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10711 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 6:44 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > when Christ raises the issue Is he posting? Did I miss him because I'm damned? Speaking of damnation: this is your tenth post of the day. Chris Doss has posted six times. The limit is three. Doug

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10712 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 6:19 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Plainly, the idea that Russia is just a third world country being > sucked dry > of its oil does not hold up, any more than that it is a direct > rival to US > blue chip companies. The truth must be somewhere inbetween. Of course it is, but who said that Russia is just a third world country being sucked dry of its oil? The argument is that Russia is not creating any new industries or investing in the capital infrastructure n ...

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10713 [lbo-talk] free Paris? -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Paris's petition was easier to find quickly: Paris got busted for driving drunk and recklessly, got put on probation and sent to a booze maangement class. She failed to enroll in the booze management class, and got busted again for driving drunk and recklessly. 45 days is a pretty light sentence considering that she put a lot of people at risk. She's no Martha Stewart, that's for sure. Doug

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10714 [lbo-talk] free Paris? -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Personally, I'd rather see her wearing a signboard out in front of > one of the clubs she frequents, but I haven't given it much more > thought than that. I was in favor of freeing Martha Stewart though. Martha was a victim of the federal practice of trying to trap people into lying to a federal agent just to jail them, even if they weren't necessarily guilty of a crime in the first place. That's really sleazy and outrageous. By th ...

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10715 [lbo-talk] Russia's Economy -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On 5/9/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote: >> I confess I find your attachment to Russian >> authoritarianism disconcerting -- it's less alarming >> than Yoshie's endorsement of reactionary theocracy in >> Iran, but neither strike me as socialist attitudes. > > No one is saying that Iran or Russia is socialist. It's up to the > Iranians and the Russians to decide whether ...

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10716 [lbo-talk] free Paris? -- rank: 1000

A report from slightly uptown: a friend on the NYU faculty says there's a "Free Paris!" - as in Hilton - demonstration going on in Washington Square Park right now, organized by NYU students. They want her 45-day jail sentence reduced. I don't think they're kidding.

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10717 [lbo-talk] Regeneration (was: Kvetching, was Sarkozy, France etc) -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I can assure you from my Baltimore experience that > most people who are "displaced" by gentrification love it, because > it gives > them economic opportunities that they did not have before. If you're displaced, you're gone. So how do these people "love it"? This looks like another one of your feelings. I moved into the Upper West Side in 1979, as the transition from fiscal crisis to boomtown was taking hol ...

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10718 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern Violence -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > say sayonara to this subject thank you

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10719 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy (was Kvetching, Sarkozy etc.) -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > It's not true that Russia is not investing much -- investment has gone > up: Of course it's gone up. It's even gone up as share of GDP in recent years. But that's the measure that really matters for long-term growth. And it's not all that impressive. >> You can't sustain 7% growth rates on that forever. > > You can't sustain 7% growth rates on anything. Even Japan slowed > down, and so will China and India in the end. ...

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10720 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy (was Kvetching, Sarkozy etc.) -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 12:02 PM, ravi wrote: > So it seems like India is a Russia (large intellectual/technical > skill base, pent-up consumer demand, etc, including the imported > stuff: products, brands, etc) without the oil. Would those of you > predicting or suspicious of doom for Russia say the same of India? Or > is my analogy wrong? India's pretty complicated, with a large and very poor rural sector and some very impressive basic industry and high-tech. Russia's not really li ...

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10721 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy (was Kvetching, Sarkozy etc.) -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 10:14 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > But then Russia is a developed economy, in a way that China was not. > Russia's development followed a slightly perverse path, because the > bureaucratic planning system was not very good at allocating social > labour > (to borrow Hillel Ticktin's analysis). That made some big problems, > but > Russia did industrialise and urbanise under the Stalinist system > (whatever > we call that) in a way that China did not. ...

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10722 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

I think this one's played out. Doug

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10723 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy (was Kvetching, Sarkozy etc.) -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Victory is indeed sweet, what with all the cars, > personal computers, stereos, DVDs, color televisions > that don't blow up, and Planet Sushis. Did you know > that Moscow has over 30 Sbarro's Restaurants? > http://www.sbarro-rus.com/restaurants/moscow.htm . The > megamalls going up everywhere are enormous. Everywhere, or just in Moscow? Sounds like all that stuff is imported, not of domestic manufacture. So Russia is trading oil ...

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10724 [lbo-talk] Kvetching, was Sarkozy, France etc -- rank: 1000

On May 9, 2007, at 7:10 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > But this kind of stuff really has a "boy who cried > wolf" quality about it for me. It seems like every few > months there is some kind of dire prognosis of > catastrophe made about Russia that never happens. You can have a problem without a catastrophe. If oil prices were to fall hard, Russia would feel it. Investment rates of 18% of GDP are more like a developed economy (US, EU) than a "developing" one (China's ...

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10725 [lbo-talk] Kvetching, was Sarkozy, France etc -- rank: 1000

On May 8, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote: > Hmm, I was trolling for stats the other day, and if memory serves > aright, > Russian investment is up from 11% GDP in 2000 to 19% today. It looks like the 1990s saw the Yeltsin collapse, which has been enormously aided by the strength in oil since 1998 (which was the year of the Russian crisis, right?). Here's what the World Bank says: Gross fixed capital formation (% of GDP) 1990 32 1991 29 1992 23 1993 24 1994 20 1995 22 1996 21 1 ...

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