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5101 [lbo-talk] Is Obama Running Interference to Protect Bankers' Pay? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Politicus E. wrote: > Without > getting into a theoretical discussion, my humble view is that the > risk is > still deflationary. Yup. There's been a collapse in credit demand except for the U.S. government (details forthcoming in LBO #119). And the history of other major financial crises is that inflation declines for several years after the outbreak of a crisis. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 22 15:49:05 PDT 2009

5102 [lbo-talk] banker fury! -- rank: 1000

Excellent lead story in today's print Financial Times. Headline: "Banker fury over tax 'witch-hunt.'" Pull quotes along the side: * "...like taking the finance industry out back and shooting it" * "What good does it do to be demonising an industry that you need to revive to fix the economy?" * "The tax measures will send the US back to the stone age." * "...like a McCarthy witch-hunt" * "This is the most profoundly anti-American thing I ha ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 21 20:10:20 PDT 2009

5103 [lbo-talk] how EFCA will be rendered meaningless -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2009, at 10:04 PM, SA wrote: > On the other hand, why are they doing this? Because the Obama admin asked them to? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 21 20:07:31 PDT 2009

5104 [lbo-talk] how EFCA will be rendered meaningless -- rank: 1000

On Mar 21, 2009, at 9:09 PM, SA wrote: > The story in today's Politico quoted an anonymous union lobbyist > claiming he was "dancing a jig" over these companies' "caving in." > Don't know what to make of that. That he's deluded, of course. No doubt this will be presented as both sides making reasonable concessions, time to move forward, and a meaningless bill will pass. Unions will cheer, write checks to the Dems, and get screwed all over again. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 21 18:24:03 PDT 2009

5105 [lbo-talk] how EFCA will be rendered meaningless -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 21, 2009 Three Companies to Back Proposal on Union Bill By KRIS MAHER Three big retailers are expected to back an alternative proposal next week on a hotly contested bill that would make it easier to unionize workplaces, a move some experts said would bolster the legislation's chance of passage. Costco Wholesale Corp., Starbucks Corp. and Whole Foods Market Inc. are supporting the alternative proposal, according to someone familiar with the effort. Ray Krupin, a ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 21 17:52:58 PDT 2009

5106 [lbo-talk] the NYT inventories its antiquity -- rank: 1000

[via Gakwer] <http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/ttnr/Blog_standards.pdf> NEWS BLOGS AND ONLINE COLUMNS In the integrated newsroom, fundamental Times standards of tone, integrity and fairness are the same online as in print. This goes for blogs as much as it does for news articles, but there are subtle differences that this memo is intended to explore. There are many different kinds of blogs on our site. Some of them are indistinguishable from news stories. Some have a personal ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 20 18:28:10 PDT 2009

5107 [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 podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> Facebook group: <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53240558375>. ---------------------------------- ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 20 13:42:27 PDT 2009

5108 [lbo-talk] Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug has a tin ear for genre, he needs six months in a monastery > with no > books to read but Sidney's "Apology for Poetry," Milton's > Areopagitiva, > and Pope's Essay on Criticism Thank god The Little Red Book isn't on this reading list.

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Date:	Thu Mar 19 18:25:46 PDT 2009

5109 [lbo-talk] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > Black - national identity (arguably) > white - not It may be that all these years around the black nationalists at WBAI have soured me on this stuff, but it makes me want to scream. There's no black national identity. There's no white national identity, either, thank god. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 19 18:24:05 PDT 2009

5110 [lbo-talk] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > white or Black Why is "Black" capitalized and "white" not? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 19 13:09:54 PDT 2009

5111 [lbo-talk] Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > Doug: > >The Little Red Book is a cartoon. I've never read Mao's more > extended efforts, but life is short. > > And you're not trying to drag a country of whatever it was then, 600 > million or so, out of feudalism, so it may really not be relevant. > (I'm not being sarcastic.) No it's not. I don't see what relevance Maoism has to the U.S. at all. But you never saw Lenin writing the sort of drivel that appears between t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 19 13:04:24 PDT 2009

5112 [lbo-talk] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > >>>>/ Shag: >/ why should anyone give obama credit for anything? / / > >/ / > >>>/ Doug: > Cause he's, you know, somewhat black. / > >/ / > >>/ That's wrong on so many levels I wouldn't know where to start. > > />But it's a lot of why people are giving him a break - aside from > the usual credulous break-giving to Dems. > > Evidence? > > Also, since when are white peopl ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 19 12:51:16 PDT 2009

5113 [lbo-talk] Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > I like Boynton, but you've somehow gotten a cartoon version of Mao. The Little Red Book is a cartoon. I've never read Mao's more extended efforts, but life is short. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 19 12:24:18 PDT 2009

5114 [lbo-talk] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > Shag: >/ why should anyone give obama credit for anything? / > > Doug: > Cause he's, you know, somewhat black. > > That's wrong on so many levels I wouldn't know where to start. But it's a lot of why people are giving him a break - aside from the usual credulous break-giving to Dems.

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Date:	Thu Mar 19 12:07:18 PDT 2009

5115 [lbo-talk] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency -- rank: 1000

On Mar 19, 2009, at 1:05 PM, shag wrote: > why should anyone give obama credit for anything? Cause he's, you know, somewhat black. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 19 10:22:04 PDT 2009