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8971 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Recently posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: November 27, 2008 Richard Seymour, ke ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 11:42:21 PST 2008

8972 [lbo-talk] latest radio show -- rank: 1000

I'm about to circulate the ususal "new radio product" email, announcing the posting of my latest. Before I do, I'd like to say this is one of my favorite recent shows, with Richard "Lenin's Tomb" Seymour on liberal imperialism and Bill Ayers on terrorism, revolution, Barack Obama, education, and social change. Richard Seymour writes on his blog: <http://leninology.blogspot.com/2008/11/also-appearing.html> > Also: you can hear my interview with Doug Henwood on the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 11:36:57 PST 2008

8973 [lbo-talk] guard died in vain -- rank: 1000

[from the NYT story on the Wal-Mart trampling death] <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/nyregion/30walmart.html> It was crazy, said a worker in the electronics department who was in the store during the stampede. The deals weren t even that good.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 10:42:48 PST 2008

8974 [lbo-talk] Question from La Botz interview on Behind the News -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2008, at 1:14 PM, martin wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> That's what I was saying. Domhoff too. > > I've been misunderstanding you then. It seemed as though you were > minimizing the importance of the system - that it was about > prestige, and monetary perks and socializing rather than retaining > power. How'd you get that from this? > Board interlocks, these days, are about the creation of a corporate > elite, a recip ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 10:27:12 PST 2008

8975 [lbo-talk] race and SSM -- rank: 1000

Gay Activist Press Cites AFM Campaign as Stumbling Block to Pending Attack on DOMA in Congress Predominantly White Activists Lament Failure to "Feature People of Color" as AFM s Diverse Coalition launches ProtectDOMA.org campaign Last week, the Alliance for Marriage launched one of the most important campaigns in our organization s history to protect the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the upcoming 111th Congress. By launching ProtectDOMA.org -- and immediately commencing ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 10:05:06 PST 2008

8976 [lbo-talk] Question from La Botz interview on Behind the News -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2008, at 12:28 PM, martin wrote: > On Dec 1, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Board interlocks, these days, are about the creation of a corporate >> elite, a reciprocal exercise of power and mutual inflation of >> prestige (plus some cash and some nice perks). > > Have you considered the blanket of interlocks as a macro system > rather than looking at isolated intersections ? That's what I was saying. Domhoff too.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 09:52:22 PST 2008

8977 [lbo-talk] it's official: recession now a year old -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nber.org/cycles/dec2008.html> Determination of the December 2007 Peak in Economic Activity The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met by conference call on Friday, November 28. The committee maintains a chronology of the beginning and ending dates (months and quarters) of U.S. recessions. The committee determined that a peak in economic activity occurred in the U.S. economy in December 2007. The peak marks the end of the expansion t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 09:20:51 PST 2008

8978 [lbo-talk] Israelis happy, Palestinians sad -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Cautiously, Israelis are now applauding Clinton's all-but-certain nomination as a sign that Obama can be trusted to act firmly against Iran's nuclear ambitions and to refrain from pressing Israel to accept a weak, violence-prone Palestinian state on its borders, Richard Boudreaux, Jeffrey Fleishman and Paul Richter report in the Los Angeles Times. Arabs and especially Palestinians, on the other hand, say the news has damped their optimism that Obama will veer from the Bu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 09:17:11 PST 2008

8979 [lbo-talk] Question from La Botz interview on Behind the News -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Charles Turner wrote: > Well, I was keying off Doug's comment: "...but I can say that these > overlaps just don't seem all that significant." In the words of > Domhoff's essay, I'd say that Doug found no "strategic intent" in the > composition of corporate boards: > > "This generates a community of directors who are not sitting on two or > more boards for the purpose of cementing ties between the companies, > i.e., with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 08:58:05 PST 2008

8980 [lbo-talk] Bush admin ignored warnings -- rank: 1000

AP IMPACT: Under pressure, US eased lending rules By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 22 mins ago <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_ignored_warnings;_ylt=AuKST8XsUr6FWSITBviyBIFu24cA > WASHINGTON The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 08:48:10 PST 2008

8981 [lbo-talk] Goolsbee: subprime was pretty groovy (in 2007) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:24 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > You lads haven't run across the underlying evil below all this > financial froth? (Overaccumulation of capital.) Patrick, you always offer that as the one-size-fits-all explanation of the last four decades of economic history. I've got several problems with it. It treats "capital" as some unitary, easily measurable thing, like a yard of wool or quart of milk, when of course it isn't. It includes about four or five complete U.S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 08:27:01 PST 2008

8982 [lbo-talk] Goolsbee: subprime was pretty groovy (in 2007) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > The original (narrower) > one here was whether handing out mortgages like Mardi Gras beads > was in itself a Good Thing as far as it went -- spreading the wealth > etc. Lending lots of money to buy an unproductive asset like housing does nothing to spread wealth around. It spreads debt around and inflates prices. Until the bubble bursts, that is. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 1 04:38:39 PST 2008

8983 [lbo-talk] Russia confiscates papers that have a "political look" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I call it somebody complaining to the local authorities about the > eXile, the local authorities making an audit to determine if there > is anything to it, and the investors running away. Exactly what it > looks like, what the local authorities said it was, and what Ames > said it was. (What exactly are Soviet-style suits?) > > The thing is, Russia has a thing called hate speech laws, and > Limonov engages in what could be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 31 07:36:39 PDT 2008

8984 [lbo-talk] as I was saying about the Nutters -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] Dayton Daily News: 'McCain's VP pick wows local crowd: At Nutter Center, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is introduced as reformer, corruption fighter.'

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 30 13:56:51 PDT 2008

8985 [lbo-talk] Russia confiscates papers that have a "political look" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I'm refering to his accounts at the time and elsewhere, which were > that the paper became economically unviable after investors pulled > out after the paper had a visit from the inspectorate, which > supposedly scared off the investors. That's why they had a > fundraiser. If he says something different now, I suppose something > must have changed. I don't see what your disagreement is. They were > investigated, but they weren ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 30 13:51:33 PDT 2008