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20716 [lbo-talk] capitalism out of ideas? -- rank: 1000

Sorta smells that way, deosn't it? It's odd, though, that profit rates now are high, but expectation for profits on new investments are evidently low. There's also an element of Keynesian risk aversion here. Doug joanna bujes wrote: >Typical crisis of accumulation/over-production, no? > >Joanna > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>WSJ.com - October 22, 2004 >> >>THE MACRO INVESTOR >>By STEVE LIESMAN >> >>Corporate Cash Hordes >>Might Mean Capital ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 09:15:39 PDT 2004

20717 [lbo-talk] an Austrian hit on real bizcycles -- rank: 1000

A Nobel Prize for Not Much by Frank Shostak <http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1658>[Posted October 22, 2004] This year the <http://www.mises.org/blog/archives/002587.asp>Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott (KP) for their contributions in the design of macroeconomic policy and for the identification of the main causes of business cycle fluctuations. Here I discuss their theory of the business cycle and how it stacks up against the Austrian un ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 08:06:33 PDT 2004

20718 [lbo-talk] liegirls.com -- rank: 1000

Pretty funny: <http://www.liegirls.com>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 22 07:55:38 PDT 2004

20719 [lbo-talk] expats voting in record numbers -- rank: 1000

U.S. Expat Voters Out in Record Numbers in Germany By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - American expatriates in Germany are turning out in record numbers for the presidential election, spurred on by the German public, U.S. military commanders or a newfound sense that every vote could be decisive. Both the Republicans and Democrats Abroad groups have reported huge jumps in registration this year. A few who missed absentee ballot deadlines are so determined that they even plan to fly to their hom ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 22 07:50:47 PDT 2004

20720 [lbo-talk] vote for Daschle, vote for sodomy -- rank: 1000

Sioux Falls (SD) Argus Leader - October 21, 2004 New charges fuel Senate race Jennifer Sanderson Daschle campaign files criminal charges claiming mail fraud over 'sodomy' sticker A window sticker scarcely larger than a standard photo print has the nation's top elected Democrat and the state's Republican Party pressing separately for a criminal investigation. The white-on-blue sticker reads, "Vote for Daschle & Vote for SODOMY." A disclaimer alerts readers that fees were "Paid ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 07:35:23 PDT 2004

20721 [lbo-talk] Doodling on Punctuated Equilibrium -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Periods of >change, moreover, _always_ catch us by surprise (as the 1917 revolution >caught everyone, including Lenin and the Bolsheviks, by surprise). >Nevertheless, our current activity should be grounded in the assumption >that such a surprise is coming, else we _will_ never even be remotely >ready for it when it does come. >The people who share our principles are out there, and reaching them >around programs in which they can actively participate (a ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 22 07:17:11 PDT 2004

20722 [lbo-talk] capitalism out of ideas? -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com - October 22, 2004 THE MACRO INVESTOR By STEVE LIESMAN Corporate Cash Hordes Might Mean Capitalism Is Fresh Out of Ideas Is capitalism running out of ideas? That's the question posed by Patrick Artus, chief economist and head of research at the French investment bank CDC IXIS Capital Markets. Mr. Artus observes something this column has mentioned often: the huge amount of cash on the books of U.S. corporations and the low investment levels relative to profits. But he takes it a step forw ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 22 07:01:53 PDT 2004

20723 [lbo-talk] one American Conservative contributor endorses Kerry -- rank: 1000

American Conservative - November 8, 2004 Unfortunately, this election does not offer traditional conservatives an easy or natural choice and has left our editors as split as our readership. In an effort to deepen our readers' and our own understanding of the options before us, we've asked several of our editors and contributors to make "the conservative case" for their favored candidate. Their pieces, plus Taki's column closing out this issue, constitute TAC's endorsement. - The Edito ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 16:29:11 PDT 2004

20724 [lbo-talk] re: november column -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >A minority of the electorate will have chosen a president who serves >wealth , empire and israel. Why the fuck do you people have to say things like this? Israel serves the empire, and it's extremely confused and confusing to argue otherwise. And it can make you look like an anti-Semite. You wouldn't want that would you? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 15:46:57 PDT 2004

20725 [lbo-talk] Zogby & the pollsters club -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >Doug mentioned earlier why Zogby's methods are questionable, but >this extract makes him seem relatively accurate. What am I missing? The AAPORites beef with him include his tendencies to weight respondents according to his feelings about turnout among various demographic groups, and his practice of weighting by party ID. We'll see how it works in less than 2 weeks. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 14:47:34 PDT 2004

20726 [lbo-talk] Re: antidemocratic -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >the people you call conspiracy theorists do not display the >tendencies you attribute to them, you are speaking completely in the >abstract without reference to any examples. You. Ruppert. Bernstein. And those are in the last couple of days. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 14:46:03 PDT 2004

20727 [lbo-talk] "antidemocratic" -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Hey doug, Dennis Bernstein here. why are you making this crap up. >Please forward site, date, source and context of interview with me >regarding D'Amato. Written? Radio? I did write a cover story for the >Bay Guardian that was syndicated by PNS and Alternet. Did you find >any flaws with these widely distributed pieces. respects, db > >Doug, it is pretty obvious that you either misunderstood Dennis' >question or >are deliberately misrepresent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 13:59:23 PDT 2004

20728 [lbo-talk] Zogby & the pollsters club -- rank: 1000

[I'm just forwarding the beginning of this; the full post was over 26k.] Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:14:00 -0400 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org From: snit snat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com> Subject: The Pollster (article about Zogby from The New Yorker) interesting article about Zogby, the criticisms of his methods, and AAPOR clubbishness: "Zogby is not wrong to talk about the polling establishment as a club. It is a club--in fact, it set out consciously to become one. George Gallup u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 13:35:02 PDT 2004

20729 [lbo-talk] registering in Florida -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >But the most significant story, I think, is the touchscreen machines with no >paper ballot, and "proprietary" software, which half of Florida's voters will >be using. It's gonna be interesting to compare the exit polls to the official counts. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 21 13:30:42 PDT 2004

20730 [lbo-talk] the Mary Cheney controversy -- rank: 1000

[this sheds some light on one of the odder controversies of the day] On FOX, Kerry's reference to Mary Cheney's sexual orientation compared to saying "Your daughter is a slut" <http://mediamatters.org/items/200410200007> Frequent FOX News Channel guestKellyanne Conway <http://www.pollingcompany.com/biography.asp?FormMode=Show&ID=1>, president and CEO of The Polling Company, compared Senator John Kerry's reference to Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, Mary Cheney, as ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 21 11:43:51 PDT 2004