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36331 Human Rights Watch: Labor rights in the US -- rank: 1000

"Deck is Stacked" Against U.S. Workers Violations Undercut U.S. Position on Labor Rights and Trade (New York, August 31, 2000)-Workers' basic rights are routinely violated in the United States because U.S. labor law is so feebly enforced and so filled with loopholes, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The 217-page report, "Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards," was based on field ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 31 09:19:54 PDT 2000

36332 guillotine -- rank: 1000

Next one to call anyone else an asshole or mentally ill or anything else personally abusive is out of here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 31 09:11:43 PDT 2000

36333 Temp work growth at 577%......! -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >The ruling released yesterday comes as the nation's employers increasingly >rely on temporary staff to trim costs and gain flexibility. Temps, >contractors and consultants who are not attached to a company's core work >force make up as much as 25 percent of the nation's employment base by some >estimates, or nearly 35 million workers. > > >The number of temporary jobs in the United States rose 577 percent from 1982 >to 1998, according to t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 31 09:07:58 PDT 2000

36334 Martin Mayer -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >What do you think of Martin Mayer's 1988 book Markets? Haven't read it. How does Mayer write so many books? How does Michael Perelman write so many books. Writing one every 3 years nearly kills me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 31 08:59:18 PDT 2000

36335 Fwd: [Press]UE Endorsement -- rank: 1000

Press Release AUGUST 30, 2000 CONTACT: Jake Lewis or Laura Jones, (202) 265-4000 UNITED ELECTRICAL WORKERS VOTE TO ENDORSE RALPH NADER Erie, Pennsylvania - The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) voted at their annual convention Aug. 30 to endorse Ralph Nader's candidacy for President, saying, "the wasted vote in this election would be for the pro-business Democrats and Republicans." The 35,000-member independent union represents workers in manufacturing, publ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 15:17:10 PDT 2000

36336 AG on globalization -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Dan Sichel says (and I agree) that Gordon's cyclical adjustment >factors are too large, and are masking an acceleration of trend >productivity growth outside of durable manufacturing. But Sichel & OIiner make no cyclical adjustment at all, and it's well-established that productivity is pro-cyclical. If Gordon over-adjusts, he's doing too much of the right thing; not adjusting at all is the wrong thing. Don't want to give away the contents of A New Economy?, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 14:45:33 PDT 2000

36337 W: too stupid? -- rank: 1000

[From Chris Caldwell's column in the Aug 30-Sep 5 New York Press. The antecedents here are the Bush & Gore tax plans.] Their most important similarity, however-and here's where the Survivor analogy comes in-is that they're both too complicated for the public to understand. Taxes are a drama that fascinates people while leaving them without the foggiest idea of what they're fascinated by. The important thing is to respect the viewer's (or in this case the voter's, which probably amounts to th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 14:38:07 PDT 2000

36338 remembering your roots -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >when someone takes knowledge of a relationship between two >people--no matter what that relationship is (and yes, it was public, >that wasn't the issue) --and deigns to psychoanalyze the respondents >in a thread as to their "real" motivations for saying this or that, >then proceed to get it wrong AND continue on with the b.s. even >after they're called on it, then they're an asshole. Enough. Stop. Now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 12:21:56 PDT 2000

36339 CapitalMarkets -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Who's to say that investment in proportion to past >success is the best allocation of capital? If it >isn't, mustn't you have a capital market? Problem is that the capital market's judgments of future success are basically an extrapolation from the present and recent past. Venture capitalists are a bit nervier, but the broad public markets are dominated by the herd. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 12:06:59 PDT 2000

36340 CapitalMarkets -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >though my FT today brings me the startling >news that Germany's economic performance since 1950 >has been "solid if not spectacular" Very interesting. A while back, I did this highly unscientific sort of national/regional growth rates, using Angus Maddison's figures. It's unscientific because I only included certain interesting countries, and there's some overlap between regions and countries, not to mention "world." The periodization is based o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 09:57:00 PDT 2000

36341 US employment and non-wage benefits -- rank: 1000

John.Pennington at parliament.govt.nz wrote: >In one of our major dailies one of New Zealand's favourite right wing sons >claimed that even if the median real wage in the US is no higher today than in >1973 that 1. the real wage is an unreliable indicator of income levels and the >distribution of income. Au contraire, I think it's the best single indicator, since it shows how much the "average" worker gets in return for an hour of work effort. People can compensate for lowe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 09:47:03 PDT 2000

36342 Anti-Depressants -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: > >>>>The charge was that terms involving mentality have >no scientific meaning. I'm not diluting meaning from >terms like "ego" in my >use of them. > >This isn't even falsifiable and thus is vacuous. > >Ian<< > >Annoyingly, so is this :) Is there any good critique of the falsifiability fetish? I suspect it's questionable, but I can't put my finger on why. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 09:14:11 PDT 2000

36343 Anti-Depressants -- rank: 1000

Look, gang, I'm all for a discussion of mental illness and the scientific status of psychoanalysis, but I'm not for the accusations of "asshole" and the like. Enough. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 09:11:32 PDT 2000

36344 Radio Doug Archives -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Doug, would it be possible for you arhive the greatest hits of radio show >in real audio format on your website? Or at least post the current show >for a week so that more people get ahold of it? The good shows are really >good, and I wish more people could hear it. So do I. But I ain't got the server space. I'm not even sure I have the IP rights to the show. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 09:13:05 PDT 2000

36345 CapitalMarkets -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >OK, I have a business-related question for Doug and anyone up on finance. >What do capital markets do? There's a whole book that covers these sorts of questions in considerable - some might say excessive - detail. It's called Wall Street. For further info, see <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0860916707/leftbusinessobseA/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 30 09:05:15 PDT 2000