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38266 How much cash has Amazon Books got? -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >You experts, please excuse this dumbass question. If I remember right, >I read somewhere that the stock in Amazon Books is worth $20-billion and >the stock value of Barnes and Noble is about $2-billion, and that >includes all those buildings and parking lots and inventory and expresso >machines, not to mention the B&N web site, not to mention the wholesaler >Ingram. > >First, have I got that right or is that something I remember from a >dream or ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 19:01:32 PST 1999

38267 efox.net -- rank: 1000

H H Leland wrote: >Doug, old harline socialist that he is Is that a typo, or is this a breed of pinko I'm unaware of? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 16:02:12 PST 1999

38268 post-socialist vacuum -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Tell Lewis hi from me. > >It was my job to clip all the Davos articles from the Financial Times >for Lewis after he returned from Switzerland. Did he read them himself, or did you have to write up a summary (as some famous pundits are known to require from the help)? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 12:53:12 PST 1999

38269 efox.net -- rank: 1000

Ok, they've even got a prospectus up on the SEC Edgar site, at <http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1079875/0000950133-99-000680.txt>. The offering is tentatively scheduled for April. An excerpt: "Efox.net, Inc. is a recently organized Delaware corporation which will engage in the adult entertainment industry. The Company was incorporated on January 22, 1999 in Delaware. More Specifically, the Company was organized for the purpose of creating, launching and developing the premiere ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 12:20:24 PST 1999

38270 SI Swimsuit issue: Holy Cow! -- rank: 1000

Annalee Newitz wrote: >Correct me if I'm wrong, Doug, but I understood that porn sites couldn't go >public because none of the stock exchanges would allow porn-related companies >to be traded. At least, this is what I heard from an investor I met recently >at an alcohol-fest for Salon magazine . . . she said that there was always a >limit to the amount one could make on porn sites because they had to stay >private. I picked this up from the Lex column in the Financial Times th ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 12:07:53 PST 1999

38271 post-socialist vacuum -- rank: 1000

>From Louis Lapham's The Agony of Mammon: The Imperial Global Economy Explains Itself to the Membership in Davos, Switzerland, just out from Verso. Lapham is recounting his interview with Klaus Schwab, the founding proprietor of the annual ruling class retreat. "As supplements to the Davos meeting, the forum sponsors regional meetings, in Singapore or Cape Town or Washington, and Schwab had noticed that no matter what the latitude and time zone, the conversation over the last decade had ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 11:57:36 PST 1999

38272 ECB -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Now saying that "other industrialized countries can contribute by acting to >achieve higher rates of domestic demand-led growth" is a polite way of >saying: CUT YOUR INTEREST RATES NOW!! So if it's so obvious to Rubin, Summers, and everyone else, why are the Eurobankers resisting? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 11:04:02 PST 1999

38273 SI Swimsuit issue: Holy Cow! -- rank: 1000

Jane Franklin wrote: >I must say, I find it really refreshing to read this comforting defense of >women's rights to sell their bodies. Me, my great hope is that I can >invest enough in my body via plastic surgery, liposuction, hair foofing, >etc. that I can get a good return on myself, and possibly sell shares, >therefore capitalizing on the current state of the market. Of course, >there will be a sort of "me bubble" before people realize that I >eventually must c ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 10:58:12 PST 1999

38274 ruling class (was: Farewell to Oskar) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Does this mean that the ruling classes did not have international/global >ambitions before, or that they are more united now than before, or that >they have more power now than before? Not clear exactly, but I think #2 - more united than before. The old ruling classes of Europe were pretty transnational, no? Like the Germans who make up the House of Windsor? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 09:43:05 PST 1999

38275 Impossibility of 'Auto-Critique' (was Re: Irony, or, the Importance of Being Earnest) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Not at all. There is no such thing as 'auto-critique.' The Self cannot >critique itself without falling into narcissism. Didn't Marx and Freud tell >you that? Well not exactly. Freud psychoanalyzed himself, which is a kind of critique, no? Not that he succeeded, or that a psychoanalysis ever succeeds. But without some allowance for self-critique, we'd all be completely, inescapably creatures of our personal histories and social positions. Engels would have been ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 09:38:31 PST 1999

38276 Junk Econometrics [was School vouchers] -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Another common transgression is using correlation to justify a >particular direction of causation, notwithstanding the >availability of (admittedly imperfect) tests for causation. I keep running into so-called Granger tests. Are these reliable, or controversial? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 09:24:10 PST 1999

38277 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:44:45 -0500 (EST) From: owner-press-release at Census.GOV Subj: Census Bureau News Sender: owner-press-release at Census.GOV Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Press-Release-Owner at Census.GOV EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EST, MARCH 18, 1999 (THURSDAY) Public Information Office *REVISED* 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) CB99-53 301-457-4067 (TDD) Thomas McDevitt (General Information) International Programs Center 301-457-1358 Karen Stanecki ( ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 09:22:21 PST 1999

38278 Farewell to Oskar -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Is the split between the editorial pages and the rest of the Wall Street >journal coming to an end? A couple of days ago, the front page once again >raised the issue that trees might be a cause of pollution. Not to defend mainstream journalistic practice too much, but there is a spectrum there. Not very wide, for sure, but reporters have their biases and try to work them into stories. That tree story was, in Journal parlance, an A-hed - the whimsical story at t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 18 09:21:33 PST 1999

38279 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from ["Harald_Schumann"@spiegel.de] -- rank: 1000

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38280 Farewell to Oskar -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>Larry Summers spends lots of time lecturing, doesn't he? Japanese too? >> >>Doug > >Yes. For six years. They've ignored him (and us) completely... I'll bet lots of Southeast Asians wish they'd ignored him, and his boss, Bob "Free Capital Flows" Rubin. Doug

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