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16576 [lbo-talk] Alan G writes a paper -- rank: 1000

<http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2005/200541/200541abs.html> Estimates of Home Mortgage Originations, Repayments, and Debt on One-to-Four-Family Residences Alan Greenspan and James Kennedy 2005-41 Abstract: Since 1997, when the Department of Housing and Urban Development discontinued its quarterly gross mortgage flow system, there has been no systematic attempt to disaggregate the net change in outstanding home mortgage debt into its constituent gross flows. Using a different appro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 26 13:57:15 PDT 2005

16577 [lbo-talk] enterprise zones don't work too well -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=INEOOW0UQVI9> Bush's Gulf Enterprise-Zone Plan Has Failed to Deliver Before By Brendan Murray Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's main proposal for reviving the storm-stricken Gulf Coast has a history of failing to deliver on the promise of prosperity. The Gulf Opportunity Zone that Bush outlined in a national address from New Orleans on Sept. 15 is the latest version of a Reagan-era idea for using tax breaks an ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 09:07:09 PDT 2005

16578 [lbo-talk] DC: Costs of big marches -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >The thing that threatens the establishment is when a whole lot of white >people march. I loved Matt Taibbi's critique of the demo during the Republican convention in NYC last year. There's nothing threatening about a bunch of hippie-looking people marching. But if everyone had been dressed in uniform and marched in step - that would have terrified the establishment. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 08:51:42 PDT 2005

16579 Costs of big marches- Re: [lbo-talk] DC -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And I see a bit difference with Farrakahn having bad views I disagree with >versus a group that organizes in support of actually existing murderous >regimes. Farrakhan may be an anti-semite but he's not actively organizing >in support of killing the Jews. The ANSWER covert leadership is actively >organizing to facilitate North Korea's and China's leaders continual ability >to murder dissidents. Oh please. Farrakhan is a figure with some political influen ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 07:22:38 PDT 2005

16580 [lbo-talk] DC -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >One consists of the enemies >of any mass movement: Nathan, Chuck0, Wojtek, Pugliese. That's slanderous. Who the fuck are you to issue judgments like this, like some commissar of the cornfields? >The second is more complex, people keep shifting in and out of it. These >are real leftists who really want a mass movement -- but they are >fearful of being embarassed. Oh really? Who are these people? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 07:16:08 PDT 2005

16581 [lbo-talk] DC -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >why try?...maybe it is better to just sit at home and bitch about it >on a mail list. That's not most of us. Had Dick Cheney not blown up Amtrak's power line, I'd have been there. The anti-demo POV is a minority one - and a perverse one (in the bad sense) at that. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 07:13:47 PDT 2005

16582 [lbo-talk] Lew Rockwell at an antiwar rally -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mises.org/story/1923> My Speech at the Antiwar Rally by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [Posted on Monday, September 26, 2005] I was invited to speak at a peace march and rally in Birmingham, Alabama, sponsored by the <http://alabamapeaceandjustice.org/>Alabama Peace and Justice Coalition, and gladly accepted the offer to speak against the war in Iraq. Yes, as you might guess, the program was dominated by leftists who rightly oppose the war but want big government to run the e ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 07:08:49 PDT 2005

16583 [lbo-talk] poor Freddy - even his supporters don't like him -- rank: 1000

[Today's NYT notes that the Working Families Party is still undecided on the endorsement, figuring that Bloomberg is likely to win and they don't want to risk alienating him. Unstated, though likely, is the consideration is that Bloomberg isn't all that bad, and Ferrer isn't all that good.] New York Post [Page Six] - September 26, 2005 WHY SOME DEMS DUCK FREDDY WHEN David Dinkins came forward on Friday with a painfully weak endorsement of Freddy Ferrer (he refused to state that Ferrer would be a ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 26 06:48:18 PDT 2005

16584 [lbo-talk] DC -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Everybody here -- not just Chuck -- needs to cheer the fuck up once >in a while. Hey, I'm pretty cheerful. And Liza & I were just discussing how American politics right now is mostly about really serious stuff. There's no Terry Schiavo nonsense around. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 25 21:01:43 PDT 2005

16585 [lbo-talk] Greenspan: US has lost control of budget deficit -- rank: 1000

Reuters - September 24, 2005 WASHINGTON -- U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told France's Finance Minister Thierry Breton the United States has "lost control" of its budget deficit, the French minister said on Saturday. "'We have lost control' -- that was his expression," Breton told reporters after a bilateral meeting with Greenspan. "The United States has lost control of their budget at a time when racking up deficits has been authorized without any control ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 25 16:28:47 PDT 2005

16586 [lbo-talk] Re: DC -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The Cindy Sheehan ads reach ordinary people and speak to them in an >emotional way that mass demos on TV do not. It's not costless to raise money for a Cindy Sheehan ad. And it would cut the cost of fundraising to appeal to 100,000-200,000 people all gathered in the same place, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 25 16:17:09 PDT 2005

16587 [lbo-talk] Re: DC -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The numbers are important to the extent that they are used by UFPJ >and ANSWER to establish that they are leaders of some movement. Speaking of which, I just got an email from ANSWER claiming 300,000. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 25 16:15:24 PDT 2005

16588 [lbo-talk] Re: DC -- rank: 1000

Michael Catolico wrote: >you don't hear the phrase "class consciousness" much anymore, but >that's what i'd say was emerging in dc yesterday. Damn, now I really wish I'd been there. So who sabotaged Amtrak? The Mossad? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 25 15:47:27 PDT 2005

16589 [lbo-talk] Dick, we hardly knew ye! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[If the VP's surgery has in fact been peer-reviewed as 'a little bit >irresponsible,' I'd say this story hasn't gotten the attention it >deserves. Time to form a Cheney Dead Pool?] When I'm rockin' the table while he's operating "Hey!" You waited this long to stop debating 'Cuz I'm back, I'm on the rag and ovulating I know that you got a job Mrs. Cheney But your husband's heart problem is complicating

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Date:	Sun Sep 25 14:57:38 PDT 2005

16590 [lbo-talk] Re: DC -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Remember that the first nine months of GWB's >administration before 9/11 were packed with one economic scandal after >another. Bush's average Gallup approve/disapprove was 56/31 through Sept 10. Gallup's last pre-9/11 poll was on 9/10, and it was 51/39. (Clinton went out at 65/31.) Of course, he's now 40/58, ha ha. That's at the 10th percentile of all the 1,330 times Gallup has asked the question (starting in 1941). Bush's 90/6 on 9/22/01 was the highest approval ra ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 25 14:54:41 PDT 2005