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7456 [lbo-talk] A quick lesson in Texas health care -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > After a while, her 10 (or more!) daily posts about Iran's supposedly > pivotal role in world events began to seem like a type of disdain for > other list members. A couple of points on this. I first put her on moderation because she was posting as many as 13 times a day. After a while, I took her off, and she immediately went back to posting 13 times a day. So I kept her on permanent moderation. And she had herself on "nomail,& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 11:00:31 PDT 2008

7457 [lbo-talk] Krugman on interest rate weirdness -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Well his argument is that the Fed rate is now 2.25%, but the > treasury rate > on both 1 and 3 month notes is a little above 0.5% It would be a serious problem if the Fed couldn't hit its target - if, say, funds were 3.0% when the target is 2.25%. That would be a sign of serious stress. But they're hitting the target.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 10:34:47 PDT 2008

7458 [lbo-talk] Krugman on interest rate weirdness -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>> But I have a possibly naive question: can the Fed really cut the Fed >>> funds rate that far? >> >> Yeah, sure. They can flood the system with reserves and take it down >> to 0 if they want. > > Well his argument is that the Fed rate is now 2.25%, but the > treasury rate > on both 1 and 3 month notes is a little above 0.5%: > > http://kru ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 10:31:48 PDT 2008

7459 [lbo-talk] A quick lesson in Texas health care -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This is simply a lie, promulgated by Lou & Doug for reasons not wholly > determinable, but provsionally (a) ordinary vulgar sexism and (b) > inability to tolerate a superior intellect and more dedicated > revolutionary on their lists. By the way, as I've said several times before, I didn't throw Yoshie off the list. And Lou didn't throw her off his. And Michael Perelman didn't throw her off PEN-L. We asked her to stop posting s ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 24 09:37:16 PDT 2008

7460 [lbo-talk] A quick lesson in Texas health care -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This is simply a lie, promulgated by Lou & Doug for reasons not wholly > determinable, but provsionally (a) ordinary vulgar sexism and (b) > inability to tolerate a superior intellect and more dedicated > revolutionary on their lists. Hmm, seems to me that your preposterous and hyperbolic defenses of Yoshie are sexist, though perhaps not vulgarly so. I don't see much evidence of a superior intellect in the selective cutting and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 09:31:30 PDT 2008

7461 [lbo-talk] Krugman on interest rate weirdness -- rank: 1000

On Mar 24, 2008, at 4:55 AM, Michael Pollak quoted Paul Krugman: > But I have a possibly naive question: can the Fed really cut the > Fed funds > rate that far? Yeah, sure. They can flood the system with reserves and take it down to 0 if they want. They can't force banks to make loans if they don't want to, but that's another story. What's up with Krugman lately? His NYT col today takes Obama to task for claiming that the Iraq war has hurt the U.S. economy, pointing to the stimulati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 06:00:25 PDT 2008

7462 [lbo-talk] Iraq GI death demographics -- rank: 1000

[also from Mike Allen - the racial/ethnic breakdown is at odds with the standard left analysis] Some stats from AP: -Percentages of all casualties by service branch: Army: 72 percent; Marines: 24 percent; Navy: 2 percent; Air Force: 1 percent (Coast Guard had one death.) -Percent who died since President Bush declared major combat ended: 97 percent -Months with the most deaths since the start of the war: November 2004: 137; April 2004: 135; May 2007: 126; December 2006: 112; January 2005: ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 24 05:24:05 PDT 2008

7463 [lbo-talk] Hillary, horny handed daughter of toil -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] Jake Tapper on ABC's 'Good Morning America': 'Senator Clinton will be speaking to one of her most loyal constituents today: white working class families. ... While Obama may be fashion-forward with his open collars, he's having a real problem with blue collars. ... Many white voters who support Obama are elites, like the U2 that plays at his rallies. ... Clinton plays Dolly Parton's working class classic, '9 to 5.' ... Obama's scrappier competitor may ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 24 05:20:34 PDT 2008

7464 [lbo-talk] A quick lesson in Texas health care -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2008, at 11:34 PM, B. wrote: > I know you a lot of you love to dump on Texas and the > south whenever you can How wrong are we to do so? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 24 05:12:54 PDT 2008

7465 [lbo-talk] Noticed an oddity -- rank: 1000

By the way, early in this list's existence, James Heartfield wrote (in something I've reposted a couple of times, but hey, it's a classic): In message <l03130300b1c149853a69@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >I was at a party the other night populated mainly by amiable meatheads, and >one of them started in on Clinton's comments that the Chinese and Tibetans >should talk with each other, negotiations that would be premised on Tibetan >recog ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 23 18:12:36 PDT 2008

7466 [lbo-talk] Noticed an oddity -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Few of us know much about Iran either, but > did that stop us? It did not. Hey, I've actually read a fair amount about Iran and done a bunch of radio interviews on the topic. I don't know much of anything about Tibet - but the Dalai Lama gives me the creeps. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 23 17:53:41 PDT 2008

7467 [lbo-talk] Eliot Spitzer screws with his socks on -- rank: 1000

[Long ago, Bob Dole was quoted in a Vanity Fair piece - by Gail Sheehy maybe? - as saying that George H.W. Bush is the kind of guy who "screws with his socks on." Evidently there are Dems who do this too.] New York Post - March 23, 2008 <http://www.nypost.com/seven/03232008/news/regionalnews/ eliot_tipster_a_gop_swinger_103165.htm> SPITZER TIPSTER A GOP 'SWINGER' TOLD FBI OF HOOKER HABIT BACK IN NOV. By GINGER ADAMS OTIS GOV. SPITZER "Did it with his socks on." Four ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 23 07:23:45 PDT 2008

7468 [lbo-talk] Inequality, life expectancy, and the race -- rank: 1000

On Mar 22, 2008, at 10:16 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > On the state of the race (a done deal?): > > http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_DConv08.cfm I recently asked the AAPORites to explain the closeness of the polls at the same time the IEM and Intrade had Obama a 70/30 favorite (and similarly the general, which is 60/40 Dem). And why the electronic markets have a better record than polls. They couldn't answer really. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 23 06:03:30 PDT 2008

7469 [lbo-talk] Reflections on the current crisis 2 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 23, 2008, at 12:04 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > One question. You say the Swedes spent 2% of their GDP fixing their > banking problem (which would be roughly equal to $300B for the US > today). > Krugman, saying he was citing Reinert and Rogoff, put the figure at > 6%: > > http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/forbidden-swedes/ I was wondering about that. I got the 2% figure from Peter Englund's paper (linked to in the piece). I'd read the R&R paper too, bu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 23 05:58:55 PDT 2008

7470 [lbo-talk] book about white people sells for $350k -- rank: 1000

<http://www.observer.com/2008/stuff-white-people-book-sold-random- house-least-350-000> 'Stuff White People Like' Book Sold to Random House For At Least $350,000 (UPDATED) BY LEON NEYFAKH | MARCH 20, 2008 | TAGS: MEDIARANDOM HOUSE You know that funny Web site Stuff White People Like, the one with the jokes? The Canadian guy who runs it just sold a book to Random House for an advance that publishing insiders said had reached at least $350,000 when it was at auction last week. Unclear ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 22 08:47:11 PDT 2008