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36481 sobering stat -- rank: 1000

The awful magazine Business 2.0 reports that according to a Scudder Kemper Investments poll, over 80% of Americans have neither read nor heard about the New Economy. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 11:24:24 PDT 2000

36482 Greatest Presidents Since WW II -- rank: 1000

Carrol may want to ignore this... From the front page of Gallup's website: "Thinking about the U.S. Presidents we have had since World War II -- Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton -- which one would you consider the greatest president?" Kennedy 32% Reagan 19 Truman 12 Eisenhower 9 Clinton 9 Carter 4 Bush 4 Nixon 3 Johnson 1 Ford 1 Alex Cockburn's favorite comes in last! Dou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 11:01:01 PDT 2000

36483 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Yet Goldman Sachs analysts have apparently ripped W's tax plan -- >it'll drive up interest rates, they say. And Gretchen Morgenson's column >last Sunday said Wall Street isn't too hot on Bush. I was on a panel a few months ago with Ron Blackwell of the AFL-CIO. Blackwell recounted a chat he had with two Fortune 500 CEOs - he wouldn't say who - in which he asked them to explain their hostility to Clinton. He reminded them of the great bull market, their massive incr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 10:43:41 PDT 2000

36484 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >doug: and where do they differ appreciably >in their proposed programs of capital >stewardship? Ferguson & Rogers covered this territory in Right Turn: the Reps have historically favored low-wage, more nationally oriented, and smaller biz, while the Dems have been the party of internationalizing, higher-wage, higher-tech biz. Thus the greater Rep emphasis on dereg and tax cutting. There's also the matter of personality and mass psychology. I know it'd be hard to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 10:38:20 PDT 2000

36485 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I long ago reconciled myself to the cessation of political activity from >June through November of every fourth year. But does it have to make >internet conversation dull too? Nothing political about choosing the chief executive of the world bourgeoisie, is there? Whew, glad that's cleared up. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 09:07:55 PDT 2000

36486 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >One factor in the coming election is immediate. FAIR reported a >study on their >radio show indicating that the television network mostly reported about George >Bush in a positive light and Al Gore in a negative light. The >differences were >extraordinarily high. The immediate pundit consensus that W had given a fine speech at the RepCon made me think the ruling class wants him to win. It was quite stunning to cruise the channels and see every talking ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 08:28:15 PDT 2000

36487 Firestone Tires: Scabs Killed Motorists -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Doug---The USWA has always been supportive of advances in the art and >science of steelmaking going back to the days of Philip Murray. >Naturally as general science has improved over the last 50 years, >material science and quality practices in the steel industry have >improved. > >What was "high tech" 50 years ago, was "high tech" 50 years ago. The >American steel industry was as advanced as any steel industry in the >world and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 07:56:47 PDT 2000

36488 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >so, i'm not sure that media so even handedly and uniformly shoves >points of views down people's cranial cavities. As they say in the public opinion game, "we can't tell people what to think, but we can tell them what to think about." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 07:17:14 PDT 2000

36489 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

<kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> wrote: >And, despite everything... I must admit, Clinton is an excellent speaker. He's >entertaining as hell to watch and he's got that devilish grin which makes me >want to wink at someone. > >I have no taste. Clinton can be completely seductive, which means I have no taste either, I guess. I was noticing last night that, like Reagan, he conveys the sense of never taking things entirely seriously. What was with that set-up shot of him wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 07:00:23 PDT 2000

36490 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug and Max a week ago predicted that Gore will win the election. Not exactly. I said the official LBO model is likely to predict a Gore victory. But I'm not convinced. I'm trying to figure out the consensus of the ruling class, which seems tilting towards W. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 15 06:57:05 PDT 2000

36491 women's weight & pay -- rank: 1000

<http://papers.nber.org/papers/W7841> Body Weight and Women's Labor Market Outcomes John Cawley NBER Working Paper No. W7841 Issued in August 2000 ---- Abstract ----- Several studies have found that, all else equal, heavier women earn less. Previous research has been unable to determine whether high weight is the cause of low wages, the result of low wages, or whether unobserved factors cause both higher weight and lower wages. Applying the method of instrumental variables to data from the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 14 15:13:19 PDT 2000

36492 Firestone Tires: Scabs Killed Motorists -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >It also goes for metal parts Speaking of which, I was just reading a paper by Jack Triplett on the new economy. In it he says: "It is amazing to see quality improvements to automobiles in the 1990's, great as they have been, held up as part of the unprecedented improvement story, or-as in a press account I read recently-quality change in automobiles given as an example of the new economy, contrasted with a ton of steel in the old. Actually, the first thing wrong with t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 14 14:32:49 PDT 2000

36493 Kozmo.com lays off 10% -- rank: 1000

[The geniuses at Kozmo.com told me I didn't return a video I'd dropped into one of their boxes. When I called to complain, they accepted my explanation without question. A couple of days later, I got an email offering me a free rental - not for my suffering, but just for being a "valued customer." I've rented all of four videos from them. For that, I've gotten a t-shirt, a Zagat's restaurant guide, and two free rentals. Their venture capitalist, Jerry Colonna of Flatiron Partners, told ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 14 13:41:48 PDT 2000

36494 Lieberman: improving the moral future -- rank: 1000

[no date given] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman accused Hollywood on Sunday of corrupting the nation's children and corrupting its culture, while President Clinton raised money from film stars and partied on. Lieberman, the Connecticut senator named to the ticket by Al Gore last week, singled out the Walt Disney Co. for criticism, saying "too much of what they do is not good for our children, not good for our culture. "Look, I love the mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 14 11:13:07 PDT 2000

36495 the Fed on the labor market -- rank: 1000

From the Fed's latest Beige Book <http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/FOMC/BeigeBook/2000/20000809/default.htm>. >Labor Markets >Nearly all Districts reported that labor markets remain very tight, >and the labor shortage has become more severe in the Boston and >Kansas City Districts. Difficulty obtaining workers was restraining >employment growth in the Atlanta, Dallas, Richmond, and St. Louis >Districts. > >The shortage of workers is reported across all types of industries, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 14 10:58:48 PDT 2000