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41491 FreedomTrain website -- rank: 1000

[this bounced] Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:57:10 -0700 From: "Gar W. Lipow" <lipowg at freetrain.org> Reply-To: lipowg at freetrain.org Organization: FreedomTrain X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DSA Net <dsanet at quantum.sdsu.edu>, LBO talk <LBO-talk at lists.panix.com>, Pen-l <pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu> Subject: FreedomTrain web site Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would like to thank a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 12:53:29 PDT 1998

41492 Cuba's Destiny -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >My feeling is that Marxism confronts a formidable intellectual challenge >in neo Ricardian theory as developed by Pasinetti (more important than >Sraffa, it seems) and in the post Keynesian reformist agenda which >follows from it in the writings of the brilliant duo of James Galbraith >and William Darity, Jr or Thomas Palley (these left-liberal thinkers give >substance to what nine out of ten *Nation* readers think needs to be >done). > >Our Do ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 12:52:24 PDT 1998

41493 Brazil next? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Re Doug's: "First thing I thought when I saw Grant in the Journal was, >'Is this a buy >signal?'" > >I trust you had second thoughts. Actually my phone's been ringing all day. Sounds like the LBO proprietary indicator is now in modest buy mode. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 12:43:16 PDT 1998

41494 "Tempslave!" -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:48:45 -0400 From: Hans Riemer <hans at 2030.org> Reply-To: hans at 2030.org Organization: http://www.2030.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 2030 at 2030.org Subject: "Tempslave!" 2030 Friends: I thought you might be interested in this website for temp workers. Its the website companion to the zine TEMPSLAVE, it has links and other info. As you may know, the 2030 Center is currently conducting research and strategic planning for a project relating to these sort ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 11:35:19 PDT 1998

41495 risk assessment at MSDW -- rank: 1000

[John Mage asked me to forward this] >From Morgan Stanley's London economist/analyst Kevin Gardner today (August 28th) <http://www.ms.com/GEFdata/digests/latest-digest.html#xtocid232352-> "...it is pointless at this stage to take reassurance in that (say) UK direct exposure to Russia is minimal. The threat of contagion appears real, and if the UK's EU partners and/or the US are affected, there will be no place to hide. And the risk may not only be that of a global recession: the &q ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 11:30:11 PDT 1998

41496 Brazil next? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >You're right on the money there, MBS. Permabear James Grant, e.g., blew >away his Street cred long ago for that very reason. But as stopped >clocks go, JG seems to be keeping the correct time right now. Would >suggest that you read his "The Coming Bust" in the WS Journal today. JG >hedges his forecast but certainly underscores the right systemic >weaknesses -- weaknesses that the "Blue Chip" consensus has (hitherto) >ignored. First ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 10:49:17 PDT 1998

41497 whiteness -- rank: 1000

[this bounced from Micahel E] Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19980827210529.0e6798d6 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: "David Alexander, H-UCLEA" <DavidA2647 at aol.com> (by way of Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.apc.org>) Subject: National Conference on W ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 10:06:55 PDT 1998

41498 Hello Karl? It's the dollar... -- rank: 1000

[from TheStreet.com - Karl's in the headline, but the dollar is triumphant by the end.] One thing is clear: The West cannot shrug off a fundamental shift away from free markets in a majority of the Third World. Market Features Hello, Karl? Despite Recent Setbacks, Fears of a Free-Market Retreat are Overblown By Peter Eavis Senior Writer 8/27/98 8:05 PM ET The declines in the emerging markets have been so steep and persistent during the past 18 months that some are starting to suggest capitalism' ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 09:49:50 PDT 1998

41499 calm -- rank: 1000

"Chernomyrdin has the stature and the ability to induce calm." - Constance Hunter, portfolio manager, The Firebird Fund, which is entirely devoted to Russian investments, on CNBC, August 28, 1998, 12:27 PM.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 09:29:42 PDT 1998

41500 Max trades the market -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >As for the market, if I had money to play >with I'd buy tomorrow, first thing, though >I can't say I wouldn't jump out soon after. Given the severity of the damage, I'm not getting that many phone calls from mainstream reporters - the Ottawa Citizen called today, but it's hardly a torrent. That proprietary LBO indicator is not yet signaling a bottom. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 27 16:06:24 PDT 1998

41501 1998-08-27 Statement by the President -- rank: 1000

[now isn't this coming from an unimpeachable witness?] Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electronic Publications Precedence: Bulk To: Public-Distribution at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 16:07 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov> Reply-To: Publications at pub.pub.whitehouse.gov Subject: 1998-08-27 Statement by the President Keywords: Government, Judicial-System, Personnel, President, Principal-Statement, Topical-Remarks Document-I ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 27 15:58:09 PDT 1998

41502 Brazil next? -- rank: 1000

[from TheStreet.com] Latin Loot: Brazil Could Whip This Already Plunging Market By Peter Eavis Senior Writer 8/27/98 11:57 AM ET Russia is metamorphosing back into a Soviet state. The question now is whether the panic gripping world markets is going to push Brazil back into the hyperinflationary chaos of the eighties. Signs suggest yes. The Dow may be down 300 points today, but a Brazil debacle will make that drop look benign. Both Brazil's stock market and dollar bonds have plummeted over 30% o ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 27 11:28:16 PDT 1998

41503 Zbiggy zez... -- rank: 1000

Jimmy Carter's national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (sorta rhymes with Lewinsky, doesn't it?) was just interviewed on CNBC. No reassuring bromides from him! He declared Russia to be "entering a very serious crisis" (weren't they there already?), with political and economic "reform" as the major casualty (and I thought the Russian people were the casualties of reform!). Zbiggy further opined that the "privatization" process was actually an instance of " ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 27 09:38:57 PDT 1998

41504 Brad -- rank: 1000

Brett Knowlton wrote: >I couldn't agree more with this assessment. In fact, if you go back and >read the (now de-classified) policy planning documents of people like >George Kennan and other high level government officials in charge of >determining foreign policy, they bluntly admit to exactly this strategy. Speaking of Kennan, I don't think anyone's quoted the man himself on the topic of imperialist economics. Here's a beaut, from Chomsky's Turning the Tide: "... we have about ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 27 08:56:06 PDT 1998

41505 Answer Doug. Re: First world prosperity -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >How long do you think that someone as ornery and independent-minded as you >would have stayed out of jail had you been born in Cuba? Or Poland? Or--God >forbid--North Korea? Brad, you're a smart guy. Surely you know that lots of people who call themselves Marxists don't approve of jailing dissidents. This is true even of the world of formerly existing socialism. If I may quote from a 1994 article on the LBO website, "Anti-market forces": <quote>Three ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 27 08:17:41 PDT 1998