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12196 [lbo-talk] GDP digest -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Shane Taylor wrote: > I haven't seen them posted here before, but James > Hamilton writes succinct and relevant digests of the > monthly releases of quarterly GDP: > > http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2007/11/new_gdp_figures.html He notes the contribution of exports. So-called domestic absorption - demand from U.S. sources, defined as GDP less exports plus imports (since exports are an addition to, and imports a subtraction from GDP) has been runn ...

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12197 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind thesub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2007, at 11:23 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Anyone can arrest people. It's called a citizen's > arrest Yeah, I think I saw an episode of The Andy Griffith Show about that. But, really, cops are different from you and me. Special bodies of armed men, as the man said. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 20:34:11 PDT 2007

12198 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind thesub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Andy F wrote: >> That, and the fact that he can arrest people. > > Isn't that was separates anarchists from other lefties (generally > speaking)? Anarchists can arrest people?

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 19:33:01 PDT 2007

12199 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind thesub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2007, at 6:17 PM, joanna wrote: > It's all very Miss Marplish -- he's not an "expert" of any kind, > and the > state apparatus is hugely absent, except for the necessary but > invisible > crime lab. That, and the fact that he can arrest people. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 16:13:09 PDT 2007

12200 [lbo-talk] Craig to resign -- rank: 1000

The Politico.com Breaking News: --------------------------------------------------------- AP reports Larry Craig to resign from Senate Resignation effective September 30th, wire service says. http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0807/ Suspense_builds_awaiting_Craig_announcement.html

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 16:10:59 PDT 2007

12201 [lbo-talk] what Americans think of unions -- rank: 1000

[tables and graphs at original] <http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28570> August 31, 2007 Sixty Percent of Americans Approve of Labor Unions Little changed in recent years by Joseph Carroll GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's annual Work and Education survey finds little change during the past several years in Americans' opinions about labor unions, with 60% of Americans now approving of unions. Less than one in five Americans say labor unions in this country will become ...

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12202 [lbo-talk] 1970's Labor Militancy -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Bradley Bauerly wrote: > I had some data on the strikes of the 1970's on file so here is > some numbers. I can get anyone the file if they like, the graph is > much more striking than pure numbers. > > Work stoppages, workers involved, average duration, and person-days > idle: 1881-1998 You can get the full history, through July 2007, at: <http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=ws>. The Java can sometimes be a little flaky, but this one ...

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12203 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behindthesub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Well, another unique thing about Columbo is that he is an outsider > who functions successfully on the inside. The archetype of the > public avenger as total outsider was probably best defined by > Raymond Chandler, whose hero, Philip Marlowe, brandishes his > identity as a *private* investigator to shield him from the > corruption of the police and maintain his purity as knight errant. Yes, but...the outsider/insider thing set ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 12:17:17 PDT 2007

12204 [lbo-talk] omigod! democratic capitalism under attack!! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.manhattan-institute.org/democratic_capitalism/index.htm> ANNOUNCING NEW BOOK Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents (ISI Books, 2007) By Brian C. Anderson Despite its victory over the messianic creeds of communism and national socialism, democratic capitalism, the economic-political system that has provided the nations of the West with an unprecedented degree of prosperity and freedom, faces extraordinary challenges in the new millennium. Not only has a fanatical form of ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 10:47:23 PDT 2007

12205 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind thesub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2007, at 12:27 PM, joanna wrote: > Not just smarts. Columbo uses inference, deduction, ....science. > Columbo > is what class warfare looks like when the working class aligns itself > with reason rather than religion. It didn't hurt he was part of the LAPD either. Is class warfare with a badge really class warfare? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 09:39:22 PDT 2007

12206 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind the sub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Michael Perelman wrote: > Vogel and Silk 1976 I suppose I could easily look this up, but what's this ref? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 09:01:12 PDT 2007

12207 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind the sub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2007, at 3:27 AM, B. wrote: > Until hearing Doug speak of the "working class > surliness" of the 1970s on his radio show, I'd never > actually thought of the 1970s as a period of working > class militancy. Christian Parenti had a great piece in a Baffler from around 2000 on just that, but I can't find my copy now. It was a time of wildcat strikes. They had to call in the national guard at one point to deliver the mail. Workers were sabotaging assembly lines. A ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 31 06:28:58 PDT 2007

12208 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind the sub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2007, at 2:01 AM, Seth Ackerman wrote: > Profits were down and the working class was surly in the 30's. But the > response was quite different. The whole system was on the verge of collapse in the 1930s; it was just sickly in the 1970s. > In the early and mid-70's, the Republicans thought that implementing a > Reaganite agenda would spark a backlash and end in political disaster. > By 1980, they had changed their minds. Wasn't that because of a change > of creed? De ...

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12209 [lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind the sub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Rick Kisséll quoted Robert "Bob" Kuttner: > This all could have been > prevented if deregulation had not been embraced so fervently as a > national economic creed. It's not a matter of creed. Deregulation was pushed because profits were down and the working class was surly. Liberals have no sense of class and power, do they? Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 30 19:37:44 PDT 2007

12210 [lbo-talk] Chicago Tribune on Finkelstein -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - August 28, 2007 <http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi- depaul28aug28,1,1437195.story> DePaul pulls plug on controversial professor Course cancelled a week before class By Ron Grossman The required reading was at the bookstore, the students had the course syllabus, and space in Political Science 235, "Equality in Social Justice," was standing-room only when DePaul University pulled the plug Friday on what was to have been Norman Finkelstein's final ye ...

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