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13981 [lbo-talk] Markets and info -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Recent economists (e.g., Akerlof, Stiglitz, coincidentally both >winners of the "Nobel" prize) have applied an information-theory >approach that undermines Hayek's celebration of markets. (I guess you >could say that they hoist Hayek on his own petard.) For example, >Akerlof points to the problem of _asymmetric_ information and "adverse >selection." As did Smith & Ricardo - but who reads them anymore? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 12 06:41:15 PDT 2006

13982 [lbo-talk] Big Vic: shakedown Paul Newman, overpay your writers -- rank: 1000

[someone else must have gotten all those big paychecks - apropos the final comment, the Nation's editor and publisher are now the same person] <http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/navaskys_advice_to_indie_mags_shake_down_paul_newman_for_1m_spend_it_on_writers_36698.asp> Navasky's Advice to Indie Mags: Shake Down Paul Newman for $1M, Spend It on Writers Professor of magazine journalism at Columbia and The Nation publisher emeritus Victor Navasky addressed independent magazine ed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 12 07:15:47 PDT 2006

13983 [lbo-talk] Americans don't care about telephone spying -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: PHONE RECORDS - 5/11/06 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 7 a.m. Friday, May 12, 2006 Phone-Records Surveillance Is Broadly Acceptable to Public Americans by nearly a 2-1 margin call surveillance of telephone records an acceptable way for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats, expressing broad unconcern even if their own calling patterns were scrutinized. Lending support to the administration's defense of its anti-terrorism intelligence efforts ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 12 06:37:35 PDT 2006

13984 [lbo-talk] Kinky Friedman running! -- rank: 1000

[his politics sound kind of sucky though] <http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/elections/2006/stories/051206dntexkinky.1fd36741.html> Kinky: 'New Texas revolution is coming' 08:52 AM CDT on Friday, May 12, 2006 By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN - Entertainer Kinky Friedman declared himself a serious candidate for governor Thursday with 169,574 signatures - four times the number he needs to challenge Gov. Rick Perry in November. "Fix your bayonets now, becau ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 12 07:31:51 PDT 2006

13985 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: >If Chris Doss wants to send some Heidegger emails to me so I can >post them under my 3 post quota with his signature on the bottom I >will certainly do this favor for him. Uh, no. Streng verboten.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 11 11:51:05 PDT 2006

13986 [lbo-talk] SBC proviso (was even more phone spying) -- rank: 1000

[bounced because of excessive lenth - the orig article was appended pushing it over the limit] From: Joel Schalit <managingeditor at tikkun.org> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] even more phone spying Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 10:27:10 -0700 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.2/1456/Wed May 10 22:57:31 2006 on infothecary.org X-Virus-Status: Clean charming. i'm not surprised in the least. i remember a colleague telling me as far back as early 2002 ...

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Date:	Thu May 11 11:11:32 PDT 2006

13987 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >On 5/11/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> >Does LBO support quota trading, quite akin to pollution credits trading? >> >>No market-based solutions! > >Can we storm an account and expropriate its quota? Nope. I'm Gosplan.

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Date:	Thu May 11 10:58:52 PDT 2006

13988 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Does LBO support quota trading, quite akin to pollution credits trading? No market-based solutions!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 11 09:47:02 PDT 2006

13989 [lbo-talk] even more phone spying -- rank: 1000

USA Today - May 11, 2006 NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY. The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans - most of whom aren't suspected ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 11 09:26:46 PDT 2006

13990 [lbo-talk] Bush losing conservatives -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 11, 2006 Bush, GOP Congress Losing Core Supporters Conservatives Point to Spending, Immigration By Jim VandeHei and Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writers Disaffection over spending and immigration have caused conservatives to take flight from President Bush and the Republican Congress at a rapid pace in recent weeks, sending Bush's approval ratings to record lows and presenting a new threat to the GOP's 12-year reign on Capitol Hill, according to White House officials, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 11 09:35:19 PDT 2006

13991 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: His third post of the day, filling the daily quota. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 11 08:57:53 PDT 2006

13992 [lbo-talk] Ahmadinejad's letter -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >On 5/9/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >>At the CFR website: <http://www.cfr.org/publication/10633/>. > >The President of Iran is a more rational man than the President of the >United States, and much of his criticism of the US government makes >sense. But why did he, or his aids, have to mix that legitimate >criticism with a Holocaust denial (again!) and a 9-11 conspiracy >theory? Has Fidel not had the time to pul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 10 14:26:28 PDT 2006

13993 [lbo-talk] Brother Consolmagno isn't getting invited to the Vatican Christmas party -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: > a Vatican >observatory in Arizona They're everywhere! But isn't the Church taking a pro-evolutionary stance these days? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 10 14:25:16 PDT 2006

13994 [lbo-talk] America's Anti-Muslim Prejudice -- rank: 1000

tfast wrote: > > Marvin Gandall wrote: >> >> > I don't think Zionism can survive >> >an extended period of peace >> >> Or, as Joel said on my radio show a couple of years ago, Israel needs >> constant war to keep itself together. >> >> Doug > >And maybe at the end of the day that is what binds the US and Israeli state >togeather. There's something to that - both are settler states populated by heavily armed people with d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 10 12:49:57 PDT 2006

13995 [lbo-talk] America's Anti-Muslim Prejudice -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: > I don't think Zionism can survive >an extended period of peace Or, as Joel said on my radio show a couple of years ago, Israel needs constant war to keep itself together. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 10 12:32:04 PDT 2006