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18661 [lbo-talk] Goldman Sachs writes... -- rank: 1000

[from the summary of this week's US Economics Analyst - a chart shows SF house prices at almost 18x GDP p.c., matching Tokyo's peak - London is 14x and rolling over, well above the late-1980s peak around 12x - NY is cheap at 10x, where Tokyo is today too] A look at housing cycles outside the United States yields four lessons. First, valuations in the overheated US markets on the coasts have risen to extremely high levels. Relative to per-capita GDP, a typical home in San Francisco now costs much ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 15:56:04 PDT 2005

18662 [lbo-talk] permanentizing the Patriot Act -- rank: 1000

<http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/07/permanentizing.shtml#010271> July 22, 2005 Permanentizing the Patriot Act The Wash Times reports on the House's vote "last night to make most provisions of the USA Patriot Act permanent." Story here <http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050721-115713-2544r>. The Times' print edition (but not on its Web site), contains a useful graphic of the act's most "contentious sections." The table lists four section ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 13:47:10 PDT 2005

18663 [lbo-talk] China's growth -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >What would you recommend if you were the Kremlin's >economic advisor? I mean this question seriously. My god, I have no idea. It was so much easier to be China. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 13:33:13 PDT 2005

18664 Party endorsement, was Re: [lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Roberts a decent guy" -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>Michael Bloombeg, mayor of New York .... >>As things go, he's not been too bad. > >A zero as hero. At least he's been light on the usual billionaire bombast. When the city budget went into the tank, he didn't go into austerity mode. I suspect that Mark Green would have, just to demonstrate his credibility. Bloomberg, whose name adorns almost every trading desk in the world, didn't have to. A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 13:30:24 PDT 2005

18665 [lbo-talk] PM says US invasion of Iraq a mistake -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: ravi <lbo at kreise.org> >> >>http://www.manoramaonline.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=manorama/MmArticle/CommonFullStory&cid=1121840470937&c=MmArticle&p=1002366458912&channel=Home&count=9 >> >>PM says US invasion of Iraq a mistake >> >>Washington: In a candid submission made on the American soil, Prime >>Minister Manmohan Singh said the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was a ''mistake''. >> &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 13:27:08 PDT 2005

18666 [lbo-talk] Why Not Sell WBAI? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Do you really think WBAI's political influence serves the left more than >what say $12 million per year devoted to alternative uses? It could. A 50,000-watt station in the middle of the FM dial in the NY metro area is a tremendous resource. It's way premature to give up on it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 13:21:07 PDT 2005

18667 Party endorsement, was Re: [lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Roberts a decent guy" -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > All this bullshit about a Democratic machine. It's >> non-existent. > >Maybe in New York, I wouldn't venture to say. There's not a machine in the old Tammany sense, but there's a well-developed infrastructure of hackery. One of the better things about Bloomberg is that, being free of associations with the gang of hacks, he's managed to appoint the most competent and least corrupt administration that anyone can remember. I've heard that many tim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 13:18:04 PDT 2005

18668 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

knowknot at mindspring.com wrote: >As a former long-time listener and, (in the past, sometimes >substantial) contributor, I confess I don't know what is the >right/practical thing to do; but one alternative that (at least for >now) is arguably preferable to a "Yes" response to your request >above is to refrain from contributing until, at the least, >assurances of more active oversight from the network itself and of >transparency by the station itself in terms of pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 12:20:13 PDT 2005

18669 [lbo-talk] China's growth -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Russia's been growing like mad since 1998; Thanks in large part to high oil prices, no? > > What's Russia got besides oil, rocks, and trees? >> > >If by "rocks" you mean diamonds and natural gas -- >ALROSA is the second-largest diamond company in the >world, Norilsk Nickel is the largest palladium-metals >company in the world (if I remember aright), this new >Gazprom-Yukos thing is the world's largest energy >company... Yeah, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 10:12:51 PDT 2005

18670 [lbo-talk] appear on Daily Show, lose your job -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cdailyshow22jul22,0,3967087.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines> Daily Show spoof leads to firing of Broward Art Guild chief By Jamie Malernee Staff Writer Posted July 22 2005 Once again, there's controversy over "Controversy," the Broward Art Guild's May exhibit -- this time brought by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The guild's board of directors on Wednesday fired executive director Susan Buzzi, who has worked there at least ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 10:04:47 PDT 2005

18671 [lbo-talk] Olivier Roy on the bombers -- rank: 1000

[more fuel for the fire... Isn't/wasn't Roy some kind of Trot?] New York Times - July 22, 2005 Why Do They Hate Us? Not Because of Iraq By OLIVIER ROY Paris - WHILE yesterday's explosions on London's subway and bus lines were thankfully far less serious than those of two weeks ago, they will lead many to raise a troubling question: has Britain (and Spain as well) been "punished" by Al Qaeda for participating in the American-led military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan? While this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 10:01:41 PDT 2005

18672 [lbo-talk] Liston vs Ali and other conspiracies -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >The Mossad bloke in the Jerusalem Post did not "know more than anyone else". >His article is in fact very short on actual facts and much longer on pompous >speculation. The sentence "The multiple, simultaneous explosions that took >place today on the London transportation system were the work of perpetrators >who had an operational capacity of considerable scope" is actually wrong. He >also gets one important operational detail wrong; ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 08:00:06 PDT 2005

18673 Party endorsement, was Re: [lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Robertsadecent guy" -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Which is the historic goal, to take power over selection from the "party >bosses." The phenomenon of omeone like Ken Livingstone, popular with >grassroots Labourites, being denied the nomination for mayor on the Labour >tickett couldn't happen in the US. That's the good side of it all. Of course the bad side is that he'd never get elected here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 07:54:34 PDT 2005

18674 Party endorsement, was Re: [lbo-talk] Lieberman: "Roberts a decent guy" -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Would denying them party endorsement guarantee they couldn't run as >Democrats under the US electoral system? Do they even have to be >members of the Democrat party to run as demnocrats under the US >electoral system? Michael Bloombeg, mayor of New York, was a life-long Dem, but since he wasn't part of the machine, he could never have gotten a spot on the primary ballot. So he ran as a Republican, spent oodles of his own money, and won. As things go, he's not be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 07:47:39 PDT 2005

18675 [lbo-talk] Rove v Novak? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=IK0GXK07SXKX> Rove, Libby Accounts in CIA Case Differ With Those of Reporters By Richard Keil July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Two top White House aides have given accounts to a special prosecutor about how reporters first told them the identity of a CIA agent that are at odds with what the reporters have said, according to people familiar with the case. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, told special ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 22 07:13:28 PDT 2005