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38806 change in the weather -- rank: 1000

Alan Greenspan last week: "The remaining gap between private saving and domestic investment has been filled by a sizable increase in saving invested from abroad, largely a consequence of the technologically driven marked increase in rates of return on U.S. investments. Moreover, in recent years, with many foreign economies faltering, U.S. investments have looked particularly attractive. As U.S. international indebtedness mounts, however, and foreign economies revive, capital inflows from ab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 26 17:51:50 PDT 1999

38807 women, immigrants, and labor quality -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >The standard explanation for lower productivity of women has to do with >their accumulation of human capital via work experience. You know, they >come and go without complete attachment to the labor force. As a result, >their productivity is lower. But why wouldn't this be captured in education & experience measures? Why a separate gender measure? Is there some "unobserved characteristic," as they like to say, that makes women less productive ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 26 17:42:20 PDT 1999

38808 women, immigrants, and labor quality -- rank: 1000

In his paper "Current Productivity Puzzles from a Long-Term Perspective" <http://faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/economics/gordon/338.html>, Robert J Gordon writes: "The next section distinguishes the growth rates of quality-unadjusted hours of labor input (as used in Table 1) from the quality-adjusted growth rates that include the effects of changing composition across education, experience, and gender categories. During 1964-79 it appears that the benefits of increasing educational ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 26 17:20:34 PDT 1999

38809 Cu Digest #11.33, Wed 21 Jul 99 -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because of a taboo word - >'s removed by ed.] Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:24:52 -0700 From: t byfield <tbyfield at panix.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 99 00:45 CDT To: <cu-digest at weber.ucsd.edu> From: Cu Digest (<tk0jut2 at mvs.cso.niu.edu>) <TK0JUT2 at MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU> Subject: Cu Digest #11.33, Wed 21 Jul 99 Resent-From: <cu-digest at weber.ucsd.edu> Computer underground Digest Wed 21 July, 1999 Volume 11 : Issue 33 ISSN 1004-042X Editor: Jim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 25 15:49:26 PDT 1999

38810 Caff.'s critique of Negri/Rifkin (o'connor) -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote: >High organic capital industries don't need the "right" to call on low >organic industry pool of value, because the equalization of the profit rate >(average profit rate) tendancy automatically redistributes surplus value >from low to high organic industry. No? Margaret Blair's studies of industries show absolutely no tendency towards equalization, despite the fact that an active takeover market should theoretically have accentuated those tendencies. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 25 12:12:12 PDT 1999

38811 Profits, info, & branding -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > >But how much are we really talking about here? The culture industry > >and software, for sure, but what else? Economically speaking, these > >are rather small, though of course the culture industry's importance > >is mainly nonmonetary. > >As far as "pure IP" industries, you can't forget pharmaceuticals as well, >but IP actually pervades all indus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 25 09:23:21 PDT 1999

38812 Conquest of Sudanese Aspirin Industry -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it was posted from a non-sub'd address] From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:55:58 -0700 Good article this a.m. in the Post about the Sudanest factory bombing. The owner, a crony of the Saudi royal family, is suing the U.S. and apparently winning. Two choice excerpts: " . . . Over at the White House, Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, was referring to the "so-called p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 25 09:24:34 PDT 1999

38813 Cornell's corporate connections -- rank: 1000

The Cornell Univ website has a section, prominently linked from their front page <http://www.cornell.edu>, called Corporate Connections <http://corporate.cornell.edu/>. It's full of stuff about recruiting, licensing, research partnerships, giving, etc. - topped off with blurbs from top CEOs. I've never seen anything this blatant at any other univ website - has anyone else seen this stuff? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 24 10:22:55 PDT 1999

38814 Archive for LBO-talk resides where???? -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 7/23/99 4:47:46 PM Central Daylight Time, >chrisb at kippona.com writes: > ><< archive for lbo-talk resides on a computer > whose operating system, Linux, >> > >How does one access this? It's not up yet. Soon, soon... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 24 10:08:03 PDT 1999

38815 currency boards -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >3. Failure to have a currency board, so that when the state had a deficit >it printed more money. > >The last is the currency board debate. Yes, back to that. I thought of scanning & posting the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money & Finance entry on currency boards, but unfortunately it's written by Alan Walters, a former economic advisor to Thatcher, and Steve Hanke, the Johns Hopkins economist who's probably the world's leading promoter of the concept. So ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 24 10:03:14 PDT 1999

38816 Pacifica hires high-priced PR firm -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 99 14:23:35 -0800 From: Andrea Buffa <ma at igc.org> NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 23, 1999 CONTACT: Andrea Buffa 415-546-6334 x309/415-309-6334 Aileen Alfandary 510-644-3971 PACIFICA HIRES HIGH-PRICED PR FIRM AS LABOR SUPPORT FOR KPFA GROWS, WEEKEND EVENTS PLANNED FOR STATION Central Labor Councils representing over 163,000 members denounce Pacifica. Saturday 1 p.m. labor speak-out planned as community leaders question Pacifica's priorities. Raza Day, apprenticeship p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 24 09:07:49 PDT 1999

38817 Fwd: Charles Peabody and some scuttlebutt -- rank: 1000

[Bearish musings for connoisseurs of the genre.] From: lepatron at lemetropolecafe.com X-Sent: 24 Jul 1999 03:38:29 GMT To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Charles Peabody and some scuttlebutt Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 23:33:32 -0400 Le Metropole members, I spoke with Charles Peabody today and I want to convey his thinking to you because there is no hotter bond analyst around than Charles. In addition, the CafÈ has a new webmaster who is devising a way to get Charles's charts up at the Hemingway Tab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 20:57:52 PDT 1999

38818 Hillary -- rank: 1000

[This addresses some of Angela's questions about Hillary vs. Rudy. This is paired with an awful pro-Hillary edit by some foundation hack.] The Nation - August 9/16, 1999 Hillary's No Liberal "Run Hillary Run" buttons are in circulation among Democratic elites, the wealthy, well-meaning men and women who actually seem to enjoy writing four- or five-figure checks to the Democratic National Committee, repeatedly. Slaking the party's thirst for soft money, these serial donors remain inexpl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 19:05:06 PDT 1999

38819 Larry Pratt -- rank: 1000

seanno at ksu.edu wrote: >I thought it was Larry Pratt who got booted from Pat Buchannon's 1996 >campaign committee after it was revealed that he gave speeches at >Christian Identity or Neo-Nazi meetings in Colorado. [A couple of articles on Pratt...] New York Times February 17, 1996, Saturday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section 1;Page 23;Column 6;Editorial Desk LENGTH: 728 words HEADLINE: Journal; The Pratt Fall BYLINE: By FRANK RICH BODY: How stupid do they think we are? If we are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 16:26:19 PDT 1999

38820 Economist on New Economy -- rank: 1000

[The Economist has a skeptical editorial & article on The New Economy. The Commerce Department report on the InfoRev is at <http://204.193.246.62/public.nsf/docs/resources>. Gordon's paper on the productivity stats is at <http://faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/economics/gordon/researchhome.html>.] The Economist - July 24-30, 1999 LEADERS How real is the new economy? THE recent performance of the American economy has been so remarkable that it seems only proper to call forth a very big ide ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 23 15:28:22 PDT 1999