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41176 Socialist Security #1 -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Any good guesses out there on the number of Americans with incomes of >over $68,400 a year. Number of households with incomes of over $68,400 >a year. Percentage of civilian workforce with incomes of over $68,400 >a year; based on a workforce of ____(what number) and why. Max's colleagues at EPI say that the 90th percentile of the wage distribution earned $24.73 in the first half of this year (about $21 for women and $27 for men). $68,400 works out to an hourly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 23 15:51:18 PDT 1998

41177 property & criminality -- rank: 1000

alec ramsdell wrote: >With crackdowns on homelessness and privatization of public space (is LA >the most egregious example of this, with Bunker Hill and City Walk?), >will it one day be a crime, supported by more explicit legislation than >that now, to own no property? No, just a terribly embarrassing indiscretion. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 23 12:46:39 PDT 1998

41178 Germany -- rank: 1000

Today's Financial Times has a piece on succession pressures facing the Mittelstand, Germany's small- and mid-sized businesses that the paper describes as "one of the anchors of the German 'social market' mode." This is expected to lead to a greater role for a "vibrant stock-market culture," as these firms go public (and become avaiable to foreign investors too). No doubt European unification will intensify these trends, by promoting competition and promoting the development o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 22 20:03:14 PDT 1998

41179 Greenspan on minimum wage -- rank: 1000

I'm listening to Alan Greenspan's testimony before the House Banking Committee from today, available in RealAudio from the Wall Street Journal's web site. In his prepared testimony, Greenspan said that while our tight labor market has allowed the "chronically unemployed" to find work they wouldn't otherwise have found, the major problem of the U.S. economy today is that employment growth has been running at twice the rate of population growth (i.e., unemployment is getting too low). Ab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 22 18:03:44 PDT 1998

41180 SF police violence -- rank: 1000

[Anyone know anything about this? - Doug] Resent from FNB-San Francisco <sffnb at iww.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:02:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken McCarthy <ken at e-media.com> To: stadium at e-media.com Subject: violence from the mayor's office (For election fraud subcribers, I send this report about the police attack on Food Not Bombs along to advise you about what you can expect if *you* were to attempt to organize a serious public demonstrati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 22 13:30:05 PDT 1998

41181 quant speculators: nyt -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >anybody else see the article in the new york times yesterday about >quantitative theorists/ market jockeys? in the end, it argued that "the >unexpectedly slow development of quantitative trading (i.e. the use of >mathematical models to exploit "irrationalities" in the system) supports a >long-held but hard-to-prove belief about stock markets, especially america's >extraordinarily deep ones: they are formidably efficient, meaning stock ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 22 08:31:03 PDT 1998

41182 adjuncts arise! -- rank: 1000

[bounce from Michael Eisenscher] Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 20:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19980721205828.53475cbc at pop.igc.org> X-Sender: meisenscher at pop.igc.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Art Shostak <shostaka at dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu> (by way of Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.apc.org>) Subject: Latest on Adjunct Unionization From ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 22 08:00:38 PDT 1998

41183 Fighting SS privatization (was Re: The Nation - Selected Editorial) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >You don't get these returns under privatization, >even if the stock market keeps chugging along. >A forthcoming EPI report by Baker discusses this. >He has already dealt with a different aspect in >a piece for the Twentieth Century Fund, the basic >message of which is: if you believe the SS trustees >projections, the stock market CAN'T continue as it >has. If it can, you can't believe the trustees. >I've found that people understand that if the &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 21 16:05:13 PDT 1998

41184 Brad De Long doesn't belong on a left discussion list -- rank: 1000

I think it's a bad idea to have a lot of discussion, whether with names or in a meta-sense, about who belongs in a discussion or not. It just leads to factionalism and flames. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 21 10:51:49 PDT 1998

41185 newbie on Participatory Economics -- rank: 1000

Mathew Forstater wrote: >On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Blind item of the day - what famous localist critic of technology and >> development won't go anywhere without a first-class air ticket being >> provided? > >Well, I remember you making some similar comment about Vandana Shiva a >year or two ago on the femecon list. and Louis Proyect makes some >similar--though not altogether clear--remark on his web-page, I believe >in the article on th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 21 08:53:56 PDT 1998

41186 Brad De Long doesn't belong on a left discussion list -- rank: 1000

Aaron wrote: >It seems to me entirely unacceptable for a 'Left' discussion list to >include among its participants someone who, in response to the rather >weak liberal statement: Brad De Long is entirely welcome here, whether you or I like what he has to say. Leftists who don't talk with people outside the church will turn into braindead automatons, spiritless catechists. The only people who aren't welcome here are the disruptive, dogmatic, or stupid. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 21 07:47:45 PDT 1998

41187 newbie on Participatory Economics -- rank: 1000

G*rd*n wrote: >joshua william mason wrote: >> >As for Twin Oaks, our Paris Commune, it's basically a subsidiary of Pier >> >1. The day folks shopping for throw pillows stop picking up a Twin Oaks- >> >made hammock as well, that's the day that particular experiment in >> >participatory economics comes to an end. > >Doug Henwood: >> As it happens, they send me their newsletter, as do several other voluntary >> communities. And Pier 1 has ind ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 21 07:26:11 PDT 1998

41188 newbie on Participatory Economics -- rank: 1000

joshua william mason wrote: >As for Twin Oaks, our Paris Commune, it's basically a subsidiary of Pier >1. The day folks shopping for throw pillows stop picking up a Twin Oaks- >made hammock as well, that's the day that particular experiment in >participatory economics comes to an end. As it happens, they send me their newsletter, as do several other voluntary communities. And Pier 1 has indeed cut back on orders, resulting in some financial difficulties. I think the plan is to boost ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 20 12:59:08 PDT 1998

41189 The Nation - Selected Editorial -- rank: 1000

Fellows, Jeffrey wrote: >Is there any research that examines or posits a minimum (for social >stability) long-term productivity growth rate? I have problems believing >the 1% rate used by the SSA, especially since a 2% rate may aleviate >most, if not all, of the shortfall problem. Also, it seems that a >significant proportion (perhaps 30%) of the hypothesized 1% growth rate >would be eaten up by changes in the age composition of the US >population. Assuming both a low produc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 20 07:37:58 PDT 1998

41190 Soviet and US Economy -- rank: 1000

Tracy Quan wrote: >OTOH, a bit of good, historically accurate dish about stalinISTS vs >trots would be welcome -- if only in this teeny little corner of the list. >But please feel free to ignore my request. It is certainly not an urgent >one. Despite the esteem I hold Tracy in, I'm overruling this request. The Joe vs. Leon pissing match is death to any left discussion forum. Partisans are welcome to enlighten Tracy privately <quan at panix.com>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 19 14:09:49 PDT 1998