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36421 Icecap at North Pole Has Turned to Water -- rank: 1000

Tom Wheeler wrote: >The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has >turned to water, recent visitors there reported on Friday. The last time >scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 >million years ago. This sounds kind of terrifying. Am I overreacting? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 21:50:00 PDT 2000

36422 the crash of 2001-2004 and holding your nose ... -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:49:22 -0700 From: John Gulick <jlgulick at sfo.com> On one thread, Peter K sez: >It's interesting that both Cockburn and Vidal are predicting imminent >economic collapse. In his August 21/28 Beat the Devil column, Cockburn >writes "The likelihood is that either Gore/Lieberman or Bush/Cheney will >preside over an abrupt delfation of the stock-market bubble." Gary Hart, making out like Henrik Grossmann (where are you Rakesh ?) argued more or le ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 21:36:17 PDT 2000

36423 W speaks -- rank: 1000

The wit and wisdom of our next president: <http://www.georgewbushspeaks.com>.

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 17:15:39 PDT 2000

36424 Mastercard Email (Re:Nader lawsuit (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Prashanth Mundkur wrote: >Any details for programmers in the Valley? Wish I knew more. I'm planning to, but not yet. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 15:53:15 PDT 2000

36425 Fwd: DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS PROTESTS REDEFINE MOVEMENT, END ON A HIGH NOTE -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:28:56 -0700 From: "L.A. Labor News" <News at LALabor.org> DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS PROTESTS REDEFINE MOVEMENT, END ON A HIGH NOTE by Jim Smith L.A. Labor News Five days of massive, spirited marches and rallies in the streets of Los Angeles were capped Thursday afternoon as several thousand Latinos, African-Americans, Asians and whites marched against sweatshops and for immigrant rights. At the same time, Democratic Party convention delegates were grinning- ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 15:29:17 PDT 2000

36426 racists despair of Pat -- rank: 1000

[From the Council of Conservative Citizens <http://www.cofcc.org/mailbag.htm>] Go Pat Go? Yeah, Right... I just finished reading Pat Buchanan's response to the Washington Post that you have posted on your website. I came away with one conclusion: Pat Buchanan is a worthless piece of flesh. In his response to the Washington Post, Pat Buchanan said, in regard to the Council of Conservative Citizens: "For the record: I have never been a member of any of these organizations; nor have I ev ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 14:07:20 PDT 2000

36427 Stiglitz on radio -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Tonight on my radio show, bigtime star guest Joe Stiglitz, the >>former chief economist of the World Bank. 5-6 PM, WBAI, 99.5 FM, >>NYC. Theoretically at <http://www.porus.com/domains/wbai/wbai.ram>, >>but not reliably so. >> >>Doug > >Ask him why he doesn't return my phone calls... Alas, he showed up way late, and I ended up with only about 12 minutes to interview him. He promises a return engagement. As for returning your pho ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 14:02:40 PDT 2000

36428 Latino-Labor Alliance in CA: View from Right -- rank: 1000

[Speaking of the AFL-CIO] Financial Times - August 18, 2000 WORLD NEWS: THE AMERICAS: Effusive commentator gets the Over-the-Top Award Amid all the convention schmoozing this week, the Over-the-Top Award for effusive introductions must surely go to Bob Borosage, a leading liberal commentator, for his glowing introduction of the labour leader John Sweeney, of the AFL-CIO. Sweeney, he said, had "the heart of a lion, will of a stallion and the bite of a grizzly". All we can say is, and th ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 13:46:26 PDT 2000

36429 EPZs in Cuba -- rank: 1000

"Export Processing Zones in Cuba" BY: LARRY WILLMORE United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=231245 Paper ID: United Nations DESA Working Paper No. 12 Date: May 2000 Contact: LARRY WILLMORE Email: Mailto:willmore at un.org Postal: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Division for Public Economics and Public Administration Room DC1-922 N ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 13:07:44 PDT 2000

36430 what are gini coefficients? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >The thing that struck me about the Gini curves on the LBO website >example is that they were so close together. Then there is this >discussion around here that Pareto or somebody and others have >demonstrated that the income distribution/dispersion/inequality is >and has been very close over a the long run ( or is that a joke ?). > >It would seem like the interesting thing about income distribution >is that it doesn't change, suggesting none other th ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 12:50:15 PDT 2000

36431 The "law" of wealth concentration -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > I would note that if Gini coefficients for income >(or consumption) distribution are hard to measure, >ones for wealth are much harder and are much less >frequently done. By now most governments from >time to time make some kinds of efforts to do income >or consumption ginis. But, wealth.... well, a few >years ago when Robert Avery did a wealth distribution >study of the US at the Fed he was roundly denounced. The Fed does wealth ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 12:28:33 PDT 2000

36432 Mastercard Email (Re:Nader lawsuit (fwd) -- rank: 1000

B. Deutsch wrote: >A good thought, but I beleive that MasterCard and Visa are owned by >the same company (which is why the Visa commercials always slam >American Express instead of MasterCard). Don't know about MC, but Visa is actually a cooperative owned by its member banks but without any real headquarters. I talked to someone the other day who's working with some Silicon Valley programmers to set up alternative economic models, and they're holding up Visa as a kind of example. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 12:20:01 PDT 2000

36433 RES: The "law" of wealth concentration -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: This is a lot more than a factoid. > >When you say "is responsible for" , what is the whole causal link ? >How does the inheritance cause the distribution ? I.e., the present distribution of wealth is somewhere between half and three-quarters the result of direct inheritance or the appreciation of inherited wealth. Imagine a society of four people. A has $0 in the bank; B has $200; C has $300; and D has $1,000. B and C's money comes from saving out ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 07:39:37 PDT 2000

36434 Nader's pale green -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 17, 2000 Nader Picks a Milder Shade of Green By Cathy Newman Washington Post Staff Writer It's Wednesday, Nov. 8. Think, for a moment, the unthinkable: Ralph Nader has made it to the White House. As America's new president, he now has the power to carry out the Green Party USA's official agenda, which, the nation may be stunned to learn, includes plans to abolish the Senate, to slap a 100 percent tax on the affluent, and to break up firms with more than 10 percent market ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 18 06:26:28 PDT 2000

36435 RES: The "law" of wealth concentration -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >According to research cited in IW in A, there is some controversy over the >20/80 effect which is linked to models of life cycle wealth. Some say 20% >of our total wealth is inherited with 80% life cycle accumulation; others >saying just the opposite. As I recall - and it's been a while - Modigliani argued against a high inheritance estimate, no doubt because he was fond of his life cycle hypothesis. I don't recall the divisions being as stark as this, ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 18:15:58 PDT 2000