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12271 [lbo-talk] sketching an "anti-economist" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Chuck wrote: > The more liberal left publications and websites will face a crisis in > 2009, after the Democrats take office and Bush leaves. The liberal > left > media is heavily dependent right now on Bush-hating content. > > It's probable that the popularity of liberal left websites and > publications will end up on the remainder table with discounted > anti-Bush t-shirts. Yup. I don't doubt that the reason the Nation's circ is at a record ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 11:28:51 PDT 2007

12272 [lbo-talk] income distribution worldwide: the VMIR -- rank: 1000

<http://www.countdownnet.info/archivio/analisi/world_economy/530.pdf> An International Comparison of the Incomes of the Vast Majority Anwar Shaikh and Amr Ragab April 12, 2007 Introduction Income levels and income inequality are two major dimensions of national and international well-being. The last two decades have witnessed a growing concern about both issues, from policy makers, social scientists, and the media. But the two dimensions are generally treated separately, with GDP per ca ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 10:16:24 PDT 2007

12273 [lbo-talk] sketching an "anti-economist" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I must be alone on this list in thinking that a new periodical is > the last > thing the left needs these days. Or if not -last-, then, well at > least on > page like 48 of the list of things we need. How bout a couple mass > organizations with some numbers, power and strategy first? It's not an either-or thing - were there more action, there'd be more publications, and vice versa. The organizational and journalistic left ar ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 10:11:42 PDT 2007

12274 [lbo-talk] Barbara Ehrenreich Loses Her Mind -- rank: 1000

On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Speaking of this Josephson book, will > the book about the us ruling class you're writing be like it, doug, > but > updated to present times? because pound for pound, I think the > funniest and > most robber-baronly series of embarrassign scandals by corrupt > right-wingers > these days was the whole conrad black broohahah. I guess he got > offf on > most charges, but still, all that crap seemed pure josephson. As ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 10:04:12 PDT 2007

12275 [lbo-talk] Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward -- rank: 1000

On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Hairy Potter Hairy Pecker, please.

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 08:55:15 PDT 2007

12276 [lbo-talk] high-teching the herd -- rank: 1000

[so now we need a quant fund that will identify the stocks that other quants are investing in to time short sales of those stocks after they run up!] Wall Street Journal - August 24, 2007 How the 'Quant' Playbook Failed Federal Filings Confirm the Finger Pointing: Funds Often Shared Stocks -- Leading to Losses By JUSTIN LAHART The managers of "quantitative" hedge funds that got roiled in this summer's stock-market selloff didn't gather after work to drink beer and swap trading idea ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 08:20:36 PDT 2007

12277 [lbo-talk] are Proddies selfish & depraved? -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/08/bigotry-on-the-.html> Bigotry on the Bayou? [by Jake Tapper] August 23, 2007 12:20 PM Ugly religious charges and counter-charges have emerged in the Louisiana gubernatorial race, with the Louisiana Democratic Party running a TV ad accusing the frontrunner, GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-La., of having once called Protestants "scandalous, depraved, selfish and heretical." The Jindal campaign says the ad is un ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 08:04:17 PDT 2007

12278 [lbo-talk] Warner - changing the math? -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Forget the National Intelligence Estimate, the $15 million ad campaign, the much-awaited Petraeus report, and the slick new White House PR offensive. Here are 14 words that matter more than all of that put together -- a sentence that just might end a war: "I say to the president, with great respect, consider that you initiate the withdrawal," said Sen. John Warner, R-Va. The simple statement from the courtliest of senators (and a veteran, a former Navy secretary, ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 07:56:40 PDT 2007

12279 [lbo-talk] new "home" sales up -- rank: 1000

[from Dismal.com] New Home Sales (C25) for United States: 870,000 Some stabilizing is evident in the housing market, with July home sales coming in 2.8% above June for sales of 870,000 annualized units. June data were revised upward. Months of supply moved down slightly to 7.5, while the median sales price is up by 0.6% from one year ago. Given current tightness in the mortgage market, however, this improvement at best represents the beginning of a slow and uneven recovery.

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 07:43:16 PDT 2007

12280 [lbo-talk] "Turning Point in Western Capitalism" -- rank: 1000

Check the date on the piece - August 19! Ancient history. - Doug On Aug 24, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > the major world markets appear to be holding steady, today. no? nikkei > closed down less than 1%, and not much movement on the FTSE and > EUROFIRST. i > guess we'll see how the american markets do. > > On 8/24/07, Ismail Lagardien <ilagardien at yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >>> From the Sunday Torygraph! >> >> This weekend mark ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 05:58:07 PDT 2007

12281 [lbo-talk] historian objects to being used by Bush -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5499.html> Historian: Bush use of quote 'perverse' By: Avi Zenilman Aug 23, 2007 04:55 PM EST SAVE Digg del.icio.us Technorati reddit SHARE COMMENT PRINT EMAIL RECOMMEND A historian quoted by President Bush to help argue that critics of the administration's Iraq policy echo those who questioned the U.S. effort to bring democracy to Japan after World War II angrily distanced himself from the president's remarks Thursday. "They [war supporte ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 05:44:26 PDT 2007

12282 [lbo-talk] Feeling Old.... Yeah! -- rank: 1000

On Aug 24, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Ismail Lagardien wrote: > Teaching a Class on Africa's International Relations a year ago > (Aug- Dec) I felt like an ancient freak. Not a single undergraduate > knew, beyond "a" name (one Nelson Mandela), what apartheid was. I > didn't know whether to laugh, or cry. But then, some of them > couldn't discuss McCarthyism, the Watts Riots, Kent State, Tet... > They had never heard of the Sandinistas/Contras... To his credit, > one studen ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 05:37:01 PDT 2007

12283 [lbo-talk] BBC 8/23/07: Shrewd lenders spark US mortgage chaos -- rank: 1000

Yes, a lot of smoothing talking con artists sold people a bill of goods on subprime, but in a bubble, people just want to believe, to make 20% a year, and they don't want to hear about payment resets. Bankers and brokers lied to customers, but customers also lied about their incomes. Let's not get too sentimental. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 23 19:18:47 PDT 2007

12284 [lbo-talk] WMT testing more, diversifying away from China... -- rank: 1000

[...or so they say. You've got to wonder if all these toxicity scandals - which are inevitable when the pressure is on to make the cheapest stuff possible - out of China are going to hit demand for Chinese products. There have been bubble like aspects to China for the last few years - their stock market is insane - so could this be the news item that takes some of the air out of the bubble?] Wal-Mart seeks more toy tests before holidays 1 hour, 56 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wal-Mar ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 23 19:15:43 PDT 2007

12285 [lbo-talk] Robber Barons -- rank: 1000

On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > Hey, that's a great book. I love the part where the rival rail > barons hire > private militias who battle over the tracks. Those were the days. Speaking of which, was there the same rude violence and extreme criminality among the capitalists of other countries? Or is this an American thing Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 23 18:29:58 PDT 2007