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35641 Moore: WTO on the move in 2000 -- rank: 1000

Reuters - January 6 2:10 AM ET Moore Says WTO to Play Hardball in 2000 By Marion Rae WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Talking the talk is not enough -- there will be free trade action this year, World Trade Organization Director-General Mike Moore said on Thursday. Moore departs for India on Saturday as part of a bid to restart global trade talks that collapsed last month against a backdrop of violent demonstrations in Seattle. ``Whatever happens, we will begin negotiations on agriculture and services thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 6 07:41:49 PST 2000

35642 Bill's career path -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Implausibe? It may or may not be true but it s certainly plausible. What >do you think happens to all those schmucks after their terms in office >expire? They got recycled in shadowy business firms, think tanks or >academic institutions. It is their payoff time for the their faithful >service to their business owners during their tenures. Sure. Minor Fed staffers end up at Goldman Sachs and Robert Rubin ends up as co-chair of Citigroup. I just have a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 6 07:36:18 PST 2000

35643 decon artistry -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >We could all use a little infection by deconstruction, it's good for >building up your ideological immune system. Angela sent me these blurbs for Thomas Keenan's Fables of Responsibility, about which she's very enthusiastic herself. Just ordered my own copy. Spivak: "brilliant and lucid book...begins with a theory of reading and ends with a stunning analysis of the conditions for political action... The readings of Marx, Foucault, and Aesop would themselves be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 6 07:25:42 PST 2000

35644 nader -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com > > [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood > >For example, in a fact sheet on NAFTA, it was stated > > that the biggest job growth was projected to be for janitors and >a couple of > > similar categories. When I went to the US government statistics >on the web, > > it was actually for computer programmers and som ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 6 07:11:08 PST 2000

35645 propping up a dead AG -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >In the same spirit, from today's Slate: "La Repubblica of Rome ran >a front-page comment Wednesday comparing the reappointment of >Greenspan to the Italian peasant tradition of carrying in procession >a statue of the Holy Protector to placate the weather. 'Yesterday >Bill Clinton raised the blessed icon of Alan Greenspan in the >world's central square against the sudden and furious storm that is >sweeping through the stock markets,' it said." T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 6 07:08:53 PST 2000

35646 Fwd: nader -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] From: Leslilake1 at aol.com Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:14:58 EST I'm wondering if anyone on the list can help me. I'm a subscriber to this list, but not an economist or academic. I'm interested in organizing a forum on trade policy in the town where I live. What I'd like to know is, from the point of view of people on this list, how good is the information that comes out of Nader's Public Citizen? The reason I ask is that as I started researching, I also started t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 23:22:46 PST 2000

35647 propping up a dead AG -- rank: 1000

"I would not only reappoint Mr Greenspan, but if Mr Greenspan should die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie Weekend at Bernie's. I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him." - Sen. John McCain

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 23:21:06 PST 2000

35648 Chinese central bank gets with the program -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - January 6, 2000 CHINESE CENTRAL BANK SHIFTS TRADING STANCE By James Kynge in Beijing China's central bank open market operations have become a "main tool" of monetary policy, a top official said on Wednesday, in a further sign that Beijing is speeding up the modernisation of its financial system. Dai Genyou, director of the monetary policy department of the People's Bank of China, said the bank had traded Rmb707.6bn (£53bn) in debts last year in open market operations ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 23:18:18 PST 2000

35649 Second American Revolution, Anyone? (was Re: Faux on Cockburn) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >This is a perfect recapitulation of neo-classical >doctrine: there is no alternative to neo-liberalism. Adolph Reed once characterized some people he knew as convening once a year to think about what they should do politically, deciding it was all too exquisitely complex, and so doing nothing 'til next year's meeting. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 22:03:24 PST 2000

35650 bourgeois highdomes -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >And, Doug, after all you are a Monthly >Review author too. If you don't agree with Ellen Wood or John Foster, >debate them in the magazine. Don't tar the whole enterprise to score a >couple of points on the list. What is the point of it? I'm most certainly not tarring MR with anything, nor am I trying to score points. ichael Hoover asked me to name some names, so I did. I'm a big admirer of MR as an institution and of the people around it. I disagree with the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 18:08:25 PST 2000

35651 Bill's career path -- rank: 1000

[From Sam Smith's Progressive Review. Sounds implausible, but who fact-checks gossip anyway?] BLOOMBERG NEWS: President Bill Clinton will join the New York investment firm Lazard Freres following the end of his presidency in January 2001, Washingtonian Magazine reported, citing unnamed sources. Clinton would be paid a salary of $8 million with $2 million in possible bonuses and he'd join his friend Vernon Jordan who became senior managing director at Lazard Freres in January and may have helped ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 16:16:34 PST 2000

35652 bourgeois highdomes -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >And who are these marxists? The usual suspects - Callinicos, Wood, >Eagleton, etc. - who have written critically about postmodernism? >A few folks on e-lists (where sovereign individualism reigns)? And >which e-lists? I used to sub to bunches of them where self-identified >marxists uttered nary a sound about postmodernism/postmodernists. >Nor have most marxists I've known and worked with outside academia >and 'left intellectual' circles ever sat aro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 13:41:03 PST 2000

35653 Amazon.com confesses its risks -- rank: 1000

[Today's news that Amazon.com's losses widened along with holiday sales prompted me to look at their latest quarterly report <http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/0000891020-99-001938.t xt>. I love confessional prose like this. - Doug] ADDITIONAL FACTORS THAT MAY AFFECT FUTURE RESULTS In addition to the factors discussed in the "Liquidity and Capital Resources" sections of this "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations&q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 11:57:49 PST 2000

35654 Fwd: Memo: Imagine, No Nativity -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >(Doug, your forwardee, probably saw the >ltr. from Kemp to PJB, there) No, I actually subscribe to the Wanniski/Polyconomics daily feed. For all our differences, I find Jude W utterly fascinating. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 11:52:02 PST 2000

35655 Fwd: Re: The Nazi Economy -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Incidentally, if Doug is correct in his prediction of such defaults That wasn't me; I was forwarding Daniel Davies misaddressed post. I'm too cowardly to make predictions. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 5 09:55:33 PST 2000