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7531 [lbo-talk] Obama: vain entitled narcissistic prick -- rank: 1000

ON DEADLINE: Obama walks arrogance line By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press Writer Mon Mar 17, 1:57 AM ET WASHINGTON - Arrogance is a common vice in presidential politics. A person must be more than a little self-important to wake up one day and say, "I belong in the Oval Office." But there's a line smart politicians don't cross somewhere between "I'm qualified to be president" and "I'm born to be president." Wherever it lies, Barack Obama better watch his step. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 17 17:46:28 PDT 2008

7532 [lbo-talk] Subprime Pritzker pure gold for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > all the enthusiasm for C Eh? > As if Samantha Power is worse than whomever C has in the > corresponding position. I don't even know who C's "Samantha Power" is. > Why aren't they being attacked here ? Because they're straight out imperialist pigs. Power puts a high- minded gloss on imperial piggery. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 17 12:59:34 PDT 2008

7533 [lbo-talk] Subprime Pritzker pure gold for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > But Charles's question asks why > LBO is so hospitable to stupid Clinton-hack insults like "Subprime > Pritzker?" It's a rather simple nickname, but it's not inaccurate, is it?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 17 12:40:23 PDT 2008

7534 [lbo-talk] Vista -- rank: 1000

Re: the Vista thread: > 100,000 CUSTOMERS TELL MICROSOFT TO SAVE XP InfoWorld's Save > Windows XP > campaign has garnered 100,000 signatures in just over two months. > Now what? Read on: > http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/17/12NF-save-xp-100k_1.html? > source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-03-17 > > > DEATH MATCH: VISTA VERSUS XP -- Can you really skip the Vista > upgrade cycle? > Will Windows XP still be properly supported by Microsoft and, as a > primary > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 17 11:26:53 PDT 2008

7535 [lbo-talk] Subprime Pritzker pure gold for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Why oh why did O suddenly become the bete noir on LBO-Talk ? He's not a bete of any coleur. He's just another Democrat. Why did he suddenly become something more than that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 17 11:25:33 PDT 2008

7536 [lbo-talk] populist eruptions -- rank: 1000

Dean Baker's populist eruption the other day about the Bear Stearns bailout turned out to be a little premature. Far from bailing the firm out, it basically no longer exists. Many, maybe most, of the employees will lose their jobs and the stockholders have largely been wiped out. Bear refused to take part in the LTCM rescue ten years ago, which is unusual, since most firms don't want to alienate the central bank. I wonder if the Fed didn't have a little revenge on its mind. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 17 10:39:30 PDT 2008

7537 [lbo-talk] understanding the securitization of subprime -- rank: 1000

***Federal Reserve Bank of New York*** Electronic Research Alert March 17, 2008 Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage Credit, by Adam B. Ashcraft and Til Schuermann The authors provide an overview of the subprime mortgage securitization process and the seven key informational frictions that arise. Ashcraft and Schuermann discuss the ways that market participants work to minimize these frictions and speculate on how this process broke down. They continue with a complete pict ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 17 10:33:53 PDT 2008

7538 [lbo-talk] Marc H. Rudov on Elliot Spitzer -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > I'll stop writing like I am on cooking sherry if you stop praising > banal > ruling class idiots like Karl Rove and putting people like Yoshie on > moderation for writing about Iran and decide to moderate the people > who > essentially chased Ravi away from the list instead. Get real, Doug. > > When did you become so responsible? > > But it's your list so turn the trick if you like. I put Yoshie on moderation beca ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 17 09:12:16 PDT 2008

7539 [lbo-talk] Subprime Pritzker pure gold for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2008, at 12:38 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Max B. Sawicky wrote: >> The Clintons will never attack somebody like Pritzker, a potential >> donor, because they worship money. > > > You believe Obama has a significantly different relationship to money > and the moneyed class than Clinton? Isn't the level of delusion around Obama an amazing thing? What are the chances that he's told his fundraiser Paul Tudor Jones that it was time to expropriate the expropriato ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 17 09:10:33 PDT 2008

7540 [lbo-talk] Hillary locks up the senior vote -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2008 Contact: Press Office, 703-875-1271 press at hillaryclinton.com UPDATED: Sir Elton John To Perform at Clinton Fundraiser on April 9th Legendary artist Sir Elton John will perform at a solo concert on behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign on April 9, 2008 at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The event, called "Elton and Hillary: One Night Only," is Elton John's first public solo concert in New York City without his band since his solo concert at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 17 08:25:09 PDT 2008

7541 [lbo-talk] Marc H. Rudov on Elliot Spitzer -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > But you don't get it. He's not jealous of me! Why would Dougey be > jealous > of me? He's jealous of my best gal because deep down he wishes he > was a > best boy or gal. But at last we all age out of those cute corner > games. > > So get with it, Chrissy or I will never let you be the best-boy in > my line. Isn't it a bit early to be hitting the cooking sherry? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 17 08:17:07 PDT 2008

7542 [lbo-talk] help with Vista -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > What, you think Linux never gets upgraded and your favorite > applications > and drivers don't get left behind? What about you Mac folks, don't > you > have the same problem? Can't speak for Linux, but every Mac OS upgrade has been a real improvement. OS 8->9 wasn't that disruptive, but 9->X sure rendered a lot of stuff obsolete, which was a pain for a while but ultimately very much worth it. But it sounds like the disr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 17 07:55:49 PDT 2008

7543 [lbo-talk] Fed cuts -- rank: 1000

On Mar 17, 2008, at 12:49 AM, Ian Rogers wrote: > And I am assuming this is an open-ended invitation from for the Fed > to investment banks to restate the securitization machine, and that > they will buy all and any piece of asset-backed security the market > can now dish up. I think the David Rosenberg piece I forwarded is right - they Fed will not want to take on much risk, but they will knock heads together, separating good from bad, and forcing writeoffs and mergers. I don't s ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 17 05:42:55 PDT 2008

7544 [lbo-talk] the Swedish model -- rank: 1000

[David Rosenberg, chief economist of Merrill Lynch, on how we're now in the crisis-management phase, no longer the crisis-prevention, and the virtues of following Sweden's early-90s example.] Transitioning from crisis prevention to crisis management The front page of the Sunday New York Times runs with an article that quotes a pundit from the Brookings Institute as saying "modern monetary policy puts a lot of weight on rules, but there is no rule book for an economic crisis". Actu ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 17 05:30:58 PDT 2008

7545 [lbo-talk] amazing spam -- rank: 1000

[got this yesterday - it's spam, but of an arresting sort] From: "KILL" <deadlykillers2001 at gmail.com> Date: March 15, 2008 11:09:02 PM EDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Reply-To: deadlykillers2001 at gmail.com Attn, I am very sorry for you, is a pity that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you don't comply. As you can see we are the members of the Deadly Networks in the world, which is responsible for the bombing of twin tower s in America on Sept. 11th and the ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 16 20:44:05 PDT 2008