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21796 [lbo-talk] trade & job loss -- rank: 1000

[Ok, so Ben Bernanke's a Republican and a governor of the Federal Reserve. But his numbers are hard to argue with.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/20040330/> To address the key area of public concern, I will focus here on the job-loss side of the equation. Estimates of the gross number of job losses associated with increased import penetration vary widely, but one representative calculation, by Lori Kletzer (2001), put the gross job loss due to imports at nearly 310 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 11:57:22 PST 2004

21797 [lbo-talk] Re: naderphobia -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: > ...do you mean the cultural, or political left? ... is it leftist to >spew venom , gossip and character assassination on him, with corporate >control the thing that it is, and nobody but the semite candidate >addressing that control, directly? > >and i know about kerry's recently discovered grandfather, but that makes >him - and only according to some definitions - a little bit jewish, >while nader's parentage qualifies him for full semitic braggin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 09:52:02 PST 2004

21798 [lbo-talk] Academic jobs? Really? -- rank: 1000

Robert D. Day wrote: >Does the BLS keep stats on the proportion of tenure-track positions? Large >university vs. small liberal arts college vs. community college? Job >openings by discipline? Call 'em. Their numbers are on the news release. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 09:25:45 PST 2004

21799 [lbo-talk] Clarke Effect: Bush's Poll Numbers IMPROVE!!! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I think the Clarke stuff will matter in the long run. It's knocking out >Bush's main plank. According to the NY Post version of a Newsweek poll, large numbers of people are dismissing Clarke as "partisan" and "self-interested." So he may not be changing that many minds, at least at the popular level. It could mean more trouble for Bush with the ruling class, though, and if it does, the press could turn far more hostile. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 09:03:12 PST 2004

21800 [lbo-talk] Bush vs. Kerry: the Beer Factor Favors Bush -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >"There are more people who would like to have Bush over for a beer >than Kerry." As ABC's The Note put it, the Bush strategy is to make Kerry look like a cross between Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, and Thurston Howell. It seems to be working. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 08:57:10 PST 2004

21801 [lbo-talk] Re: Kerry Slipping..... -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> mike larkin wrote: >> >> >If the job market improves even modestly, I'd say Bush is in. >> >> It probably will, barring a sudden reversal. Too many leading >> indicators are looking up. >> >> Doug > >C'mon, Doug, you said that about a year ago, didn't you? A year ago, we were losing about 90,000 jobs a month; now we're gaining about 40,000. That still sucks, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 07:34:31 PST 2004

21802 [lbo-talk] GOP donors funding Nader -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >I suppose its understandable that some here don't "get it" given the >increasingly neo-liberal orientation of this list. As in deregulation, privatization, free markets? Are you serious? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 06:56:47 PST 2004

21803 [lbo-talk] Green dropouts -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >Four months ago, San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez galvanized >the city's left wing and gave Gavin Newsom a run for his money for >mayor. > >Now he's walking away, saying he will not run for re-election -- and >the decision has left a leadership vacuum among the city's >progressives. Which reminds me - several people have said they were unpersuaded by John Halle's account of why he didn't run for re-election. Any further thoughts, John? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 06:47:50 PST 2004

21804 [lbo-talk] poll - still time to vote -- rank: 1000

I'm going to shut the lbo-talk U.S. presidential poll on Tuesday, 6:47 PM New York time, 48 hours after I announced it. Latest results: Whom do you support for president of the U.S.? percent votes George W. Bush 2% 2 John F. Kerry 63% 64 Ralph Nader 11% 11 a neo-nazi, to heighten the contradictions 0% 0 candidate of a small left party (SWP, SP, etc.) 5% 5 so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 18:35:47 PST 2004

21805 [lbo-talk] Blacklist or bad economy? -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >I admit, running your own business will either cause you to discover >your inner Republican I've been doing it for over 20 years, and I haven't found mine yet. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 17:19:55 PST 2004

21806 [lbo-talk] Re: doug in Iowa -- rank: 1000

MICHAEL YATES wrote: >Doug, you may be happy to learn that a really high fraction of the >nation's topsoil is in Eastern Iowa. Urbanite that I am, I don't think much about topsoil, though I know I'd be rather hungry without it. But Grinnell sounds like a very cool, progressive place - though it's been a while since I spent time in a locality of fewer than 10,000 people. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 16:41:54 PST 2004

21807 [lbo-talk] me in (gasp) Iowa -- rank: 1000

I'm going to be holding forth at a symposium on "Globalization and Cultural Capital" at the humanities center, Grinnell College, on April 8 at 11 AM, and again at a roundtable on April 9 at 4:15 PM. I think they're open to the public, though I don't think many listmembers are anywhere near Grinnell, Iowa. For more on the symposium, see <http://web.grinnell.edu/centhumanities/symposium/globalization.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 15:51:21 PST 2004

21808 [lbo-talk] Re: Kerry Slipping..... -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >If the job market improves even modestly, I'd say Bush is in. It probably will, barring a sudden reversal. Too many leading indicators are looking up. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 14:38:01 PST 2004

21809 [lbo-talk] Kerry slipping... -- rank: 1000

Bush Support Steady in Wake of Clarke Criticisms Kerry Issue Advantage Ebbs As Voter Opinion Fluctuates A week's worth of criticism of his pre-Sept. 11 record on terrorism has had little impact on President Bush's support among voters. He is now running even with Sen. John Kerry in a head-to-head match-up among registered voters (47% Kerry-46% Bush) after trailing Kerry by 52%-43% in mid-March. Voter opinions have been fluid in this early stage of the presidential contest, but Bush has held his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 13:42:18 PST 2004

21810 [lbo-talk] Times defends Judith Miller -- rank: 1000

[Hmm, Keller's defense - "[A] fair amount of the mail on this subject seemed to me to come from people who had not actually read the coverage, but had heard about it on the cyber-grapevine" - sounds a lot like Judith Miller's to Liza Featherstone - "Have you bothered to read what I filed?" <http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/4/voices-feather.asp>.] Editor & Publisher Online - March 29, 2004 Keller Defends Judith Miller in Statement NEW YORK For months, critics of Judith ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 29 12:19:05 PST 2004