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6736 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood 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> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Recently posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: October 16, 2008 Ögmundur Jónasson, h ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 14:07:44 PDT 2008

6737 [lbo-talk] McCain supporter gaming Intrade -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002976265&cpage=1> CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS POLITICS & ELECTIONS Updated Oct. 17, 2008 3:44 p.m. Trader Drove Up Price of McCain Stock in Online Market By Josh Rogin, CQ Staff An internal investigation by the popular online market Intrade has revealed that an investor s purchases prompted unusual price swings that boosted the prediction that Sen. John McCain will become president. Over the past several weeks, the investor h ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 13:41:40 PDT 2008

6738 [lbo-talk] Strange bedfellows -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 3:00 PM, joseph noonan wrote: > That's *exactly* what he said this morning as I was exiting the > freeway -- I almost plowed into the side of a Big Box Store! And > neither of them called him on it either. Please, I know the sins of > Clinton (repeal of Glass-Steagul amongst them), but those were final > strokes, not the opening shots by a long way. Amy never challenged > that. > > Although he didn't show these colors on the show today, he's also &g ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 12:13:42 PDT 2008

6739 [lbo-talk] 7-11 coffee cup poll -- rank: 1000

<http://www.7-election.com/> 60-40 for the terrorists' pal

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 12:04:23 PDT 2008

6740 [lbo-talk] Strange bedfellows -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > This guy worked in the Treasury? This is from the official Treasury bio note on Donald T. Regan: <http://www.ustreas.gov/education/history/secretaries/dtregan.shtml> > An undeviating champion of free enterprise, deregulation, and > competition in American industry, Regan declared, "If you're going > to be a capitalist, you have to believe in a free market economy." Nice Heritage backgrounder - obviously scanned and ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 11:57:20 PDT 2008

6741 [lbo-talk] Strange bedfellows -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 2:22 PM, joseph noonan wrote: > More seriously, what the fuck was Paul Craig Roberts doing on > Democracy Now this morning? This is the second time in a week or so > she's had some creepy right-winger on the show -- I can't remember > the other at the moment, but neither of these recent examples was > anything like the first time either. It's bad enough having lefty > wackjobs on there, but Roberts is cretinous and he's one of those > 9/11 conspiranoids ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 11:33:42 PDT 2008

6742 [lbo-talk] Why not let McCain win? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Hey, maybe if they don't, they'll turn back into the Soviet Union. > Why not "let" the Russian banks fail ? Because it would impoverish scores of millions of Russians. What an amazing question.

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 11:10:44 PDT 2008

6743 [lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner, as average American? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On a note related to this exchange, does anyone know of a good > demographic tool, like American FactFinder, that includes liquid > assets? The only reliable source in the U.S. for this sort of thing is the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances. It comes out at only three year intervals, and I don't know of any friendly interface for it. The horse's mouth: <http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html>. Summary wealth ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 10:36:33 PDT 2008

6744 [lbo-talk] Haider: closet case -- rank: 1000

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/3217869/Joerg-Haider-was-drinking-in-a-gay-bar-before-he-crashed.html > Joerg Haider was drinking in a gay bar before he crashed The Austrian far-Right politician Joerg Haider was seen drinking in a gay bar shortly before his fatal car crash. Last Updated: 5:39PM BST 17 Oct 2008 The Austrian far-Right politician Joerg Haider was over the legal drinking limit when he died in a car crash, a party official has said. Austrian media r ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 10:23:18 PDT 2008

6745 [lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner, as average American? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Mr. X wrote: > I have a conservative friend who rails against the "death tax" and > collects on SS Disability, cannot convince him that the estate tax > never applied to him. I'm going to recommend Larry Bartels again: <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/homer.pdf>. People oppose the "death tax" if they think their own taxes are too high, even if it'll never hit them. Bartels calls this unenlightened self-interest. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 09:10:30 PDT 2008

6746 [lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner, as average American? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > You'd be surprised how many guys have worked in the construction > trades for a few decades and have several hundred thousand dollars in > the bank. Neighborhoods like Bay Ridge and Howard Beach, not to > mention large portions of Staten and Long Islands, are full of this > type. Really? Having six figures in financial assets (excluding housing) would put you above the 80th percentile of the wealth distribution. I'm skeptical t ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 17 09:06:26 PDT 2008

6747 [lbo-talk] good news for unions? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Obama has to deliver something to his base. The labor/popular base, I assume you mean, and not the hedge fund base. I dearly hope you're right, but with "the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression," the state of business confidence will be a matter of great salience. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 15:37:07 PDT 2008

6748 [lbo-talk] Why not let McCain win? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 5:27 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > Actually, I've felt for some time that the emergence of Bearzilla -- > to > use a slightly fanciful term for Russia's powerful, fast-growing > developmental state If they get through their current banking crisis, that is. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 15:30:21 PDT 2008

6749 [lbo-talk] McCain camp actually releases "Joe the Plumber" ad -- rank: 1000

Shit, this is stoopid.

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 15:29:34 PDT 2008

6750 [lbo-talk] Why not let McCain win? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 16, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Doug can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he means how Putin is > perceived in the US, not what Putin actually is. Yeah, you're right, that's what I meant. I don't share that, and I was surprised that Peter thought I did. I had him on my radio show, fer chrissake. I was caricaturing American attitudes towards Russia in response to his caricature of life in the US. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 16 12:23:26 PDT 2008