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17746 [lbo-talk] question for DanDav - or anyone else? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >If you're a bourgeois economist, you'd say aggregate wage growth = >average labor productivity growth. But that isn't happening. Do they >have something to explain this divergence from the textbook? I haven't seen anyone address this head on (which doesn't mean, of course, that someone hasn't). I would guess the dodge would be wage growth = productivity growth over the long term. Wall Street economists have been expecting hiring (and ultimately wages) to catch up w ...

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Date:	Fri May 13 15:54:20 PDT 2005

17747 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Do you prefer humble pie or eating your hat? > >It's evident that you think that I am nobody, just some petit >bourgeoise anarchist troll who posts the wrong ideas. > >Do you happen to know who was scheduled to meet with me on the >afternoon of September 11, 2001 in Washington, DC? That's right, >representatives of the AFL-CIO who were going to meet with some of >us peeps from the black bloc (along with peeps from the religious >groups). I was include ...

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Date:	Fri May 13 15:19:52 PDT 2005

17748 [lbo-talk] Gramlich on the magic bunny -- rank: 1000

[and he's not talking about this one: <http://www.babeland.com/sexinfo/funstuff/bunny-back-talk> - Goss's question about the future being radically different from the past is pretty funny given his projection of a decline in GDP growth from 3.5% to 2.0% - and when I pointed out to him several years ago that pop growth and productivity growth usually move in opposite directions, as his projections have it, he expressed surprise - what a cutup for an actuary!] Fed official offers dimmer priv ...

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Date:	Fri May 13 15:01:08 PDT 2005

17749 [lbo-talk] question for DanDav - or anyone else? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >What's up with the declining labor share of GDP in the US? It's >fallen by about 3% of GDP since its last peak. If you're a bourgeois economist, you'd say it's the productivity miracle. If you're tinted pink or red, you'd say you'd say capital is strong and labor is weak. In either case, almost all the gains of economic growth have gone to profits and the very upper crust of individuals (whose incomes are mostly returns to capital). It's pretty funny that Goldman Sach ...

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Date:	Fri May 13 14:42:25 PDT 2005

17750 [lbo-talk] The Pet Goat Protocols -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >I guess the real question is did someone fuck up or is the plan to >leave Bush out of the loop. Secret Service guys aren't supposed to think for themselves, are they? If they didn't tell Bush, that must be part of the protocol. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 13 14:31:34 PDT 2005

17751 [lbo-talk] unemployment rate getting too low! -- rank: 1000

Goldman Sachs writes in today's weekly commentary on the US economy: >* Fed officials will need to slow the pace of job creation as the >economy approaches full employment. Tighter financial conditions are >needed, and this will require a more persistent tightening campaign >than the markets currently anticipate.

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Date:	Fri May 13 14:09:54 PDT 2005

17752 [lbo-talk] Liza - or anyone else??? -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Tasini promises to tell the truth about Cambodia on his blog next week <http://workinglife.typepad.com>. Doug Liza Featherstone wrote: >It does sound impressive! I have been hearing good things about Cambodia's >system for a little while, and it's interesting because there is (for good >reason) so much controversy and debate among anti-sweatshop activists about >whether labor standards in trade agreements are good for poorer countries. >But, as for inside info, I go ...

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Date:	Fri May 13 13:59:38 PDT 2005

17753 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >The Lumpen wrote: > >> This campaign could organize, for example, union members to strike >> at ports on both coasts. > >No, it couldn't. Particularly not if it was "organized" by people like you. We know you don't like Chuck. It's not necessary to repeat that. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 13 12:47:28 PDT 2005

17754 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >When people like Chuck suggest something slightly more >radical, they are accused of being adventurist because >certain elements in the anti-war movement might not be >united around it. If we have to wait for the whole >movement to be united around an action, we might as >well unpack the car and stay at home. Nothing will >ever happen in that case. Goforit. I'll happily contribute to your defense fund. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 13 12:34:27 PDT 2005

17755 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >It's called living "outside the box". Yeah. Some of us think it's more important to change the box than celebrate ourselves for living outside of it. To each his or her own. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 13 12:29:20 PDT 2005

17756 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >ChuckO: > >>A well-organized campaign of civil disobedience could cause >>significant disruptions, dramatize the fact that resistance is >>happening, and win a few small victories that are important to >>morale in the movement. This campaign could organize, for example, >>union members to strike at ports on both coasts. >------------------------ >Wow! Quite the example! Has there been any discussion of a general >dock strike aga ...

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Date:	Fri May 13 10:27:26 PDT 2005

17757 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Fuck Popular... You like living at the margins, don't you? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 13 10:25:16 PDT 2005

17758 [lbo-talk] pain-inducing poetry -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/media/books/index.php#nicole-krauss-privileged-daughter-faithful-wife-earsplitting-poet-103473> Nicole Krauss: Privileged Daughter, Faithful Wife, Ear-Splitting Poet Filed under Media : Books While we tend to focus our love and attention on extremely publicized young novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, we also realize that by doing so, we cause great injustice to his wife, poet Nicole Krauss. We apologize for this oversight and, to make it up to you all, we'd like to ...

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Date:	Fri May 13 10:19:43 PDT 2005

17759 [lbo-talk] NYC event -- rank: 1000

"Complacent Nation" <nation at complacent.org> wrote: (yes, this is it. please forward widely) Anti-ego, BassBot, Big Noise, Bike Cherry, Blackkat, Brooklyn Media Labs, Complacent Nation, Courage Promotions, C-Spot Designs, Disco Noir, Havoc Sound, House of Galore, The Hungry March Band, The Madagascar Institute, Nonsense NYC, Peripheral Media Projects, Rhythm Collective, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, SisterNYC, Soulartic Music,The Toyshop Collective, Vitamindevo and Waxyjax have c ...

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Date:	Fri May 13 10:07:35 PDT 2005

17760 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >There is always an ongoing discussion about ideas, issues, and >theory in the movements. The problem right now is a complete lack of >action. No praxis, no movement. Why is that? Is it, as Comrade Stalin would have said, a failure of the cadres rather than objective circumstances? Or is there real confusion about what to do, what to call for, and the state of the popular mood? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 13 08:21:25 PDT 2005