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38251 Information request -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >I'm hoping somebody (or many somebodies) can help me out with gathering >some information. I need some data on: > >a) The amount of money flowing from companies to stockholders showing that >the stock market is a source of 'negative' capital for U.S. businesses. See below. The % of GDP column is just a way of putting the number into perspective over time - equity offerings don't enter GDP. The % of capital expenditures is relevant, since equity offerings ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 09:06:57 PST 1999

38252 clarity -- rank: 1000

[For all you clarity freaks.] PREFACE TO THE FRENCH EDITION OF CAPITAL To the citizen Maurice Lachatre Dear Citizen, I applaud your idea of publishing the translation of "Das Kapital" as a serial. In this form the book will be more accessible to the working class, a consideration which to me outweighs everything else. That is the good side of your suggestion, but here is the reverse of the medal: the method of analysis which I have employed, and which had not previously been applied to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 08:32:02 PST 1999

38253 for the record... -- rank: 1000

[For all you Subgenius fans out there...] Chronicle of Higher Education - daily update - Tuesday, March 23, 1999 Fictional Character Not Named to California Presidency, After All By JULIANNE BASINGER Despite what you may have read in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the head of the Dallas-based Church of the SubGenius, J.R. (Bob) Dobbs, has not been named president of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Mr. Dobbs, a smiling, pipe-smoking man who could pass as Ward Cleaver's twin brot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 08:26:56 PST 1999

38254 Elia Kazan and ultra-purism -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >Peter - not afraid to seem militanter-than-thou or even (gasp) purist, >especially after knocking back a few. By the way, Christopher Hitchens is >scheduled to appear on HBO on Dennis Miller this Friday, March 26. The topic >is skepticism. Maybe he'll toss out the dirty word "socialism" as Beatty >did. According to Feed magazine: "[Hitchens'] Comedy Central gig ended after >he announced, during a live broadcast, that the Reagan's were 'a pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 23 07:53:01 PST 1999

38255 Elia Kazan and ultra-purism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I too have a good opinion of WB. "Reds" for me stands >out as one of the most sympathetic, substantive platforms >ever afforded the U.S. left in a commercial film. I finally saw Bulworth the other night. It's kind of goofy in places, but there is a lot of radical stuff there. Warren rapping about socialism to a bunch of ruling class stiffs was an amazing sight. Leo Panitch is convinced that Julie Christie made him a Marxist of some sort. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 17:32:29 PST 1999

38256 Brad, Oskar, Noam -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Do you really think that the _Economist_ is delighted that Oskar Lafontaine >resigned? Of course. I've been reading that annoying magazine for years, and am quite certain that there was joy on St James's St when Oskar resigned. What do you think their politics are if they aren't a snottier version of Manchester liberalism they were founded on? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 17:29:40 PST 1999

38257 Elia Kazan and ultra-purism -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >I just cannot understand Warren Beatty - who has had the respect of >Hollywood lefties - supporting the Kazan award. On another list, someone said that Beatty's first film was directed by Kazan. A Hollywood version of the personal is political? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 17:26:41 PST 1999

38258 Junk Econometrics [was School vouchers] -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > I would agree that cointegration is currently considered >to be somewhat more advanced and sophisticated than >Granger tests. I would say that they are subject to most of >the same limitations that Granger tests are. One thing that >they avoid is that they are not labeled with a philosophically >loaded and provocative name like "causality" which has >caused more trouble and fuss over the Granger tests than >they are worth. O ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 22 17:14:09 PST 1999

38259 Doug's LBO article: Preposterous economic projections or unstated logic? -- rank: 1000

I'm just catching up with days of email; I'm typing this on a laptop in lovely Gainesville Florida. Sorry for the delay in responding to this, and handling the list biz too. Anyway.... John K. Taber wrote: >Nobody has commented on Doug's LBO article, "Sloth and discipline". >I liked it very much but I suspect Doug's thinking hasn't jelled >yet between dismissing the Social Security Administration's >economic projections as "preposterously glum" or accepting them & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 21 19:33:39 PST 1999

38260 Three Strikes and Out -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >that henceforth violators of the 3 post a day limit face severe >consequences after inital warning - first time/one week suspension, >second time/two week suspension, third instance/lifetime ban Oh come now, don't be such a wimp - I think summary execution is the only proper penalty. As Comrade Stalin said, for some people, four walls are three too many. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 21 19:33:39 PST 1999

38261 more giggles -- rank: 1000

[and another bounce] Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:05:31 +1000 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SI Swimsuit issue: Holy Cow!! In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990320095144.0071d084 at pop.mindspring.com> References: <36F2D12B.D7ABDBE7 at CNSVAX.Albany.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Kelley asks >what's the scoop with Sarah? she's just lovely, but they only show he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 21 19:33:39 PST 1999

38262 giggly guys -- rank: 1000

[another bounce] Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:55:04 +1000 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Giggly Guys (was Re: SI Swimsuit issue: Holy Cow!) In-Reply-To: <l03130300b318e484bcde@[137.92.41.119]> References: <v04011707b318c7e37d9b@[128.146.5.16]> <3.0.3.32.19990319101352.006cef68 at pop.mindspring.com> <36F1A81A.CFA at concentric.net> <3.0.3.32.19990318134619.0075783c at pop.mindspring.com&g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 21 19:33:39 PST 1999

38263 foodstuffs -- rank: 1000

[Catherine, has your address changed?] Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:49:16 +0900 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: foodstuffs Kelley and Angie: >...where do they grow mangoes, because >i'm going to move there, gorge and die. Australia, Kelley. Ok not only Australia, but fabulous mangoes are grown here. At Christmas, or just before Christmas, mango season! >>you can feed me anything, and when you come to mel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 21 19:33:39 PST 1999

38264 Touch of Evil -- rank: 1000

[This bounced for an address kink. Sorry for the delay in forwarding, but I'm on the road.] Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:31:32 +0900 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Race, Sex, & Surveillance in _Touch of Evil_ (was Re: Zsa Zsa...) At 23:27 18/03/99 -0500, Yoshie wrote: >Nonetheless, consider the effects on the audience of having Charleton >Heston (who remains Charleton Heston, notwithstanding his 'brown f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 21 14:41:46 PST 1999

38265 Welles -- rank: 1000

[bounced...] Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:20:07 +0900 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Catherine Driscoll <catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au> Subject: RE: Zsa Zsa Gabor & _Touch of Evil_ (was RE: Irony, again) A brilliant Welles touch, to be asked (at heston's request it seems) to direct the film of a medicore book, and to make it so much more by switching the roles of the white cop with a Mexican wife to the film's American-employed Mexican cop with a white wife. Still a trashy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 18 20:45:29 PST 1999