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12361 [lbo-talk] NYers living longer than other Americans - who knew? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2007, at 8:19 AM, jrdavis wrote: > I would like to see the basis for those statistics. They come from, you know, like the Census Bureau. <http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts? _event=Search&geo_id=&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=new+york +city&_cityTown=new+york +city&_state=04000US36&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010> or <http://tinyurl.com/ys4ye6>

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Date:	Sat Aug 18 06:25:39 PDT 2007

12362 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise] -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2007, at 7:39 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Marvin wrote: > >> Has Pew updated this survey? > > http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=312 That updates the opinions, but not specifically the typology. Doug

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12363 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise] -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Very interesting. The numbers are from December, 2004, just after > Bush's > re-election. There has been an even more marked shift in US public > opinion > since then so the percentage of the population which fits the > description of > "liberals" and "disaffecteds" (the views of "disadvantaged > Democrats" are > also worth incorporating) Yup you're right. That brings us close to 30%. &g ...

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12364 [lbo-talk] NYers living longer than other Americans - who knew? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Paul wrote: > To be concrete lets take just one example - the new immigrants. On the face of it, why should immigrants boost the city's health profile? They're poor, displaced, often solitary or separated from families, in shitty jobs living densely in poor neighborhoods, and either invisible to or scorned by the native society. > As I said, new immigrants and their dependents have a different health > profile (for now) than native born groups (they also ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 17 20:16:02 PDT 2007

12365 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise] -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > "Their "liberals" are 17% of the pop, and > "disaffecteds" are another 10%. If half of each fit > my description, then I'm there! If more than > half do, we're approaching a quarter of the pop." > > Are you sure these percentages are of the population > rather than the electorate? Yeah. Did you read the link? <http://people-press.or ...

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12366 [lbo-talk] NYers living longer than other Americans - who knew? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Do people who move to NYC as adults have a longer life expectancy than > people in the same age group in their home areas? I know. The figures > aren't available and can't be collected. But that's the only kind of > figure that would tell us much. Depends on what you want to be told. Part of Clive's point was that certain types of people gravitate towards a big city like NYC. It's not one way. Doug

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12367 [lbo-talk] NYers living longer than other Americans - who knew? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2007, at 4:33 PM, Paul wrote: > Thanks to Doug for posting this. The article takes up much of the > same > message that the Bloomberg Administration has tried to peddle since > taking > office (sadly, since as a private donor Bloomberg had given tangible > support to public health). > > As a reminder, here is a key quote: >> In essence, there is a health gap emerging between our massive >> metropolis >> and the rest of the country some X fact ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 17 14:41:17 PDT 2007

12368 [lbo-talk] crappy little countries (cont.) -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pollak for pointing this out] <http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001674.html> August 16, 2007 Crappy Little Countries, In Theory And Practice You probably remember Jonah Goldberg's endorsement of Michael Ledeen's worldview: I've long been an admirer of, if not a full-fledged subscriber to, what I call the "Ledeen Doctrine"..."Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 17 13:26:50 PDT 2007

12369 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise] -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > However, listening to songs about toilet paper, laundry detergent > or house appliances borders on sheer cretinism. People hear them, but do they listen? They listen to real music, not jingles. Some jingles can cross over - and I'll never forget the hardcore version of the 1980s Food Emporium jingle I heard once on Pat Duncan's WFMU show - but they're not going to put Kylie Minogue, World Burns to Death, or Daft Punk out of work. ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 17 13:14:10 PDT 2007

12370 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise] -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Russell Grinker wrote: > implosion of Stalinism Stalin died in 1953. The USSR survived him by almost 40 years. The states were repressive, for sure, but there was nothing like the hellishness of collectivization or the gulag. Applying the term "Stalinism" to Soviet & Eastern European societies of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s doesn't seem very helpful - actually it seems kind of lazy or sectarian or both. Doug

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12371 [lbo-talk] Fred Thompson, soul of flexibility -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3489306&page=1> He Said, He Said: Thompson on Abortion Former Senator's Archives Contain Two Position Papers on Abortion, One Labeled 'Pro-Life' and Another Labeled 'Pro-Choice' In what seems a sure indication he will soon officially declare his presidential candidacy, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson will appear in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa Friday, meeting with locals and even making a trip to the Iowa State Fair. But ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 17 07:40:00 PDT 2007

12372 [lbo-talk] Fed croons, acts -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I only have one question: am I just inexperienced in reading Fed news > releases, or has there been an unusual emphasis on the discount > window in > the last two notices? Does this mark a change and return to earlier > practice? My impression was that over the last couple of decades the > discount window had become largely vestigial -- that no bank wanted to > borrow from it because it would stigmatize it as troubled, a ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 17 06:24:01 PDT 2007

12373 [lbo-talk] Fed croons, acts -- rank: 1000

[I'm guessing that lowering the discount rate while reaffirming the fed funds rate level is a way to target banks having real funding problems, while not easing up too much for the real economy, where the unemployment rate is still too low.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2007/20070817/ default.htm> Financial market conditions have deteriorated, and tighter credit conditions and increased uncertainty have the potential to restrain economic growth going forward ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 17 05:37:04 PDT 2007

12374 [lbo-talk] Meltdown? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Will the econ-thinkers here please explain, in plain terms, what's > currently > going on in the financial world? I'm going to write something up & post it to the LBO website tomorrow afternoon. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 16 19:54:27 PDT 2007

12375 [lbo-talk] financial conditions tighten -- rank: 1000

Goldman Sachs US Economic Research US Daily: Tightening Financial Conditions Put the Squeeze onGrowth ([Andrew] Tilton) August 16, 2007 * Our GS Financial Conditions Index (GSFCI) has tightened by roughly 60 basis points over the past month. The recent tightening was the primary reason we shaved our forecasts for GDP growth last Friday. * The tightening in the GSFCI almost certainly understates the move in financial conditions for two reasons: 1) the biggest re-pricings have occurred in area ...

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