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19591 [lbo-talk] Harvey -- rank: 1000

KJ wrote: >My memory may be faulty, but was 3rd World borrowing that heavy in the >early to mid-1970s when the accumulation regime's crisis became full >blown? Didn't the borrowing really balloon in the late 1970s -- in >that shuffling around of the petro-dollars -- resulting in the first >debt crisis of the early 1980s? Debt levels were rising in the early 1970s - significantly for Brazil - as this quickie table (from World Bank data) shows. But you're right that they accelerated ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 12:09:27 PST 2005

19592 [lbo-talk] India in the Age of Neoliberalism -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >At around 7/12/05 12:32 pm, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> India Accelerating | The Car Boom >> In Today's India, Status Comes With Four Wheels >> >> By AMY WALDMAN >> VISHAKHAPATNAM, India - On the dark highway, the car showroom glowed in >> the night like an American drive-in. Inside, it looked more like a >> game-show set: bright lights, white floors, huge windows, high ceilings >> and ad posters of beaming consumers ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 11:45:01 PST 2005

19593 [lbo-talk] Re: The Anti-Porn Left Strikes Again -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I'm a Queen of Heaven alum, if any of you know what that means. ;-) Catholic Mary worship and/or the Protestant critique of it? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 09:47:03 PST 2005

19594 [lbo-talk] housing market cooling -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 7, 2005 Investors Retreat From Housing Market Inventories Rise as Speculative Buying Slows In Once-Hot Markets Like Phoenix and San Diego By RUTH SIMON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Individuals are pulling back from buying homes and condos as an investment, in a move that could accelerate the cooling of the housing market. In markets such as Las Vegas, Miami, Phoenix, San Diego and Washington, D.C., where investor activity had been heated, fewer people ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 09:41:31 PST 2005

19595 [lbo-talk] more Dem anxiety on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >If they stay the course and refuse to take a tough stand against the >war, they are headed for certain defeat next year. Funny moment on Hannity & Colmes the other night. Hannity: "You liberals. One minute your for the Iraq war, next minute you're against. One minute you want to withdraw troops, next minute you want to add them. Make up your mind and take a stand for once." Colmes: "But things are so complicated..." Etc. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 09:34:52 PST 2005

19596 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday Doug Henwood! -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Many happy returns!!! Hey thanks. Not only me, but Noam Chomsky, Willa Cather, and Pietro Mascagni. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 09:33:13 PST 2005

19597 [lbo-talk] Harvey -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote > >> ... China, which is anything but neoliberal. > >Is that quite clear, mutatis mutandis? The transformation >under Deng ("Let some people get rich first") included such >things as the confiscation of social services (e.g., medical >care) characteristic of neoliberalism. Yes, but the state's hand has been very strong, capital flows severely restricted, the financi ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 09:31:45 PST 2005

19598 [lbo-talk] Harvey -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >4) In the US, homeland of neoliberalism, average incomes are almost >flat at the middle of the distribution (household income for the >middle quintile up 4% between 1989 and 2004 - not per year, but >total - cf. top 5%, up 30%; bottom quintile, 0%). Real wages have >resumed their decline, after rising in the late 1990s for the first >time since 1973. If this is the best the US can do, with all its >imperial advantages, what can you expect in the rest of ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 08:16:38 PST 2005

19599 [lbo-talk] Harvey -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Three - although it's true neoliberal methods were >effectively used to provide a quick and dynamic fix >for the profitablity and accumulation problems of the >aging Bretton Woods structure in the 1970s, it appears >the cure is turning out to be worse than the illness. >The world's economic architecture does not seem to be >on more solid footing and the old problems of excess >capacity etc. do not appear to have really been >solved. True enough, b ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 07:56:08 PST 2005

19600 [lbo-talk] What you don't know about Matt Taibbi -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >He is actually a very nice guy. And extremely shy and lacking in confidence. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 07:47:39 PST 2005

19601 [lbo-talk] Request for Doug -- rank: 1000

Ira Glazer wrote: >Are there any transcripts available of the symposium that you >particpated in with Harvey and Giovanni Arrighi at the end of >October ? > >If not, could you give us a synopsis of the more insightful moments ? > >I, for one, would be very interested. I ran my comments in LBO #112, emailed to electronic subscribers yesterday, and at the printer for dead-tree types. Yvonne Liu took notes that were posted to Proyect's list: <http://archives.econ.utah.edu/ar ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 07:44:36 PST 2005

19602 [lbo-talk] Harvey -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That broader "so what" issue is that, all in all, neoliberalisms seems to be >working - by Harvey's own admission it did break the vicious circle of >stagflation, and it also seems to produce substantial economic growth that >benefits not just the elites but large segment of the middle and >professional classes, even if to a lesser extent. So the classical >neoliberal argument of the rising tide that lifts all the boats except the >ones t ...

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19603 [lbo-talk] Mel Gibson for gov? -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - December 7, 2005 Governor Faces Revolt in GOP As anger rises over the choice of a Democrat as chief of staff, party leaders demand a talk. By Robert Salladay, Times Staff Writer SACRAMENTO - With segments of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's political base rising in revolt, directors of the California Republican Party have demanded a private meeting with the governor to complain about the hiring of a Democratic operative as his chief of staff. The request comes as Schwarzenegger f ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 07:26:34 PST 2005

19604 [lbo-talk] more Dem anxiety on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 7, 2005 Democrats Fear Backlash at Polls for Antiwar Remarks By Jim VandeHei and Shalaigh Murray Washington Post Staff Writers Strong antiwar comments in recent days by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have opened anew a party rift over Iraq, with some lawmakers warning that the leaders' rhetorical blasts could harm efforts to win control of Congress next year. Several Democrats joined President Bush yesterday in ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 07:21:04 PST 2005

19605 [lbo-talk] Bush to refuse questions from CFR -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> The politics of Iraq are front and center again today, as President Bush gives another big speech on Iraq and House Democrats meet to figure out what (if anything) they stand for on the major issue facing the nation these days. While facts on the ground continue to be created each minute. President Bush will deliver his second speech in his series of speeches on Iraq prior to the December 15 elections to the Council on Foreign Relati ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 07:17:18 PST 2005