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2806 [lbo-talk] The Game! -- rank: 1000

The Yale Daily News is liveblogging the pre-game tailgating!! http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/nov/20/live-blog-tailgate/

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Date:	Sat Nov 20 11:30:39 PST 2010

2807 [lbo-talk] new "blog" content -- rank: 1000

Radio commentary, November 20, 2010 http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/20/radio-commentary-november-20-2010/ Stumbling recovery continues bourgeois theories of unemployment who gets UI? how the StimPak helped models for budget-cutting --- Health lunacy: Adorno helps out http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/20/health-lunacy-adorno-helps-out/

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Date:	Sat Nov 20 08:34:19 PST 2010

2808 [lbo-talk] Goldman on QE2 -- rank: 1000

Goldman Sachs US Economics Analyst: 10/46 Q&A on the Future of QE2 Today's focus article looks at the future of the Fed's quantitative easing program (QE2) or large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) in the Fed's preferred terminology after the recent backlash at home and abroad. In our view, the anxiety about the inflationary consequences of QE2 is misplaced. The reason is that the US economy and financial system is not well described by the simple "money multiplier" model, in which in ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 17:48:09 PST 2010

2809 [lbo-talk] NYers: sign this! -- rank: 1000

Subject line:10 Days to Save Our Water Hi - If we want to protect New York's drinking water from risky natural gas drilling, we need to act now. In just 10 days, the New York State Assembly will hold its final meeting of the year -- their last chance to pass a moratorium on "fracking," a drilling method that threatens our water supply and our environment. After grassroots pressure from tens of thousands of concerned New Yorkers, the State Senate approved the moratorium this summer. But ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 17:35:46 PST 2010

2810 [lbo-talk] Arne Duncan = Bill Gates -- rank: 1000

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/duncan-rewarding-teachers-for-masters-degrees-is-waste-of-money/28478 Duncan: Rewarding Teachers for Master s Degrees Is Waste of Money November 19, 2010, 2:11 pm In a speech at an American Enterprise Institute forum on Wednesday, the secretary of education, Arne Duncan, said state and local governments should rethink their policies of giving pay raises to teachers who have master s degrees because evidence suggests that the degree alone does not improve student ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 13:15:10 PST 2010

2811 [lbo-talk] Krugman: Simple motives behind austerity -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2010, at 3:49 PM, SA wrote: > On 11/19/2010 3:38 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > >> So does this mean the whole idea that you can interpret progressive business vs. reactionary business during this archetypal period as an opposition between big capital and small capital doesn't factually hold water? > > That's right. What's good to read about this period? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 12:58:50 PST 2010

2812 [lbo-talk] Krugman: Simple motives behind austerity -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:21 PM, John Gulick wrote: > Who are the heavy hitters in the NAM nowadays? A mix of household names and people you've never heard of: http://www.nam.org/About-Us/Board-of-Directors/Landing-Page.aspx

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 09:29:44 PST 2010

2813 [lbo-talk] Krugman: Simple motives behind austerity -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > On 2010-11-19, at 5:41 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > >> By PAUL KRUGMAN >> >> ...but the core reason >> for the attack on the Fed is self-interest, pure and simple...Republicans want the >> economy to stay weak as long as there's a Democrat in the White House. > > While Krugman's right that the Republicans want to score political points, I doubt the "core reason" they're attacking QE2 ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 07:44:50 PST 2010

2814 [lbo-talk] Joe Klein, populist -- rank: 1000

[Wow, someone put something in Joe Klein's Wheaties.] http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2031958,00.html Obsessed with the Deficit and Ignoring the Economic Mess By Joe Klein The release of another budget-balancing proposal, this from the Obama deficit-reduction commission's co-chairmen, has unleashed a volcanic eruption of hurrahs from the Olympian peaks of the Establishment and reflexive harrumphs from the left and right. In the past, I've been a reliable hurrah monger. We do have a ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 18 18:44:27 PST 2010

2815 [lbo-talk] any irish lbo-talkers out there? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:01 PM, SA wrote: > On 11/18/2010 4:13 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Check out this interview with Michael Taft: >> http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S101023 > > > Great interview. Learned more from it than from weeks of media consumption. Thanks. That's the aim of BtN. The WBAI/Pacifica authorities don't agree: interim program director: Tony Bates <TonyWBAI at gmail.com> interim general manager: Berthold Reimers <breimers62 ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 18 17:19:19 PST 2010

2816 [lbo-talk] any irish lbo-talkers out there? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:50 PM, SA wrote: > Don't a lot of multinationals just set up an office in Ireland and then route profits that were generated by operations elsewhere through it? In other words, without necessarily having much in the way of actual operations or employment in Ireland itself? I know there's a lot of genuine MNC employment in Ireland, but isn't there a lot of fakery too? Check out this interview with Michael Taft: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S101023 Lots o ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 18 13:13:21 PST 2010

2817 [lbo-talk] marriage: obsolete? class angled? -- rank: 1000

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1802/decline-marriage-rise-new-families

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Date:	Thu Nov 18 11:32:39 PST 2010

2818 [lbo-talk] Defend G.M. Tamas -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > (forwarded from Principia Dialectica) > > G. M. Tamas author of the groundbreaking Telling the Truth about Class as well > as a myriad of other publications, has been a member of the Institute of > Philosophy at the Hungarian Academy (and is one of the institute s past chairs) > and is the latest victim of a right-wing purge. He was asked recently, at the > age of 62, by the new chair (an analytical philosopher of la ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 18 08:44:05 PST 2010

2819 [lbo-talk] Palin coins a word -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2010, at 6:15 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Looks like "refudiate" is OED word of the year. Not quite sure why. Researching. If The Twitter says so, it must be.

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 15:26:23 PST 2010

2820 [lbo-talk] Query BLS replacement data series -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > Non-sup > includes about 80% of the working class No, it includes just over 80% of the entire employed labor force. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 11:24:18 PST 2010