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33001 populism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >mbs: try reading the primary sources some time, >particularly in "The Populist Reader," or on the >Internet, compare it to other political commentary >of the time, and then rethink whether it reflects >'shallow and unthinking.' From one of the sites you recommend, I learned about "the yeomanry's longstanding opposition to the building of railroads through their communities." Max, was the railroad a mistake? Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 26 09:52:04 PDT 2001

33002 Populism -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Says the man who's always telling us not to write off the student movement, >or other struggles that don't fit orthodox Marxian analysis. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The students are acting in solidarity with workers' movements. Populism is, and has always been, all over the place. A small biz owner may rail against big capital, but would also oppose OSHA and minimum wage laws. Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 26 09:34:15 PDT 2001

33003 Up From Debt Reduction -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Dividing by 10, that means there is a surplus of $148.4bn this year *not >counting* the funds set aside for debt reduction in the name of social >security. > >But today the FT, warming to its theme, said once again on their front >page: > >> Administration budget figures released this week show that only a $1bn >> surplus will remain this year unless Congress dips into the $157bn >> social security surplus > >Where did the ot ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 26 09:32:25 PDT 2001

33004 Fallwell on Helms -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >Many leftists may think this is simple foolishness, or even paranoia, >but consider how the solid verities of a couple of decades ago actually >have changed. You're right. I started writing a response yesterday to Max's assertion that we live in a conservative culture, but time was short and I wasn't happy with what I'd typed, so I trashed it. But in many ways this isn't a conservative culture, even though the conservatives have a disproportionate shar ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 26 09:23:13 PDT 2001

33005 ascriptions jostling forward -- rank: 1000

Always worth remembering: >The Nation - April 17, 1989 >COCKBURN REPLIES > >...About Irving Howe, maybe "slimier" was wrong. I thought about it >for a while. "Stoat-like," "squalid," "weasel-brained" were all >ascriptions jostling forward, but in the end I thought "slimy" >properly evoked his eel-like slipperiness.... > >Alexander Cockburn >Aptos, Calif.

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Date:	Sat Aug 25 15:37:55 PDT 2001

33006 chartalism etc -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec stuff was attached] Subject: RE: Surplus's effect on the money supply Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:01:57 -0500 From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu> this view ('neo-chartalist'--see Wray's latest working paper for a good over view of the 'state money' view and endogenous money at http://www.cfeps.org/public/WrayWP24.htm ) recognizes the difference between 'real' capacity to produce goods and services and 'money'. the point--obviously 'Keynesian'--is that wh ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 25 14:07:34 PDT 2001

33007 Falwell on Helms -- rank: 1000

[Who knew God had a position on the Panama Canal and NMD?] FROM: Jerry Falwell DATE: August 23, 2001 JESSE HELMS, AN AMERICAN LEGEND, WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION Citing age, family and health reasons, Sen. Jesse Helms, 79 has decided not to run for a sixth term in the 2002 elections. I consider Sen. Helms to be a national treasure. In my lifetime, I have not known a political leader with stronger convictions, more impeccable character and of more value to the pro-family and the pro-life cause. My ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 25 13:19:23 PDT 2001

33008 potentially disorderly rebalancing -- rank: 1000

[For you connoisseurs of chaos: from the IMF's recent Article IV consultation with the U.S. - the same doc that said that Bush & Co. were underestimating the cost of their tax cut by half, and expenditures by a few hundred billion <http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2001/cr01145.pdf>. "Missions" is always a nice touch.] Discussions with market participants during the International Capital Markets missions focused on concerns about a renewed sharp repricing in U.S. equity ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 25 13:12:51 PDT 2001

33009 Buffett the Bear -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Misery will last, says Buffett Business Week - September 3, 2001 THE ECONOMY Buffett Forecasts Eight Bad Years If you're looking for a rosy economic forecast, don't knock on Warren Buffett's door. Seems the Berkshire Hathaway chairman and King of All Value Investors has been telling the executives he meets with to brace themselves for a long slowdown. Not only is there no turnaround in sight this quarter or even this year, according to Buffett, but those who've met with him ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 25 11:36:04 PDT 2001

33010 Demand Side Sex Worker Theory? -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >First, I read an excerpt from a novel with Doug interviewing some sex worker >type on the radio on LBO-Talk, then, on the way home, I hear Doug >interviewing a sex worker novelist, a closet Nietzschean sex worker who can't >stand the 'democratic' idea that every women could embrace her 'whore' side >because it would skew the supply and demand equation of sex work. The first >inkling of the 'demand side' theory of sex work, no doubt. > >Art imit ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 25 06:25:08 PDT 2001

33011 populism -- rank: 1000

Lawrence wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >> By the way, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a populist. > >Is that because of the threat the majority constantly poses, in any society, >to the civil rights of minorities, or for some other reason? I'm no scholar of populism, but it's mainly struck me as deeply petty bourgeois politics - not against capitalists, just big capitalists; not against money, just big money; not against a system of p ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 25 06:17:57 PDT 2001

33012 bankruptcy record! -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I wonder what the mix between personal and business would be. They don't do the math for you in the release, but you they give numbers for non-business by type, so if you add them together you can get total non-biz, and subtract that from the total total to get biz. 390,062 personal, 10,332 business. At an annual rate, we could do 1.5 million personal bankruptcies this year Personal filings were up 20% for the first half of the year, business up 9%. For 00Q2 to 01Q2, ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 14:48:39 PDT 2001

33013 Oklahoma -- rank: 1000

From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:51:08 -0400 Speaking of populism, and reminding us it is 2000 and not 1900, there is a raging right-to-work fight in Oklahoma. All with any kind of professional credential that would look good on a petition who would like to stand up and be counted in opposition to right-to-work laws should send their name, affiliation, and email to: Jennifer Long Assistant Professor of Economics University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma faclo ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 14:02:59 PDT 2001

33014 populism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >So I will continue in my >quest to recover the threads of this tradition, the >authentic radical ideology of actual working people >in the U.S. Working people? Or peasants and the petit bourgeoisie? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 24 13:20:09 PDT 2001

33015 populism -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Hi, > >Oh Doug, get over it: > >"Lawrence Goodwyn, the leading historian of Populism" By the way, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a populist. Doug

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