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36406 software -- rank: 1000

Marco Anglesio wrote: >On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: >> hardware price indexes are falling at a 20-30% annual rate, and it's >> argued that software indexes should be more like that, and less like >> the 2-5% annual average drop the official numbers report. > >Possibly because software is marketed in a very different way than >hardware. When you price a given piece of commodity hardware, it drops in >price as new hardware arises. A given piece of so ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 22 07:47:44 PDT 2000

36407 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >doug asked your accusers "what's with the either/or stuff". well, >it looks to me as if you, chuck0, engage in it just as much. what >b.s. doug! you blast chris for blasting back at chuck? huh? Sorry if I failed to appear even-handed. Chuck was doing the either/or thing too. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 21 22:47:44 PDT 2000

36408 the pollsters' worldview -- rank: 1000

[From Gallup's weekly update. The Oval Office, golf - it's all in a week's work!] * Gore Gets 8-Point Bounce From Democratic Convention A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted August 18-19, finds Al Gore earning an eight-point "bounce" in voter support following last week's Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, erasing the advantage George W. Bush had enjoyed as a result of Republican convention coverage in recent weeks. Gore now leads Bush by one point among Americans mos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 21 22:38:35 PDT 2000

36409 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Ah yes, how foolish. It's not masses of workers that will bring social >change -- it's cliques of a few dozen pasty-white black-clad kids throwing >dumpsters at cops every four months -- THAT'S what's going to bring the >revolution, man! What's with all this either-or stuff? The kids are out in the streets, and so were the workers. Sometimes they're even out together. I don't think it's a coincidence. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 21 21:13:29 PDT 2000

36410 Red Oskar is back -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray quoted: >Oskar Lafontaine, the former German finance minister dubbed "the most >dangerous man in Europe" by The Sun newspaper And dubbed "that asshole" by our esteemed Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 21 14:37:56 PDT 2000

36411 weatlh and income ginis -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >PS: You still haven't answered the main question: Is it >not true, in general globally, that income distribution studies >are much more frequently done and much more available >than wealth distribution studies? Didn't realize that was the main question, but yup, that's true. And the international comparisons are made more difficult by the fact that some countries survey consumption, not income. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 21 10:56:44 PDT 2000

36412 Verizon: union win -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - August 21, 2000 TOP GROKS ~~~~~~~~~ Zap! Union Win at Verizon Jolts the New Economy Did something just happen? Unions goosed the new economy with their power surge at Verizon. Now a deal has been reached and, as in any outage when the lights go off and then come on again, the media are rubbing their eyes and wondering what just happened. The eastern establishment print media, that is. Most online outlets went with wire service reports of Verizon's agreement with two unions to e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 21 10:53:13 PDT 2000

36413 Whinge -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I think he's a journo with the 'Background Briefing' team on ABC Radio >National, Jo, and, yeah, I thought it was a beaut article, too. No use >talking about it here, though. Doug's intentions for this list were nobly >internationalist, but the wishes of a moderator count for nought (as >Michael Perelman of Pen-L knows, too) and a primarily American list remains >ever a primarily American list. Guess we ferreners have to learn that if >you want people t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 21 07:59:35 PDT 2000

36414 IGF -- rank: 1000

Brill's Content September 2000 <http://www.brillscontent.com/September2000/forum.html> Boys in the Bandwidth By Eve Gerber They're here, they're queer and they're on the Web. An elite, underground group of gay intellectuals who pride themselves on their non-leftist political leanings have found sanctuary -- and a mainstream audience -- at IndeGayForum.com. BQ-Friends, an invitation-only, top-secret network of prominent, nonleftist gay intellectuals, has finally come out of the closet. Insp ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 20 20:08:03 PDT 2000

36415 Allah Had No Son -- rank: 1000

From: "Steve Perry" <sperry at usinternet.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Allah Had No Son after doug forwarded the onion piece with the jack chick christian cartoon tracts site in it, i went looking round the rest of the site. funny stuff. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 20 19:41:58 PDT 2000

36416 LAT on The Movement -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - August 20, 2000 Redesigning the Protest Movement Convention: Some activists question whether mass demonstrations on a plethora of issues are best way to get messages out. By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Times Staff Writer The mass protest movement that exploded into public consciousness with the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle last year may have hit a roadblock during the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, in the form of both the walls of poli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 20 19:52:54 PDT 2000

36417 weatlh and income ginis -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >Actually, this does support my main point, that >income distribution gets estimated much more than >wealth distribution. The status of wealth distribution >estimation in the US, a Fed survey every three years, >is about where income distribution studies are in most >LDCs, a half-baked survey every several years. There's nothing half-baked about the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances, though; not sure if you're implying there is. It's much more rig ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 19 12:37:22 PDT 2000

36418 burning -- rank: 1000

[from another list; the tract is a masterpiece] The Onion - August 16, 2000 Man Burning In Hell Wishes He Hadn't Snickered At Religious Leaflet LAKE OF FIRE, HELL -- Eternally tormented soul Brent Woodson, who is currently being pressed between white-hot slabs of iron, expressed "profound regret" Monday that he had laughed at the Jack Chick anti-homosexuality tract Doom Town, handed to him by a street evangelist moments before he was fatally struck by a bus. "I guess I shouldn't ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 19 11:08:26 PDT 2000

36419 W speaks -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >(I think you've published some >material in LBO about worker confidence not rising as rapidly as in past >recoveries???) Drawing on a paper Stefanie Schmidt did for the Milken Institute (yes, that Milken), I cited surveys showing a high level of general anxiety about job loss coexisting with relatively low evaluations of the risk of personal job loss. Anxiety levels were slower in coming down during the 1990s than they were in earlier expansions, though, but by the la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 19 10:55:34 PDT 2000

36420 W speaks -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >I thought "The top-secret, proprietary LBO election model" was predicting >"Gore should win fairly big." I haven't run the numbers yet, but yes, it seems likely; the inputs are Clinton's approval rating & the rise in real per capita disposable personal income. But Gore looks sort of doomed, doesn't he? I notice a catastrophism slipping into a lot of left discourse. Gore Vidal, Alex Cockburn, John Gulick talking of the depression awaiting Clin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 18 21:56:53 PDT 2000