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23896 [lbo-talk] happy days are here again! -- rank: 1000

Matthew Snyder wrote: >Doug Henwood writes: >> True, but you're forgetting that IPOs are more about the sizzle than >> the steak - or the promise of sizzle, even. Decades of experience >> show that buying IPOs is financial suicide (unless you're one of the >> lucky ones cut in at the zero hour). > >Is there any way to level the playing field? I've been hearing some buzz >about the OpenIPO model: > > http://www.openipo.com/ind/auctions/openipo/index. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 09:56:03 PDT 2004

23897 [lbo-talk] Cheney luvs Fox News! -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - April 30, 2004 Cheney Praises Fox News Channel Vice President Calls Network 'More Accurate' Than Others By Mike Allen Washington Post Staff Writer Vice President Cheney endorsed the Fox News Channel during a conference call last night with tens of thousands of Republicans who were gathered across the country to celebrate a National Party for the President Day organized by the Bush-Cheney campaign. Fox News styles its coverage as "fair and balanced," but it has a heavy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 09:42:23 PDT 2004

23898 [lbo-talk] Re: perot vs nader (or, naderphobia continued?) -- rank: 1000

And what about Kucinich? He was in all the Dem debates, and got a chance to air his views. Why couldn't he get more than 1-2% of the primary vote - the Democratic primary, where voters are to the left of the general election? It's easy to blame money or the media, but the problem is more complex than that. Doug Liza Featherstone wrote: >Isn't it mostly because more people share Perot's politics than Nader's? I >mean for all the complex reasons leftists don't win elections yet, there's > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 07:52:01 PDT 2004

23899 [lbo-talk] more agents track Castro than OBL -- rank: 1000

[originally posted by Chris Doss, but it bounced because graphics & html coding added 10k of bulk, boosting it over the 15k length limit - please, plain text only] More Agents Track Castro Than Bin Laden By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department agency entrusted with blocking the financial resources of terrorists has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money, d ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 07:33:40 PDT 2004

23900 [lbo-talk] happy days are here again! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The other big difference is that Google represents actual innovation, not >the hype of selling cat food on the Internet. > >Which means that Google may not promise a real new spurt of IPOs, since real >innovation isn't that common. And the way Google is promoting its IPO is >cutting fees for the Wall Street boys, so if others follow Google in their >methods of floating IPOs, even Wall Street may not hype new ones as >hyperactively. True, but you're ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 30 07:28:27 PDT 2004

23901 [lbo-talk] Re: perot vs nader (or, naderphobia continued?) -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >frank scott wrote: >> maybe a few million dollars more for campaigning >> had something to do with it? > >How much more, and how much of an advantage? Like blaming the debates, >that shifts all responsibility off the candidate. You're subject line is >another example of this. To say any culpability for the weakness of >Nader's campaigns lie with the candidate himself is a "phobia." Really. Ralph is hardly an unknown - he's got one ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 07:22:47 PDT 2004

23902 [lbo-talk] Bush admin deletes women -- rank: 1000

New York Times - April 28, 2004 U.S. Deletes, Alters Gender Issue Web Data WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has stripped information on a range of women's issues from government Web sites, apparently in pursuit of a political agenda, researchers reported on Wednesday. ``Vital information is being deleted, buried, distorted and has otherwise gone missing from government Web sites and publications,'' Linda Basch, president of the National Council for Research on Women, said in a tele ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 07:15:43 PDT 2004

23903 [lbo-talk] Trump doll sez: "You're fired!" -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 30, 2004 DEMI-DONALDS EVERY child's dream has come true, now that Donald Trump is selling 1-foot-tall doll versions of himself. The tiny Trumps contain sound chips that say "You're Fired!" They're the brainchild of Hot Records president Victor Btesh, who unsuccessfully tried out for "The Apprentice 2." Even though he didn't make the show, Btesh managed to sell Trump on the Liliputian likenesses. "He loved the idea, and now my company is p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 06:59:01 PDT 2004

23904 [lbo-talk] reasoning -- rank: 1000

[Colin Powell, quoted by Reuters yesterday] "Because a large military presence will still be required under U.S. command, some would say 'Well you are not giving full sovereignty'. But we are giving sovereignty so that sovereignty can be used to say, 'We invite you to remain'. That is a sovereign decision," Powell said.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 30 06:49:53 PDT 2004

23905 [lbo-talk] A Very American Occupation (new Gallup poll) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Iraqi Gallup Poll >Talk of the Nation audio >April 29, 2004 >Guest: >Richard Burkholder >*Gallup's international bureau chief >http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1862543 He was on my show Thursday afternoon; web version to be posted Friday. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 21:15:39 PDT 2004

23906 [lbo-talk] happy days are here again! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>At 6:07 PM +0000 4/29/04, CBS MarketWatch Alerts wrote: >> >>>Breaking News Bulletin: Google files for $2.7 billion IPO >>>http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/newsfinder/default.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=bnb > >The bubble is back! I'm just waiting for the day that Google >replicates the absurdity of Priceline.com being valued more than >some airline companies. The difference between Google and the bubble.com's is t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 15:55:39 PDT 2004

23907 [lbo-talk] Trenchant comment from Max's blog -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Steve Kyle, an econ prof at Cornell, wrote the following: > >"Iraq is just like Viet Nam in this way: > >We dont have the will to do whatever it takes to 'win' because that would >mean destroying whole cities and killing tens of thousands. The other side >does have the will to do whatever it takes to get us out. So they will >prevail in the end." > >http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/000371.html#comments But "we" killed 2-3 milli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 15:54:29 PDT 2004

23908 [lbo-talk] happy days are here again! -- rank: 1000

JW Mason wrote: >What happened to $20+ billion they were supposed to be raising just a few >days ago? The Reuters story says the pricing values the whole company at $20 billion, which means, I'm guessing, they're only floating a piece of it. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 15:40:43 PDT 2004

23909 [lbo-talk] happy days are here again! -- rank: 1000

At 6:07 PM +0000 4/29/04, CBS MarketWatch Alerts wrote: >Breaking News Bulletin: Google files for $2.7 billion IPO >http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/newsfinder/default.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=bnb

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 11:11:36 PDT 2004

23910 [lbo-talk] Gallup poll: 98% cooperation rate -- rank: 1000

snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com wrote: >holy dead guy on a stick! A surveyor in the u.s. would be creaming >his or her jeans for that kind of response rate. As you point out, >they're critical to the u.s., so it's not exactly like they're doing >it out of fear! > >Methinks they want a chance to be heard. That's what Burkholder said on my radio show last fall, talking about Gallup's first survey. People kept talking beyond the alloted 70 minutes, and would say things like, " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 29 10:55:37 PDT 2004