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37381 AFL-CIO restructuring -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>JW Mason wrote: >> >>>Throw in the family leave act and the minimum wage hike >> >>I thought the Dems did nothing about the minimum wage when they >>controlled Congress - not even a hearing on the topic. Am I >>remembering wrong? The increase took effect almost two years after >>the Republican sweep in '94. >> >>Doug > >We decided to do a bigger EITC expansion in 1993 instead... Oh, so the government could ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 6 15:18:41 PDT 1999

37382 AFL-CIO restructuring -- rank: 1000

JW Mason wrote: >Throw in the family leave act and the minimum wage hike I thought the Dems did nothing about the minimum wage when they controlled Congress - not even a hearing on the topic. Am I remembering wrong? The increase took effect almost two years after the Republican sweep in '94. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 6 13:46:37 PDT 1999

37383 debating libertarians -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that debate. I can see that my >phrasing might suggest it. Waco was certainly a spectacular >example. I can't quite come up with why the feds were so out to get >that group, why all the premeditation. I mean you may be correct in >your inference, but what was the political motive of the feds ? Workers Vanguard - my beacon in an uncertain world - theorized that it was to offer a warning to anyone in L.A. who might object to the ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 6 13:43:04 PDT 1999

37384 debating libertarians -- rank: 1000

Johannes Schneider wrote: >do you mean they are anti-statist in principle, or they just despise the >state, because they see it as foreign dominated? >As I see it from outside, a lot of those militia guys would like to see a >strong 'Amerikan', 'White' state. Some would, some wouldn't. Some are racists and some are anti-racists. Some, like Alex Cockburn's friend Larry Pratt, think the U.S. Consitution is the word of god. Some really believe that there should be no unit of government ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 6 12:03:04 PDT 1999

37385 debating libertarians -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I thought there were libertarians on this list. Some of the militia >groups in the U.S. are libertarian/anarchist, and some people here >don't like criticism of the militias because of that. Charles, old comrade, that's not the way I remember it. The way I remember it is that some people, me among them, objected to characterization of "militia groups" as quasi- or crypto- or unmodified-fascist. They're not. Some of them are as organizations, and some memb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 6 08:53:00 PDT 1999

37386 US economy: less volatile -- rank: 1000

The August issue of the New York Fed's Current Issues in Economics & Finance <http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/curr_iss/ci5-13.html> is an interesting study of the reduced volatility of U.S. GDP growth since 1984: all components, as well as overall growth, have shown a smoother pattern over the last 15 than earlier decades. This is somewhat counterintuitive to anyone schooled in Keynesianism; the 1984 breakpoint coincides pretty well with the onset of the Reagan boom, when countercyclic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 6 08:17:13 PDT 1999

37387 debating libertarians -- rank: 1000

kayak3 wrote: >Has anyone on the list debated libertarians? I've done it on the net, on the radio, and at parties, with opponents ranging from name-brand flacks like Michael Tanner of Cato to anonymous newsgroup loons. My experience is that you'll get a lot of abstract priciples and soundbites but not much in the way of argument from evidence. I debated/interviewed a Cato hack on my radio show on Social Security privatization and, when cornered, she kept repeating the mantra, "You don't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 6 07:57:36 PDT 1999

37388 Of gods and vampires: an introduction to psychoanalysis -- rank: 1000

<kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> wrote: >I see a letter on a desk with Doug's name on it. Damn. I thought that was the best place to hide it, too. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 6 07:35:01 PDT 1999

37389 Harvard gets Commie secrets -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Harvard Acquires Communist Party Archives October 5, 1999 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- An extensive collection of previously classified documents from the Communist Party archives in the former Soviet Union has a new home at Harvard University. The 25 million sheets of material include the archives of the Gulag, the system of Soviet forced labor camps; documents from the organization responsible for internal purges of the Communist Party; the archives of the Soviet polic ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 6 07:34:11 PDT 1999

37390 valuing life: $4-6m -- rank: 1000

[I love economists when they get all empirical.] "The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data" BY: JENS LUDWIG Georgetown University PHILIP J. COOK Duke University National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Paper ID: NBER Working Paper No. 7166 Date: June 1999 Contact: JENS LUDWIG Email: Mailto:ludwigj at gunet.georgetown.edu Postal: Georgetown University 3600 N St, NW (Suite 200) Washington, DC 20057 USA Phone: (202)687 4997 Fax: (20 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 6 06:55:27 PDT 1999

37391 AFL-CIO restructuring -- rank: 1000

[anyone know more about this?] Wall Street Journal - October 6, 1999 AFL-CIO PLANS RESTRUCTURING, LOOKS TO REBUILD LOCAL GROUPS By GLENN BURKINS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- The AFL-CIO is proposing its first significant restructuring in 44 years, a plan that would give it greater authority over its state federations and central labor councils. The plan, which will be voted on next week, is aimed at pruning and rebuilding the local groups to make them more effective in ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 6 06:41:25 PDT 1999

37392 the Bush campaign -- rank: 1000

A lobbyist who raises money for George W and lets his clients take credit for the contribution with the campaign, quoted in Capital Eye (Center for Responsive Politics): "You match a real estate developer in California with a Pioneer [member of Bush's team of big fundraisers] in New York, so they can get financing for their project in Nevada. If you help your friends get rich, you get rich."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 16:40:02 PDT 1999

37393 IMF's review of Thailand -- rank: 1000

<http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/nb/1999/NB9967.htm> News Brief No. 99/67 October 5, 1999 International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20431 USA IMF Executive Board Completes Thai Review Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), made the following statement: "I am pleased to announce that the Executive Board of the IMF today approved the completion of the eighth review under Thailand's Stand-By arrangement. In principle, this ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 5 16:14:34 PDT 1999

37394 AFL-CIO retreats from WTO confrontation -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Nope. So long as sovereign nation-states constitute the basis of >trade policy, labor law and environmental regulation and so long as >this remains (at least nominally) a democracy -- I will continue to >think the arena of national politics holds the greatest potential >for meaningful progressive action. And why oh why has the nation-state - or at least the nation-state you & I live in - proved so fruitless an area for such regulation over the last 20 year ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 15:26:22 PDT 1999

37395 AFL-CIO retreats from WTO confrontation -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >So, the only significant voice against free trade remains Buchanan. And does that ever give you cause to think that maybe opposition to "free trade" is, as the econometricians say, misspecified? Capital is capital, whether it's homegrown or foreign-grown. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 5 14:25:09 PDT 1999