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31 [lbo-talk] World Thinkers - Silly Voting at Prospect Magazine -- rank: 1000

Thanks. He lived in Australia for over 10 years and has Australian citizenship I think. > On Mar 5, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote: > > Doug, I thought you would be interested in this. Prospect magazine does the > silly thing of voting for the greatest public intellectuals of the year. > This year guess who is on the short list: > > Yanis Varoufakis, economist. Greece/Australia > > Well that is how they have him listed. > > ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 5 12:31:53 PST 2015

32 [lbo-talk] A bond market crash? -- rank: 1000

> On Jun 7, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Eugene Coyle <e.coyle at me.com> wrote: > > Why not just buy a bond directly? Small investors get creamed on the bid/ask. Also, diversification if you're buying corporate bonds.

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Date:	Sun Jun 7 09:16:24 PDT 2015

33 [lbo-talk] Greece is not only a tragedy; it's a lie -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:59 PM, James Creegan <turbulo at aol.com> wrote: > > Am I to take this as an ironic comment on Proyect's idiot posts, or an implicit apology for the horrendous betrayal that has just taken place? You really think it's all a matter of political will, don't you?

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Date:	Wed Jul 15 18:46:31 PDT 2015

34 [lbo-talk] Greece is not only a tragedy, it's a lie -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:33 AM, James Creegan <turbulo at aol.com> wrote: > > The only purpose of planning would have been to cope with this situation, and prepare a transition to the drachma. Which, of course, would be a piece of cake.

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Date:	Wed Jul 15 07:45:28 PDT 2015

35 [lbo-talk] Trapped by its own success? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote: > *(Of course you'd have to count on people not remembering that the > "European proposal" that everyone hated was substantially similar to one > put forward by Syriza just a few weeks earlier.) Not sure Angela Merkel would agree.

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36 [lbo-talk] Trapped by its own success? -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 8, 2015, at 1:55 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > That's weird he would think Tsripas anticipated a YES vote; that doesn't really make sense. Ambrose also thought that the Clintons killed Vince Foster.

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Date:	Wed Jul 8 11:33:52 PDT 2015

37 [lbo-talk] Trapped by its own success? -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 8, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > The astute Telegraph financial columnist, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard And also a bit of a reactionary nut.

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38 [lbo-talk] Varoufakis quits as FM -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 6, 2015, at 1:48 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > Any theories as to why the meritocracy delivers such shoddy wares? Good question. I'm full of theories of the decline of the U.S. ruling class - don't know about Europe though.

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39 [lbo-talk] Varoufakis quits as FM -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 6, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote: > > It is much easier to understand Yannis's exasperation after having had to spend five months in constant negotiation with eighteen dunces. Several times in interviews with me he remarked on the contrast between the Kohl/Mitterand generation of EU leaders and the current round of pipsqueaks. I'm sure his contempt came across.

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Date:	Mon Jul 6 10:38:19 PDT 2015

40 [lbo-talk] sharing -- rank: 1000

My piece on the sharing economy - Uber, AirBnB, etc. - is out in The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/196241/what-sharing-economy-takes

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Date:	Thu Jan 29 11:33:13 PST 2015

41 [lbo-talk] Howard Zinn -- rank: 1000

On Jan 27, 2015, at 6:25 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > But - for the present at least all I can remember of him is that in the last > year of his life he urged liberals and radicals to vote for the most > dangerous and destructive president in the history of the U.S. Oh good lord. What hyperbole.

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Date:	Tue Jan 27 18:29:18 PST 2015

42 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:22 AM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > what's a terf? You're not keeping up with Social Justice Twitter! Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. That is, feminists, mostly of the liberal-bourgeois sort, who insist on a stark gender binary and don't like all these trans-types blurring the boundaries.

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 05:21:16 PST 2015

43 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > On Mon, January 19, 2015 4:07 pm, JOANNA A. wrote: >> Wittgenstein's favorite cartoon character. Daffy. > > > Now THERE, if you please, is a data point worth knowing. Who's yours?

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44 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Shag Carpet Bomb <gracehinchcliff at gmail.com> wrote: > Although, from my dealings with them - Amanda, Jessica Valenti, etc. - they > don't have a clue what deconstruction is. In fact, they generally attacked > anything related to theory -- where theory is *explanation* about why women > are oppressed and how women's oppression relates to other forms of > oppression. As an example, they consistently chalked up differences among > feminists t ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 14:32:31 PST 2015

45 [lbo-talk] Deconstructionism in contemporary leftish discourse -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > all the posers to lbo-talk I was going to say they're not all posers, but then I thought of the X-Ray Spex song.

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