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6091 [lbo-talk] Transport deregulation -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > I think you're right about general micro reform, but I'm not sure > about finance or labour markets. There was no doubt a rationalisation > of financial regulation, which began in a lot of countries in the late > 1970s or 1980s with a sweeping away of old bank-centred restrictions. > They really were anachronistic and sclerotic by the 1970s, because of > the growth of non-banks and diverse markets that had sprung up to > allow ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 31 18:14:10 PDT 2009

6092 [lbo-talk] Transport deregulation -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I understand those are the reasons given and the goals sought. What > I am > asking is, did these policies actually produce higher profits and > lower > inflation? Profitability rose, inflation fell. Dereg was part of it. So was the deep recession of the early 1980s, other forms of union busting, cuts in social spending, outsourcing, Wal-Mart, etc. Doug

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6093 [lbo-talk] Transport deregulation -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > I think the key is to start somewhere else. As always, the "de- > regulatory" > nature of neoliberalism is simply crap, and it is so in two ways. > On the > one hand, the idea was not to de-regulate markets, it was to re- > regulate > them so that different interests were favored - as often as possible > this > was to be capital over labor and otherwise banking, infotech and > services > over industrial, ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 31 13:52:31 PDT 2009

6094 [lbo-talk] why Mark Sanford can't resign -- rank: 1000

Because the Lt Gov is gay! <http://www.blogactive.com/>

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Date:	Mon Aug 31 13:45:38 PDT 2009

6095 [lbo-talk] Transport deregulation -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > And, what was the point for all this de-regulation crap? Raising profits, lowering inflation, crushing the working class. Doug

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6096 [lbo-talk] American awfulness in perspective -- rank: 1000

Free LBO sample posted - Americans are poor, sick, overworked, undereducated, and happy about it: http://bit.ly/2njDtr

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Date:	Mon Aug 31 13:21:51 PDT 2009

6097 [lbo-talk] Transport deregulation -- rank: 1000

Joanna: > but where exactly did that money go That's a very good question. I'm guessing here, but some of it may be a revenue issue - periods of competition led to below-cost pricing, led to failures, then temporary monopolies, followed by more cutthroat competition, etc. Also, even though flying got suckier for customers, it may be more costly for the airlines to get someone from NY to SF via St Louis than nonstop, even if it served some weird competitive purpose. So the falling costs ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 31 08:35:34 PDT 2009

6098 [lbo-talk] Teddy & dereg -- rank: 1000

Skunk at the funeral: Teddy Kennedy & deregulation http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/de-mortuis-teddy-kennedy-dereg/ or http://bit.ly/2AMXcy

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6099 [lbo-talk] Beck & Co. really go around the bend -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Left-Wing Wacko wrote: > First > there is this "Czar" for "green jobs" Van Jones who at one time was a > radical and allegedly quoted as saying he was a "militant black > nationalist" and a "communist" He was/is, you know. They're not making this up. Doug

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6100 [lbo-talk] far right deepens understanding of Maoist Van Jones -- rank: 1000

[from the right-wing PR shop Special Guests] GREEN JOBS CZAR VAN JONES ORG CHIDED US IMPERIALISM DAY AFTER 9/11 (guest in Pacific Time) CONTACT: To schedule an interview, call: Special Guests/Amy Reis or Lynne Campbell, 630-848-0750. Television inquiries: Jerry McGlothlin, 212-699-2518. Just one day after the 9/11 attacks, the group founded by Obama's "green jobs czar" expressed solidarity with Muslim and Arab Americans and mourned the victims of worldwide "U.S. imperial ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 13:35:36 PDT 2009

6101 [lbo-talk] book review -- rank: 1000

"the carefully crafted bundles of platitudes that are his books..." - Adolph Reed on the published works of BH Obama

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 11:18:37 PDT 2009

6102 [lbo-talk] Beck & Co. really go around the bend -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5347396/glenn-becks-hysteria-reaches-new-heights-with-obama-saddam-comparison > Glenn Beck's Hysteria Reaches New Heights With Obama, Saddam Comparison By Andrew Belonsky, 10:20 PM on Thu Aug 27 2009, 6,721 views If Glenn Beck is, in fact, laying the ground work for Fox News banishment, he's doing so in true, fear-mongering, overwrought style! Apparently undeterred by advertising boycotts which now total 46 Beck this evening unleashed a torrent of accusations again ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 08:36:04 PDT 2009

6103 [lbo-talk] class and classical music -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:28 AM, Joanna wrote: > Partita No 1 in B flat major, BWV 825: Praeludium, allemande, > courante, sarabande, menuet, gigue. > > That is, Bach thought fit to name all the parts of this composition > according to dance rhythms (except for the prelude). Yes. But these are highly stylized dances - like I said yesterday, "Bach's 'dance' music is a long way from what people can cavort to." Much of the solo violin music, for example, has dance names, but ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 08:14:46 PDT 2009

6104 [lbo-talk] class and classical music -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:57 AM, Joanna wrote: > Beethoven unmusical? No, un-dance-y. I think Beethoven's music is one of the greatest things on earth. It alone practically justifies the whole human experiment. > As for Balanchine, fuck him! Sterile piece of impotent shit. My god. I can't say I agree with that either.

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Date:	Fri Aug 28 08:11:59 PDT 2009

6105 [lbo-talk] let's argue about the cause of mental illness -- rank: 1000

On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:46 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > We're getting somewhere, yes. The issue is, what do these > medications do? We can understand how the lobotomy achieves the > desired outcome, which is to make the problem person more easily > manageable. > > Are the drugs simply a chemical way of doing the same thing? Yeah, to some degree, but you're sounding as if people with affective disorders aren't miserably unhappy and wanting to feel less miserable. Doug

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