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34891 stox question -- rank: 1000

christian11 at mindspring.com wrote: >I want to know roughly how much stock on the Dow Jones and Nasdaq >are held by corporations--rather than individuals or institutional >investors. Where can I go to get such numbers? Hmm, good question. There's no entry for such either in the corporate equities (instrument) or nonfinancial corps (sector) tables in the flow of funds accounts. I guess that's because corps aren't "supposed" to own stock. Their holdings must be buried under the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 12:14:07 PST 2000

34892 K-W out -- rank: 1000

Dow Jones Newswire - March 7, 2000 Koch-Weser Withdraws Candidacy for IMF Post BERLIN -- German Deputy Finance Minister Caio Koch-Weser said Tuesday he's withdrawing his candidacy to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Koch-Weser, the European Union's candidate for the job of IMF managing director, said the move is meant to facilitate the search for a candidate that can be broadly supported by IMF members. It follows strong U.S. objections to his candidacy. "I'm wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 06:09:12 PST 2000

34893 Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs (was Re: The Heiress and theAnarchist) -- rank: 1000

Eric Beck wrote: >The Nazis also obsessed over zero unemployment >and state ownership--should we call Marxism/socialism into question too? >There's also the question of exactly who or what we are to scrutinize. I'm >having trouble picturing it without a form of the witch hunt, like we all >stand outside of food coops and health-food stores, interrogating and >inspecting the bags of all the dirtheads and granola-munchers. What do have >in mind, Doug? The arrest and public tri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 7 05:06:41 PST 2000

34894 Fwd: <no subject> -- rank: 1000

X-From_: desmondmahan at earthlink.net Mon Mar 6 23:51:16 2000 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 20:54:00 -0700 Subject: <no subject> From: "Joan Mahan" <desmondmahan at earthlink.net> To: dhenwood at panix.com Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 The show at the New York Historical Society on lynching ("Without Sanctuary")is on the web at http://www.journale.com. Maybe you could recommend it on the LBO discussion list. Thanks, Robert Desmond

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 20:57:39 PST 2000

34895 Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs (was Re: The Heiress and theAnarchist) -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >The canard about the Nazis being vegetarians and believers >in animal rights was offered in a newsgroup a few months ago >and thoroughly demolished, especially after the offerer >failed to provide any evidence. Well, given Alex Cockburn's rigorous fact-checking standards, I can't believe he'd just go off and say something without evidence! Robert Proctor has a chapter in his fascinating book Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis about the German obsession with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 20:53:54 PST 2000

34896 union salaries revisited -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Actually, I was thinking about general inequality measures, as when we >compare what the top 20% of workers make versus the bottom 20%. I am >curious if the measures by folks noting increasing inequality are >undermeasuring the true problem. Census income definitions exclude capital gains. Also, job earnings are topcoded, meaning all earnings in excess of $299,999 are treated as $299,999 for internal Census use, and $99,999 in the publicly released file. These ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 20:44:49 PST 2000

34897 interesting mainstream economic commentators? -- rank: 1000

David Dorkin wrote: >Thanks-anybody in particular you know to fit the bill? The people like >Grant who blurbed Wall Street for example? Grant is a libertarian of the Austrian persuasion. He just likes it that some other non-mainstreamer is appalled by the bull market. Alan Abelson at Barron's is basically a New Deal Democrat who thinks most Wall Street people are idiots. > BTW who was it at Business >Week who used to be at Dollars and Sense Michael Mandel, who's become BW's lead che ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 19:14:22 PST 2000

34898 union salaries revisited -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Which highlights the fact that salary differentials are understating general >inequality, since stock options are a major source of income for upper-end >workers. Anyone out there calculating wage differentials incorporating >stock options? Which measures you talking about? Census Bureau measures, or the stuff in the biz mags or on the AFL-CIO's Paywatch? For Census stats, there are too few bigmoney CEOs to make much of a macro difference; for the bizmags/Paywa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:52:32 PST 2000

34899 Fwd: 'Gas-out' apr 7-9 -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Somebody just sent this to me. I have two questions: > >1. What are the merits of the claim that the 'gas out' worked in the past. >It seems that after OPEC turned off the pump, it took a few weeks until the >gas prices reached their current level. Why should we believe that a three >day gas-out will have any, let alone lasting, effect on gasoline prices? > >2. Why should I help SUV-owners to ease their pain? The least I can do, >short of i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:45:54 PST 2000

34900 unionizing nonprofits -- rank: 1000

CITY LIMITS WEEKLY March 6, 2000 Number 218 Kathleen McGowan, editor. Kim Nauer, executive director. City Limits Weekly is a free news and resource guide for New Yorkers. The fax and e-mail weekly is published every Monday by City Limits magazine. To be added to our distribution list or to subscribe to our monthly magazine ($25/year), call us at (212) 479-3349, fax us at (212) 344-6457, or e-mail us at mcgowan at citylimits.org. [...] EX-TEAMSTER HELPS QUASH UNION BID AT BED-STUY RESTORATION A v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:32:34 PST 2000

34901 interesting mainstream economic commentators? -- rank: 1000

David Dorkin wrote: >I was wondering if anyone could give insight into the mindset of >relatively intelligent mainstream or liberal political and >economic commentators; are Kuttner and Reich, for example, aware of and >sympathetic to heterodox work? > >Same questions regarding any others you can think of. Whom would LBO >listers consider to be interesting mainstream people who may be more >progressive or insightful than most working in journalism, business and >public ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:32:34 PST 2000

34902 US politics -- rank: 1000

David Dorkin wrote: >Hi Doug > >I was wondering if you could give any insight into the mindset of Reich >and other relatively intelligent mainstream or liberal political and >economic commentators; is Reich for example, any more insightful in >private than in public and is he aware of your work and heterodox work >in general? > >Same questions regarding Kuttner and any others you can think of. Come >to think of it, whom would you consider to be interesting mainstrea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:32:34 PST 2000

34903 union salaries revisited -- rank: 1000

Ken Hanly wrote: >It would be interesting to do the same sort of thing for CEO's and >corporations. Bill Gates (former CEO) and Microsoft for example. It would. But CEOs aren't supposed to represent the working class; they're the peak of the capitalist class. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 14:32:34 PST 2000

34904 Mono-Causal Explanations (was Re: Accused Killer of 3 Is LinkedtoRacist Writing (fwd)) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I suppose >capitalism has something to do with the content of a manic-depressive's >illness. For example, someone with that illness is more apt to go out >and run up credit card debt on new clothes and household appliances >than on an attempt to bribe the King to ennoble him. So you are accepting diagnostic catgegories, that generalize about "mental illness." I thought you didn't go for that sort of thing. Or are you using the category under erasure, i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 6 08:54:20 PST 2000

34905 union salaries revisited -- rank: 1000

[The other day I posted some material on union presidents' salaries, provided by Michael Eisenscher. Michael has expanded the list to include Sweeney, as well as the average earnings of the occupations typically represented by each union. I took those numbers and computed a "bloat factor" - total salary and compensation for the bosses divided by the average workers' salaries. Where multiple occupations were given, I used the highest earnings to compute the bloat factor, in order to app ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 6 08:40:46 PST 2000