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40441 Wolf on house of cards -- rank: 1000

[Martin Wolf continues in his alarm...] FINANCIAL TIMES - WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1998 G7: Supporting a house of cards The G7 must make some painful choices now if it is to halt the crisis in the world economy, writes Martin Wolf The west is waking up. The statement issued on Monday by the finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven leading countries shows that. Happily, the important players in the economic drama - Robert Rubin at the US Treasury and Alan Greenspan at the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 16 08:35:24 PDT 1998

40442 it's a scorcher -- rank: 1000

>From the U.S. National Climatic Data Center: "August of 1998 continued the unprecedented string of record breaking temperatures. Each month this year has set new all-time record global near-surface temperatures." For the full story, see <http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/research/1998/aug/aug98.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 15 12:20:42 PDT 1998

40443 charters -- rank: 1000

Gary Bramstedt wrote: >On Friday 11 September, near the end of Pacifica radio's DEMOCRACY NOW, I >caught the last few minutes of a discussion about revoking certain >corporate charters on a state-by-state basis. Sounds like fun... Do you >have any info available about this??? Sounds like a perfect grass-roots >issue to get involved in... It all seems a bit legalistic to me - they're pretty silent on the politics of how to get to this point, and what a post-corporate form might be, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 15 09:40:42 PDT 1998

40444 Semen-stained dresses and world revolution -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Take Clinton (this should be said in the same tone as Henny Youngman's >"take my wife"). He represents an absolute paucity of principle. Lincoln >and FDR put up a stiff resistance to segments of the ruling class in order >to advance its overall interests. Meanwhile, Clinton, the corporate lawyer, >takes his instructions from investment banker Robert Rubin, who really >rules the USA. Clinton's psychological makeup seems perfect for the USA in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 15 09:13:17 PDT 1998

40445 Grant sez.. -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Deflation is worrisome because in advanced industrial >economies, for broad categories of consumer goods, it >is rare and usually reflects a slowdown in economic >activity, even to the point of a contraction of an >economy. I'd say deflation is bad for at least two reasons, one "real," one financial. On the real side, since production takes time, firms find that plans made (parts procured, workers hired) at one expected price for their output find the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 15 08:40:41 PDT 1998

40446 Has Jeffrey Sachs changed his tune... -- rank: 1000

Mathew Forstater wrote: >For awhile, his shock therapy stuff served that purpose, but then it became >received wisdom and so it became a yawn for him. plus maybe the "change" >will make people forget some of the disastrous effects of the policies he >promoted. Don't forget the role played in the criminal Russian privatization program by the Harvard Institute for International Development, which Sachs heads. The whole smelly tale is told by Anne Williamson in an unpublished ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 15 08:21:38 PDT 1998

40447 No subject -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:26:19 -0400 (EDT) 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. EDT, SEPTEMBER 15, 1998 (TUESDAY) Public Information Office CB98-166 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-4067 (TDD) Robert Bennefield 301-457-3242 Nearly 3 in 10 U.S. Residents Experience Health Insurance Interruptio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 15 08:02:01 PDT 1998

40448 Fortune on AFL-CIO -- rank: 1000

Fortune, September 28,1998 LABOR'S LOST CHANCE by David Whifford AFL-CIO President John Sweeney had Big Labor on the move for the first time in a generation. Then he fired his top organizer. Oops. That's John Sweeney, standing outside a tire factory in Des Moines, oddly formal in his signature black suit. It's 5:30 in the morning. A bright halfmoon shines down on first-shift workers going in and third shifters coming outyoung men, mostly, wearing shorts and sneakers and black LOCAL 310 windbreak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 15 07:24:32 PDT 1998

40449 Bonefeld on Brenner -- rank: 1000

Werner Bonefeld posted a 62k piece on Brenner to Aut-op-sy; I'll forward a copy to anyone who asks. Don't want to overload mailboxes of the uninterested. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 17:34:12 PDT 1998

40450 sexual harrassment? (Re: Tampa billboards (Re: Rush Limbaugh Wet Dream 1: Ressentiment ) -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >Really, being an inconsiderate lover is enough to make one guilty of >sexual harrassment? If that's all it takes to bring someone up on sexual >harrassment charges, a lot of men are going to be seeing the inside of a >courtroom. No, I don't mean this is harrassment in the legal sense. I'm just talking about the things that help determine why certain people assume certain postures. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 14:32:30 PDT 1998

40451 Tampa billboards (Re: Rush Limbaugh Wet Dream 1: Ressentiment ) -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug, do you mean by "structural nature of >male-female relations" that men are more likely to be Presidents and >women more likely to be interns? Or do you mean something else? Everything, the heritage of patriarchy, which includes the fact that men are more likely to be presidents, not to mention the association of Law with the Name of the Father, and all that Lacanian stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 13:18:58 PDT 1998

40452 "The Sorry State of Economics" -- rank: 1000

>Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 16:02:38 -0400 (EDT) >Reply-To: femecon-l at bucknell.edu >Originator: femecon-l at bucknell.edu >Sender: femecon-l at bucknell.edu >Precedence: bulk >From: "Neil H. Buchanan" <buchanan at csd.uwm.edu> >To: Multiple recipients of list <femecon-l at bucknell.edu> >Subject: web address for "The Sorry State of Economics" >X-Comment: Feminist Economists Discussion Group >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >[This is being cr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 13:11:56 PDT 1998

40453 Tampa billboards (Re: Rush Limbaugh Wet Dream 1: Ressentiment ) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Having said that, however, I do not find Clinton's behavior unusual, at >least in a statistical sense. I strongly suspect that the great majority >of men would do exactly the same thing if they were in Slick Willy's shoes. Well yeah, and isn't that the case because of the structural nature of male-female relations, and shouldn't Marxists and other radicals agitate about that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 12:50:31 PDT 1998

40454 Tampa billboards (Re: Rush Limbaugh Wet Dream 1: Ressentiment ) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Ah! What K. Starr would like to see in the White House: Unix. Ha! Puff out your cheeks. Who are you? Monica Lewinsky withholding evidence. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 11:03:56 PDT 1998

40455 Tampa billboards (Re: Rush Limbaugh Wet Dream 1: Ressentiment) -- rank: 1000

K wrote: >But to portray her as an innocent victim and him as a cad is an >oversimplification. Oh absolutely. I hate the way Monica is treated as some preconscious being. She wanted to fellate the president; she planned it and executed her plan. That doesn't mean that Clinton didn't act like a shit, though. I love the way Todd Purdum surmises in the NYT that Clinton always left a door slightly ajar so he could say they were never behind closed doors together. I hear from an excellent sourc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 14 10:57:23 PDT 1998