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39031 gossip -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Forgive me for being an ignorant limey, I know who Rorty and West are, >but who's Bill Bradley? Former professional basketball player, Princeton grad & Rhodes scholar, longtime senator from New Jersey. Earnest, dull centrist Democrat beloved of the pundits; seen in the wasteland of American political life as an "intellectual." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 22 08:18:49 PST 1999

39032 Let's be Doug's focus group, y'all -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Wouldn't it be better to hammer the point that SS is _not_ an investment >program, and that talking about "rates of return" is absurd? It seems to >me that once you start arguing over interest rates, present value and >all of that you habe implicitly conceded the debate; in the public mind, >"stock market" and "highest rates of return" are indelibly one and the >same. And the privatizers have the numbers behind them, at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 22 07:33:05 PST 1999

39033 Henry's advice to labor -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >Doug wrote: >> A flat tax can't be progressive. You can write exemptions and deductions >> into it, but after some point it gets flat. > >True, but you could set up a high rate for all income above $500,000. I could, and you could, but Hall, Rabushka, Armey, Forbes, and even Jerry Brown wouldn't. This is from Citizens for Tax Justice's website <http://www.ctj.org/html/hallrabh.html>: Quotes from Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka, Low T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 22 07:22:57 PST 1999

39034 homophobia -- rank: 1000

berlin at socrates.berkeley.edu wrote: >In the field I work/study in, there is this very prominent professor at >Stanford who just had a sex change this year and went from being Jonathan >Roughgarden to Joan Roughgarden. In her picture, it looks pretty >convincing too. She's published so much and is the leader in her field, >and I heard she may even be a dean?? Anyway... she's probably the most >high level person I've ever heard of who has done this. In economics, there was the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 21 20:29:23 PST 1999

39035 Archives? -- rank: 1000

There will be archives soon; I'm finally chasing down the web front end. Watch this space for further notice. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 21 19:33:13 PST 1999

39036 Henry's advice to labor -- rank: 1000

Daniel wrote: >First, I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong to say that a flat tax >can easily be less regressive than the current system, because just like the >current system, it can be written to be regressive or progressive as the >framers wish (exemptions, provisions, loopholes, etc.) (Frankly, for my >part, I'd gladly pay more just to be able to forget the IRS - so, I'll up >the ante and declare myself for the VAT. I know I have to pay for all those >fucking bomb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 21 17:15:49 PST 1999

39037 gossip -- rank: 1000

Word is that Bill Bradley is having monthly meetings with Richard Rorty and Cornel West to brainstorm. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 21 17:06:12 PST 1999

39038 Bennett Harrison memorial -- rank: 1000

From: "DAVID Howell" <HOWELL at newschool.edu> To: Streger (Econ Dept. secretary) Subject: Memorial Service for Bennett Harrison -Reply Message: Ellen, word should be spread that the service will be held on Feb 8th at 11am in Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th st. with a reception immediately afterwards. thanks, David

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 21 13:04:09 PST 1999

39039 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

James Baird wrote: >I listened to it last night on RealAudio - had a little trouble finding >the right link, but it worked eventually. Nice job, Doug - although I >wish it could have been on a more "mainstream" station (a bit much to >ask for, I realize) One thing though: I didn't think you came down hard >enough on him for his repeated "But you get a low rate of return on your >money" crap. Whenever I hear that arguement I always want to say, "What ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 21 12:04:21 PST 1999

39040 Why Civility Matters -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >long overdue but i really liked the way you slapped the shit out of lou and >carroll in such a civil and polite way nathan Please, let's not revisit this melodrama. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 21 11:26:35 PST 1999

39041 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

curtiss_leung at ibi.com wrote: > I'm glad to hear that somebody bitch-slapped a right libertarian. > Doug, how 'bout putting the transcript on the web page? I missed the > show. No transcript available. For the moment, there's supposed to be RealAudio at <http://www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/demnow.html> but I can't get the link to work. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 21 11:18:45 PST 1999

39042 bitchy asides... -- rank: 1000

>From today's WSJ: <quote> When Rep. William Jefferson (D., La.) asked what sort of actions he had in mind, Mr. Greenspan startled some committee members by urging them not only to reject Mr. Clinton's proposal to lift the minimum wage by $1 to $6.15 an hour, but to lower or repeal the minimum wage. "I think it does more damage than good," said Mr. Greenspan, who earns $133,600 a year, "but I recognize I'm in a significant minority on that question." </quote> $ ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 21 10:10:16 PST 1999

39043 Radio Doug -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >I listened to Doug debate the radical from the waco Cato Institute last >night. Doug did an excellent job. Thanks. I wish I'd had the details behind his assertion that today's workers will get a negative return from their SS taxes. I suspect they use preposterously high real interest rates to deflate the value of future benefits, which is what Kotlikoff did with his fraudulent generational accounting (6% real rate to figure the present value of a government benefit with ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 21 08:05:14 PST 1999

39044 FWD We are not all keynesians -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Strictly speaking, I would think that what matters most is the relation of >borrowing/saving to the business cycle, not a change in the long- >run trend of borrowing. Though others are better situated to react >to this. Well, there was Frederick Thayer's widely cited article from a couple of years ago arguing that every time the U.S. went on a debt paydown binge - I think he counted 5 - a depression was the result. Of course, Thayer seems like a bit of a nut, so ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 21 07:13:58 PST 1999

39045 Fwd: We Are Not All Keynesians Now -- rank: 1000

Max, you should have thought of us too! If they do this - pay down big gobs of debt for decades on end - and it doesn't cause something like a depression, then Keynes's reputation should be marked down toward that of his hero, Major Douglas. Doug >From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) >To: "Owner-Pkt" <owner-pkt at csf.colorado.edu> >Cc: "Dean Baker" <dean.baker at worldnet.att.net>, > "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> & ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 20 15:23:07 PST 1999