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1141 [lbo-talk] Infrastructure -- rank: 1000

By the way, the trendy story in the biz press these days is re-shoring - the return of factory jobs to the U.S. as China gets more expensive relative to U.S. labor. American workers are still more productive than Chinese, so the real wage gap is narrowing. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 15 13:25:33 PDT 2011

1142 [lbo-talk] Susan Abulhawa on WITBD for Palestine (rights vs. statehood -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I'll pick something > like "the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to > full equality," I'll bracket the "rights" talk but the fight for full civil equality is a very specific demand, kind of like our own civil rights movement, and not like that other airy-fairy stuff that James quoted. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 15 13:24:07 PDT 2011

1143 [lbo-talk] Susan Abulhawa on WITBD for Palestine (rights vs. statehood -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > Don't regular people say "state"? >> > > Only when it's the goal they've chosen to pursue. Well no shit, but isn't that the goal of most Palestinians?

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Date:	Sat Oct 15 13:16:27 PDT 2011

1144 [lbo-talk] Susan Abulhawa on WITBD for Palestine (rights vs. statehood -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I agree with this -- including the "hollow at the core." But you have t understand that in mass movements in their early stages almost the only kind of slogans/calls that will generate the necessary mass to _Begin_ serious discussion are such slogans. Really? Those slogans sound like stuff a philanthropist-funded NGO would say. Don't regular people say "state"? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 15 12:17:31 PDT 2011

1145 [lbo-talk] Query, was the bondholder class -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > A query. State Farm has attacked the low interest rate policy of the Fed on the grounds that it would force Life Insurance companies into riskier investment in order to get the return they need to make good their obligations to policy holders. Could you comment on this. That's probably true, but on balance, low interest rates are essential now to avoid a deflationary collapse. It might not work, but it's certain that higher interest rates would ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 15 12:16:19 PDT 2011

1146 [lbo-talk] me on the Fed from a while ago -- rank: 1000

Given the talk about the Fed around the Occupy Phenomenon, I posted the section on the Fed from Wall Street to my "blog": http://lbo-news.com/2011/10/15/on-the-fed-from-my-book-wall-street/

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1147 [lbo-talk] the bondholder class -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2011, at 1:46 PM, lbo-talk-owner at lbo-talk.org wrote: > From: Thomas Volscho <Thomas.Volscho at csi.cuny.edu> > Date: October 15, 2011 1:46:32 PM EDT > To: "lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> > Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Occupation Reading Group Recommendations > > > E. Ray Canterbery's (2000) Wall Street Capitalism: A Theory of the Bondholding Class is a good start. He is a Keynesian, but humorous (he is critical of finance ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 15 10:59:10 PDT 2011

1148 [lbo-talk] bounced post on the bondholder class -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because of an attached PDF.] From: Thomas Volscho <Thomas.Volscho at csi.cuny.edu> Date: October 15, 2011 1:46:32 PM EDT To: "lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Occupation Reading Group Recommendations E. Ray Canterbery's (2000) Wall Street Capitalism: A Theory of the Bondholding Class is a good start. He is a Keynesian, but humorous (he is critical of finance capital). There is a shorter summary (see attached). He ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 15 10:51:53 PDT 2011

1149 [lbo-talk] Susan Abulhawa on WITBD for Palestine (rights vs. statehood -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2011, at 1:34 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Joe C. posted: This, in my opinion, is what we should be working toward.? Calling for our natural rights as human beings and as an indigenous people is what unifies us all.? To be accorded human rights is our rightful inheritance.? > > I think statehood is a clearer demand. What natural right? What are indigenous people? Are some humans indigenous and some not? to be accorded by whom? Excellent questions. Statehood is a goal th ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 15 10:49:47 PDT 2011

1150 [lbo-talk] The EU After the Euro Crisis -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Sebastian Gerhardt wrote: > Here I take the oldfashioned position of Anwar Shaikh and Rania Antonpoulos, > refusing the Ricardo-view of comparative cost and insisting on the > real basics of absolute advantage in international trade. In this > view there is not much room for manipulationof exchange rates by > central banks. But market rates often oscillate a lot around that intrinsic value. Central banks can't fight the underlying trend, but they can ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 15 09:30:15 PDT 2011

1151 [lbo-talk] The guy who 'blocked' John Lewis -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Black interests You write as if those are self-evident. One of the questions I've asked you over the years that you've never responded to - along with the "why Milton and Pound and not Edgar Guest if hierarchies of art are so odious? - is what do you make of the fact that black people overwhelmingly vote Democrat? Right now, blacks vie with white liberals in their support of Obama. If you're all about following black leadership, why do you ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 14:50:09 PDT 2011

1152 [lbo-talk] Going for the record? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > So how many wars are the US fighting? It's tough to keep track, but Barry gets another notch in his belt today. Nothing like a "peace" candidate to wage a war, eh? Hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?

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1153 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg is frustrated -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > What would we be without Wall > Street? Where would *he* be without Wall Street? At something like $1,300 per month per terminal, you can make a lot of money off those things. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 10:44:41 PDT 2011

1154 [lbo-talk] The guy who 'blocked' John Lewis -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2011, at 1:32 PM, c b wrote: > CB; Yeah The Jacobins and Doug have race all figured out. The > Colorlines people should talk to them (lol) You know, I read through some of their stuff the other day. After saying that we should put "racial justice" at the core of "economic justice," about all they offer in concrete terms is enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. Well yeah, who could argue with that? But it comes with a lot of huffing & puffing. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 14 10:35:52 PDT 2011

1155 [lbo-talk] Apple supply chain, profits, offshoring, etc. -- rank: 1000

[Joanna Bujes sent along the abstract and charts, but since the list software blocks attachments, I'm forwarding the link and the abstract.] http://pcic.merage.uci.edu/papers/2011/Value_iPad_iPhone.pdf Abstract This article analyzes the distribution of value from innovation in the global supply chains of the Apple iPad and iPhone. We find that Apple continues to capture the largest share of value from these innovations. While these products, including most of their components, are manufactured i ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 14:54:27 PDT 2011