tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60159262011-08-16T23:01:23.934-04:00<i><b>Unconventional wisdom on global political economy.</b></i>Adam Hershhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17149021876893136586noreply@blogger.comBlogger5911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015926.post-5641384301712617212009-12-03T23:35:00.002-05:002009-12-04T00:09:32.506-05:00

China seems to do everything different from the United States. While the United States dithers and rewards Wall Street for its avarice and arrogance, China is channeling the power of speculative bubbles into a different direction, transforming financial forces into actual energy--that is, sustainable wind energy.On November 9, China Longyuan Power Group--Asia's largest wind power generator--

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Quoting Sarah Palin's Facebook page as an authoritative source on international monetary issues. Oy vey:Sarah Palin, the former vice-presidential Republican candidate, on Wednesday sought to link the dollar decline to rising US indebtedness and dependence on foreign oil. “We can see the effect of this in the price of gold, which hit a record high today in response to fears about the weakened

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Some day I may resuscitate this blog, although writing it has long ago passed into the range of diminishing marginal utility. For now, I am sweating my tuchus off in Manila, Pearl of the Orient. I am summering at the Asian Development Bank in their Office of Regional Economic Integration. I am developing a pilot study to explore updating the bank's early warning system for predicting financial

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Long blogging hiatus due to family, teaching, and dissertation obligations...not to mention a general blogging malaise. But when I read this new abstract from international economist extraordinaire Maurice Obstfeld this morning, I just had to pass it along:Despite an abundance of cross-section, panel, and event studies, there is strikingly little convincing documentation of direct positive

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Dean "Sunshine-and-Lollipops" Baker reminds us that we should be even more pesimistic about Friday's jobs report with its estimated 533k lost jobs (and downward revisions of September and October figures, bringing total job losses to -1.9 million since the beginning of the recession).The reason, the numbers don't impute:the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) imputes jobs into its survey for new

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The Biden team shapes up:Given the critical nature of the economic challenges facing America, Vice President-elect Joe Biden announced today the creation of a new position in the Office of the Vice President: Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to the Vice President. The Vice President-elect has selected nationally-prominent economist Jared Bernstein for the post."Jared Bernstein is an

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Lots of different economists, apparently.Greg Mankiw spins a nice yarn:Not all economists think fiscal stimulus is the answer to the economy’s ills. “There are other choices,” said Greg Mankiw, a Harvard professor who served as President George W. Bush’s chief economic adviser. Foremost among the alternatives is monetary policy, said Mankiw. The Fed can act to bring down long- term interest rates

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Should be kicking-in in China any day now...

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I want a new puppy, too.

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John McCain, loser, is still more than twice as popular as George Bush at present.

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Last night was fun, but now the real, hard fights begin.But it would be good to keep pushing now and rout the right-wing while they are on the retreat.

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Alaska re-elected two convicted felons.

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Well, the Dems didn't get 60, but at least not getting 60 means they can safely kick out that douche bag Lieberman.

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On the phone with the Denver County (CO) Election Office for the fifth time in two weeks to find out why they keep lying about mailing me my absentee ballot.Unlike the tens of thousands of voters illegally purged from the rolls by Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman, I am actually still on the voter roll.

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Just a reminder from WaPo that our eight-year-long national nightmare will not end on November 4. It may take another generation of politics to undo all the deregulatory damage the Bush administration is about to unleash on the world in his waning days:Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that

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Could we please add "undecided voters" to the next volume of the DSM-V?I mean seriously, undecided voters, what is your problem?

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By Rosa Luxemburg:How is it possible that the unplanned supply in the market for labor and the means of production, and incalculable changes in demand nevertheless provide adequate incalculable changes in demand nevertheless provide adequate quantities and qualities of means of production, labor, and opportunities for selling which the individual capitalist needs in order to make a sale?

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Now he wants to pay for his health care tax credit (you know, the one that would deter private businesses from providing health care insurance to employees, and be totally insufficient in covering private insurance premia) by slashing Medicare and Medicaid funding.Sayonara, Florida vote.

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祝大家国庆快乐！

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Obama pretty well held his own and then some throughout the debate. Neither made a knock down punch, but given that McCain is supposed to be a foreign policy expert, I'd say McCain should have done better. As far as the undecided voter goes, I would *guess* the debate keeps things at status quo. As for how anyone could still be undecided at this point of the game, well, they just aren't paying

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Our house is on FIRE (financially speaking)! George Bush and John McCain, having gutted the fire codes (meant to prevent such fires) and privatized the fire department, have left Ben Bernanke holding a flaccid, inadequate fire hose. Bravo. Of course, had Bernanke not ignored the early smoke signals, he might have contained the fire long ago.Ye of neoliberal faith: Repent! Repent! Repent!

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So, I'm thinking now is a good time to privatize Social Security to Wall Street. Who's with me?

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Browsing Shanghaiist this morning over my usual congee and green tea breakfast. Here's what I found.China's nouveau uber-riche will soon be able to jet off to tropical Hainan island, where they can basque in uber-luxury at China's first 7-star hotel (which is about 4 stars more than I've ever known).While they are lounging around having money fights, other not-so-lucky or politically connected

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Politicians running for national office can wrap themselves in small town, apple pie "values" while at the same time deriding small towns as "nowhere" (as in, "a bridge to...").

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Maybe it's because I was out of the country for the past year, but it just doesn't feel to me like there's a presidential campaign going on. Perhaps, though there are countless important issues to be discussed and debated, this is because neither of the candidates are really talking about anything. The campaign discourse is a tad below the level of a typical Today Show spot. And, having spent the

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I don't know if you've heard that China is hosting the summer Olympics this year, but with less than a month to go to the games the Olympic promotion and propaganda machine is in full swing. Even economists being interviewed on the nightly news (about inflationary prospects) are sporting Beijing 2008 shirts. This one was still sporting the "newly unfolded out-of-package" creases. No doubt the

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James Fallows reports from Beijing:I mentioned recently that two subway lines that are crucial to Olympic transport plans -- the airport express, to bring visitors in from PEK airport, and the special line to the Olympic venues themselves -- have had their opening delayed, along with another, Line 10, that is crucial to my own transport happiness. They're all now scheduled to open later this

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It looks like Beijing's air is getting worse, not better, before the Olympics, by James Fallows's account.And here is my pic of the Bird's Nest Stadium, a beautiful structure if/when you can see it through the smog. This was a "clear" day, relatively speaking, in late April. Good luck athletes (and visitors).

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0161 - Bacon, ham, and other dried, salted, or smoked meat of swine.

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This will certainly make good fodder.Not only lying about his voting record (or is it just senility?), but standing arm-in-arm with President "25% Approval Rating" Bush on the day they lost New Orleans. Nice touch.

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I wonder how high gas prices have to get before Americans revolt against NASCAR?Given that we have such precious little time left to play with our oil, you think maybe we--as a society--could decide to, you know, stop wasting it on inefficient cars driving corporate advertisements around in circles? Really fast circles.

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This is a classy exit strategy if I've ever seen one. I particularly like how she apologized to everyone but Barack Obama for insinuating he would be assassinated. Nice.

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Well, that didn't take long. Apparently on Monday, the first day of a three national mourning here in China that I wrote about below, a Chongqing-based magazine published some "sexy" pictures of the Sichuan earthquake (follow links from Shanghaiist to see the pics). Now, I think even Larry Flynt would agree that this photo spread was in bad taste (what were they thinking?), but what really struck

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From the media reports trickling through, I'm guessing it is difficult for most people to grasp the overwhelming scale of tragedy from last week's earthquake in Sichuan province, China. Let me offer some perspective on it. Sichuan province, in China's southwest, is probably known best for its spicy food and panda sanctuaries (you can even see them on live web cam). The quake occurred less than

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So, why do you think the U.S. Senate's Sergeant at Arms is looking at my academic web page?

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Well, that solved nothing.Okay, so Hillary can sling mud for six weeks and win a primary. So what? While neither she nor Barack are likely to secure enough delegates for a clean nomination at the Denver DNC convention, she will continue to trail in delegates, popular vote, or any other measure of voter preference. In other words, Clinton's only potential to secure the nomination can come from

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I never actually read Freakonomics, only some of the scathing critiques levied against it (see John DiNardo's extensive review(s) for a lark). Merits of the book aside, like many academicians, I too am insanely jealous that I didn't write a wildly successful best-selling book and get offered a regular column in print and online at the New York Times. So admittedly, valid professional criticisms

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Hyman Minsky: Yes, "it" will happen againThe Financial Times reports that the world's central bankers and global financiers are in open conflict over the course of of appropriate financial regulation in the wake of the latest and greatest world financial crisis.I'll summarize: at the G7/IMF/World Bank semi-annual meetings over the weekend, the world's private sector bankers told financial

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NERDS!Bought a new laptop late last year to replace my (third) HP. The HP was perennially not working due to software and hardware issues. Never again will I buy one of those. This time, I bought a Lenovo--model not available in the US market. It's pretty sweet, sturdy, and with a lot of nice design features. The only problem was that it came with crappy Windows Vista OS. Ah, Windows Vista. The

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...the criminals whom we are providing combat training and arming with assault weapons. USA Today reports that the US Army is increasingly granting "conduct" waivers for people convicted of felonies and misdemeanors in order to meet recruiting goals for warm bodies.They are also lowering educational standards. In 2001, 91 percent of recruits had finished high school; now only 79 percent have. But

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Or, what are assistant professors in America's top economics departments doing? Andrew Oswald and Hilda Ralsmark of the University of Warwick comb the CVs of 112 assistant profs for clues about where the discipline is going (pdf):As part of a larger study of the brain drain among elite scientists, we have been collecting information on young American economists. This has been done by examining,

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FreeRice is a clever venture of Poverty.com to harness web advertising revenues for world hunger relief. How does it work? Just hop onto the FreeRice website and grill yourself for a while with the SAT-like battery vocabulary quiz. Not only will using Free Rice beef up your vocab so you can kick some serious Scrabulous butt, but for each click advertising revenues buy 20 grains of rice for the UN

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No, it's not President Bush's latest approval rating...it's Friday's Employment Situation Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And with reports like this one, I'm sure glad to have another year and a half of student-dom in my future. As usual, labor economist extraordinaire Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute has the lowdown on all the numbers. "How is the employment situation

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I wrote below about Zimbabwe's now week-old presidential and parliamentary election, for which the Zimbabwe Election Commission has yet to release "official" results. Since then, the ZEC has announced that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) had won a majority of seats in Parliament, but nothing about the much anticipated presidential plebiscite. Will Robert Mugabe, president

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The Independent of London reports:Michigan has been in its own mini-recession for years as its collapsing industrial base, particularly in the car industry, has cast more and more out of work. Now, one in eight residents of the state is on food stamps, double the level in 2000.

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Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change is claiming victory in yesterday's national election. This is big. This probably marks the end of current President Robert Mugabe's long career atop what was once one of Africa's star industrial economies and and hopeful democratic experiments. After leading the Zimbabwe African National Union to victory in a bitter guerrilla war against the

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From the NYT:A dramatic moment, both in reality and cinematically, came when Mr. Dith saved Mr. Schanberg and other Western journalists from certain execution by talking fast and persuasively to the trigger-happy soldiers who had captured them.But despite frantic effort, Mr. Schanberg could not keep Mr. Dith from being sent to the countryside to join millions working as virtual slaves. ...For

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...at least at 育英 middle school in Shanghai, where yesterday I taught about American society and holidays to an assembly of 300 or so middle school kids. Here is my presentation (.pdf). Most of you can't read it, but you can get the gist of it from the pictures. These kids, at least, were rolling in the aisles. I even got them to sing Chinese pop songs to me.

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Yes, China, too, is learning how to act on the world stage--namely, how to pull together a nice sounding coalition to support policies that most of the world abhors. Take this morning's headline from Xinhua state news service: International Community Supports China's Handling of Lhasa Riots.Who is this international community? Mauritius, Madagascar, Burundi, Sudan, Cyprus, Montenegro, Albania,

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I was pleasantly surprised to discover this evening that I still have yet to be named on the US Treasury Department's "Specially Designated Nationals" list.So while this dissertation certainly hasn't been writing itself, at least I have that much going for me still. Which is nice.

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*In their unwavering efforts to lead the world's fight against American Imperialism (yes, that's a capital "I"), the Chinese government today released its annual report on the US human rights record. Or you can read the summary straight from the horse's mouth here.Among other things, the report documents high rates of abuse and violence complaints against police officers (and low rates of

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Well, not quite free, but Big Red announced today it will be subsidizing my lunches to the tune of US$25.6 million to help college students and faculty ease the burden of food price inflation--caused first by a pig disease epidemic, and then by freak snow storms. I had noticed that my usual bowl of Yangzhou fried rice (扬州炒饭) had gone up in price since last semester: from CNY4 to CNY5. Or about US

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Leading today's headlines in Big Red, it's Zhou Enlai's 110th (pictured here with Tricky Dick). The CPC commemorated it with a lot of "tut-tut"-ing at what I'm sure was a lavish meal in the elegantly ordained ball room of the Great Hall of the People. (I just happened to snap a picture of said room last September, but can't seem to get it over the Great Firewall at the moment, so ask me again

Adam Hershhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17149021876893136586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015926.post-17147233502996541272008-02-24T02:54:00.002-05:002008-02-24T02:57:49.718-05:00

This time, it is time: The American Time Use Survey.This data source, which became fully operational in 2003, is an annual survey that provides the only available information on how Americans use their time. In the view of many social scientists, it is the most important new data initiative begun by the U.S government in at least 35 years. The size of the ATUS sample was already reduced by 35

Adam Hershhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17149021876893136586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015926.post-74067665350786332592008-02-23T01:12:00.004-05:002008-02-23T01:56:46.449-05:00

In Beijing for a couple weeks trying to pry some microeconomic datasets out of the hands of the rapacious gatekeepers of information inside China's various bureaucratic institutions. (Speaking of which, a special thanks to the good peoples at TOR, without whom this posting would not be possible). So far not too much luck, but will keep on plugging. Whatever happened to, "From each according to

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NYT's edition:The Bush administration’s decision to put six detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on trial before military tribunals and to seek the death penalty is both a betrayal of American ideals and simply bad strategy. Instead of being what they could and should be — a model of justice dispensed impartially, surely and dispassionately — the trials will proceed under deeply flawed procedures

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I decided to try resuming blogging after a long blogging burn-out. That, and I obviously need more online distractions that do not include Scrabulous or dissertation writing. This morning brings a nice consular warning from my rich Uncle Sam. Apparently, in the even of an avian flu pandemic, I might be sticking around China for a while:If the WHO declares a pandemic, Americans who are overseas

Adam Hershhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17149021876893136586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015926.post-59784382296402281422007-11-05T01:31:00.000-05:002007-11-05T01:34:13.695-05:00

I seem to have found a crack in the Great Firewall today, so am posting this note. Readers may wonder where I've been since mid-July, 2007. I'm in China for dissertation research, and as blogger and all blogspot blogs are generally blocked here I will not be posting for the next year or so.再见!

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Senator John McCain's presidential campaign is DOA. Mitt Romney tortures dogs. Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani are a serial adulterers. And now firefighters, police officers, and their families are speaking out about Giuliani's phony persona as 9/11 hero.2008 is shaping up real nice.

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If Gordon Brown is half as funny as how much he looks like Mr. Bean, then we are in for some more hilarious geopolitical antics from those Limey Brits.

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Couldn't make the trip? Don't miss out on the Campaign for America's Future's annual Take Back America conference. Watch candidate Edwards, and all the other videos here:

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Paul Wolfowitz volunteered his support in providing a "character reference" for Scooter Libby, ahead of this morning's sentencing. Here's how Wolfie starts the letter:I am currently serving, until June 30 of this year, as President of the World Bank.And it gets better from there...It is also comforting to know that, had Scooter not been enticed into public "service" by Wolfowitz, "our country

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Today, I am officially an MSc in Economics. But, no fanfare, no ceremony, just moving on to finishing my dissertation prospectus so I can defect to Communist Paradise (China) for my field research.Yesterday I polished off my last required final exam, which was a thorough explication of this dude, Leon Walras (pronounced Valras). Basically he dreamed up the most absurd vision of a sunshine and

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From the Federal Reserve Bank of SF Working Papers Series on Basic Economic Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoRelative Status and Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Suicide Deaths (pdf) by Mary C. Daly, Daniel J. Wilson, and Norman J. Johnson. From the abstract:We model suicide as a choice variable, conditional on exogenous risk factors, reflecting an individual's assessment of

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The NYT editorial page has finally broken the silence on the FU (Friedman Unit) critique:What Mr. Maliki needs to do to slow Iraq’s bloodletting is no mystery. Iraq’s security forces must stop siding with the Shiite militias. Iraq’s oil revenue must be apportioned fairly. Anti-Baathist laws now used to deny Sunni Arabs employment and political opportunities must be rewritten to target only those

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Apparently, it's totally legitimate to just kind of, you know, make this stuff up as we go along:The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went.In a long-awaited document, the Church's International Theological Commission said limbo reflected an "unduly restrictive view of

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No one should be surprised at this point, I guess. But I'm struck at the reluctance of the Bush administration to even back down from something so minor as the World Bank President. Rarely is the evidence of hypocritical misgovernance laid so bare.The World Bank's leading campaign is to promote "good governance" and to stamp out corruption that impedes economic and institutional development,

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FT.com:Sachiko Dohi, general manager of domestic Chinese operations for NYK Logistics, part of Japan’s largest shipping line, says the boxes – going to Tesco, a UK supermarket chain – would once have been sent loose in containers and unpacked box by box at a UK distribution centre. Now they are sorted into the quantities needed for each superstore, each shrink-wrapped and placed on its own pallet

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Whoa:Given the fallout and real, social and financial costs of this disaster the political blame game will soon start. So it is important to make sure that the self-serving spin game that accompanied the game of those who happily ignored since last summer the looming housing, mortgage and economic mess will not be repeated again. Powerful political and financial interests will spin their

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To my visitors from US Central Command, thanks for stopping by. Always a pleasure to have you. Hope you enjoyed the reading.

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The nuns have it:Nuns in the South Korean capital, Seoul, shout slogans to protests against talks on a free trade agreement with the US.

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Tomorrow is International Women's Day. Find out what people are doing around the globe to fight for the equality of women.

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This is a momentary lapse in my self-imposed blogging hiatus. Sometimes, something comes along that is just too great to let pass. Witness Blognut - a blog devoted to the single greatest food in the history of civilization: the Donut!Yes, I've blogged donuts before (here and here and here), but my intermitent commentary could never do justice to the sweetest of sweet the way Blognut does.Enjoy.-GT

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The World Bank World Development Indicators CD-ROM contains no data series for:(a) employment(b) unemployment(c) economically active populationamong others.Not knowing whether people are employed or not sure makes it hard to know if we are really "working for a world free of poverty."

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I've taken a self-imposed hiatus from blogging (mostly due to ennui, also in deference to the many other more committed and incisive bloggers out there), but this choice quote from this morning's NYT article on the Democratic opposition to Bush's Iraq War escalation caught my eye:In an interview on Tuesday, Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, said he was becoming increasingly

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Despite the fastest growth rate in the world, the poor in China are unable to share in the gains (or even just keep up). That's the word from a World Bank study reported in the FT.Real incomes of the poorest 10 percent fell 2.4 percent--and not due to bad agricultural prices.This probably vastly understates poverty, as China uses a poverty line of US$83 a year, or 5 percent of per capita income,

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Public lauding of economist Milton Friedman following his passing earlier this week stands in stark contrast to that accorded to John Kenneth Galbraith.Even self-proclaimed social justice advocate Lawrence Summers (yes, we all like to think we stand for social justice) is in on the band wagon.Friedman was indeed a champion of liberty. But his notions of "liberty" constitute an exceedingly narrow,

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A train roars on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway in Damxung County of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Oct. 25, 2006. As it has come into the winter, snow covers the vast grassland on the altiplano in the north Tibet. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world highest which began service on July 1, will have the test of severe winter and snowstorm on the highland for the first time. (Xinhua Photo)

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Put the grown-ups in charge of Congress: style="width:235px;height:305px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0">

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National Journal writes:When asked to identify the most motivating factors for their core constituents, Democrats' picks were no surprise: nearly all 73 polled chose the war in Iraq, President Bush or both.But party politics made more of an impression for Republicans. A 47-percent plurality of the 68 GOP insiders polled named "fear of a Democratic majority" as the issue with the most resonance

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On November 7, Massachusetts voters will choose whether to improve the quality of child care by giving family providers a voice to work with the state on policies affecting child care and kids.And remember, a "no" vote means you hate children...You don't hate children, do you?

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Montana wants to make sure that no unions will get in the way of Montanans' inalienible right to slave labor:Montana Code 39-31-312: Nonnegotiable items for state prison. Collective bargaining agreements entered after July 14, 1982, may not contain provisions prohibiting or restricting the use of inmate labor as provided for in 53-30-151.Prison labor, brought to you by the great state of Montana

Adam Hershhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17149021876893136586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015926.post-1160452189148907282006-10-09T23:49:00.000-04:002006-10-10T00:05:55.143-04:00

Or else she would know enough about "credible threats" and "strategies of commitment" never to have put her name behind the NSSUS. If anyone in the admin had read Schelling, how could they have believed the U.S. would ever have the capacity to make credible the threat of pre-emptive overthrow of "rogue nations" of more than one at a time?Jeeze, even the North Koreans knew that, and they haven't

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"Fortunate Sons: New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States Using Social Security Earnings Data," Review of Economics and Statistics: Previous studies, relying on short-term averages of fathers' earnings, have estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in earnings to be approximately 0.4. Due to persistent transitory fluctuations, these estimates have been biased down

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Xinhua News "reports".

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From FMC:In 2006, the Fed leaders reported that they held $83.8-$163.1 million in combined assets, up from $18.0-$45.6 million in the previous filing cycle.Cool! You can even see complete asset and income data for the Reserve Board Governors.Meanwhile, how the other 99 percent live.

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Chain Reaction, of course.Show your support. Vote for them!Tell your friends.

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This took a while, but the new Political Economy Research Institute website is officially and finally online.

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Not a terrorist alert. Even Saudis wouldn't go out in this heat. No, this code orange just means old people and children are at risk of dying from heat and air pollution, thanks to our own corporate petro-terrorists.NOAA warns:HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY TODAY...WITH MAX TEMPERATURES FORECAST TO REACH NEAR 100 DEGREES. COMBINED WITH A HUMID AIRMASS..THE HEAT INDEX WILL LIKELY REACH NEAR

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I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The

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Chinese government economists estimate that environmental pollution last year cost China approximately 10 percent of GDP. Last year, China's economy grew 9.9 percent in real terms, not accounting for environmental externalities. Yes, that's actually a net loss of 0.1 percent of GDP. Is this the end of the Chinese growth miracle?

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Shaw EcoVillage and its Chain Reaction Youth Bike shop, former pet projects of mine, are now reopenned in a new improved location at 1416 North Capitol St. in Washington, DC.Went in on Friday and man is it great. Those of you in the area should stop in and check it out. Also, stay posted to their website for upcoming schedules of events like Adult bicycle repair classes, volunteer opportunities,

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Why 17? Why not?For you yearlings who don't remember the Tiananmen uprisings (actually, happenned all throughout China--not just in the infamous public square), read the first-hand inside account (shit, it's only $0.43 used) or get the podcast from PBS.

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If capitalist China can regulate prescription drug prices, why can't socialist America?Xinhua reports: "The Chinese government has cut the retail prices of 67 drugs used for the treatment of cancer by a range of anywhere from 23 percent to 57 percent in a response to public complaint over soaring prices for drugs and medical services....Of the 67 drugs, 23 used to have their prices determined by

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According to Keynes, in the General Theory, classical general equilibrium theory is proleptic.From Dictionary.com:pro·lep·sis n. pl. pro·lep·sesadj. pro·leptic or pro·lepti·cal 1. The anachronistic representation of something as existing before its proper or historical time, as in the precolonial United States. 2. a. The assignment of something, such as an event or name, to a time

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That, according to FT.com and Bloomberg. Zoellick has been Bush's key internatinal economic policy con men. Man, I gotta get me one of these cabinet posts. Just a couple years in and you get the Wall Street golden parachute, corner office overlooking Manhattan, private jet, etc., etc., all for just hanging around and schmoozing.

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Peter Ireland of Karavans, a clearinghouse for information on sustainability issues and green entrepreneurs, writes me:I run Karavans.com and was wondering if you can recommend any books/articles that deal with the how-to of economic survival in a depression?I have been anti-globalization since the mid 1980s. A lot of economic news today points towards a collapse of the dollar and a possible

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I've been on a Xinhua news kick of late. Yes, it is the propaganda mouthpiece of the Chinese regime. It needs to be taken with a grain of salt, of course, and its difficult to distinguish between 'news' items and 'opinion.' Nonetheless, the picture that emerges is not necessarily one of unabashed capitalist roots cracking the concrete foundation of the socialist state--the dominant view in the

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