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8011 [lbo-talk] Intrade update -- rank: 1000

<http://www.intrade.com/> Obama to win 65.8 McCain 29.7 US recession 21.0 Offshore drilling 35.0 Hit on Iran 8.0

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 17 18:53:59 PDT 2008

8012 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on BHO -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Julio Huato quoted Howard Zinn: > It seems to me that we need not engage in some fancy psychological > experiment to learn the answer, but rather to look at ourselves and to > talk to our friends. We then see, though it is unsettling, that we > were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our > lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, > startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were st ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 17 09:33:17 PDT 2008

8013 [lbo-talk] Kewl -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:31 AM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > Was reading Slate about iPhone apps and saw a mention of Pandora > (Pandora.com), which I now declare to be the greatest thing since > sliced bread. You can do Pandora on the web too, with a regular old computer. It comes up with some pretty odd associations, especially if you start with Bikini Kill. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 17 09:27:27 PDT 2008

8014 [lbo-talk] anniversary -- rank: 1000

Happy 90th anniversary of the execution of Czar Nicholas. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 18:54:52 PDT 2008

8015 [lbo-talk] Roubini: Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression and Worst U.S. Recession in Decades -- rank: 1000

On Jul 16, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Ira Glazer quoted Roubini: > * This will be the most severe U.S. recession in decades with the > U.S. consumer being on the ropes and faltering big time > <http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/252869/ > the_delusional_complacency_that_the_worst_is_behind_us_is_rapidly_melt > ing_awayand_the_risk_of_another_run_against_systemically_important_bro > ker_dealers> > as soon as the temporary effect of the tax rebates will fa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 14:30:49 PDT 2008

8016 [lbo-talk] US faces global funding crisis, warns Merrill Lynch -- rank: 1000

On Jul 16, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Ira Glazer wrote: > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/07/16/ > ccusdebt116.xml > > The US Treasury is running out of time before foreign patience > snaps, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard There's definitely a risk of all that, but be careful with this guy. He's a right-wing nut of the first order. He had Hillary killing Vince Foster or something like that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 14:28:39 PDT 2008

8017 [lbo-talk] my rant on Health Care for America Now -- rank: 1000

On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:08 PM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > On the new coalition to throw the fight on health care > > http://www.centerforlaborrenewal.org/ > > on the lower left Fine piece, I agree entirely - except that the polling data is a lot more ambiguous than you claim. It all depends on how you word things. It's depressing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 14:27:26 PDT 2008

8018 [lbo-talk] Barney Frank: a stronger welfare state would support tighter money -- rank: 1000

[from the WSJ's Real Time Economics - I happened to see Frank's comments while I was on the treadmill at the gym - he told Bernanke he didn't expect any comments because the issues "were beyond [his] mandate"] Frank Says Stronger Social Safety Net Would Free Fed There are many reasons why the Federal Reserve is boxed in on monetary policy, but Rep. Barney Frank Wednesday found a new dimension to the central bank s dilemma. It s a widely held view that Chairman Ben Bernanke and his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 13:34:46 PDT 2008

8019 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on BHO -- rank: 1000

On Jul 16, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Here's my new fantasy: we stop talking about Sen. Obama and start > thinking and talking about the complete disarray of left politics - a > dangerous situation to be sure, because we're needed, at full our > strength and highest level of alertness, to deal with problems such as > climate change (which, by now, is at least as much a political issue > as it is about methods of energy production and consumption). You're right, of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 12:49:13 PDT 2008

8020 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on GSE bailout -- rank: 1000

[Point three - limiting purchased mortgages to a fixed, reasonable multiple of market rents - is an excellent one.] CEPR Center for Economic & Policy Research July 16, 2008 Statement on the Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac [by Dean Baker] The collapse of the housing bubble has put the survival of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in jeopardy, as those of us who warned of the bubble have long predicted. While there can be no question of supporting these mortgage giants at such a critical mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 12:29:31 PDT 2008

8021 [lbo-talk] Tom Hayden's struggle -- rank: 1000

<http://www.alternet.org/story/91645/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 11:56:38 PDT 2008

8022 [lbo-talk] Saudi anti-Semitism -- rank: 1000

[Damn, Ahmadinejad can't hold a (Hanukkah) candle to this!] <http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/07/king-abdullah-saudi- kids-learn-the-darndest-things-about-killing-jews-and.php> FOREIGN AFFAIRS SAUDI KIDS LEARN THE DARNDEST THINGS ABOUT KILLING JEWS AND GAYS THY WILL BE DONE! King Abdullah Saudi Arabia's making a big deal about how worldly and enlightened they are because they invited some scary Jews to their big multi-faith religious conference that starts today in Madrid. Sau ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 11:20:37 PDT 2008

8023 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on BHO -- rank: 1000

On Jul 16, 2008, at 11:19 AM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > Indeed, any more of this and somebody could die or boredom. > Adolph and Doug ought to consider a hobby that would make > them happy, like tap-dancing. I used to know a Marxist tap dancer, Jane Goldberg. Wonder whatever happened to her. But actually Max, I think you just don't like being the target of some very well-formed and accurate "told you so's". Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 08:35:27 PDT 2008

8024 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on BHO -- rank: 1000

[Adolph's going to be on my radio show tomorrow to do the audio version of the article.] <http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=697&Itemid=1> Where Obamaism Seems to be Going by Adolph Reed, Jr. "It is ironic that Obama would be the one to complete Clintonism's redefinition of liberalism as conservatism." A friend called me a few days ago from Massachusetts, astounded at a WBUR radio program featuring Glen Greenwald from Salon. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 16 06:46:20 PDT 2008

8025 [lbo-talk] Americans really in a funk about their economy -- rank: 1000

[In March 1981, when this series began, the unemployment rate was 7.4% and consumer inflation was 10.5%. Unemployment is now 5.5% and inflation is 4.1%.] ABC NEWS CONSUMER INDEX 7/13/08 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Economic Expectations Now Their Lowest in 27 Years The day George W. Bush called a news conference intended to shore up economic confidence, a new ABC News survey finds pessimism about the economy s direction its highest in 27 years of polls. Seventy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 15 14:07:28 PDT 2008