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5941 [lbo-talk] your Facebook is their fortune -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Shane Taylor wrote: > Lie to them. On Facebook, I am 76 years old. To avoid confusing your > friends and family, simply make every lie private, between you and > Facebook. I just don't care. Of course I'm self-employed and not vulnerable to employer blackmail, but what is it about this privacy fetish? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 08:47:57 PST 2009

5942 [lbo-talk] Fwd: S&S Call for Papers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > >> So why did Keynes pay so much attention to this MEI schedule? > > Expected rate of return, which is what motivates fresh investment. > As I recall Shaikh's stock market paper, it was realized rate of > return on new investment. Footnote: the expected ROI is crucial to the "hurdle rate" - the minimum rate of return necessary for a corp to undertake an inves ...

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5943 [lbo-talk] Fwd: S&S Call for Papers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > So why did Keynes pay so much attention to this MEI schedule? Expected rate of return, which is what motivates fresh investment. As I recall Shaikh's stock market paper, it was realized rate of return on new investment. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 15:22:52 PST 2009

5944 [lbo-talk] Fwd: S&S Call for Papers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > I thought Jensen was upset that firms were NOT investing, holding > onto too much cash. They were wasting it, either on perks or on investment. It should be returned to shareholders.

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 15:21:44 PST 2009

5945 [lbo-talk] Fwd: S&S Call for Papers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Eric Beck wrote: >> >>> What I see is enormous >>> pressure on corps from shareholders to shovel big loads of cash >>> into their >>> pockets rather than invest it in the business. That's a battle >>> within the >>> capitalist class that doesn't fit into any standard Marxist models, > > There is no such thing as a "standard Marxist model" because there > is no > su ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 14:49:54 PST 2009

5946 [lbo-talk] Fwd: S&S Call for Papers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:11 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > And that was exactly what recommended the book to me. Still, without > making any unnecessary obeisance to 'Marxist Models' (the idea of a > 'model' itself being hostile to Marx's method of logical > reconstruction through abstraction) I thought that as good as Wall > Street was as an account of the process, I wanted to interpret the > dynamic as being rather the other way around, that the shareholders > movement took off ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 14:46:33 PST 2009

5947 [lbo-talk] GOP governors press Congress to pass stimulus bill -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug asks: > >> who the hell is the constituency for this Republican >> Congressional obstructionism? > > Republican Senators? So the constituency of Rep Sens is Rep Sens? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 14:42:55 PST 2009

5948 [lbo-talk] Fwd: S&S Call for Papers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Eric Beck wrote: >> What I see is enormous >> pressure on corps from shareholders to shovel big loads of cash >> into their >> pockets rather than invest it in the business. That's a battle >> within the >> capitalist class that doesn't fit into any standard Marxist models, >> which >> for the most part (with one exception being a book called Wall Street > > So labor has no part in the current crisis? Not as labor. ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 10:55:11 PST 2009

5949 [lbo-talk] GOP governors press Congress to pass stimulus bill -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2009, at 11:38 PM, B. wrote: > GOP governors press Congress to pass stimulus bill > By BETH FOUHY 8 hours ago > > NEW YORK (AP) Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP > colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President > Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states > for education, public works and health care. Wow, interesting. So who the hell is the constituency for this Republican Congressional obstruction ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 10:40:55 PST 2009

5950 [lbo-talk] Fwd: S&S Call for Papers -- rank: 1000

On Jan 31, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Can something meaningful > (historical/empirical *and* logical/theoretical) be said about the > intermediate links (mechanisms) between profit motive, M-C-M' stuff, > profit rate trend, on the one hand, and subprime mess, securitization, > shadow banking, etc., on the other hand? Patrick Bond will tell us that the profit rate is down, but to me it looks like it rose pretty steadily from 1982 to 1997, fell some, and then rose aga ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 10:36:44 PST 2009

5951 [lbo-talk] HNY -- rank: 1000

Happy New Year, gangstas! And, for those who care, Ivan Joseph Henwood's fourth birthday is tomorrow. Sorry to disappoint Jim Farmelant, but he doesn't have a Nation col yet. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 31 15:38:08 PST 2009

5952 [lbo-talk] conservative Dems: drop cap & trade -- rank: 1000

[Patrick, see what we have to contend with here in the USA!] <http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=CD9CFF07-18FE-70B2-A8A448F9F6703C97 > Dems to W.H.: Drop cap and trade By: Lisa Lerer December 27, 2009 07:10 AM EST Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year. I am communicating that in every way I know how, said Sen. Mary Landrie ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 30 20:03:56 PST 2009

5953 [lbo-talk] Jim Cramer: I was a Spartacist in college` -- rank: 1000

On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> [via Lou Proyect] >> >> http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=GdSUSU6Uuz >> ___________________________________ >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk >> >> > > That would explain all the yelling. Ha yes. My subject head doesn't do justice to the deep strangeness of this clip. Cramer reveals that he took courses in Marxism at Harvard and CCNY and ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 30 18:27:03 PST 2009

5954 [lbo-talk] Jim Cramer: I was a Spartacist in college` -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=GdSUSU6Uuz

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Date:	Tue Dec 29 18:58:01 PST 2009

5955 [lbo-talk] cost of a failed underwear bombing: 49 civilians -- rank: 1000

On Dec 29, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes: > >> <http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091220/world/yemen_unrest_qaeda> >> >> 49 civilians killed in air strike: local Yemeni official >> Sun Dec 20, 10:21 AM > > Well, to be fair to the poor guy who scalded his balls off, the 49 > probably would have been killed anyway. Yup. On second glance, the dateline precedes the event. No doubt the toll will ri ...

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