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41506 Cockburn on the news -- rank: 1000

[for those of you out of the reach of New York Press] BIMBO EXPLOSION He's Got Rockets in His Pockets by Alexander Cockburn [New York Press, August 26-September 1, 1998] The Vicar of Christ is taking a keen interest in the Lewinsky affair. Returning from Italy, Lally Weymouth reported to her mother, The Washington Posts Katharine Graham, on an audience she had just had with the Pope. His Holiness lost no time in cross-examining Lally in the minutest detail on the precise nature of Bill and Monic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 17:57:26 PDT 1998

41507 throttling back -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >ok, now those are "productivity figures"? Excuse a totally >ignorant question, but what does that mean? GDP growth rate? >Or what? Output per hour worked, in concept, which in practice means dividing inflation-adjusted sales by the number of hours worked. The numbers I quoted were for manufacturing; no one knows how to deal with services - how do you quality-adjust the "output" of an investment banker or a pedicurist? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 16:06:16 PDT 1998

41508 First world prosperity -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >No. You are not. You can argue that much of sixteenth-century Spanish, much >of seventeenth-century Dutch, some of eighteenth-century British, and some >of early nineteenth-century white southerner prosperity is based on >imperialist plunder. > >But it's very, very, very difficult to make a serious argument that the >elimination of imperialism today would be noticed by first-world >consumers... Brad, why do you think the U.S. has consistently gone to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 15:56:25 PDT 1998

41509 The Social Security Debate, Cont'd -- rank: 1000

Paul Henry Rosenberg wrote: >After all, Murdoch, who's made a good deal of his fortune on trash sex, >is a rather keen moralist as well. It's not hypocritical if one takes a >purely insturmantalist view of ideas and ideology. In which case, >"hypocrisy" is just one more weapon to deploy. Trash sex and keen moralism aren't such strange bedfellows - they define and depend each other. A culture like the U.S., which is so publicly moralistic, has a terrible time integrating p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 09:26:16 PDT 1998

41510 throttling back -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Re: >> >>I wish I knew. Worse for the IMF, their period averages don't equal the >>averages of the yearly numbers. They couldn't explain this either. I'm >>looking to see if the October issue of the World Economic Outlook quietly >>reconciles the contradictions. Though I understand they're down to their >>last $30 billion. >> >>Doug > >Details handy? Ok. Here are the German numbers, from the May 1998 WEO and the BLS we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 09:19:56 PDT 1998

41511 PR -- rank: 1000

[this bounced as a nonmember submission] From: Robert Chametzky <Robert.Chametzky at wkap.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: proportional rep Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:01:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain There is an article on PR by Robert Richie & Steven Hill, along with responses to the article, in "Boston Review"; it's all in the archives at the website: http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR23.1/ Rob Chame ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 08:07:12 PDT 1998

41512 Proportional Representation -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Bautiste wrote: >>Anyone heard of political science studies that seem to indicate and >explain why >>3rd/4th parties won't work in America? > >Yes, they are assigned to every freshman political science class in >American colleges. This is part of the brainwashing that goes into making a >docile population that will dutifully go to the ballot box every 2 or 4 >years and vote for one of the two ruling class parties and therefore feel >that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 07:31:34 PDT 1998

41513 Wolf at the door? -- rank: 1000

[for those unfamiliar with the FT's cast of characters, Wolf is smart but generally quite orthodox] FINANCIAL TIMES - WEDNESDAY AUGUST 26 1998 Columnists Threats of depression [by Martin Wolf] Highly valued western stock markets are all that is preventing the Asian crisis from tipping over into worldwide recession, says Martin Wolf What is happening in the "emerging market" economies is a disaster. That is beyond doubt. The question now is whether it will become a worldwide catastroph ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 26 07:10:52 PDT 1998

41514 throttling back -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >[snip] >> The IMF productivity measures differ wildly from those published by the >> U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inquiries to both the IMF and the BLS >> about why this is have gone unanswered. > >Now *that's* interesting. I get uncomfortable when two different >experts measure the same things and get different results, except >when I read the Journal of Irreproducible Results. > >Do you suppose that the am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 25 17:45:30 PDT 1998

41515 Mother Jones -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >I'm no fan of D. Corn or Mojo but I tend to agree with Corn here. Left >magazines do tend to be edited like political parties. One article gets >published taking a heterodox view and the letters pages fill up with the >voices of the concerned -- "is this the direction we're moving in?" etc. >This happens with "right" deviation but also with "left" deviation. >Magazines should not be the platforms of movements, they should be & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 25 13:09:56 PDT 1998

41516 Transportation as indicator of the economy -- rank: 1000

Juliana Shearer wrote: >The questions about shipping problems between the US and Asia are >interesting. I work in electronics, and we are not slowing down in the >slightest. Eh? What kind of electronics? I thought computer/chip makers were among the first to feel the Asian chill. >One of our vendors, a contract manufacturer, recently told me that the >way to tell how the economy is doing is to look at makers of power >supplies (which are in almost everything) and at transportat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 25 12:19:05 PDT 1998

41517 Mother Jones -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Klein is leaving as editor of Mother Jones. Salon tells the story at <http://www.salonmagazine.com/media/1998/08/24media.html>. Apparently his turn to the right was not well received by the board. To Salon's correspondent, Ashley Craddock (an ex-MJ writer), this raises fears of a return to - gasp! - political correctness! This in a magazine whose new issue - the premiere of a redesign/relaunch - features stories about evil tobacco and drinking by women. I love the way these things ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 25 12:15:58 PDT 1998

41518 throttling back -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >I see your 3 and raise you 2. But seriously, I read with interest your >editorial in The Nation, "The Bull's Sour 16". I have a dumb question: who >does the U.S. owe $1.8 trillion? Japan, mostly? Couldn't they call in their >chits in order to help themselves out of the mire? The U.N.? Don't we ignore >them anyway? Japan, China, Taiwan, and other countries like that with big reserves hold them mainly in U.S. Treasury paper. Also, if offshore hedge ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 25 08:26:34 PDT 1998

41519 U.S.-Mexico Relations -- rank: 1000

[this bounced] Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 17:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19980824170504.21df0dce 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="iso-8859-1" To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: FConde4411 at aol.com (by way of Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.apc.org>) Subject: The Conde Report On U.S.-Mexico Relations Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 24 18:09:33 PDT 1998

41520 throttling back -- rank: 1000

I set the daily posting limit back to 3. You can have too much even of a good thing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 24 16:39:53 PDT 1998