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39631 IMF rethink -- rank: 1000

[Ah, the "debacle" in Seattle. Lovely.] Financial Times - December 10, 1999 IMF: Pruning the Fund The US wants the Fund to concentrate on fighting financial crises - but can the first and third worlds agree on who should lead it, asks Stephen Fidler The future role of the International Monetary Fund in the global financial system is now in play. At issue is whether Washington will be able to use its 18 per cent shareholding in the IMF to continue (as it often has since its inception mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 06:45:06 PST 1999

39632 socializing catastrophe -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 10, 1999 INSURANCE: Increase in disasters costs industry $22bn By Andrea Felsted Catastrophe losses cost the insurance industry over $22bn this year, making 1999 the fourth most expensive year for insurers on record, Swiss Re, the Zurich-based reinsurer said. Swiss Re in its latest Sigma study said the figure, still provisional at this stage, would have been higher had losses incurred in earthquakes in Turkey and Taiwan been more widely insured. The total monetary valu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 10 06:32:05 PST 1999

39633 Forbes on Inequality -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >The point was this - inequality has increased over the last decade or two >solely due to immigration. This was based on a recent study by some >academic economist (unfortunately I don't remember the name), who claims >that if you remove recent immigrants and analyze the rest of the >population, inequality has increased only slightly (they also claim that >the immigrants are doing better too, but not only did they not give any >evidence for this claim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 9 11:08:12 PST 1999

39634 WTO & health care -- rank: 1000

[via Sid Shniad] The Lancet Volume 354, Number 9193 27 November 1999 HOW THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION IS SHAPING DOMESTIC POLICIES IN HEALTH CARE David Price, Allyson M Pollock, Jean Shaoul Lancet 1999; 354: 1889-92 Health Policy and Health Services Research Unit, University College London, London, UK (D Price BSc); Social Welfare Research Unit, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne (D Price); Health Policy and Health Services Research Unit, University College London, London WC1H 9EZ ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 9 09:55:20 PST 1999

39635 [Fwd: Genuine Progress Indicator] -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: > Wow, doug -- what was the taboo word? S*bscribe. That, and attached files, are the only automated taboos. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 9 09:57:54 PST 1999

39636 Adolph Reed @ Labyrinth -- rank: 1000

Noo Yawkuhs: Adolph Reed is reading tonight (Thursday) at Labyrinth Books, 536 West 112 St, 7 PM. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 9 09:49:01 PST 1999

39637 [Fwd: Re: Is Bad Writing Necessary?] -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >I always think it's interesting the way the most supposedly "radical" >profs never analyze their own social position. Gayatri Spivak does that all the time, which annoys Yoshie, as I recall. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 9 09:50:30 PST 1999

39638 De Long on WTO (circa '97) -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>WTO head Michael Moore recently trotted out the argument that tariffs and >>protectionism led to the Great Depression. >> >>Peter K. > >Nope. At most a minor, minor contributing factor... So what's your theory of the Depression then? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 9 09:34:36 PST 1999

39639 Genuine Progress Indicator -- rank: 1000

[bounced for a taboo word] From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:22:00 -0500 PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release November 23, 1999 Contacts: Douglas Gould & Co. (914) 833-7093; Jamie Shor (301) 320-3192 WHILE GDP RISES, GENUINE ECONOMIC PROGRESS ELUDES MOST AMERICANS Why Bigger Isn't Better: The Genuine Progress Indicator 1999 Update: Malaise at Dawn of New Millennium Explained by Continued Decline of the GPI Washington, DC - Just one day ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 9 09:03:54 PST 1999

39640 Fw: NYC MAYDAY 2K -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>Logisitically NYC makes a lot of sense. >> >>A) Very high Union Density >>B) High Student Density >>C) Strong Activist Community >> >> >>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>Very high Rudy density too. The unions would not >>support a "May Day" thing. It would be a radical >>show, and Rudy would crush it with glee. >> >>Fighting is good, but you want to pick fights >& ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 9 09:10:46 PST 1999

39641 Paglia likes Postrel -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >[Will Postrel return the thought? Lean, lucid prose?] Ha. I just got a review copy of Postrel's Enemies of the Future (among them is Baffler editor Tom Frank, a nostalgic statist). She's positioning herself as one of the conservative hot babes - in her publicity photo, she's wearing a leather jacket, mixing toughness with a blonde smile; the press packet includes a copy of the Vanity Fair article on the young generation of right-wing lovelies. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 9 08:23:52 PST 1999

39642 Is the Coalition Falling Apart? -- rank: 1000

ssherman wrote: >Has anyone considered whether there is any room for African Americans in this >emergent labor-environmental coalition? Damn, I sure hope so; if there isn't, it isn't worth much. If I were an organizer, I'd want to be bringing in environmental justice people, since most of the toxic waste they fight against is produced by WTO-loving multinationals. Unions, despite their often sorry record on anti-racist politics, probably do help African-Americans more than white workers (u ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 9 07:40:09 PST 1999

39643 Moore wants new trade round -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - December 9, 1999 MOORE TO TRY TO LAUNCH NEW TRADE ROUND By Frances Williams in Geneva Mike Moore, director-general of the World Trade Organisation, yesterday said he hoped to reconvene a ministerial conference "as soon as possible" to launch a new trade round following the suspension of last week's unsuccessful meeting in Seattle. Mr Moore said it was vital to consolidate what was achieved at Seattle, where "gaps were narrowed considerably in a number of importan ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 9 07:05:27 PST 1999

39644 Suck -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >It's an odd kind of cynical, respectful fun. Short of them agreeing >with you--and surely you wouldn't like that?--it's probably the best >you can hope for. Who's complaining? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 8 20:52:57 PST 1999

39645 Is the Coalition Falling Apart? -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >To have any radical validity the demonstrations should, of course, be in >LA at the Dems convention. But with Big Labor and it's apologists involved >fat chance. I doubt labor will play along, but there are plenty of other people talking about going to LA, I hear. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 8 15:54:36 PST 1999