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36886 Meszaros, progress -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: > Don't you think it an advance >that infant mortality has fallen? And don't forget maternal mortality, while you're at it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 23:14:45 PDT 1999

36887 New Income/Poverty Data from EPI -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > Despite this good news, income inequality was unchanged, > and remains at its highest level since the Census began > tracking these data in 1947. In fact, family income inequality has > not declined at all over the 1993-98 period. With the economy > currently performing very well by most indicators, this is a worrisome > outcome, suggesting that inequality is highly intractable and that > more will have to be done to address it. It's going to be i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 22:59:10 PDT 1999

36888 stock market question -- rank: 1000

DENNIS_CLAXTON at fragomen.com wrote: >In their NLR aricle from sep/oct 98 (available at >http://www.igc.apc.org/globalpolicy/socecon/global/newleft.htm) Robert >Wade and Frank Veneroso say "the US has the lowest aggregate savings rate >among the OECD countries....It needs foreign savings to sustain its >consumption and investment. It also needs a high stock market for the same >purpose." > >Doug, you often make the point that the stock market has little to d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 11:37:05 PDT 1999

36889 U.S. income & poverty in 1998 -- rank: 1000

[They don't mention it in this press release, but there was no significant change in income inequality between 1997 and 1998.] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:47:21 -0400 (EDT) From: owner-press-release at Census.GOV EMBARGOED UNTIL: 10:30 A.M. EDT, SEPTEMBER 30, 1999 (THURSDAY) Public Information Office CB99-188 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio at census.gov Income and Poverty Information Staff 301-457-3242 Household Income at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 08:54:27 PDT 1999

36890 Cologne Agreement a Disaster: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED! -- rank: 1000

[from 50 Years Is Enough] Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:59:29 -0400 From: Njoki Njoroge Njehu <wb50years at igc.org> September 30, 1999 Dear 50 Years Is Enough Network Activists/Friends, Today's headlines may be giving many a false sense of success. Yes Clinton did announce a $1 billion bilateral debt cancellation package in his speech at the Bank & Fund Annual Meetings (speech under separate cover)... HOWEVER, the annual meetings reached an agreement -- (i) rename ESAF, the structural adj ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 09:03:09 PDT 1999

36891 Distribution of Farm Productivity Gains -- rank: 1000

Mr P.A. Van Heusden wrote: >According to Levin and Lewontin ('The Dialectical Biologist', 1985), on >the US situation: > >"The consumer has not benefited. The average price of food has risen more >rapidly than the average of all prices. The ratio of food prices in 1970 >to that in 1930 was 2.48; the ratio for all purchased goods and services >was 2.33. So food has become not cheaper but relatively more expensive, >even though farm productivity has risen more rapidly. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 07:52:06 PDT 1999

36892 He's Got the Whole World In His Hands -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >In a lot of ways, the working class and the bourgeoisie have more in >common in outlook than either of them have in common with the petit >bourgeoisie. Which reminds me of Mary McCarthy's crack about how Marxists and the high bourgeoisie are joined in their contempt for the middle classes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 07:53:46 PDT 1999

36893 He's Got the Whole World In His Hands -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >On Wednesday, September 29, 1999 at 22:56:50 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: > >Peter Kilander wrote: > > > >>Alcaly formerly taught economics at Columbia University, is a principal of > >>Mount Lucas Management Corporation, an investment firm in Princeton, New > >>Jersey. > > > >He's also a former Marxist who co-edited a book on the fiscal crisis > >of U.S. cities in the 1970s, with special emphasis on New York. No ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 07:16:07 PDT 1999

36894 US to IMF: drop dead -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 30, 1999 FEDERAL RESERVE OFTEN TOSSES OUT IMF ADVICE ON ECONOMIC POLICY By Michael M. Phillips Staff Reporter Of The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- Which country has received the worst economic advice from the International Monetary Fund over the past few years? South Korea? Russia? Brazil? Think again. It might be the U.S. Just as they do for every member nation from Mozambique to Pakistan, IMF experts give the U.S. economic team an annual once-over. Every yea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 05:51:21 PDT 1999

36895 NYC nude-in -- rank: 1000

[not fact-checked] >In response to Mayor Giuliani's threats against the Brooklyn Museum, >on Saturday, October 2, at 1:00 p.m., there will be a protest >nude-in at City Hall. Apparently, the plan is for everyone to get >nude and shout "Rudy is a doodie!" Presumably anyone choosing to >participate in a clothed manner will not be excluded, but probably >will be mercilessly kidded for cowardice.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 06:25:54 PDT 1999

36896 O Brave New World -- rank: 1000

Maureen Therese Anderson wrote: >Is this for real? I was just innocently browsing through a MacMall >catalogue in search of printer cartridges (btw, anyone know where you can >still get cartridges for a dinosaur Deskwriter 310?), when this software >title jumped off the page: > >Imperialism II Hey, today's New York Times reviews a game called "Mob Rule" <http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-si te+71+0+wAAA+mafia> in which you can p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 30 05:54:55 PDT 1999

36897 He's Got the Whole World In His Hands -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >Alcaly formerly taught economics at Columbia University, is a principal of >Mount Lucas Management Corporation, an investment firm in Princeton, New >Jersey. He's also a former Marxist who co-edited a book on the fiscal crisis of U.S. cities in the 1970s, with special emphasis on New York. Now he's a Greenspan-adoring hedge fund dude. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 29 19:56:50 PDT 1999

36898 Fwd: Patent for net-trade -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:09:35 -0400 From: "Magnus Bernhardsen" <magnus.bernhardsen at nynorsk.no> [bounced for an address oddity] Now... I've just read this story in a Norwegian net-paper, http://w3.digi.no/digi98.nsf/pub/fi19990928142800er6186312657, saying that a small Norwegian firm called Bellboy took out a patent for net-trade in 1993. The paper says the patentees (?) have patented the concept of real-time transactions on the net. You may look at the patent here: http://pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 29 16:17:20 PDT 1999

36899 killing Koreans -- rank: 1000

[the full package is at <http://wire.ap.org/APpackages/nogunri/cover.html>] AP - SEPTEMBER 29, 18:40 EDT Ex-GIs Tell AP of Korea Killing By SANG-HUN CHOE CHARLES J. HANLEY and MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press Writers It was a story no one wanted to hear: Early in the Korean War, villagers said, American soldiers machine-gunned hundreds of helpless civilians under a railroad bridge in the South Korean countryside. When the families spoke out, seeking redress, they met only rejection and deni ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 29 16:22:10 PDT 1999

36900 Russian cohesion: -30, off 5 -- rank: 1000

[it's been a while...] EastWest Institute Russian Regional Report Vol. 4, No. 36, 29 September 1999 Russian Cohesion Index: -30 (down 5 this week) Disintegration.........T.....L............0..............Democratic Federalism (T = this week; L = last week; 0 = 17 March) ***** For a graphic display of the Russian Cohesion Index since 17 March, see: http://www.iews.org/RRRabout.nsf/pages/Russian+Cohesion+Index ***** ----- Russia's bombing campaign against Chechnya has caused thousands of Chechen r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 29 16:07:14 PDT 1999