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46 [lbo-talk] Query -- rank: 1000

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > > As an aside, I feel like, as a society, we Americans have lost our sense of what's Good in the world. You know what I'm talking about: yes, vermouth. Thank you for this excellent rant.

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47 [lbo-talk] The Chinese stock market collapse in global context -- rank: 1000

China's GDP is up 2,500% since 1980, 300% since 2000. People who go on about stagnation and the crisis of capitalism, how do you explain that?

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48 [lbo-talk] On Jacobin's unfriendliness to the visually impaired -- rank: 1000

> On Aug 4, 2015, at 2:20 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > > Can someone provide me with the email address for the editor of Jacobin. I forwarded your email to him.

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49 [lbo-talk] Greece is not only a tragedy; it's a lie -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:59 PM, James Creegan <turbulo at aol.com> wrote: > > Am I to take this as an ironic comment on Proyect's idiot posts, or an implicit apology for the horrendous betrayal that has just taken place? You really think it's all a matter of political will, don't you?

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50 [lbo-talk] Greece is not only a tragedy, it's a lie -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:33 AM, James Creegan <turbulo at aol.com> wrote: > > The only purpose of planning would have been to cope with this situation, and prepare a transition to the drachma. Which, of course, would be a piece of cake.

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51 [lbo-talk] Trapped by its own success? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2015, at 3:19 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote: > *(Of course you'd have to count on people not remembering that the > "European proposal" that everyone hated was substantially similar to one > put forward by Syriza just a few weeks earlier.) Not sure Angela Merkel would agree.

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52 [lbo-talk] Trapped by its own success? -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 8, 2015, at 1:55 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > That's weird he would think Tsripas anticipated a YES vote; that doesn't really make sense. Ambrose also thought that the Clintons killed Vince Foster.

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53 [lbo-talk] Trapped by its own success? -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 8, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > The astute Telegraph financial columnist, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard And also a bit of a reactionary nut.

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54 [lbo-talk] Varoufakis quits as FM -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 6, 2015, at 1:48 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > Any theories as to why the meritocracy delivers such shoddy wares? Good question. I'm full of theories of the decline of the U.S. ruling class - don't know about Europe though.

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55 [lbo-talk] Varoufakis quits as FM -- rank: 1000

> On Jul 6, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote: > > It is much easier to understand Yannis's exasperation after having had to spend five months in constant negotiation with eighteen dunces. Several times in interviews with me he remarked on the contrast between the Kohl/Mitterand generation of EU leaders and the current round of pipsqueaks. I'm sure his contempt came across.

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56 [lbo-talk] A bond market crash? -- rank: 1000

> On Jun 7, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Eugene Coyle <e.coyle at me.com> wrote: > > Why not just buy a bond directly? Small investors get creamed on the bid/ask. Also, diversification if you're buying corporate bonds.

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57 [lbo-talk] Query: "black bodies" -- rank: 1000

> On May 24, 2015, at 10:20 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > > And I mean the common leftist euphemism for black people, not the > theoretical electromagnetic devices. > > Does anyone know the backstory of this odd wording: when and where it > started, what the point was supposed to be, etc.? I don't know where and when it started but it seems to be an attempt at (a Foucault-inspired?) pseudo-materialism that strikes me as quite dehumanizing, though o ...

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58 [lbo-talk] Rightwingers posting as ultra-lefts -- rank: 1000

> On May 23, 2015, at 2:36 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > > I'm wondering: Is there any way I can get some of this conjectural money? Might as well get paid for what one would be doing anyway. Yeah. I'm pretty sure my Harper's article caused HRC trouble at the liberal funders conference a month after it appeared. I'd like some consideration.

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59 [lbo-talk] Rightwingers posting as ultra-lefts -- rank: 1000

> On May 23, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > However, what is often ignored are right wing/corporate funded political operatives generating attacks on Democrats from the left while giving Republicans a free pass. Of course, these operatives do not announce their intentions, but instead simply launch attacks on Democrats from the left while largely ignoring the far more extreme positions of Republicans or suggesting that there is no difference b ...

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60 [lbo-talk] Yannis -- rank: 1000

I wrote up my last two communications with him: http://lbo-news.com/2015/04/28/varoufakis-marginalized/ http://lbo-news.com/2015/04/28/a-coup-in-greece/ > On May 23, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com> wrote: > > doug > > how's your boy yannis ? > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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