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3796 [lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a Debt Crisis -- rank: 1000

On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > The U.S. welfare state was always tiny and is now tinier, not to > mention largely ineffective and highly regulative. Let it die, people. Are you dependent on Medicare, Social Security, or Food Stamps? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 17 12:31:04 PST 2010

3797 [lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a Debt Crisis -- rank: 1000

On Feb 17, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Chris Maisano wrote: > More evidence that governability crisis talk is becoming rampant in > elite circles, and that the offensive against the last remnants of > the American welfare state is not long off. These next few years > don't look like they're going to be very much fun. Convenient that they've got Dems to do the hatchet work, eh?

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Date:	Wed Feb 17 12:12:48 PST 2010

3798 [lbo-talk] who are the Teabaggers? -- rank: 1000

Disproportionately white, rural, male, upscale, conservative: http://race42008.com/2010/02/17/poll-watch-cnnopinion-research-survey-on-tea-party-movement/ i.e., your better-off hick.

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Date:	Wed Feb 17 11:48:39 PST 2010

3799 [lbo-talk] Reps denounce StimPak, celebrate its cash flow -- rank: 1000

<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/17/stimulus-hypocrisy-101/> ThinkProgress has investigated opponents of the Recovery Act, reporting throughout the year that many of the lawmakers who tried to kill the legislation have been returning to their home states to claim credit for popular stimulus programs. In a new research report, ThinkProgress finds that over half of the GOP caucus, 110 lawmakers from the House and Senate are guilty of stimulus hypocrisy. Among some of the key findi ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 17 10:10:50 PST 2010

3800 [lbo-talk] Judging Stimulus by Job Data Reveals Success -- rank: 1000

There's no doubt that without the StimPak we'd be deeper in the muck. It could have been better, much better, but it's about the only good thing of any significance that Obama did. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 17 09:31:04 PST 2010

3801 [lbo-talk] What Would Have to Happen First -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Lakshmi Rhone wrote: > First time poster, and I don't understand the leftist economic point > of > view, though I am very concerned about social justice. One day later: > I wish you would share your thinking with us. As far as I can see > the efficient markets hypothesis is discredited with nothing to > replace it except a list of factors that act in different > combinations to affect asset price levels. The real business cycle > theory can't ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 17 08:56:10 PST 2010

3802 [lbo-talk] The zen of marx (was clarification) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Rakesh is the Zelig of LBO-Talk. Too bad he's not funnier.

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3803 [lbo-talk] The zen of marx (was clarification) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 16, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Lakshmi Rhone wrote: > meant to be really positive. good pun, huh? Sensat's description is > the best that I have read as it incorporates information aspects of > alienation. > LR > ps since Alan is not talking to me, you should tell him that to the > exent that any sense can be made of what he has said about rent, he is > saying the exact opposite of what Marx intended: rent is not added on > to cost or value to make price; rather value dete ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 16 19:11:51 PST 2010

3804 [lbo-talk] Forwarded without comment ... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> Greece would like trade finance. > > After its $150 bn default in 2002, Argentina showed that you just > need to run a trade surplus and then you can deal with the minor > hassles of short-term financing. Greece has a current account balance of almost -10% of GDP. At least that's an improvement from 2008, when it was -14%. And the country is in the hole about $300 billion in its net foreign position. ...

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3805 [lbo-talk] Forwarded without comment ... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 16, 2010, at 9:28 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > If it's that scary (and for all the good and the great, it is) then > the threat of repudiation becomes a magic wand. Could be, but I'm guessing that Greece would like trade finance.

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3806 [lbo-talk] The zen of marx (was clarification) ADDENDUM -- rank: 1000

On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:41 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Bolognaise sauce? As Page Six might ask: What blueblood Marxist made a Bolognese sauce with a '68 Bordeaux? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 16 16:02:35 PST 2010

3807 [lbo-talk] Laura Agustin in NYC -- rank: 1000

Laura Agustín February 12 at 12:24pm Trafficking, migration and the sex industry: Framing the questions, providing the proofs Lecture by Laura Agustín, author of Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry Rockefeller University, Weiss Building Room 305, York avenue at 66th Street, New York NY 10065. Enter the campus at 66th Street. This lecture is part of the Pugwash series of conferences examining the relationship between science and society, to ensure that researc ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 16 13:23:26 PST 2010

3808 [lbo-talk] terrible political writer gets promotion -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And just why are so many of you reading enough of her to know just how > bad she is? Surely there are better ways to spend your time. As an old ballet critic friend of my first wife put it, some of us are just connoisseurs of crud. There are some things that are just so extravagantly bad that you just have to look - again and again. MHL is one of those.

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 20:31:12 PST 2010

3809 [lbo-talk] spreading depression -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The problem (or a problem) lies in having an accurate estimate on > depression rates in the past One reason it's annoying that that article contained no footnotes is that it claimed that it wasn't a matter of frequency of diagnosis, but actual increase in prevalence. You're right - who knows for sure? But I swear I remember nothing like the ubiquity of depression among college students now back when I was a sprite. > At one time depr ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 20:29:02 PST 2010

3810 [lbo-talk] obama sucks - general consensus? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:38 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > anyway, i was half listening but it appeared that the general > consensus was that obama has horrible ratings, people don't like > him, are starting to judge his presdinency(tm) a failure, etc. His approval rating is pretty low for a president at this stage. Though Reagan was in the same neighborhood early in his second year, in the midst of a deep recession.

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 19:01:15 PST 2010