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7006 [lbo-talk] Just Linkage: a review -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak reviews Just Linkage. Everyone should check it out. The lede: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Linkage.html> Just linkage: The power of positive sanctions International Trade and Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy (Columbia University Press, New York: 2008) by Michael Pollak This is an important book. It could change how people think. It could even affect the world and even if it does neither, it s kind of a dazzling argument j ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 14 14:15:27 PST 2008

7007 [lbo-talk] Putin's rage: hang him by the balls! -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 14, 2008 Sarkozy 'soothed' Putin's rage By Ben Hall in Paris and Quentin Peel in London Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, wanted to depose Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian leader, and hang him "by the balls" following Russia's invasion of Georgia in August but was deterred by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president. That is the version of events related by Jean-David Levitte, Mr Sarkozy's chief foreign policy adviser, to a French magazine yester ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 14 13:58:40 PST 2008

7008 [lbo-talk] white vote by state -- rank: 1000

[posted by Howard Schuman to the AAPOR list] WHITE SUPPORT FOR OBAMA AND MCCAIN BY STATE (2008) (Data not available for three states; my copying & classification needs checking.) Obama McCain State 10 88 AL** 11 88 MS** 14 84 LA** 23 76 GA** 26 73 SC** 26 73 TX** 29 71 OK# 30 68 AR* 31 66 UT 32 65 AK 32 66 WY 33 65 ID 34 63 TN* 35 64 NC* 36 63 ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 12:51:09 PST 2008

7009 [lbo-talk] New Deals -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > Nick Paumgarten writes in the New Yorker, Talk of the Town: > > Another guest, a trader and market strategist who had voted for > Ralph Nader, agreed about 2012, but according to a different logic. > He expounded on a belief he held regarding the cycles of history and > the markets. It was based, he said, on the formula for the > circumference of a circle the idea that 2 /r/ might apply to the > financial cycle and, in com ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 12:49:57 PST 2008

7010 [lbo-talk] New Deals -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2008, at 3:38 PM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >> On Nov 14, 2008, at 1:09 PM, SA wrote: >> >>>> The official NBER-certified bottom of the 1929-33 contraction was >>>> March 1933, when FDR was inaugrated. Wonder if the cyclical magic >>>> will transfer to Obama? >>> >>> Seriously? >> >> Half. Or 40%. Yeah. > > That's bold. A little crazy, but bold I'm pretty hedged. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 12:46:49 PST 2008

7011 [lbo-talk] Why Blacks opposed Prop 8 -- and a simple way -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I'm going out on a limb here to suggest it's likely you're running > on your own steam on this. Did you get this from anywhere besides > what you're sitting on? Hey, it's the Internet! Who needs evidence? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 12:16:38 PST 2008

7012 [lbo-talk] More premature Obama/FDR comparisons, this time from Newsweek -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:12 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > what do you think it's about Doug? [The collective fascination with Obama as FDR, that is.] People are anxious and looking for a savior, of course. We haven't had a severe recession in the U.S. in 26 years. Since the median age of the labor force is about 41, well over half have no working memory of 8-10% unemployment. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 11:49:40 PST 2008

7013 [lbo-talk] Why Blacks opposed Prop 8 -- and a simple way to turnthem? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And the idea of a one-to-one correlation between gene > and trait is almost defunct. Among scientists, yeah. Among journalists, we should be so lucky. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 11:12:49 PST 2008

7014 [lbo-talk] New Deals -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2008, at 1:09 PM, SA wrote: >> The official NBER-certified bottom of the 1929-33 contraction was >> March 1933, when FDR was inaugrated. Wonder if the cyclical magic >> will transfer to Obama? > > Seriously? Half. Or 40%. Yeah.

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 11:11:05 PST 2008

7015 [lbo-talk] More premature Obama/FDR comparisons, this time from Newsweek -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > So for us, the mere fact of a liquidity trap and frozen markets > could possibly provoke and legitimate as much public spending as 3 > years of depression did for him. Actually he didn't do much deficit spending. The deficit in 1932 was 4.0% of GDP. It rose to 4.5% in 1933, and 5.9% in 1934. It was just 2.5% in 1937, and 0.1% in 1938 (which no doubt contributed to the "recession" of 1937-38). To put that in perspective, t ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 09:26:56 PST 2008

7016 [lbo-talk] changeiness (cont.) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Politico was quoted as saying: > >> Thirty-one of the 47 people so far named to Obama's transition or >> staff posts have ties to the Clinton administration. > > And the rest come his staff in Chicago. What other personnel pools > would a Dem president draw from in a short time frame besides his > staff and the staff of the last Dem president? I thought the whole argument of the Obama crowd a ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 09:21:12 PST 2008

7017 [lbo-talk] Why Blacks opposed Prop 8 -- and a simple way to turn them? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > By William Saletan ... > From prenatal hormones to genetics to birth order, scientists have > been > sifting data to nail down homosexuality's biological origins. As > they > advance, it will become easier and easier to persuade African- > Americans > that being gay is a lot like being black. The lesson of > Proposition 8 > isn't that blacks have stopped the march of gay rights. The lesson > is > ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 09:15:06 PST 2008

7018 [lbo-talk] More premature Obama/FDR comparisons, this time from Newsweek -- rank: 1000

On Nov 13, 2008, at 11:10 PM, B. wrote: > The new president may think his only task is to rescue the economy. > But like FDR, he may have to save capitalism itself. The economy is bad and likely to get worse, but a moment's perspective please. When FDR took office, the unemployment rate was 25%, GDP was down 25%, and 10,000 banks had failed - all after four years of Hoover and the Fed doing little or nothing. Now, the unemployment rate is approaching 7%, GDP is off about 2%, 20 banks h ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 03:49:25 PST 2008

7019 [lbo-talk] changeiness (cont.) -- rank: 1000

From: "Politico New Story Alert" <noreply at politico.com> Date: November 14, 2008 5:06:58 AM EST To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Politico Alert: Ben Smith has published a new story. Ben Smith has published a new story: Obama gets the Clinton band back together Thirty-one of the 47 people so far named to Obama's transition or staff posts have ties to the Clinton administration. read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15617.html

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Date:	Fri Nov 14 03:44:24 PST 2008

7020 [lbo-talk] Africa a country? it was a hoax -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html> A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent. Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a Mc ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 13 18:31:38 PST 2008