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36436 what are gini coefficients? -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >At the risk of boring those in the know, I would love to know what the >methodology of the gini coefficient is? Gini was the name of a soft >drink here, that never quite took off (somewhere between sprite and >fizzy water). I've always assumed that it was some measure of relative >poverty (as opposed to absolute) but that's as much as I know. <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Gini_supplement.html>. >Most of all I've noticed that conventional economics ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 16:15:26 PDT 2000

36437 Nader on race -- rank: 1000

Ralph Nader's Racial Blindspot by Vanessa Daniel, special to COLORLINES magazine and www.colorlines.com In his speech at the Republican National Convention, General Colin Powell spoke boldly to racial issues, telling a somewhat alarmed audience that he supported affirmative action and opposed the growing imprisonment of people of color. Amidst nervous applause, Powell signaled that the Republicans had for the first time brought a show of race to center stage. His words indicated a shift in the p ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 15:52:01 PDT 2000

36438 holy shit -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Regardless of whether it's good or bad politically, I'd love to see a U.S. >president -- any U.S. president -- in handcuffs. Wow, were Bill & Monica playing with handcuffs? Footnote 207 in the Starr report did suggest some unusual practices, but this is news to me! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 15:50:09 PDT 2000

36439 RES: The "law" of wealth concentration -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >What about inheritance, which is responsible for 50-75% of the wealth >distribution in the U.S.? > >Doug > >This is very interesting, Doug. Do you have the ratings for European >and Asian countries? And what about inheritance taxes in industrialized >countries? No idea. When I was doing the research for Wall Street, I read the rather small literature on estimating the effects of inheritance on wealth distribution. It's extremely hard to get data, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 15:47:45 PDT 2000

36440 Fwd: McR2000: Upcoming TV Appearances -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:04:37 -0400 From: McReynolds for President <info at votesocialist.org> David McReynolds will be a guest panelist on the ABC late-night television program "Politically Incorrect" on Tuesday August 22nd. "PI" - a late-nite comedy/politics talk show airs after "Niteline" in most locations. Check your local listings for details. David will also be on the ABC news program "20/20" this coming Friday, August 18. David will be featu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 15:43:56 PDT 2000

36441 The "law" of wealth concentration -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >My argument was from a position of protecting liberty (although >the idea of limiting who can vote as a means to protecting liberty will >probably go over like a lead balloon here), not creating a fiscally >responsible .gov. > >> so anyway, isn't there a load of middle class "welfare" such as subsidized >> student loans and home loans and that sort of thing that ought to render >> anyone who takes advantage of such ineligible for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 15:41:42 PDT 2000

36442 newsmaking -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - August 17, 2000 Avenue of the Americas: Tale of two press corps There is no more popular pursuit among the press corps covering the campaigns of Al Gore and George W. Bush than sniping at their colleagues on the rival campaign. For the Bush media, the Gore press are a miserable bunch, moaning about their lack of access to a dreary candidate. For the Gore media, their Bush counterparts are inexperienced lapdogs, swallowing every word from their candidate without question. One th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 13:16:31 PDT 2000

36443 The "law" of wealth concentration -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >elsewhere, some putz is going on about how the vote should be denied >to anyone who received welfare. Ask said putz if s/he takes a mortgage interest tax deduction, or enjoys a tax-sheltered pension plan. Such subsidies to the middle- and upper-income brackets are zillions times larger than "welfare." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 12:20:50 PDT 2000

36444 Stiglitz on radio -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Will this be an all-Stiglitz show? No. First part is an interview with somebody from the Kensington Welfare Rights Union. Stiggy will come on about 5:20. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 11:38:45 PDT 2000

36445 Stiglitz on radio -- rank: 1000

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

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 10:07:56 PDT 2000

36446 WB on Prague -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily clipping service] WORLD BANK CALLS FOR DIALOGUE AT PRAGUE ANNUAL MEETINGS. In order for a dialogue between participants in the forthcoming annual meetings in Prague of the IMF and World Bank and opponents of globalization to take place, it is crucial that no false information be used, the Ceska Tiskova Kancelar (Czech Republic) reports World Bank Vice President for External Affairs Mats Karlsson urged. Theatre and humor are good things, but they should be based on f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 10:40:42 PDT 2000

36447 [Fwd: [corp-focus] The Billionaire Mindset and Wealth Inequality] -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >forwarded question from another list. doug haven't you written >about the conference board on lbo? the article answers her in the >basic, but i guess she's looking for more. btw, i sent your >question about hardware/software to hacker list and i'll forward >replies i get. some may have already posted you offlist. The Conference Board is a business-sponsored think tank that goes way back. As they say on their website <http://www.conference-board.org>: >Th ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 10:22:23 PDT 2000

36448 RTMark -- rank: 1000

[My office mate makes it into the Newspaper of Record.] New York Times - August 17, 2000 Cultural Sabotage Waged in Cyberspace By ALISSA QUART THIS summer, Frank DeGraff, a 19-year-old college student, decided that he wanted to invest money through the Web, so he started working three jobs. When he had saved $200, he went to RTMark.com and placed the money in one of the site's funds, the Education Fund. But instead of money, the only returns he was promised were acts of cultural sabotage. Mr. De ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 17 07:58:10 PDT 2000

36449 Finkelstein's background -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: > and Goldhagen has turned into an embarrassment for Harvard. >> >>Doug > >How so? Apparently his career is stalled, and he's not going anywhere. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 07:26:44 PDT 2000

36450 Gore wants the Nader kids -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - August 17, 2000 Gore's Student Supporters Consider How to Keep Campus Idealists From Joining the Nader Camp By BEN GOSE Los Angeles The Democrats who argue that a vote for Ralph Nader is a wasted vote may find that to be a tough sell among idealistic college students, who don't always warm to the compromises of two-party politics. Mr. Nader, a long-time consumer advocate and the candidate of the Green Party, the nation's most prominent environmental pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 17 07:21:57 PDT 2000