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1651 [lbo-talk] Why even Robert Nozick, the philosophical father of libertarianism, gave up on the movement he inspired -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Ted Winslow wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >> On Jun 21, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Chris Brooke wrote: >> >>> E.g., Keynes' verdict on "The Road to Serfdom" was not at all the one quoted >>> at the start of the essay, but rather that, "Morally and philosophically I >>> find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in >>> agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement." ...

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1652 [lbo-talk] Why even Robert Nozick, the philosophical father of libertarianism, gave up on the movement he inspired -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Chris Brooke wrote: > E.g., Keynes' verdict on "The Road to Serfdom" was not at all the one quoted > at the start of the essay, but rather that, "Morally and philosophically I > find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in > agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement." Yes. The quote is Keynes's reaction to Hayek's Prices and Production. It's in his collected works - I don't think it was marginalia. Do ...

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1653 [lbo-talk] freedom, Texas-style -- rank: 1000

[from The New Republic] Why Is Everyone Fawning Over Rick Perry? His Fiscal Record in Texas Is a Mess. Abby Rapoport Between speeches in Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans, Rick Perry is doing his best to keep people guessing if and when he ll throw his (ten-gallon) hat into the GOP presidential primary. When the Texas governor appeared last Tuesday on Your World with Neil Cavuto, the conservative Fox News host was already gushing over the hundreds of thousands of new jobs created in Texas ...

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1654 [lbo-talk] Tomorrow I meet the scalpel... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > C. G. Estabrook wrote: >> Hip? >> On 6/20/11 8:12 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: >>> Roll call at 5:45 a.m. >>> >>> I'm going to sign off the list in a few hours& probably won't check back in for a couple of weeks. >>> >>> Freud was right. Man is a prosthetic god. And so I soon shall be. >>> >>> I'll see you back here.....or on the dance floor. >>> &g ...

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1655 [lbo-talk] Convergence -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > I have no idea how Astra Taylor wasn't seduced during the taping of Zizek! Because Astra is sane and has good taste!

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1656 [lbo-talk] Liza on the WMT decision -- rank: 1000

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/20/featherstone.walmart.lawsuit/ Social Security s crisis, and ours In fight against Wal-Mart, lawyers aren't enough By Liza Featherstone, Special to CNN June 20, 2011 5:39 p.m. EDT Editor's note: Liza Featherstone is the author of "Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart." (CNN) -- For those of us educated in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education, it's hard not to endow the Supreme Court with awesome powers to wiel ...

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1657 [lbo-talk] on the Walmart decision -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug, are you going to post this on the femecon-l list? It might trigger some discussion there. Good idea. Doug

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1658 [lbo-talk] on the Walmart decision -- rank: 1000

Breaking news: robed ghouls act in character http://lbo-news.com/2011/06/20/breaking-news-robed-ghouls-act-in-character/

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1659 [lbo-talk] Hitchens on Mamet's "Secret Knowledge" -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2011, at 1:24 PM, SA wrote: > HItchens writes: > >> I am writing this review in the same week as I am conducting a rather exhausting exchange with Noam Chomsky in the pages of a small magazine. > > Anyone know what this is referring to? This perhaps? http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2716/christopher_hitchens_refutatio/

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1660 [lbo-talk] Is Goldman Sachs Buying LA? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It certainly has happened that muni bonds have been defaulted on in the past. Speaking of which, what do people think the probability of Greece defaulting is? I'd say 30. Doug

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1661 [lbo-talk] Interest income in -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:17 PM, // ravi wrote: > I am looking at the SS Trustees report and right off the bat they say $49 billion deficit last year and add parenthetically excluding interest income . What is the rationale behind excluding interest? Because there won t be any interest income once the surplus disappears? To make things look worse, of course. Doug

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1662 [lbo-talk] Is Goldman Sachs Buying LA? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:52 PM, lbo83235 wrote: > Where's the outrage? I was never big on that, but these days I'm just feeling sort of resigned. Sometimes it seems like they've won and it's just fucking hopeless. Doug

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1663 [lbo-talk] Is Goldman Sachs Buying LA? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:20 PM, lbo83235 wrote: > Given what we've just witnessed in the mortgage market, shouldn't we default toward the gravest alarm at essentially *any* prospect of the same thing happening to municipal infrastructure? Why does the critique have to be limited to opaque and risky derivatives? Why can't you just say, "Don't privatize the public infrastructure. It's about public service, not private profit."

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1664 [lbo-talk] Is Goldman Sachs Buying LA? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > Not sure if I understand this but I find this terrifying. Are the banks planning on bundling and securitizing these "infrastructure funds", privatized municipal and state bonds, in the same way as they did mortgages? To some degree, but I don't think that's the major appeal. As the prospectus said, these are monopoly assets with stable income streams usually backstopped by governments. So low risk, decent return. Capital has been ...

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1665 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1603, Issue 6 (Politics in the DP) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Doug: "Though they haven't won, they've changed the discourse - from > Debs to Perot." > > [WS:] The only raison d'etre of political parties is to get elected, > not to change the discourse. Changing the discourse is the job of > social movements. If a social movement wants to take the form of a political party, why not?

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