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2881 [lbo-talk] bankruptcy pays -- rank: 1000

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/blog/?p=7784 SOM lands $10 million gift Posted by Carole Bass '83, '97MSL on 5 November 2010, 12:05 pm The current economic mess is evidently paying off for bankruptcy expert Wilbur Ross 59 and for the Yale School of Management, which announced a $10 million pledge by Ross toward the new SOM library. The CEO and chairman of WL Ross & Co., which specializes in reorganizing distressed businesses, was a Yale undergraduate when his father died. Yale was a b ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 19:07:44 PDT 2010

2882 [lbo-talk] Open letters from Stefano Kourkoulakos and LeoPanitch -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2010, at 1:43 PM, D. T. Cochrane wrote: > If that is so, what is the meaning of 'accumulation'? What precisely is > 'accumulated'? How is it to be measured? Money, dude.

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2883 [lbo-talk] Greenberg post-election survey -- rank: 1000

http://www.democracycorps.com/strategy/2010/11/democracy-corps-campaign-for-americas-future-post-election-survey/?section=Analysis

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 18:02:22 PDT 2010

2884 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Chip Berlet wrote: > When you ask Tea Party supporters if they are racist, of course they say no. > > > When you ask Tea Party supporters what makes them mad at Obama, of course > they are going to deny their own racism is one of the factors. Yeah yeah yeah, but this sort of thing always lets Obama off the hook FOR SUCKING! Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 17:57:20 PDT 2010

2885 [lbo-talk] voters, man -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Hecker Steve wrote: > Washington has no state income tax and it gets destroyed at the polls whenever proposed. Why? Is $200,000+ seen as the thin edge of the wedge, even if it is aimed at the fat boys?

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 08:54:26 PDT 2010

2886 [lbo-talk] Open letters from Stefano Kourkoulakos and Leo Panitch -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > what an enlightening response from Panitch I especially cherished this bit: "(It may amuse you to know that I tried to work out the transformation problem for a month or so during my first sabbatical in 1978-79, but I soon decided that life, let alone my sabbatical year, was too short.)" Truer words, never spoke. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 07:02:46 PDT 2010

2887 [lbo-talk] voters, man -- rank: 1000

So Washington state voters rejected the income tax on $200,000+ households, but approved the lifting of the sales tax on candy and soda! I'm tempted to make some obvious joke about bloated, toothless idiots serving their masters, but that would be to blame the victim, wouldn't it? Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 4 06:55:58 PDT 2010

2888 [lbo-talk] Alex nails it -- rank: 1000

<http://www.counterpunch.org/> Gridlock is Good America the Clueless By ALEXANDER COCKBURN The American people have spoken, but it s impossible to decode their incoherent message. Drunk with their capture of the House of Representatives, the Republicans thunder that the verdict of ballot boxes from Maine to Hawai i is clarion-clear: the ultimate evil in America is government, specifically government as led by President Barack Obama. But when exit pollsters questioned voters on their wa ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 20:50:53 PDT 2010

2889 [lbo-talk] report from the front -- rank: 1000

http://twitter.com/#!/KatrinaNation KatrinaNation Katrina vandenHeuvel Marshall Ganz on transactional v transformational politics & why Obama needs 2 remobilize his base: /http://tinyurl.com/2dg5pox 43 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply KatrinaNation Katrina vandenHeuvel Compromise Or Obstruction, Mr. Boehner? | OurFuture.org http://bit.ly/bASxfb 46 minutes ago @DalaiLama/Dear Dalai Lama, Forgive, but I often find anger is a cleansing emotion which strengthens one's views & principles/ 5 ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 20:42:47 PDT 2010

2890 [lbo-talk] the DLC's analysis -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2010, at 10:42 PM, Paul Bartlett wrote: > Mr. X <from_alamut at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Didn't DLC and the Blue dogs take the brunt of Dem losses last night? >> >> peace Jim Davis > > > " In fact 94% of the rest of the Progressive Caucus also won (compared to > only 47% of the Blue Dogs)." I'm sure someone will, or already has, crunched the numbers, but my guess is that a lot of those Blue Dogs who lost came from marginal districts, an ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 20:35:56 PDT 2010

2891 [lbo-talk] Does QE2 work? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Several decades ago, Sweezy in discussing some projected reform, argued that > if the working class had the power to force _that_ on the capitalists, it > had the power to overthrow the state. Hence, dreaming of or working for the > reform in question was pointlesds. I rather think nationalizing the banks > falls into that category. How would firing squads in front of open graves stack up? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 17:11:31 PDT 2010

2892 [lbo-talk] Does QE2 work? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It certainly will continue to hammer the dollar. It's not clear that they care, is it?

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 16:23:16 PDT 2010

2893 [lbo-talk] Does QE2 work? -- rank: 1000

They can buy all the bonds they want but they can't make the banks lend out the cash. Until that changes, QE2 is bupkes. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 16:01:07 PDT 2010

2894 [lbo-talk] Pew analyzes the exit polls -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1789/2010-midterm-elections-exit-poll-analysis> A Clear Rejection of the Status Quo, No Consensus about Future Policies GOP Wins Big Despite Party's Low Favorability November 3, 2010 Fueled by economic anxiety and unhappiness with Democratic stewardship of the country, an older and much more conservative electorate than in 2006 and 2008 propelled the Republican Party to a broad victory in yesterday's elections. As pre-election surveys had predicted, the Republi ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 15:33:52 PDT 2010

2895 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2010, at 6:15 PM, SA wrote: > What Drum says doesn't make any sense. Hibbs' model already takes the economy into account. It's a linear regression. There's nothing linear about this economic cycle. All kinds of "normal" economic relationships have broken down - e.g., unemployment claims and employment, GDP and employment, GDP and house prices and/or residential investment, etc.

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Date:	Wed Nov 3 15:31:47 PDT 2010