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22621 [lbo-talk] BW: Timid fat cats -- rank: 1000

How quaint! Time to dust off the Keynes. "[The desire to hold money as a store of wealth is] a barometer of the degree of our distrust of our own calculations and conventions concerning the future.... The possession of actual money lulls our disquietude; and the premium which we require to make us part with money is the measure of the degree of our disquietude." Weirdly, profitability is quite high, having recovered most of the 1997-2001 drop. Yet corps seem to lack confidence in the f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 14:56:33 PDT 2004

22622 [lbo-talk] Arab-Americans: Kerry, 51%; Bush, 24%; Nader, 13% -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - July 16, 2004 Arab-Americans turn against the president in key states By Alex Barker A growing number of Arab-American voters in four battleground states opposethe re-election of President George W. Bush, according to a poll released yesterday. The survey underscores the difficulties the president faces with a community that broadly supported his election campaign in 2000. In a three-way race, 51 per cent of those surveyed by the Arab American Institute (AAI) said they would vo ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 16 14:08:56 PDT 2004

22623 [lbo-talk] List admin question -- rank: 1000

D F Cornwell wrote: >Hi All > >Please excuse this admin question and please, someone, reply offlist. > >Awhile ago I set my subscription to nomail in anticipation of some >eye surgery. > >Now I am ready to read the list again or at least to browse >archives. But I have misplaced the message that tells me how to find >the archives. > >Is there some kind of help or FAQ file someone could just send me. > >Thanks very much Every list message includes these l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 13:30:14 PDT 2004

22624 Fwd: [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: July 15, 2004 Nomi Prins, investment banker turned journalist, on Martha's sentencing, Ken Lay's indictment, and sex discrimination on Wall Street * Charlie Komanoff, car-hater, on why we use so much oil, and how we could use less of it it joins -------- July 8, 2004 Lakshman Achuthan of the Economic Cycles Research Institute and co-author of Beating the Business Cycle, on cycles in general, this odd one speci ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 16 13:13:04 PDT 2004

22625 [lbo-talk] LBO-talk Fundrace -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >There is a website called Fundrace 2004 By the way ... campaign contribs are a matter of public record, and anyone is free to look up anyone else, but did it ever, even for a nanosecond, strike you that there's something obnoxious about what you did, and the way you reported it? Or don't you care about things like that given the stakes of The Struggle? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 11:57:37 PDT 2004

22626 [lbo-talk] LBO-talk Fundrace/rich LBO subscribers -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >A bit off topic: > > >The only rich guy who has ever subscribed to LBO-talk > >Doug, didn't Warren Mosler make an appearance here >once or twice. That guy's loaded out the ying-yang. No I don't think he did. I made fun of him on the post-Keynesian list, so I think he doesn't like me. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 16 11:44:45 PDT 2004

22627 [lbo-talk] ciao, Iraq -- rank: 1000

Manila speeds Iraq pullout to save hostage, Bangkok sticks to withdrawal BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi insurgents snatching lone hostages in their battle against the US-led military pushed the Phillipines to advance its troop pullout and send a handful more home and a Saudi company to abandon work in Iraq (news - web sites). Thailand, meanwhile, refused to extend the deployment of its 451-strong contingent, despite a request by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) because of the security c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 11:24:55 PDT 2004

22628 [lbo-talk] GOP losing its swing? -- rank: 1000

New York Post - July 16, 2004 GOP LOSING ITS SWING By RYAN SAGER THE gay-marriage amend ment that failed Wednesday was never meant to win votes in the Senate - its target was always swing states with large Catholic populations such as Ohio and Michigan. Perhaps, however, the Republican Party should be thinking a bit harder about swing voters. By again racing ahead to claim the mantle of the Party of Bigotry (it almost got away from them there for a bit), the GOP is doing permanent damage to itse ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 09:37:36 PDT 2004

22629 [lbo-talk] LBO-talk Fundrace -- rank: 1000

Kerry doesn't need my money; he's got plenty. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 09:30:31 PDT 2004

22630 [lbo-talk] fresh polls: Wisc and Fla -- rank: 1000

John Kerry and George W. Bush remain tied among likely voters in Florida. In a survey conducted July 13-15, Kerry is at 47%, Bush is at 44%, and Ralph Nader is at 3%. Without Nader on the ballot, it is Kerry 49% and Bush 45%. While the shift to Kerry among independents has stopped, Kerry is now doing almost as well among Democrats as Bush is doing among Repubicans, which gives Kerry a slight advantage. The Florida results are at: http://americanresearchgroup.com/fl/ --- John Kerry and George W. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 09:24:39 PDT 2004

22631 [lbo-talk] GOP Pollsters: Undecideds Poised to Break For Kerry -- rank: 1000

Guilherme wrote: >Isn't the bush strategy to 'energise the base'? If so is it >correct to assume they're writing off these undecideds? Is it even >correct to assume these undecideds are in the middle? It seems independents have been leaning towards Kerry, which isn't good news for W. Also, Bush has been spending time in places like rural Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan - heavily Republican but with few votes. I know he doesn't like going where he's not popular, but if th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 09:20:42 PDT 2004

22632 [lbo-talk] Martha -- rank: 1000

So Martha gets 5 months and a $30k fine. There's never been a better time to order your "Give Martha's Cell To Cheney" t-shirt! <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 08:01:25 PDT 2004

22633 [lbo-talk] NYC LGBT hip-hop conference -- rank: 1000

7/16 FRI & 7/17 SAT, 7 pm - "Peace OUT," Phat Family Records' historic LGBT hip-hop conference, w/art exhibition by graffiti artist Ben Aqua. Preview of Alex Hinton & Bret Berg's "Pickin' Up the Mic," Maurice Jamal's "The Ski Trip," rappers Aggracyst, Chase One, El-Don, Shorty Roc, singers Basil Hennely & Nhojj, poets ButtaFlySoul, Brandon Lacy Campos & Yvie E & dancer Raeshem Nijhon, open mic MC battle. At Bluestockings, 172 Allen St at Stanton ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 07:45:36 PDT 2004

22634 [lbo-talk] Riggs Bank and Pinochet -- rank: 1000

Riggs had a lot of social cachet, right? Diplomats, embassies, the DC elite? Anyone know about it?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 15 18:11:21 PDT 2004

22635 [lbo-talk] Re: organizing "them" -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >why not both? leaving out the "chimerical", which is hardly what any >pres-runner would use as self-description, Of course not. But I'm not constrained by the delusions of self-description. > and leaving out the "painful" >which sounds very religious-left, guilt ridden, and guaranteed to repel >people already living with enough hardship, struggle, and even pain... Well what the hell do you think it involves, other than a lot of work and r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 15 15:59:29 PDT 2004