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34771 Fwd: Conference: Tulipomania Dotcom, A Critique of the New Economy (Amsterdam/Frankfurt, June 2-4] -- rank: 1000
[sent to me rather than list] From: "geert lovink" <geert at xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:15:47 +1100 [fyi: Doug Henwood has been invited to speak and has confirmed /geert] Tulipomania Dotcom A Critique of the New Economy A Conference @ De Balie, Amsterdam, June 2 & 3, 2000 & @ Kunstverein (not confirmed), Frankfurt am Main, June 4, 2000 Aim of the Conference --------------------- In a three day conference we intend to develop an informed critique of the politics ...
Document Size: 15947
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Mar 19 21:30:32 PST 2000
34772 Kalecki's political business cycle -- rank: 1000
kelley wrote: >i pulled the numbers off BLS. i fail to see anything unusually >outstanding about wage growth. granted, i didn't get my calculator out, Well that's kind of a limitation on your analysis, isn't it? >but what i saw was a steady 3-4% increase in wages from year to year over >the past decade. I got my Excel calculator out, and it shows steady real wage gains (deflated by the CPI) since 1995. > and i sure as heck didn't see growth in the low-level >service/ret ...
Document Size: 5605
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Mar 19 21:26:26 PST 2000
34773 Kalecki's political business cycle -- rank: 1000
Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > >Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >> >>>Yet despite little official slack in the labor market, wages remain >>>basically stagnant in this business cycle upturn. >> >>No they aren't really. The average real hourly wage is up 7% since >>mid-1995 - not a great performance over the course of 4.5 years, but >>not bad by recent U.S. history. > >Doug, yet how much of this increase in the average real wage is due to big >gain ...
Document Size: 6707
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Mar 19 21:21:09 PST 2000
34774 Greenspan -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >oil is irrelevant Oh, now that's an interesting proposition. The oil price spikes of 73-74 and 79-80 were irrelevant? The collapse in oil prices in 86 was irrelevant? What would $3/gal gas do to the U.S. economy? U.S. life in general? Doug
Document Size: 4527
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Mar 19 21:10:17 PST 2000
34775 Why are we so afraid of unemployment? -- rank: 1000
chang wrote: >This message is dedicated to people all over the world. You can print it, >forward and post it to other mailing lists/discussion forums as long as its >attribution is given to the author and the wording is not altered in any >way. Feel free to pass it around to all of your friends and media people. Oh no, not this again. Don't check your email for 26 hours and the darndest things pop up. Doug
Document Size: 4937
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Mar 19 19:11:40 PST 2000
34776 Is Change Possible, was Re: Kalecki's political business cycle] -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> They do believe that, and I think they're wrong. I think their class >> interest in keeping slack in the labor market outweighs their >> interest in maximizing sales. Individual capitalists may waver in >> this conviction, which is why they pay central bankers to maintain >> the class discipline. > >Doug, > >This suggests a high degree of class consciousness on the part >of capitalists. I tend to ...
Document Size: 6436
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 16:27:30 PST 2000
34777 Greenspan -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >This is the Fed line. Problem for defenders of such a line >is, there is no evidence of inflation, not even the moderate >kind. Year-to-year CPI inflation: Feb 99: 1.7% Feb 00: 3.2% Doug
Document Size: 4486
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 16:25:49 PST 2000
34778 antichrist among us -- rank: 1000
[apropos the recent vegetarian thread...a bit of semi-old news] Times (London) - March 6, 2000 Vegetarian Antichrist is 'walking among us' FROM RICHARD OWEN IN ROME THE leading conservative contender to succeed the Pope yesterday said that the "Antichrist" was already on Earth in the guise of a prominent philanthropist whose concern for human rights and the environment and advocacy of ecumenicism masks his real aim: the destruction of Christianity and "the death of God". Card ...
Document Size: 6679
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 15:52:44 PST 2000
34779 Yoshie's dearth of female contributors -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I might join Solidarity if they changed their tenor >on anti-imperialist issues. What do you mean? What's their line? Doug
Document Size: 4817
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 15:37:57 PST 2000
34780 Greenspan -- rank: 1000
Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I think catastrope following piercing of the bubble beckons without and >with interest rate reductions. I don't get it, Rakesh. One day you're talking about U.S. industrial dominance, and the next day you're talking about catastrophe. Which is it? Doug
Document Size: 4539
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 15:33:42 PST 2000
34781 Kalecki's political business cycle -- rank: 1000
Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Yet despite little official slack in the labor market, wages remain >basically stagnant in this business cycle upturn. No they aren't really. The average real hourly wage is up 7% since mid-1995 - not a great performance over the course of 4.5 years, but not bad by recent U.S. history. Every decile of the wage distribution is up, for both men and women. At the end of 1989, the average real wage was off over 2% from 4.5 years earlier. TIght labor markets and a higher ...
Document Size: 4986
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 15:25:47 PST 2000
34782 CIA Produced 1955 Animal Farm Film -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman quoted the NYT: >Rewriting the end of "Animal Farm" is just one example of the often absurd >lengths to which the C.I.A. went, as recounted in a new book, "The Cultural >Cold War: The C.I.A. and the World of Arts and Letters" (The New Press) by >Frances Stonor Saunders, a British journalist. Published in Britain last >summer, the book will appear here next month. Next month? I have a copy already, and I'm about half way through it. Quite a fine bo ...
Document Size: 5580
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 15:13:19 PST 2000
34783 Russia.com -- rank: 1000
[from Johnson's Russia List] Business Week - March 27, 2000 Dot-Com Deals Come to the Steppes (int'l edition) Net stakes are dirt-cheap now, but prices are rising fast By Sabrina Tavernise in Moscow Pavel Cherkashin, a pony-tailed, 27-year-old Internet entrepreneur, is feeling cocky. His Moscow-based Web-development company, Actis Systems, brought in $1.2 million last year. Sounds puny. But it's triple 1998 revenues. This year he's spending most of his time taking calls from foreign investors wh ...
Document Size: 8763
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 15:05:29 PST 2000
34784 Boeing Strike Agreement Reached -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >And I am not sure what you mean the "AFL CIO did not call this strike." >Technically, the AFL-CIO never calls a strike; it's always the workers of >their affiliated unions that call the strike. But significantly, the Boeing >engineers, who had an independent union for almost fifty years, voted to >affiliate with the major AFL-CIO engineering and technical workers union >last fall. And the AFL-CIO offered public support for the strike, and sent t ...
Document Size: 7651
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 15:01:20 PST 2000
34785 NYT on IMF -- rank: 1000
The NY Times is peerless when it takes on the big issues of political economy. From an article in today's issue by David Stout on Horst Köhler, managing director-designate of the IMF: "The fund was founded in 1946 to promote economic stability around the world, partly through loans to countries in need. From time to time, it has been accused of straying from its original mission and trying ineffectually to bring about profound social changes." "From time to time." "Stray ...
Document Size: 4935
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Mar 18 14:30:32 PST 2000
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