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7831 [lbo-talk] Obama economist an apologist for Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2008, at 11:28 AM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > My unsolicited advice: save your ammunition. > > We can't have a crazy person in the WH. Fine. Just be clear on who Obama is, and what he represents. His economics look to be Clinton (Bill)-Rubin-Brookings, plus some "liberal" hedge funds. Micro initiatives. I doubt the poverty rate or the gini index will fall back to 2000 levels under his reign. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 10 08:51:32 PDT 2008

7832 [lbo-talk] Obama economist an apologist for Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - June 10, 2008 <http://www.nysun.com/national/obama-taps-wal-mart-defender-as- director/79665/> Wal-Mart Defender To Direct Obama's Economic Policy Appointment of Jason Furman Immediately Meets With Skepticism By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun Just days after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Obama is naming as his economic policy director an economist who has clashed with critics of Wal-Mart by defending the company as a boon to poor Amer ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 10 07:51:48 PDT 2008

7833 [lbo-talk] Michael Heinrich: The Current Financial Crisis -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Angelus Novus quoted from an excellent piece by Michael Heinrich: > In the Grundrisse that > emerged during this period, one can find the sole > unambiguous passage of Marx's work that can be > understood as a theory of capitalist collapse (MECW > 29, p.90 et sqq.). Anyone know just where this passage is in the Vintage edition? Doug

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7834 [lbo-talk] What would happen if ... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > ... you just simply raised the price of gasoline? > > Someone here, a while back, wrote: > >> it is necessary to make driving more costly and inconvenient >> to the drivers > > So now we know: it might look a little bit like this: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/business/09gas.html With rebates to people who can't afford the high price. Don't forget that part. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 17:57:32 PDT 2008

7835 [lbo-talk] Obamanomics -- rank: 1000

[This is by Jason Furman, a newly appointed economic policy advisor to Obama. He's been director of the Hamilton Project, the Rubin-esque free trade/balanced budget shop at Brookings.] <http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2007/04useconomics_furman.aspx> This paper proposes a template for a progressive cost sharing plan that would require typical families to pay half of their health costs until they reached 7.5 percent of their income; low-income families would not have any cost sharing. T ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 12:35:31 PDT 2008

7836 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Andy F wrote: > Is this kind of thing feeding into your current project? Not exactly, but it's always there. It'd be fun to investigate ruling class consciousness.

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7837 [lbo-talk] Lew Rockwell: the Fed, enabler of imperialism -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > This is a key premise in Rockwell's argument, the main attraction > of the Fed for the banking system, but he skips right past it and > goes on to some red herring about Roosevelt and fascism. Further > it doesnt fit the facts, since the Fed historically is always > fighting inflation, not encouraging it. The Fed hasn't really foregrounded inflation-fighting since Volcker left in 1987. Since Greenspan, they've been busy engin ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 10:59:11 PDT 2008

7838 [lbo-talk] Lew Rockwell: the Fed, enabler of imperialism -- rank: 1000

<http://mises.org/story/3010> War and Inflation Daily Article by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Posted on 6/9/2008 [This talk was delivered at the Future of Freedom Foundation's conference on "Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties," on June 6, 2008, in Reston, Virginia.] "This institution is the very mechanism by which the dreams of both the fanatical Right and the fanatical Left come true." The US central bank, called the Federal Reserve, was crea ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 9 06:20:08 PDT 2008

7839 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2008, at 5:07 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote: > In all fairness, Chomsky gives a > damn good interview. He becomes a lot more interesting (to me) > with an > interlocutor. I have it on good authority that Noam hates being edited. Doug

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7840 [lbo-talk] Avnery on Obama's AIPAC Speech -- rank: 1000

No, I Can't! Uri Avnery June 7, 2008 AFTER MONTHS of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world. And what was the first thing he did after his astounding victory? He ran to the conference of the Israel lobby, AIPAC, and made a speech that broke all records f ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 14:18:10 PDT 2008

7841 [lbo-talk] America, fuck yeah...? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Is this what you mean by overhyping of crisis? No. It's the normal raised to a somewhat higher degree. Crisis would be 40 million people on such lines. Doug

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7842 [lbo-talk] rapping theoryhead -- rank: 1000

<http://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2007/09/lady-bitch-ray.html> Tuesday, September 11, 2007 lady bitch ray Occasionally some brave soul will speak up in the theorysphere and say that not only should porno be defended, but that it should be made, and made better. For instance, the Love and Terrorism blogger has announced his own porno project. IT s money shot post still provokes responses, such as this indirect one from Naught Thought - and I believe IT has hinted that she has the utopian ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 13:18:31 PDT 2008

7843 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2008, at 2:33 PM, (Chuck Grimes) wrote: > ``I am not doing away with the category, but trying to relieve the > category of its foundationalist weight in order to render it as a site > of permanent political contest...'' JB > > ``That's pretty great. How can anyone resist its charms?'' Doug > > ----------- > > Evidently quite a few people on the list can resist Butler's > charm. > ... > On the other hand, the use of highly technical language limits th ...

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7844 [lbo-talk] America, fuck yeah...? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2008, at 11:49 AM, B. wrote: > http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4147702n > > Really depressing news clip And the only answer, sez the lady, is to pray!

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7845 [lbo-talk] Marx on the transience of crises -- rank: 1000

On Jun 8, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > One of the nagging problems is that we, the supposed alternative to > biz-as-usual, cannot offer people the toys and shiny objects > they're used to > and cling to. Well, Patrick lives in South Africa, where there are not a lot of shiny toys to go around and it's not likely there will be any time soon. But a lot of the world - a billion people in the rich countries, and a couple of billion more in Asia and Latin America - has th ...

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