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29041 Dow 36,000 -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I've been meaning to tell you this for a long time, but the LBO >headline: "Dow 23,000? No. Dow 543,674" ...or something like that, >was the funniest headline I've read in my entire life. It cracks me >up every time I think about it. Why thanks. It's "Dow 36,000? No, Dow 9,572,460!," and it's on the web at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Dow36000.html>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 13:15:22 PDT 2002

29042 requests -- rank: 1000

I unsub'd Michael McIntyre again, so the flow of autoresponses should stop. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 12:28:26 PDT 2002

29043 FT: A dollar short -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> One problem with this is that too many people are saying the dollar is >> about to fall. When that many people believe something, can it happen? > >You sound like you're moving from contrarian to contrarian fund investment >advisor :o) I'll take 1% of assets under management anyday! >But seriously, I thought that was how stuff like this got started, that >everyone thought everyone else was abou ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 12:12:27 PDT 2002

29044 stop -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >LOL! > >Michael No more requests, please! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 12:02:08 PDT 2002

29045 FT: A dollar short -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >[I thought this was a nice summary of the most current reasons the >dollar's just on the verge of falling. Maybe manana's finally here.] One problem with this is that too many people are saying the dollar is about to fall. When that many people believe something, can it happen? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 11:18:56 PDT 2002

29046 Patriotism, Hendrix -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 02:06 PM 6/5/2002 +0000, Justin wrote: > >>Not in my case, although I don't own a TV either. > > >Wow - welcome to the club. I thought I am the only person in this >country who actually does not own a TV (as opposed to those who >merely do not watch it) - each time is admitted that, people looked >at me as I was some sort of a crackpot (which is probably true). It >is nice to know that there is, after all, "somebody our there.& ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 09:48:04 PDT 2002

29047 programs -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 09:17:34 -0500 From: "Michael McIntyre" <mmcintyr at depaul.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: apologies Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dont.panix.com id KAA20131 Apologies to all for the repeated postings about the grad program. My email system is set to generate an automated response to incomin ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 09:38:07 PDT 2002

29048 Australia -- rank: 1000

[Anyone know why Australia's doing so well?] From: The Dismal Scientist <listserv at dismal.com> Subject: Dismal Delivery - GDP for Australia Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:40:44 -0400 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The GDP for Australia economic release has been updated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GDP for Australia (1.0%) Australia continues to post strong numbers. Trend GDP rose by 1% in the first quar ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 06:44:20 PDT 2002

29049 lbo-talk-digest V1 #6268 -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >I must say that I am becoming quite enthralled with DePaul's graduate >studies program. > >Chris Doss >The Russia Journal I unsub'd him, so they should stop now that the enthrallment has set in. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 06:42:51 PDT 2002

29050 spam -- rank: 1000

Tahir Wood wrote: >What the hell is all this???? Looks like an automated reply set off by the word "info." If it keeps up, I'll unsub him. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 06:32:23 PDT 2002

29051 What is Antisemitism?(Part 1) -- rank: 1000

pradeep quoted Michael Neumann from Counterpunch: >I take a different view. I think we should almost never take > antisemitism seriously, and maybe we should have some fun > with it. Some people have strange ideas of "fun." Doug

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29052 Loren Goldner adds to website -- rank: 1000

[from the realm of Marxian theory] Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 18:51:59 -0400 Subject: New Web Site Postings From: "Loren Goldner" <lrgoldner at earthlink.net> This is to let you know that, thanks to the wonders of scanning technology, I am in the process of adding various pre-computer, pre-Internet writings going back to the 1970's (as well as some more recent ones) to my web site Break Their Haughty Power <http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner> As many of you know, the site has ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 18:13:56 PDT 2002

29053 aliens -- rank: 1000

[dunno how true this is, but here you go] At 3:38 PM -0400 6/4/02, BuzzFlash wrote: >Buzzflash has been told by reliable sources that Attorney General John >Ashcroft -- in a move that is reminiscent of the World War II era >treatment of Japanese Americans -- is preparing regulations that will >require aliens present in the United States from certain Arab nations to >report to INS offices, airports, or other ports of entry to register >with the government.

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 14:35:11 PDT 2002

29054 lbo-talk-digest V1 #6263 -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >the star spangled banner is a lousy song, but the privately dominated >market system, in which some rich slug has more than a hundred thou to >spend on a personal letter written by a man worth infinitely more than >he/she/it, is a much bigger problem....no? Hey, remember Bill Clinton's perfectly circular aphorism? What's wrong with America can be cured by what's right with America. Just be patient, it'll all work itself out. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 13:51:36 PDT 2002

29055 Combat gear -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >I wear 'em even while I don't have to. My coclerk says she'd >describe my manner of dress as "formal." jks Hayek, Posner, the SSB, and now this - I'm seriously worried. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 4 13:17:32 PDT 2002