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4006 [lbo-talk] Austerity In The Face Of Weakness -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > If it is, my next question is, what does it mean to have profit > without accumulation? That is, what does it mean for the future? The stagnation that the MR school has been talking about for the last 50 years may finally be here. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 11:40:44 PDT 2010

4007 [lbo-talk] so . . . -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Sensitive guy Robert Jensen thinks we should be very worried about Beck: I frequently regret not having done a joint review of Jensen's awful porn book with Susie Bright. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 11:36:20 PDT 2010

4008 [lbo-talk] gun love -- rank: 1000

Guns & Patriots An Exclusive Publication of Human Events | Vol. 2, No. 35 In the Crosshairs Mike Piccione, Editor Hey Gunners, Thursday I was at the NRA Headquarters in Fairfax, VA. I had the chance to meet with Wayne LaPierre and I spent a few hours with my good friend, and the person I respect more than anyone else on this earth, Jim Land. These men are both officers of the NRA. I was there to record radio commercials. Yep, the voice you frequently hear in NRA commercials is me. While I ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 05:06:59 PDT 2010

4009 [lbo-talk] Renewed speculation on the character of the Chinese economy -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > World Bank data shows investment by state-run companies accounted for a bigger share of Chinese growth last year, mainly the effect of the massive stimulus injected into the economy to counter the global downturn. Most spending was on infrastructure and a vast expansion of credit by state-run banks; the proportion of production by state-controlled companies only edged up slightly. But there's no compelling evidence that heightened state inter ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 05:05:11 PDT 2010

4010 [lbo-talk] Dems in trouble -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] --BIGGEST GOP MIDTERM ADVANTAGE SINCE 1942 -- Gallup.com, GOP Takes Unprecedented 10-Point Lead on Generic Ballot: Republicans also maintain wide gap in enthusiasm about voting, by Frank Newport: Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP's largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup's history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress. T ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 04:59:21 PDT 2010

4011 [lbo-talk] thought -- rank: 1000

<http://platypus1917.org/2010/08/06/the-maoist-insurgency-in-india-end-of-the-road-for-indian-stalinism/> [Jairus Banaji] There are different strands here. One is Roy s tendency to see Maoism as the passive reflection of a tribal separatism that is rooted in decades if not centuries of oppression of the adivasis. The trouble with this is that it makes the Maoists purely epiphenomenal. It is a reading that has little to do with politics in any sense. More to the point, Maoism simply is not ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 30 18:26:40 PDT 2010

4012 [lbo-talk] Austerity In The Face Of Weakness -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:32 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > That was great, but i couldn't figure out how to see the second part. Fuck the folks at Z, who just repost all kinds of material without so much as asking. The originals are all accessible from: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=602 Thumbnails contain no pix of me, thank god. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 30 12:48:38 PDT 2010

4013 [lbo-talk] so . . . -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2010, at 2:37 PM, SA wrote: > Beck's rally signifies a sharp shift to the right. Compared with when? Yeah, the right is mobilized, but we got far more people out to antiwar demos in 2002 and 2003. Not that that had any effect. But the Republicans are going to pick up seats in Nov and Beck's turnout hasn't changed any of that. In fact, it could energize liberals who might otherwise be too demoralized to vote. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 30 11:49:06 PDT 2010

4014 [lbo-talk] so . . . -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2010, at 12:34 PM, SA wrote: > On 8/30/2010 12:02 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > >> did i miss the discussion of beckstock/beckapalooza/beckfork '10? >>> or have we just decided that it's not worth paying attention to >> Should we take it seriously, like all the heated Nuremberg analogies? Or is it just more of the same buffoonery? > > > I don't understand why these are the only two options. Why can't we take it seriously without thinking it's the c ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 30 10:27:33 PDT 2010

4015 [lbo-talk] drink! -- rank: 1000

Science proves that moderate drinkers live longest! <http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2014332,00.html> But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variables socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on the researchers (a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin) found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who had never bee ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 30 09:34:05 PDT 2010

4016 [lbo-talk] so . . . -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > did i miss the discussion of beckstock/beckapalooza/beckfork '10? > > or have we just decided that it's not worth paying attention to Should we take it seriously, like all the heated Nuremberg analogies? Or is it just more of the same buffoonery?

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4017 [lbo-talk] Any Experts on the German Economy Out There? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2010, at 12:07 AM, michael perelman wrote: > The Wall Street Journal has two articles about German. One describes how German wages are stagnating, despite the expansion. > > Here is the first articles: > > Thomas, Andrea. 2010. "German Workers' Wages Belie Country's Rebound." Wall Street Journal (15 August).http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704296704575431240767523752.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLENews What's the question? It's all true. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 21:10:45 PDT 2010

4018 [lbo-talk] LBO Anthology -- rank: 1000

On Aug 27, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > From Doug's blog: > > "Going through past LBOs in order to put together a greatest hits anthology to be published to mark the newsletter's 25th anniversary next year..." > > So what's the scoop on this? No deals inked yet, but very highly likely. More later...

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4019 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 many opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive (and apologies for the delay) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: August 26, 2010 (back after long fundraising break) Paul Street, author of The Empire s New Clothes, on the sorrows of Brand Obam ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 27 14:36:50 PDT 2010

4020 [lbo-talk] banks bought their own CDOs -- rank: 1000

http://www.propublica.org/article/banks-self-dealing-super-charged-financial-crisis

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