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2791 [lbo-talk] Wikileaks according to The Guardian -- rank: 1000
On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:06 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Doug writes: > > "So what's Assange's life expectancy? 6 months?" > > I don't get any of this. Is any of this stuff they are uncovering news to anyone? EVERYBODY knows that U.S. embassies are spy centers. The U.N. stuff is creepy but also not surprising. Lese majeste. You don't embarrass the USA and get away with it. It doesn't matter that we all "knew" it. Learning that Hillary signed an order to get ...
Document Size: 5379
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Nov 28 17:49:13 PST 2010
2792 [lbo-talk] Wikileaks according to The Guardian -- rank: 1000
So what's Assange's life expectancy? 6 months? Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Nov 28 17:01:30 PST 2010
2793 [lbo-talk] Quantitative Easing -- rank: 1000
On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:37 PM, michael perelman wrote: > But bondholders are likely to try to get out of the bonds ASAP to lock > in those capital gains. The proceeds can be used for speculation. Who do you think dominates day-to-day bond moves? Short-term traders. If they all move to liquidate their holdings to realize their capital gains, prices will fall, and gains will disappear. You make it sound like it's easy to trade bonds. Doug
Document Size: 4935
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Nov 28 14:44:00 PST 2010
2794 [lbo-talk] Quantitative Easing -- rank: 1000
On Nov 27, 2010, at 2:16 PM, michael perelman wrote: > Jane D'Arista would add that to the extent that QE2 lowers interest > rates on long-term bonds (one of the intended goals of the program > one which will probably not succeed), the program will only serve to > make speculation more attractive. How's that? Speculators generally borrow short-term. A leveraged position in long bonds would be profitable if that happens, but probably most of the movement in rates has happened already, ...
Document Size: 5028
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Nov 27 11:24:48 PST 2010
2795 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000
On Nov 26, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Mark Bennett wrote: > There is a lot good stuff in these new installments, Doug. Has Mike Davis > ever been on BHTN? Thanks. Long ago, he was, and the only way I got him is because he needed something from me. He's very elusive, hard to pin down, and often doesn't show up. So, as much as I'd like to have him, it's not worth the tsuris. Doug
Document Size: 4850
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Nov 27 08:35:36 PST 2010
2796 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000
BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> Note: this show no longer originates at WBAI. For an explanation, see the links on the radio archive page, below. -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: November 27, 2010 Paul Street on the Tea Party, th ...
Document Size: 8752
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Nov 26 17:52:33 PST 2010
2797 [lbo-talk] RIP, Sleazy -- rank: 1000
http://thequietus.com/articles/05350-peter-sleazy-christopherson-rip t is with great sadness that this morning the Quietus is having to report that Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil and X-TG has died. He was 55, and reportedly passed away in his sleep. The news was broken in the early hours of the morning by Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti, who tweeted "Our dearest beautiful Sleazy left this mortal coil as he slept in peace last night.words ca ...
Document Size: 5235
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Nov 25 13:43:59 PST 2010
2798 [lbo-talk] Quantitative Easing -- rank: 1000
On Nov 22, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > this thing's spreading everywhere and, while there are some good criticisms > in it, its primarily an anti-government screed > > it argues that the Fed sees deflation when it doesn't - its trying to > forestall it, it argues that deflation's good for consumers but leaves out > that deflation's bad for jobs and investment, it suggests that QE's only > about deflation and that it's the only idea the Fed's got, it pulls out the &g ...
Document Size: 5731
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Nov 22 14:51:52 PST 2010
2799 [lbo-talk] feeling good -- rank: 1000
On Nov 22, 2010, at 5:31 PM, SA wrote: > I think the premise can be questioned. You could argue that American capitalism is thriving like never before. Wall Street is making billions, profits are soaring, unprecedented attacks on the working class (slashing SS and Medicare, quasi-privatizing education) are on the table to an unprecedented degree, along with huge further tax cuts despite an alleged fiscal crisis. And all without a peep of protest. Pointing to the possibility of another crisis ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Nov 22 14:38:04 PST 2010
2800 [lbo-talk] feeling good -- rank: 1000
On Nov 22, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > We now know the Obama administration did not act to clean up the financial and housing mess, and it consequently frittered away its advantage over the Republicans. In light of this experience, we can speculate on whether the economic and political system has become so dysfunctional that it is no longer possible for American capitalism to reform itself. That would be a discussion worth having I dunno, are there really two sides to this questio ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Nov 22 13:58:12 PST 2010
2801 [lbo-talk] a classic WFMU moment -- rank: 1000
On this morning's Liz Berg show on WFMU: two French guys who cover Japanese surf music. This rivals my previous favorite, which I mentioned the other day - the Chipmunks sung in Thai.
Document Size: 4705
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Nov 22 12:31:31 PST 2010
2802 [lbo-talk] feeling good -- rank: 1000
On Nov 22, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > "Incidentally, I still have a sympathy for [Obama], so if you ask me, > frankly I don't like Tariq Ali's book on Obama, and I share this > dislike with Alain Badiou.... Now here comes the paradox. I agree with > [Ali's] analysis of Obama, how he's not [a socialist]. But fuck him, > what did he expect: that Obama will be a communist/socialist president > or what? It's fundamentally a useless book, I claim. You see, it makes &g ...
Document Size: 6972
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Nov 22 11:32:58 PST 2010
2803 [lbo-talk] Obama: genuflecting on a single knee not enough -- rank: 1000
Obama Is Preparing New Overtures to Counter Anti-Business Image 2010-11-22 05:01:06.0 GMT By Mike Dorning Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is preparing new overtures to business that may start with a walk into the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a retreat with corporate chief executive officers, according to people familiar with his plans. ...
Document Size: 5004
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Nov 22 09:45:11 PST 2010
2804 [lbo-talk] distancing technique? -- rank: 1000
[via Mike Allen] WILLIAM KRISTOL, on the 'Fox News Sunday' roundtable, says it's unclear if there is genuine populist outrage: 'This has been ginned up, I think, by a few media outlets.'
Document Size: 4728
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Nov 21 07:33:33 PST 2010
2805 [lbo-talk] you can't make this stuff up -- rank: 1000
Gary Null nearly killed taking his own product. Sues manufacturer - after first claiming he was ok. http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/20/gary-null-nearly-killed-by-own-product/
Document Size: 4804
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Nov 20 19:36:20 PST 2010
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