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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 ...
Document Size: 6338
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 5769
Author: Doug Henwood
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
Document Size: 4838
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 13006
Author: Doug Henwood
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
Document Size: 4994
Author: Doug Henwood
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
Document Size: 4681
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 5220
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 5374
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 5525
Author: Doug Henwood
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
Document Size: 4765
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 5195
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 6625
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 7 07:39:50 PST 2005
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 ...
Document Size: 13156
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 11915
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 6403
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 7 07:17:18 PST 2005
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