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34591 Monetary Policy in the New Economy -- rank: 1000

Mark Samborsky wrote: >I'll be attending a conference seminar this week on "Monetary Policy in >the New Economy." A central bank Governor and an economist will be >presenting. I suspect that the central banker will cry the blues about >how all of the signals on conditions have changed in the New Economy. > >Are there any cliches, canards or examples of wishful thinking of which an >impressionable mind should be wary on this topic? Keep an eye/ear out for them usi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 10:05:58 PDT 2000

34592 Fwd: Reclaim the Land! an action report -- rank: 1000

From: "stephen duncombe" <srduncombe at earthlink.net> To: reclaimthestreets at listbot.com Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 11:44:52 -0400 For two and a half hours last evening, nearly 200 guerrilla gardeners reclaimed a fenced in, garbage strewn lot under the Manhattan bridge on the Brooklyn side. With garbage bags, plants, seeds, puppets and maypoles, they turned the lot into a garden and made a Mayday demonstration into a party. Mayday activities began earlier in the day, centered aroun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 09:10:59 PDT 2000

34593 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I have to side with Carrol on this one. I think this "rah, rah, >longevity" business gets you nowhere. One of the things I like >about _Brave New World_ is how neatly Huxley balances the >nightmarishness of primitive society with that of technological >society; both modes of living are equally awful but in different >ways. My own view of the fruits of capitalist scientific >achievement is that they have made possible lives that are nasty, > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 09:06:56 PDT 2000

34594 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >When you say any objective measure , how about number of workers >killed and maimed in automobile accidents ? How about number of >workers killed and casualtied in crime ? Number of workers in prison >? Come on now. You're never going to win any significant number of First World workers to your cause with this sort of gloomy stuff. No wonder Leninism is so dead. Not "things are awful, rise up!," but "things could be lots better than this!" O ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 08:59:21 PDT 2000

34595 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Perhaps you don't realize that it is not established that the >enormous quantity of things produced by capitalism constitutes or >creates the best quality of life in the history of humanity. Regardless of whether this is true or not, what do you do with it? Capitalism has prevailed for centuries, and there's no going back, short of nuclear war or total ecological catastrophe. So what's your point? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 09:05:02 PDT 2000

34596 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >But what I was curious about was not the negative critique of >capitalism but the positive critique: what is to replace it? What is >the superior social calculating mechanism for planning production >and distributing consumption? How to rearrange work so as to greatly >shrink the realm of necessity and greatly enlarge the realm of >freedom? These are the $64,000 questions (in decommodified, nonalienated dollars, of course). My own strategy would be to be em ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 08:48:19 PDT 2000

34597 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: > What do you think Marx meant by this prediction? If he was wrong, was he >stupid to have predicted it? If he wasn't stupid, but was nevertheless wrong, >what transpired that was different from his prediction? I think it's absolutely wrong - alienation and all - to say the worker of 2000 is worse off than the worker of 1850, by any objective or subjective measure. What happened was that real wages rose, the standards of health and education rose, gender rel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 08:24:20 PDT 2000

34598 travel opportunity -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 08:26:15 PDT 2000

34599 New Economy -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >All the financial press I'm looking at says that the conflict between >America and Europe is between New Economy (US and Britain) and Old >(Germany). The distinction supposedly that the new economy is about >services and dot com etc, while those Germans insist on investing in >industry, and shoring up the French who will keep a bloated public >sector yada yada yada. A lot of the New Economy rhetoric is just a cover for a "flexible" labor market ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 08:18:00 PDT 2000

34600 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >> They >>> don't include in the category "workers" the billions >>> in the Third World who maybe absolutely worse off >>> under capitalism than they were under their >>> traditional economies. >> >>How? I mean, I'm willing to be proved wrong on this, >>but It seems to me that, bad as conditions are in the >>third world today, they are somewhat better than they >>were before - or is subsis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 17:49:45 PDT 2000

34601 Fwd: Water Math (please post) -- rank: 1000

[more from Tom Kruse in Boliva] Dear Friends: Let's do a quick "water math" class. As you know, a Bechtel affiliate bought rights to run the water system here in Cochabamba, Bolivia for 40 years under terms so draconian the entire city rose up and ran them out on a rail. Four months of on-again, off-again struggle culminated in 7 days of pitched battles April 4-11, which left one dead and scores wounded. It's interesting to look at the math behind the problem. First, from the Spanis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 16:32:23 PDT 2000

34602 May Day Protests Target U.S. Financial Districts -- rank: 1000

[This being Law Day, a moment of silence for the cops killed at Haymarket Sq.] Reuters - May 1, 2000 May Day Protests Target U.S. Financial Districts By Brad Schade Reuters CHICAGO (May 1) - Hundreds of May Day demonstrators took to the streets in U.S. financial centers on Monday protesting political and economic exploitation and demanding amnesty for illegal immigrants. In New York, where 600 massed at Union Square, police arrested 19 people calling themselves anarchists. In Chicago, where the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 14:55:26 PDT 2000

34603 Bork: dismember MSFT -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - May 1, 2000 There's No Choice: Dismember Microsoft By Robert H. Bork. Mr. Bork, a former federal judge, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He has represented Netscape Corp. and currently is a consultant for ProComp, the Project to Promote Competition and Innovation in the Digital Age. The first thing conservatives need to remember is that Bill Gates is not Elian Gonzalez. Nor are Microsoft's executives the counterparts of Elian's rescuer, clutching the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 14:44:50 PDT 2000

34604 debt paydown -- rank: 1000

[Would someone with supernatural powers please contact J.M. Keynes?] Dow Jones Newswires - May 1, 2000 Treasury Expects to Pay Down $185 Billion Of Federal Debt During Second Quarter WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department said it expects to pay down a record $185 billion on the federal debt in the April-June quarter, with a cash balance of $50 billion on June 30. The Treasury also said its net market borrowing needs for the following July-September quarter are also expected to be a paydown of abo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 14:42:38 PDT 2000

34605 The Week -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: > But we're talking about a different type of crisis altogether. In >the recent past, neoliberals have used crises abroad to convince confused >populations and labor unions of the virtue and necessity of the "American >model" -- however posited. Nowhere more so than in Europe, where it is >impossible to exaggerate the demonstration effect of America's "economic >miracle" in helping Third Way evangelists like Tony Blair persuade hesitant ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 14:33:30 PDT 2000