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41626 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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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 17 09:33:28 PDT 1998

41627 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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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 16 10:21:40 PDT 1998

41628 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

41629 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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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 15 18:00:11 PDT 1998

41630 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

41631 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

41632 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

41633 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

41634 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

41635 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

41636 Indonesia -- rank: 1000

This from Brad de Long bounced because it originally came with a Wall Street Journal article attached. Anyone wanting the article, email me privately - these megabytes cost me! Doug ---- Received: from econ.Berkeley.EDU (econ.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.105.2]) by dont.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixLC1.4) with ESMTP id NAA11584 for <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>; Fri, 15 May 1998 13:30:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [128.32.105.161] (econ161.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.105.161]) by econ.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.5/ ...

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Date:	Fri May 15 10:38:32 PDT 1998

41637 taxi! taxi! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Given the $250,000 cost of a cabbie medalion, it is not clear to me that >eliminating that monopoly barrier to entry into the cab business is the worst >thing in the world for workers. Yes, more cabs will depress revenues, but if >cabbies don't have to spend half their time paying the mortgage for their >leased >medalions on top of the cost of the cab itself, might they not come out ahead? > >What are the economics of this for cabbies? If a guy wit ...

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Date:	Fri May 15 09:37:46 PDT 1998

41638 taxi! taxi! -- rank: 1000

Les Schaffer wrote: >whats going on with the taxi drivers and Giuliani down there? > >'war gas been declared on the taxi-driver' Lesly Princival (New York >Times, today) The NYT actually did a half-decent piece on the cabbies today. The prevailing system now is that drivers lease their vehicles for a high fixed rate, so they have to work their asses off - a 12-hour shift might yield them $100-120. Ok, some of them don't drive very well, don't know where every street is, and don't sp ...

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Date:	Fri May 15 08:06:52 PDT 1998

41639 Clinton the "Phantom Liberal", or, the utility of surveys -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >The results were a strong reminder of a terra firma of >leftish belief among the US citizenry, despite the droning of >corporate propaganda and all variety of sleaze and distraction. As far as I can tell, there hasn't been any coverage of the Australian wharfies strike in the U.S. corporate media. This continues a long tradition of ignoring popular rebellion abroad (though the NY Times did a heart-rending story on how hard it was to get fresh baguettes during the ...

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Date:	Fri May 15 07:56:55 PDT 1998

41640 Western exceptionalism -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >As you have also pointed out, it is >possible for oil to be 'cheap' and 'plentiful' while 75% of >human still have to forage for wood and dung for fuel... This is entirely true, of course, but is there any reason this state of affairs can't continue indefinitely? I'm sitting on an island with some of the richest people in the world living only blocks from some of the poorest in the northern hemisphere, and we have relative social peace and the system reproduces itself ...

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Date:	Fri May 15 07:18:11 PDT 1998