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35281 broke? borrow! -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Does this mean there is some kind of crisis around the corner or >would that be a gloom and doom interpretation ? It would be a gloom & doom interpretation. There was a debt-induced stagnation from 1989-93 in the U.S. - was that a "crisis"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 5 09:33:50 PDT 2000

35282 joining the right-wing conspiracy -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 5, 2000 Bookshelf Another One Bites the Dust, Or a Radical Gets Real By ROGER KIMBALL Irving Kristol once famously observed that a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. There is a lot of reality in Harry Stein's thoughtful and entertaining "How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" (Delacorte, 274 pages, $23.95). Mr. Stein began life as a bona fide liberal. Raised in "America's most progressive precincts," he g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 5 09:19:03 PDT 2000

35283 broke? borrow! -- rank: 1000

[from an article in today's Wall Street Journal on rising household & business debt in the U.S.] While home buyers once needed a 20% down payment -- and thus needed a degree of financial well-being -- today over 40% of new-home mortgages are with down payments of less than 10%, according to SMR Research, a financial-research firm. "At least a quarter of all new mortgages go to people who are basically broke, and the figure could be much higher," says Stuart Feldstein, president of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 5 08:58:21 PDT 2000

35284 Fox's plans -- rank: 1000

[Wow, an advisor with an Iowa State PhD. Fox really is a man of the people!] Financial Times - July 4 2000 21:38GMT | Last Updated: July 4 2000 22:34GMT Fox aims for common market with US By Henry Tricks and Richard Lapper in Mexico City Vicente Fox, Mexico's president-elect, on Tuesday said he would push to build an ambitious common market with the US as part of a marathon reform programme to transform Mexico after seven decades of one-party rule. Speaking to foreign reporters for the first tim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 5 08:08:48 PDT 2000

35285 FC Sporadic for Wednesday, July 5, 2000 -- rank: 1000

Date: 5 Jul 2000 08:01:58 -0000 From: "The FC Network" <fc.network-owner at listbot.com> The FC Network - http://www.fuckedcompany.com Hey, Hope all you Americans in the house had a good July 4th. That also goes for the Brits too, I suppose. Iím not saying that Iím doing it for sure, but if you want to advertise on the site or in this newsletter, drop me a note: pud at fuckedcompany.com . This June web hosting bill is no fun... Interesting thing: Some dot-com companies have rece ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 5 08:11:26 PDT 2000

35286 Amazon's future -- rank: 1000

The conclusion to an email sent to all Amazon.com "associates": > p.s. our lawyers like us to add the following....... > > This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve > risks and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's > limited operating history, anticipated losses, unpredictability of > future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating > results, seasonality, consumer trends, competition, risk of > di ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 5 08:12:45 PDT 2000

35287 fw: Marxist jeopardy -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >so what is this about Penley? i've not had the pleasure of reading >anything along this line. i want dish! Special lbo-talk exclusive: click on this and enjoy the images all for yourself <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/TrekSex.html>! There's no link on the site - only this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 16:39:54 PDT 2000

35288 fw: Marxist jeopardy -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >Star Trek and Computing (that's a stretch, i know, but i thought i'd try) >Shagging and Hacking (e.g., computer lingo and other oddities that >are related to sex in some way. send yourself mail= wanking, etc) Any way to work in the sex zines about Star Trek characters (e.g. the lusty cartoons of Kirk and Spock in amorous play) that Constance Penley wrote about in NASA/Trek? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 15:11:23 PDT 2000

35289 Americans happy; DP support slipping -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Looking at it in a purely and naively empiricist way, one could say that >nothing soothes the savage beast at the heart of the u.s. working class >than a democrat in the white house and republican control of Congress, >combined with a good clean genocidal zero-casualty war. Actually I think 4% unemployment, 5 years of real wage growth, and (until recently) 25% stock market returns do more to explain it than these reasons. I'll bet most Americans haven't thought abo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 10:27:01 PDT 2000

35290 DeLong goes for the jugular -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I think I express the sentiments of the majority of LOBsters when I say >that I wish the two of you would mutually promise never to call each other >racists or stalinists again, and would both make the heroic effort to >overlook the times when you have succumbed to temptation in the past. A sentiment shared by the moderator. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 09:46:01 PDT 2000

35291 Fox: more liberalization -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 4, 2000 Mexico's victor vows bold reform By Henry Tricks in Mexico City Vicente Fox, Mexico's surprise president-elect, has signalled plans for bold liberalising reforms to the country's economy including opening up Pemex, the state oil monopoly. Mr Fox, whose victory in Sunday's national elections ended 71 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary party, was also expected to assure investors that the central bank would remain independent and that Mexico would deepe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 09:32:14 PDT 2000

35292 Americans happy; DP support slipping -- rank: 1000

[from Gallup's weekly update] SOCIAL ISSUES & POLICY Americans Generally Satisfied With State of Nation This July 4th 7/3/00 -- The majority of the American public is satisfied with the current state of affairs in the United States on this year's July 4th. Satisfaction ratings for most aspects of American life, including the economy, education, and the opportunity to get ahead, have increased over the past several years. Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe that the United States rates ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 09:27:18 PDT 2000

35293 Socialism & Ecology in Japan-Look back to '47 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Brad De Long wrote: >> >> >Of course I support the broad outlines of U.S. occupation policy in >> >Japan. It appears to have worked damned well--unless you think >> >freedom of speech, regular elections, and material prosperity are >> >bad things. >> >> So a "liberal" order always rests on a founding coercion? > >Come now Doug. Do you know of any "order" ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 4 09:24:24 PDT 2000

35294 WSWS on RN -- rank: 1000

[A bit, oh, hardcore, but not without its points. That Ralph's functionary "remained silent on Buchanan's long-standing ties to anti-labor textile bosses in the South" is putting it mildly; I talked just yesterday with Dana Frank, labor historian and author of Buy American!, who said that she heard from several reliable sources, all of whom crave anonymity, that Nader & Co. have long taken money from Roger Milliken - including for Seattle organizing - something that Lori Wallach fu ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 4 09:14:23 PDT 2000

35295 Kuttner on Ireland -- rank: 1000

[apropos the recent thread on Ireland] BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JULY 10, 2000 ISSUE ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT Ireland's Miracle: The Market Didn't Do It Alone ROBERT KUTTNER The Celtic Tiger, as Ireland now likes to call itself, is currently the economic champion of the European Union. Three decades ago, it was a sleepy, impoverished, protectionist country with little prospect for growth. Today, thanks to a six-year growth rate averaging 7% per annum, Irish unemployment has dropped from 16% to 4% in a dec ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 4 08:50:16 PDT 2000