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35491 WB launches emissions trading -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WORLD BANK LAUNCHES CARBON TRADING SYSTEM. The World Bank yesterday launched the first global market to reduce carbon emissions in an effort to combat climate change and promote the transfer of environmentally friendly technology to developing countries, reports the Financial Times (p.6). The creation of the "Prototype Carbon Fund" (PCF) could give a fillip to countries trying to meet the so-called Kyoto Protocol, agreed in 1997, which co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 11:15:38 PST 2000

35492 Left Defenders of the Capitalist Status Quo (RE: Bradley's Health Care Proposal -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >It is the HMO industry - at >loggerheads with the insurance folks Wait a minute. Don't Aetna and the Prudential (inscos are snotty about this - you're supposed to say The Equitable, not Equitable, too) have HMOs? Isn't an HMO structurally a kind of insurance company? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 11:13:27 PST 2000

35493 Davos agenda -- rank: 1000

Reuters - Tuesday January 18, 2:12 pm Eastern Time INTERNET, GLOBALISATION TO TOP DAVOS AGENDA By Elif Kaban GENEVA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Globalisation and the Internet will top the agenda for business and political leaders in the Swiss ski resort of Davos during the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum this month, organisers said on Tuesday. Security will be tight at the five-day meeting starting on January 27 following threats from anti-free trade groups to disrupt it in the same way as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 10:56:59 PST 2000

35494 White House healthcare scheme -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release January 19, 2000 CLINTON-GORE ADMINISTRATION UNVEILS MAJOR NEW HEALTH INSURANCE INITIATIVE January 19, 2000 Today, President Clinton will unveil a 10-year, $110 billion initiative that would dramatically improve the affordability of and access to health insurance. The proposal would expand coverage to at least 5 million un ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 10:48:30 PST 2000

35495 Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 1000

Pahtoo at aol.com wrote: >I'm a Green Party member (a former Green Candidate for Congress) and I can't >believe the blind greenwashing of Nader. Despite the Naderites' connection to >right-wing funders like Roger Milliken, the party plans to go forward with >it's coronation of Nader without any meaningful debate. Joel Kovel is running against Nader in the Calif primary. No doubt Ralph will crush Joel (among the 6,000 people who will probably vote in the Green primary), but he does ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 10:43:58 PST 2000

35496 Economists for Bradley -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Oh, that's not the half of it. Did you see Anwar Shaikh's name on >that list? I thought it had to be a joke -- in a way it is, I guess. Yeah, I hit send before I noticed his name. I'm shocked - I really admire Shaikh's brainpower. What are people thinking? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 10:40:22 PST 2000

35497 Fwd: Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 1000

oudies at flash.net wrote: >yeowser! i think she wants ya doug, ya big twink of a cream puff you. >what did you write that ticked her off? Someone forwarded <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Nader.html> to a New York State Green Party list. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 10:42:36 PST 2000

35498 Fwd: Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 1000

Hey, all you "hard line Marxist ideologues" out there - why not tell sweet Lorna Salzman that I'm really just a wussy liberal, soft on postmodernism, and too fond of uncertainty in thought and practice. Doug >X-From_: lsalzman at aba.org Wed Jan 19 12:05:05 2000 >X-Sender: lsalzman at mail.iex.net >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:06:22 -0500 >To: rugosa at interport.net >From: lsalzman at aba.org (Lorna Salzman) >Subject: Nader attack: your posting &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 09:38:00 PST 2000

35499 WSJ on wealth -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >To assume the thankless Chicken Little role: The WSJ ran an ominous >chart the other day, showing strong similarity between current US >stock values and those of US equities in 1929 as well as Japanese >equities a few years ago at their peak. How would US consumer >indebtedness at present compare with that of the US in 1929 and of >Japanese consumers at Japan's market top? Consumer credit was pretty new in the 1920s, and debt levels were trivial compared t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 09:32:50 PST 2000

35500 Economists for Bradley -- rank: 1000

Surreal to see Nancy Folbre and Paul Volcker as neighbors on this surreal statement. Not to be too moralizing or blunt or anything, but how many people did Volcker's 21% short rates kill - disproportionally children, if I'm remembering the UNICEF calculations right - in debtor countries in the 1980s? Who will pay for the kids indeed. There really is no end to liberal self-deception, is there? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 08:24:34 PST 2000

35501 Fed on wealth -- rank: 1000

[This headline is dull even by NYT standards. The Federal Reserve Bulletin article this is based on is at <http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2000/0100lead.pdf>. More detailed distributional data will start trickling out next month.] New York Times - January 19, 2000 Fed Reports Family Gains From Economy By RICHARD W. STEVENSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- In the most detailed look so far at how families have fared during the nation's long run of prosperity, the Federal Reserve said tod ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 08:11:02 PST 2000

35502 WSJ on wealth -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 19, 2000 Stock Gains Propel U.S. Wealth; More Americans Own Shares By YOCHI J. DREAZEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Fueled by stock-market gains, America's wealth grew at a strong pace in the latter half of the 1990s, a new government survey shows. At the same time, a record number of Americans at all income levels now own stock, intertwining their financial well-being with that of the stock market like never before. The percentage of Amer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 19 08:15:34 PST 2000

35503 Health Insurance Association Fighting Individual Tax Credits for Insurance -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >If folks want to see what the alternative is to tax credits for >individuals, the >Health Insurance Association of America is promoting plans for subsidies to >business to keep workers tied to employer-based health care and the insurance >industry -- NN Wait a minute. isn't your pal Bradley going to direct now-public money into private insurance companies? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 18 21:30:02 PST 2000

35504 Democrazia Cristiana Tedesca -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >This really has an international significance. It is more than that Germans >have been discovered to behave like Italians. I do not know if you would >agree, but in some ways the German constitution was set up by the allies to >be a model of rational bourgeois democracy. The fact that it too has been >hit by the severe funding scandals shows this is one of the most vulnerable >areas of the bourgeois system. It's amazing to me to hear what makes for a polit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 18 14:46:33 PST 2000

35505 dogging the ruling class -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:33:28 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Jolanda Piniel <davos at evb.ch> Subject: Invitation Press Conference 28.1.00 Invitation: Media Conference "The Public Eye on Davos" Zurich, January 2000 Dear Sir/Madam: The 30th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will take place in Davos on 27 January - 1 February 2000. For the first time, an independent NGO coalition will monitor the World Economic Forum and advocate NGO concerns in Davos. Under the m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 18 11:11:11 PST 2000