profitability peaked in 1996 or 1997 (depending on what measure you use), and is off a bit since then. > Amerikuns are swarming to shopping malls like flies to shit, First, there's nothing evil about shopping. And second, from today's WSJ: >Retailers Slash Prices to Draw >Those Wary Holiday Shoppers > >By CALMETTA COLEMAN >Staff Reporter of THE WALL STRE ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 12:47:26 PST 2000

34071 top economists, according to Google -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Is Quesnay on the list later? They don't go beyond 10. But if you do your own google search on "Quesnay economics" you get 1100 hits. By the way, "Michael Perelman economics" gets about 6,900 hits. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 12:50:00 PST 2000

34072 top economists, according to Google -- rank: 1000

"Top 40 Economists on the Net" ( <http://www.paecon.net>www.paecon.net ) pages returned on Google for name plus "economics" 1. Karl Marx 56,000 2. Adam Smith 32,000 3. John Maynard Keynes 26,400 4. David Ricardo 23,400 5. Aristotle 20,600 6. John Kenneth Galbraith 11,100 7. Vilfredo Pareto 9,980 8. Frederick Engels 9,950 9. ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 08:00:40 PST 2000

34073 workers cop a 'tude -- rank: 1000

<http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8016> 12 Million Salaried Workers Are Missing Daniel S. Hamermesh NBER Working Paper No. W8016 Issued in November 2000 ---- Abstract ----- Evidence from Current Population Surveys through 1997, various cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys, and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics suggests that the fraction of American employees paid salaries stayed constant from the late 1960s through the late 1970s, but fell slightly thereafter through the late 1990s. ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 07:29:32 PST 2000

34074 Signals -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >I can usually tell when the equity market is about to tank by the number >of silly sexual and racial discussion threads going on LBO talk. Has >anyone else noticed this LBO market signal? Yes, sex and race are so silly. It's the stock market that's really important. What were we thinking? Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 27 07:08:53 PST 2000

34075 Taibbi on Cohen on hackery -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List; not on the eXile website: "we need to mass-distribute streaming videos of Lawrence Summers sucking off a pony"] From: Matt Taibbi <exile.taibbi at matrix.ru> Subject: STEPHEN COHEN'S "FAILED CRUSADE" Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 the eXile www.exile.ru STEPHEN COHEN'S "FAILED CRUSADE" Book Review By Matt Taibbi Let's get the ethical stuff out of the way first: I'm not a disinterested party when it comes to Professor Stephen Cohen's new bo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 06:49:42 PST 2000

34076 Addiction, Advertising, & Easy Virtue (was Re: How far do we go?) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I wonder what Doug does with all the time he saves >by seldom responding to content rather than style. Write articles and books for pay. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 25 12:08:37 PST 2000

34077 Porn Politics (was Porn Aesthetics) -- rank: 1000

Uday Mohan wrote: >the extraordinary prevalence of anal sex What's wrong with anal sex? Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 25 12:08:37 PST 2000

34078 wit & Wittgenstein -- rank: 1000

Patrick F. Durgin wrote: >Is this thread meant to be cute somehow? Just interesting, or rather >despairing, to see the absolute refusal to consider aesthetics of any kind >as pertinent to left discourse, particularly economic discourse. And should >it arise at this point as a substantial thread, I've long since lost trust >in the seriousness of the participants on this list when considering such >questions. So, forgive my intrusion, but do consider reserving your facile > ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 22 17:27:42 PST 2000

34079 Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Leo Casey wrote: >I have to confess, I just don't like the form of the >pseudo-Socratic, rhetorical question. It precludes so >much in the way of more thoughtful analysis. > >If there is thing we can say with relative certainty >at this point in the 2000 election, it is that >whomever occupies the White House, "Whoever," please. If you're going to represent teachers, please get this straight! >Nonetheless, even with gridlock like no one ever >imagined, whomev ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 22 14:21:11 PST 2000

34080 Amazon union fight spreads -- rank: 1000

[More at <http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20358,00.html?nl=dnt>.] TheStandard.com - November 22, 2000, 8:11 AM PST Amazon Workers Seek European Union The fight for representation is taken up in France and Germany. Holland may be next. By Bernhard Warner, Kristi Essick and Boris Groendahl The pre-Christmas union push at Amazon.com (AMZN) has crossed the Atlantic. Trade unions in Germany and France have taken up the cause, trying to recruit warehouse workers to join in a gl ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 22 13:23:11 PST 2000