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8056 [lbo-talk] URPE Summer Conference -- Aug 15-18 -- REGISTER NOW! ORGANIZE A PANEL! -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Eric wrote: >> Toward a New Macroeconomics: From Criticism and Avoidance to Doing >> It Right. >> Session I: Growth, Technical Change and Transformation. >> David Laibman > > Even though I have no idea what this means, that won't stop me from > saying this sounds dreadful. David Laibman, editor of Science & Society, once told me I couldn't refute efficient market theory with empirical evidence. Only another theory could refute a ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 14:03:01 PDT 2008

8057 [lbo-talk] Superclass! -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Eric wrote: >> Are we now ruled by an international elite that has left national >> borders far behind? > > People do, but how can anyone actually believe this? Aren't all > stock markets segmented along national borders? Don't currency > traders make money from national differentials? Aren't decisions > about production made with national wage differences in mind? > Saying "the elite" have left the nation behind is arguing fro ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 14:01:49 PDT 2008

8058 [lbo-talk] Radical Women! -- rank: 1000

NEWS RELEASE From: Radical Women, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98118 Contact: Anne Slater: office 206-722-6057; cell 206-708-5161; home 206-722-3812 For release: Immediately Do not use after: October 6, 2008 RE: WOMEN S CONFERENCE Activists and scholars to gather at milestone international women s conference The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism is the theme of Radical Women s 41st anniversary conference to be held at San Francisco s historic Women s Building, October 3-6, 2008. ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 13:07:09 PDT 2008

8059 [lbo-talk] looking back -- rank: 1000

With Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on the verge of some sort of major government bailout, it's nice to recall what Alan Greenspan said four years ago: <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/200405062/ default.htm> "But a destabilizing contraction in nationwide house prices does not seem the most probable outcome. Indeed, nominal house prices in the aggregate have rarely fallen and certainly not by very much."

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 13:05:05 PDT 2008

8060 [lbo-talk] Writing semiliterate English (advice) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > What idiocy! Were you always this much of a prick, or have you gotten worse over the years? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 10:50:57 PDT 2008

8061 [lbo-talk] Sirota: getting rolled by Obama -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Shane Taylor quoted David Sirota: > As evidenced by his FISA vote, Obama is also ignoring > the Netroots. Doesn't everyone? Except the Netroots?

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 10:41:59 PDT 2008

8062 [lbo-talk] Bush disavows his EPA -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal July 11, 2008 In an extraordinary move, the Bush administration is publishing a document Friday listing various ways to control global-warming gases, while simultaneously disavowing the document's conclusions and warning that new regulations could lead to a "command-and-control" regime covering a "broad range of commercial and household activities," including factories and power plants but also lawnmowers. The document, which has b ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 10:37:41 PDT 2008

8063 [lbo-talk] hedgies heart Obama -- rank: 1000

Hedge fund managers throw weight behind Obama By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund managers are famous for betting against conventional wisdom, and this year many are doing just that by backing Democrat Barack Obama's White House bid and defying Wall Street's usual embrace of Republicans. New figures show the Illinois senator and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has drawn $822,375 in campaign contributions from employees of hedge funds, compared to $348,300 for hi ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 10:21:15 PDT 2008

8064 [lbo-talk] BHL hearts BHO -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2008, at 12:59 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > Obama is well on the way to becoming the first iPod President. And O himself says he wants to run an iPod gov. What does that mean? If I rotate the clickwheel and press play, I can get health insurance?

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 10:10:12 PDT 2008

8065 [lbo-talk] Writing semiliterate English (advice) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The core evil of u.s. education, is its grounding in the assumption > that > writing is an index to intelligence. Gee, I thought the problem with U.S. education is that it taught people to show up on time and obey the boss, not how to read, write, or think. Why do Americans write so badly? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 09:26:00 PDT 2008

8066 [lbo-talk] why reporters love McCain -- rank: 1000

[What other politician would say something like this? This is McCain's reaction to his advisor Phil Gramm's idiotic remark that the U.S. is suffering a "mental recession," and we're at risk of turning into "a nation of whiners," quoted in today's NYT. Asked if Gramm would be in the running for Treasury Secretary...] I think Senator Gramm would be in serious consideration for ambassador to Belarus, he said, although I m not sure the citizens of Minsk would welcome that ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 07:10:51 PDT 2008

8067 [lbo-talk] BHL hearts BHO -- rank: 1000

Bernard-Henri Levy: <http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=dfe7a745-e6d0-4fed-9509- f73b4277f7b1> Four years ago I was one of the first to acknowledge, after having heard, then met, Obama, the emergence of a meteor. I hope that today I will not be wrong in announcing that he will very soon be the face of the United States. In any case, I am marking my calendar.

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 06:36:30 PDT 2008

8068 [lbo-talk] desk rage! we used to do that stuff at home, but now... -- rank: 1000

Desk rage spoils workplace for many Americans By Ellen Wulfhorst Thu Jul 10, 7:13 AM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Get out of the way, road rage. Here comes desk rage. Anger in the workplace -- employees and employers who are grumpy, insulting, short-tempered or worse -- is shockingly common and likely growing as Americans cope with woes of rising costs, job uncertainty or overwhelming debt, experts say. "It runs gamut from just rudeness up to pretty extreme abusive behaviors," said Pau ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 06:33:28 PDT 2008

8069 [lbo-talk] Writing semiliterate English (advice) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > If eye rite de wurdz like dis it lukz stoopid. Can anybody point me > at an example of a similar English document (written by a > semiliterate or somebody successfully pretending to be a > semiliterate) that I can use as an example? The nearest I can think > of off the cuff are some of Dickens' and Faulkner's dialogue, and I > don't want Rasputin to sound like a cockney waif or like he lived > in Mississippi in 1910. Well this ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 05:40:30 PDT 2008

8070 [lbo-talk] Jezebel + Alcohol + Stage = Prolonged Tweenage Wasteland -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Samantha reportedly bought Lindsay a $22,000 ring. Does DJing pay that well? Or does she have family cash? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 10 12:22:35 PDT 2008