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41596 Cato Ad Infinito -- rank: 1000
jf noonan wrote: >On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> It is pretty surreal that a corporation should be treated as a person, but, >> on the other hand, I'm not sure what the folks who make a big deal out of >> this want to see in its place. > >Who are the folks that make a big deal of this? This >corporation-as-person thing doesn't seem to get much press, including >the left press and including left oriented mailling lists. My brother >was the p ...
Document Size: 5408
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 14 10:10:13 PDT 1998
41597 Cato Ad Infinito -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >Bull's-eye! Excellent comparison. Considering the world's gross >economic inequities of every sort, I've never understood this right-wing >fetish about double taxation of dividends. Or rather, I DO understand >right-wingers are hopelessly greedy, but I don't get why they think >arguments that serve their own interests so baldly are going to have >popular appeal. Because it works. You hear people who have nothing to gain from the right-wing agenda spouting ...
Document Size: 5380
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 14 09:45:46 PDT 1998
41598 India & biotech -- rank: 1000
[More on the reception of engineered crops in India from Mark Ritchie.] AGRICULTURE-INDIA/ VIGIL AGAINST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SOYABEANS August 13, 1998 NEW DELHI - Inter Press Service via NewsEdge Corporation : A campaign against the landing of one million tons of soyabeans from the United States, suspected to be genetically engineered, got off today with a farmer's rally in the capital. The suspicions arise from the fact that soyabean consignments from the U.S have been found to be mixed with ...
Document Size: 13136
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 14 09:12:47 PDT 1998
41599 the fabric of our lies -- rank: 1000
An answer to Lou Proyect's query. No, he's not that Mark Ritchie. Doug ---- >X-Sender: mritchie at iatp.org >Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:53:07 -0500 >To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >From: "Mark Ritchie" <mritchie at iatp.org> >Subject: Re: the fabric of our lies >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >no way, there are just too many mark ritchies in the world > > >At 01:43 PM 8/13/98 -0400, you wrote: >>Louis Proyect wrote: >> >>> ...
Document Size: 6375
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Aug 14 08:06:23 PDT 1998
41600 Soros letter -- rank: 1000
FINANCIAL TIMES - THURSDAY AUGUST 13 1998 Letter RUSSIAN CRISIS: Soros suggests solution >From Mr George Soros. Sir, The meltdown in Russian financial markets has reached the terminal phase. Bankers and brokers who had borrowed against securities could not meet margin calls and forced selling swamped both the stock and the bond markets. The stock market had to be temporarily closed because trades could not be settled; prices of government bonds and Treasury bills fell precipitously. Although ...
Document Size: 7874
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 18:34:29 PDT 1998
41601 as GS goes public... -- rank: 1000
As Goldman, Sachs goes public, a memory from the past, quoted by John Kenneth Galbraith in his article on the 1929 crash in the October 1954 Harper's: Senator Couzens: Did Goldman, Sachs, & Co. organize the Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation? Mr. Sachs: Yes, sir. Senator Couzens: And it sold its, stock to the public? Mr. Sachs: A portion of it. The firm invested originally in 10 per cent of the issue. Senator Couzens: And the other 90 per cent was sold to the public? Mr. Sachs: Yes, sir. Sen ...
Document Size: 5099
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 17:42:30 PDT 1998
41602 Cato Ad Infinito -- rank: 1000
jf noonan wrote: >The complaint I have is that *human* rights are >accorded to an artificial legal entity, not the people in it. It is pretty surreal that a corporation should be treated as a person, but, on the other hand, I'm not sure what the folks who make a big deal out of this want to see in its place. Any suggestions? Doug
Document Size: 4675
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 17:05:08 PDT 1998
41603 Soros says he has no short position in rouble -- rank: 1000
Tom Lehman wrote: >Seth, may want to consider this statement by George Soros. Some of you >Russian experts may want to enlighten us on the real numbers of the >Russian economic decline. Just what kind of magnitudes and in what >markets will this devaluation(?) effect. Never take a George Soros letter to the editor at face value. Nice to hear he isn't short the ruble; I suspect he's long Russia and is aching for a bailout. A 70% stock market decline is probably enough to put even hi ...
Document Size: 5171
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 16:53:54 PDT 1998
41604 Krugman on Marx -- rank: 1000
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: >I suspect that Doug Henwood is not entirely >comfortable with this thread that threatens to look like a >refugee from OPE-L, a closed list run by someone Doug >doesn't particularly like (and which I've been kept off of >because of being a white male American nonlinear Post >Keynesian (allegedly (eeeek!!)). Almost as bad as being a DWEM, except for the D part. People can discuss whatever they like here, as long as it's not sectarian, stupid, or de ...
Document Size: 5202
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 12:29:09 PDT 1998
41605 the fabric of our lies -- rank: 1000
Louis Proyect wrote: >> >>Mark Ritchie, of the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy, forwarded me >>a couple of articles on Monsanto & its Terminator. >> >>Doug >> > >Is this the same Mark Ritchie who has written books both on confessions of >a commodities broker and the wisdom of Yanomami shamans?! Sounds like quite >a guy. Got me. I've cc'd Mark, so he can answer for himself. Doug
Document Size: 4929
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 10:43:42 PDT 1998
41606 posting limits -- rank: 1000
I've raised the posting limit to 5 a day. Please use this heady, exhilarating new freedom responsibly! Doug
Document Size: 4375
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 10:40:09 PDT 1998
41607 class war redux? -- rank: 1000
[this bounced as a nonmember submission] Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:06:16 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Phil Gasper <pgasper at cnd.edu> Subject: Re: class war redux? > We'll know that things have changed for organized labor when >workers not unionized start going on strikes. Until there are some >really chaotic labor disruptions, very little organizing of new >employees is bound to take place and organizing new employees should be >the number one goal of t ...
Document Size: 5807
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 10:31:32 PDT 1998
41608 Krugman on Marx -- rank: 1000
Jim heartfield wrote: >Recent figures suggest that wages have been almost stagnant over the >period 1973-93 The real hourly wage for the average U.S. worker declined about 16% between its 1973 peak and its trough in 1995; it's up about 5% since, though the recent strong growth rate has slowed a bit. Few other countries in the First World have seen such a decline. In Britain, there was a sharp increase in wage inequality during the 1980s and 1990s, but workers at all levels still saw real w ...
Document Size: 5198
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 10:22:02 PDT 1998
41609 the fabric of our lies -- rank: 1000
J Cullen wrote: >>Anybody care -- or notice -- that Monsanto now controls 85 percent of the >>nation's cotton seed market, and that's it's introduced a terminator gene >>that >>requires cotton growers to buy new seed year after year? > >The Progressive Populist in July had a cover story on "The Seed Patenters: >Biotech Giants Force Farmers into Lockstep," along with a sidebar on >biotechnology, which you can find on our website at >http://www.eden ...
Document Size: 14108
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 10:11:08 PDT 1998
41610 Cato Finito -- rank: 1000
Louis Proyect wrote: >Who cares what the libertarians say. We are more interested in what they >do. The Cato Institute is a think-tank that provides ammunition for >right-wing politicians who are trying to turn back the clock to the >Victorian era. That they have largely succeeded is a function of the >ability of Cato, Heritage Foundation, and other inside-the-beltway outfits >to push the political agenda to the right. When votes are cast in favor of >ending welfare because ...
Document Size: 5875
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 13 08:27:01 PDT 1998
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