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2296 [lbo-talk] origins of the housing boom -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:09 PM, SA wrote: > Isn't it the same header info as for "Duane Eareckson"? Hmm. Not surprising. I don't like these sock puppet games. Doug

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2297 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Doss weighs in from exile: > > "PS your post was the most reprehensible I have seen on LBO-talk. I mean > that in a nonmoralistic way ... It was the most vile (in the nonmoral sense) > of any post ever in the history of LBO-talk." What the fuck does that mean? I don't miss that guy. Doug

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2298 [lbo-talk] Another thing about Vivaldi.... -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 6:11 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > But, actually, I think you either like Beethoven or you like Mozart. Andras Schiff, in his wonderful lectures on the Beethoven sonatas, says something about how Haydn is more like Beethoven than Mozart. I'm not sure what he means by that, but there's something there. I think it has something to do with development vs. theatricality. Doug

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2299 [lbo-talk] Another thing about Vivaldi.... -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > No accounting for this stuff, is there? I always thought > Haydn was wonderful, and there are many days when I find his > stuff more congenial than all but the commanding heights > of Mozart I don't get the adoration of Mozart. I much prefer Haydn - at least the piano sonatas & string quartets. Doug

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2300 [lbo-talk] origins of the housing boom -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 12:57 PM 8/30/2011, Indian Jones wrote: > > >> Gettin awful thick in here. > > > > Does anyone know what this pseudonym is talking about? Dunno. It's "DuanesDell" from Virginia, according to the headers.

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2301 [lbo-talk] origins of the housing boom -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Indian Jones wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> the fancy instruments were just a modern >> variation on an old story: there are endless amounts of cheap money >> available to finance a bubble, until there isn't. > > And who would be best positioned to predict that? Jesus, I suppose. And/or Goldman Sachs, which does god's work.

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2302 [lbo-talk] Another thing about Vivaldi.... -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:38 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > We should be deeply grateful to Vivaldi for lightening up Bach's music. Why is that a good thing? Doug

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2303 [lbo-talk] origins of the housing boom -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Indian Jones wrote: > No. The altruists can keep their comfort while predators hunt and superpredators implement their profits on doom. Wow. Heavy.

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2304 [lbo-talk] origins of the housing boom -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2011, at 5:18 PM, SA wrote: > If the causes of the housing bubble were so contingent and specific, why have there been so many other credit-fueled property bubbles throughout history? In the Panic of 1837 there were no CDOs, MBS, S&P/Moody's, zoning laws, etc, but the basic story was the same. That's why I'm dissatisfied with attempts to explain the bubble by pointing at contingent details like those, either singly or combined. They're just the Bush-era epiphenomenal manifestat ...

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2305 [lbo-talk] origins of the housing boom -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> I would summarize my entire argument this way. Suppose you >> or I traveled back in time to 2005 and got a job writing for >> the WSJ. We pitch our editor on a story that says (a) housing >> is hugely overvalued and (b) the major banks will all go bankrupt >> when house prices collapse. > > Plenty of people sounded this warning. Many were rejected or fired. Ask Robert Shiller about it. That seems to be the ...

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2306 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:38 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote: > > i wonder how much of this tendency toward glorified the suffering of >> oppression is rooted in the punitive aspects of christianity. >> > > I'm lost. Who's glorifying anything? I'm talking about things that suck. There's also a certain pleasure - almost a competitive pressure - in identifying with the sufferings of the most abu ...

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2307 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2011, at 12:21 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 09:04 PM 8/28/2011, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> What is the magic of the Olsen name that makes this valuation possible? > > They seem to have a talent for design and, as this article notes "more resources than most students." That's not what I meant. Why would anyone pay that much money for something by them? What puts them in the Prada class?

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2308 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 02:05 PM 8/28/2011, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > > >> By the way, what colors do those $39,000 handbags come in and where can I find them? > > > Barneys. Before you make a decision, here's more info: > > http://chanceplus1.com/ashley-olsens-39000-bag-the-worlds-most-expensive-handbags/ What is the magic of the Olsen name that makes this valuation possible? Doug

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2309 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:36 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: >> >>> i'm pretty sure that a kinky polyamorous asexual has *got* to be the most oppressedest of all. >> >> But think of how often and multiply they get laid! That's oppression? > > They're asexual so it's very uncomfortable. Ooops, in my excitement I overlook ...

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2310 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:36 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > i'm pretty sure that a kinky polyamorous asexual has *got* to be the most oppressedest of all. But think of how often and multiply they get laid! That's oppression?

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