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40906 "The Big One" -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >John Pilger I've got a piece in the LBO going to press today on Vietnam, but an American journalist based there (who must remain anonymous). I faxed her the excerpt from Pilger's latest book that ran in the latest Covert Action Quarterly (speaking of which, the owners, Lou Wolf, Bill Schaap, and Ellen Ray, fired the whole editorial staff about 10 days ago; anyone interested in the staff's side of the story, email me, and I'll send you their memo on the topic). Pilger's st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 18 06:10:46 PDT 1998

40907 Banking on the Eurostate -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: > Europe ought to be a hot market >for your book: ammo for the Euro-Left. Any translations out there yet? Translations? Hey, the euro-language is English! Doug

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Date:	Sun May 17 18:49:40 PDT 1998

40908 inflation -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >They pretend that they are *banks*, not part of the "government"... They are, if you want to get technical about it, right? Who owns their shares and dominates their boards? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 17 17:34:30 PDT 1998

40909 Bakan on Vidal -- rank: 1000

Someone forwarded our recent exchange on Vidal & the Kushites to David Bakan of York University. Here's his response. Doug ---- Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 18:43:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: dbakan at postoffice.yorku.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 To: winslow at yorku.ca, dhenwood at panix.com From: David Bakan <dbakan at yorku.ca> Subject: Re: God and the N-word >>Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >> >>>You are indeed thinking of Gore Vidal's review of the Thern book. I don't >>&g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 17 10:03:21 PDT 1998

40910 inflation -- rank: 1000

The May 1 issue of the San Francisco Fed's Economic Letter has an article by one J. Bradford DeLong (no space - I'm confused on this) called "The Shadow of the Great Depression and the Inflation of the 1970s. Formed by the Great Depression, a generation of policymakers and central bankers let inflation get out of control. "Only after the experiences of the 1970s were policymakers persuaded that the minimum sustainable rate of unemployment attainable by macroeconomic policy was relative ...

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Date:	Sun May 17 09:58:04 PDT 1998

40911 Banking on the Eurostate -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >You have to give the >Eurobourgeoisie credit: for all their alleged stodginess and inability to >match wits with ever-flexible Americans, they're clearly setting up >the necessary institutional structures for a unified currency. Anyone know >when EU governments are actually going to start issue eurobonds instead of >DM/franc/lirabonds? I think most governments intend to issue in euro (in euros?) pretty soon after the currency is born on January 1, 1999. ...

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Date:	Sun May 17 09:33:28 PDT 1998

40912 God and the N-word -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >You are indeed thinking of Gore Vidal's review of the Thern book. I don't >have the review in front of me, but Vidal was talking about the problems >encountered when translating the Talmud in the late nineteenth/early >twentieth century. The translators did not want to use the racial epiphet >(sp?) in the text, I think they substituted the word "kushite." Here's the excerpt; the article is available on the Nation's web site (www.thenation.com ...

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Date:	Sat May 16 10:21:40 PDT 1998

40913 Broadcasting (was: The New Zealand economy) -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I don't often get to blow Oz's trumpet on these channels, but I'm >absolutely convinced that, with radio thrown in, Oz enjoys the best >broadcasting system in the Anglophone world. How do you keep a publicly sponsored broadcasting system from becoming a mouthpiece for the state? From what I know of the CBC, they manage, more or less, but how? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 16 09:50:09 PDT 1998

40914 Greenspan no leftie -- rank: 1000

For some reason, Tom Dickens couldn't get this to post. Doug ---- Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 17:59:47 EST From: "DICKENS, EDWIN (973)-408-3024" <EDICKENS at mr.drew.edu> Subject: FWD: Re: Alan Greenspan, Leftie... To: Remote Addressee <owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Message-id: <A29ZXJPPXXAX*/R=DANIEL/R=A1/U=EDICKENS/@MHS> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary_(ID_JS0ghmDKUEQ+CAQsWNOJJg)" Delivery-date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:09:00 ...

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Date:	Fri May 15 18:00:11 PDT 1998

40915 Still Suburban (was rural idiocy) -- rank: 1000

hoov wrote: >Dislando is an abstract mosaic of corporate-sponsored commercial >projects. Kvetch we might, and will, but do the consumers of Dislando seem satisfied? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 15 14:23:16 PDT 1998

40916 Economics of Taxi Medalions (Re: taxi! taxi! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Rudy would never go through with the threat in the long-term This is classic liberal thinking. Of course he would. Not guaranteed, but he would. It's like the advocacy group folks who say, "People will die in the streets from these welfare cuts!" as if that would stop anything. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 15 13:02:05 PDT 1998

40917 Cabdrivers -- rank: 1000

JRSHEV01 at ulkyvm.louisville.edu wrote: >Does anybody know how that this strike 'fared'? Sue. Quite successful. I wonder if Edward Said had to take the subway (which he hasn't in >10 yrs)? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 15 11:49:11 PDT 1998

40918 Alan Greenspan, Leftie... -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >I must say I never expected to see this of someone who in the early 1980s >used to criticize Paul Volcker for being an inflation dove... Word is that AG is afraid of deflation, and is grateful that he ignored the hawks' advice to tighten throughout 1997. The source on this is JP Morgan's top Fed watcher; Morgan, known as the second Fed, is part of the bankers council that meets with the FOMC before their policy sessions. The U.S. retail sales deflator is down 1.5% (Mar ...

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Date:	Fri May 15 10:53:24 PDT 1998

40919 Economics of Taxi Medalions (Re: taxi! taxi! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >We are not talking about big capital like airlines; we are talking about the >possibility of owner-entrepreneurs taxi drivers. You don't have to love the >petit-bougeoisie to be skeptical of a system that uses a $250,000 per car >capital threshhold to enter a marketplace that should require at most a >$15,000 >per car capital threshhold. > >Using capital ownership on that scale as the means to restrict entry is not >progressive. Owners of those ...

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Date:	Fri May 15 10:48:17 PDT 1998

40920 Indonesia -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >This from Brad de Long bounced because it originally came with a Wall >Street Journal article attached. Sorry, forgot to clarify that. There's a length limit of 30,000 bytes, which Brad's sampling of the WSJ exceeded. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 15 10:42:16 PDT 1998