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37291 Fwd: Job & Internship Announcements: Financial Markets Center -- rank: 1000

From: "tom schlesinger" <fmcenter at mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:42:21 -0400 POSITION AVAILABLE RESEARCH ASSOCIATE The Organization The Financial Markets Center is a nonprofit institute that provides research and educational resources to grassroots organizations, trade unions, policymakers, journalists and other groups interested in the Federal Reserve System and the financial sector. The Center produces a variety of publications, teaching tools and educational pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 19 11:57:37 PDT 1999

37292 Positive features of U.S. policy -- rank: 1000

Hinrich Kuhls wrote: >The final paragraph in the "Statement to German Colleagues" on the economic >policy of the Schroeder government - issued by 81 US economists and >published by the Preamble Center Sept 29, 1999 - reads: > >"In this country [i.e. the U.S.], there is increasing recognition of the >vital role of government to support low-income working people, to support >the elderly through a strong Social Security system, to provide critical >infrastruc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 19 11:53:39 PDT 1999

37293 Peter Sloterdijk vs. Jurgen Habermas: A Society ofAcademicSpectacles? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This throws important light on the material grounds of racist ideology. It >is in fact much easier for the wronged to forgive those who wronged >them than it is for the latter to forgive the former. The rising racist tide >in the U.S. over the last two decades can be partly explained by whites >being unable to forgive blacks for allowing whites to oppress them. Carrol, that's almost psychoanalytic. What's happening to you? Yoshie's going to be disappointed. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 19 10:28:00 PDT 1999

37294 Fwd: GJF's New Study on Job Quality Standards -- rank: 1000

>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:29:15 -0700 >From: "Greg LeRoy" <goodjobs at ctj.org> > >Please find hot-linked our latest study: "The Policy Shift to Good Jobs" > >http://www.ctj.org/html/gj1099pr.htm. > >We find that at least 46 jurisdictions now attach job quality standards -- >such as wages, health care and full-time work hours -- to economic >development subsidies. Some of the wage standards are as high as $14 to $18 >an hour. Sixteen s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 19 09:47:23 PDT 1999

37295 Rhetorical Gestures (was Re: Spivak sez...) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >doing a Kant I don't know what this means. If I read Milton, and derive inspiration and pleasure from it, does that mean I'm "doing a Milton"? How about that creepy fascist Pound, who nonetheless wrote some fine poetry? Could you explain the difference between engaging critically but productively with Kant or any other DWEM and "doing" him? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 19 09:24:55 PDT 1999

37296 democracy & business -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 19, 1999 American Firms Take Heart in Pledges By Pakistan Military to Rebuild Economy By JONATHAN KARP Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The morning after last week's military coup in Pakistan, Amer Kayani, the U.S. Embassy's commercial counselor, was deluged with telephone calls from U.S. companies. In this volatile developing market, he was used to being barraged for advice, but he couldn't believe what he heard: They wanted to inves ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 19 08:50:07 PDT 1999

37297 Che -- rank: 1000

Fabian Balardini wrote: >As americans the least you can do if you are going to quote "Che" is >to have the decency of quoting his own words in SPANISH and fuck the >english-only policy of american society!!!!!!! So can you help us out with some Spanish originals? Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 19 07:26:52 PDT 1999

37298 Rhetorical Gestures (was Re: Spivak sez...) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What I mean is that Kant was no more progressive than Franklin and Jefferson. Jefferson? Whose vision of paradise was one of yeoman farmers and slaveowning gentry? And who wrote these lovely words: "Providence has in fact so established the order of things that most evils are the means of producing some good. The yellow fever will discourage the growth of great cities in our nation; & I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 18 13:52:14 PDT 1999

37299 Greenspan learns a lesson -- rank: 1000

[from a front-page story in today's WSJ] Wall Street Journal - October 18, 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wholesale Numbers Rattle Shares And Give Skeptics Fresh Ammunition By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- So has the New Economy slain inflation, or not? [...] Even the nation's top inflation cop, Mr. Greenspan, apparently isn't quick to seize the Web's bargains. Surfing the Net recently, he found he coul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 18 07:30:39 PDT 1999

37300 NLR, Branka Magas, & Against the Current (was RE: Gitlin's 'Yes'Echoed Among Leftists) -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >In message <380AA934.1F666841 at mail.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox ><cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes > >The NLR becomes duller and more trivial issue by issue. > >I don't agree. It is still very good, if often irritating (as all >challenging literature should be). I don't agree with Carrol that NLR is getting dull & trivial; there's always lots of good stuff in there. It is, though, not much of a "Marxist" journal anymore. Robin Blackbur ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 18 07:11:30 PDT 1999

37301 EU doubts US on millennial round -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - October 18 1999 EU doubts on trade round backing in US By Guy de Jonquières Dwindling domestic support for free trade and internal political difficulties may stop the US backing the launch this year of a comprehensive world trade round, a confidential European Commission paper says. The paper, submitted last week by Pascal Lamy, EU trade commissioner, to his 19 Brussels colleagues, says the US approach is "negative" and is the biggest obstacle to EU efforts to win int ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 18 06:50:33 PDT 1999

37302 they're breaking up those old zaibatsu -- rank: 1000

Nikkei Weekly - October 18 ,1999 Bank merger to blur old zaibatsu lines Sumitomo, Mitsui groups draw closer, push competition to do same BY MAKOTO SATO Staff writer The decision by Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank to cross once-sacred lines dividing corporate groups and merge in April 2002 resonated like a shot from a starting gun as companies began feeling increased pressure to cast old loyalties aside and find strong partners to ally with. The union of Sumitomo - the fourth-largest commercial ban ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 17 20:19:20 PDT 1999

37303 eXile on Russian privatization -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] the eXile October 16, 1999 www.exile.ru Privatized: Your Guide to Stipping Russia's Assets By Matt Taibbi In the early nineties a group of reputable American archeologists announced their intention to travel to Mongolia to search for the tomb of Genghis Khan. They were being funded by a stockbroker from Chicago who'd had a childhood fascination with the Khan, and had even modeled his business philosophy, or so he said, on the Mongol military style. It was his dream t ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 17 20:12:18 PDT 1999

37304 Cramer's history of tulip.com -- rank: 1000

TheStreet.com - 10/17/99 2:48 PM ET WRONG! REAR ECHELON REVELATIONS State of the Web: How the Dot-Com Mania Began -- and How It Could All End By James J. Cramer Almost a year ago the dot-com craziness began when theglobe.com (TGLO:Nasdaq) came public. Before theglobe.com's offering, the idea of a company without a powerful brand or revenue getting public money just seemed far-fetched. The capital markets, regardless of their temporary moments of insanity, usually serve as an alternative to the d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 17 18:25:09 PDT 1999

37305 IMF knew of Russian chicanery -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Turin's La Stampa 8 October 1999 [translation for personal use only] Report on interview with Russian Duma Budgetary Affairs Committee member Nikolay Gonchar by Giulietto Chiesa in Moscow; date not given: "The IMF Knew About Moscow's Fraud -- the auditors informed the IMF of it in 1995" Moscow -- "Why did the Clinton administration say nothing about all this, which is perhaps the ultimate instance of human rights violation?" This was said not by L ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 17 11:30:55 PDT 1999