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36721 Lagavulin -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Curtis said...>$9 a shot? That seems kinda high, even for a single >malt like Lagavulin. And that place is pretty >cramped, too. > > I don't remember, if it was single or double malt, or even the maker. >But, the most expensive shots, at The Edinburgh Castle, in San Francisco, >has, are 6 dollars. And they have something like 40 or 50 choices, and lotsa >cool stuff on the walls, bands and plays, even one of those huge logs that >are hu ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 14:51:45 PDT 2000

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Tom Lehman wrote: >Do you think people may start to ask what happened to the MONEY??? What money? The money of the mind? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 15 12:12:24 PDT 2000

36723 Today's Stock Market Swoon -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >It's possible, but you'd have to ask why it didn't happen >last year or the year before under similar conditions. Higher interest rates, wider risk spreads. Not *that* mysterious. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 15 09:00:42 PDT 2000

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Dennis R Redmond wrote: >If the Bubble is bursting, the real effects are going to show up >elsewhere, in the credit system of which the Bubble is merely a, as it >were, Zizekian symptom. I'd expect a massive run on the US dollar, >followed by an implosion in the US credit infrastructure, as the 300 >billion EUR annual inflow of foreign capital fueling the economy slows to >a halt, followed by a nasty structural-adjustment-style recession. Yeah, but remember 1987....hysteria fol ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 15 08:59:26 PDT 2000

36725 Fw: Ideologically inept cadres face purge -- rank: 1000

Yo, Michael, we got like 8 copies of that. Could you work out those bugs? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 15 08:58:15 PDT 2000

36726 buy signal? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Yeah, but you gave us this signal two weeks ago, no? I think this one >more indicator that's gone by the boards in the new economy, like P/E's. >In a normal economy, the crash always comes as surprise to most mainstream >reporters, and by the time they figure out it isn't just a blip, it's >over, and they call you. But it's been so overdue for so long that now >bunches of them are just waiting for something like this to happen to >launch their mapped ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 18:08:12 PDT 2000

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The 34% decline in the NASDAQ over the last 3 weeks is, according to the once famous and now obscure pundit Robert "Elliott Wave" Prechter, without any precedent for a major index in U.S. stock market history. Whee! Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 18:09:38 PDT 2000

36728 hey Jordan? -- rank: 1000

Hey Jordan, so you bought any calls yet? Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 13:16:46 PDT 2000

36729 Steelworkers & students -- rank: 1000

[Proof that even the nationalist Steelworkers is full of contradictions... From Sam Smith's Progressive Review.] STEELWORKERS WELCOME STUDENTS Proving once again that history seldom acts the way it's meant to, one of the most dramatic demonstrations of recent Washington history took place this morning with only one cop and a handful of media in attendance -- as 700 steelworkers gave a warm standing ovation to the student activists in their midst. From the generational schisms of the 1960s to the ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 13:14:07 PDT 2000

36730 buy signal? -- rank: 1000

Just got a call from CBC radio about the stock market. This is not a full buy signal - the Canadians are always early - but by my "When I start getting calls from the big media it's time to buy" indicator, the worst may be over. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 13:05:52 PDT 2000

36731 A not Unminor problem for the Left -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: > >Allin Cottrell and Paul Cockshott have tried to work out the particulars, >I believe. > >> Anyone worked this out in an interesting way? > > I also mean a good critique of Hayek's line, the one that Justin's completely swallowed. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 12:50:25 PDT 2000

36732 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine - Congress ResolutionsI -- rank: 1000

[the latest from the social imperialist international] INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine 067/000414/DD Congress Resolutions I, II, III, IV, V, VIII passed Brussels April 14 2000 (ICFTU OnLine): The ICFTU 17th World Congress passed 15 resolutions at its Congress held in Durban, April 3 - 7. Below we give details of the first six resolutions on Resolutions on Trade Union Priorities for the 21st Century, Defending trade union rights, Employment, Sustainable Devel ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 10:17:08 PDT 2000

36733 WSJ on A16 (cont.) -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 14, 2000 MF Protesters Prize Intensity Over Numbers BY HELENE COOPER and MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- As this city hunkers down to host the weekend's Evils of Globalization protest party, one thing is already clear: The activists here won't have the numbers they had last year when close to 30,000 labor-union members joined 10,000 other activists outside the meetings of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. Indeed, lab ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 10:10:00 PDT 2000

36734 A not Unminor problem for the Left -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Hayek calls attention to incentives to gather accurate information. It is not >raw compuing power that concerns hiim. It is incentives to get the costs >right. Market systems create those incentives because individuals profit by >accurate information about particular things. Planning systems do >not--everyone is better off if the information is accurate, but since each >individual bebefits if it si not, we have a classical n-pesron prisoner's >dilem ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 10:06:37 PDT 2000

36735 A not Unminor problem for the Left -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >I doubt it. Hayek's planning problem is getting easier, not more >difficult, every year, and the wasted effort in transactions costs is >getting greater. Worth remembering that Hayek's critique of planning is an >empirical claim about the difficulty of planning, not some fantastic >logical truth (the Lausanne School's proof of optimal allocation through >market transactions is another matter). If Hayek had lived in the days in >which ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 14 10:02:26 PDT 2000