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61 [lbo-talk] Kill The Medallions -- rank: 1000

> On May 20, 2015, at 9:05 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > It seems that everybody here is on the same page with Milton Friedman who back in 1962 in his book, Capitalism and Freedom, among other things, attacked the institution of taxi medallions as an an example of unjustified government-created monopoly. You could argue that restricting the number of medallions could be good for drivers, by limiting competition. What sucks is that the parasite owners get mo ...

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Date:	Wed May 20 18:18:51 PDT 2015

62 [lbo-talk] Kill The Medallions -- rank: 1000

> On May 20, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > > I wonder what the income stream from a medallion is, and what proportion > of the sale price it accounts for. I have no idea what the answer might > be, and no idea where to find out. Excellent questions. I wonder if the Taxi Workers union knows. I tried to get a comment out of them about Uber for my Nation piece but they never got back to me.

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63 [lbo-talk] Kill The Medallions -- rank: 1000

> On May 20, 2015, at 5:05 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > > Anyway, I think this is just (one) general downside to privatization: if a NYC medallion is "worth" $1M, shouldn't the city get it (or at least some of it) in the form of an ongoing tax or something, rather than the folks who buy and sit on them? I don't think they get sat on, but the high price is one reason the drivers are so badly exploited, since it forces up the vehicle rent they hav ...

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64 [lbo-talk] Kill The Medallions -- rank: 1000

> On May 20, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > > This is exactly right. Uber is a monstrosity, and Travis Dickhead or > whatever his name is exemplifies everything that is wrong, wrong, wrong > with Silicon Valley startup culture. But the medallion taxi racket is a > disgrace. NYT: "The average price of an individual New York taxi medallion > fell to $840,000 in November, down 20 percent from its peak of $1.05 > million in June 20 ...

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65 [lbo-talk] CBC: Ottawa threatening hate charges against those who boycott Israel -- rank: 1000

> On May 11, 2015, at 6:35 PM, Bill Bartlett <william7 at aapt.net.au> wrote: > > As I say, Glen Greenwald is talking total crap. Not that he is guilty of hate speech himself, he's just a despicable moron for spouting such drivel, he said, hatefully.

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66 [lbo-talk] World Thinkers - Silly Voting at Prospect Magazine -- rank: 1000

Thanks. He lived in Australia for over 10 years and has Australian citizenship I think. > On Mar 5, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote: > > Doug, I thought you would be interested in this. Prospect magazine does the > silly thing of voting for the greatest public intellectuals of the year. > This year guess who is on the short list: > > Yanis Varoufakis, economist. Greece/Australia > > Well that is how they have him listed. > > ...

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67 [lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion -- rank: 1000

Though that's dated 2009, I'm pretty sure that's from a book from the 90s. > On Feb 28, 2015, at 5:02 PM, MM <marxmail00 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 28 Feb 2015, at 11:55 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > >> By every account I've seen, it was the army, which is a rather different >> matter. Do you have a citation for i ek's version? I'd be interested in >> seeing exactly what he means. > > > "When an authoritarian regime a ...

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68 [lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 28, 2015, at 4:55 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > > By every account I've seen, it was the army, which is a rather different > matter. Do you have a citation for i ek's version? I'd be interested in > seeing exactly what he means. I wish I did. I binge-read a bunch of his books and they all blurred together.

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69 [lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 27, 2015, at 9:33 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > That said, according to Trotsky, the cossacks refused to beat up the workers after a certain point in 1917. That's when a regime collapses. Zizek tells the story of the refusal of the Shah's cops to fire on demonstrators as marking the end of his reign.

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70 [lbo-talk] the nonsense of public opinion -- rank: 1000

On Feb 27, 2015, at 12:08 PM, martin schiller <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote: > So I guess I have wondered if Doug had altered his stance re winning the police to the side of the people. I suppose there are circumstances under which pigs could fly too.

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71 [lbo-talk] Next issue of LBO? -- rank: 1000

Sooner than 2020, Jim, unless I'm struck by lightning.

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72 [lbo-talk] Republicans want recessions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > The Democrats are supported by the urban masses, their activists drawn from the ranks of organized workers, blacks, Hispanics, and other national minorities, liberal intellectuals, feminists, gays, environmentalists, etc. Increasingly the latter more than the former, as the party dropped its labor/social democratic side in favor of courting professional-managerial class suburbanites. Lily Geismer has a new book o ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 14:08:03 PST 2015

73 [lbo-talk] Republicans want recessions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2015, at 9:31 AM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote: > In recessions doesn't wealth return to its rightful owners? The original quote is about bear markets.

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74 [lbo-talk] Republicans want recessions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2015, at 8:59 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > They represent monopoly capital . The biggest capitalists make the most killings in recessions when failing companies can be bought on the cheap. One capitalist always kills many capitalists . So, yes they want recession for their vulture capitalist masters. That was written more than 2 1/2 years ago by a rank Democratic apologist. The economy didn't crash. And this is just isn't true. They want growth - just grow ...

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75 [lbo-talk] sharing -- rank: 1000

My piece on the sharing economy - Uber, AirBnB, etc. - is out in The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/196241/what-sharing-economy-takes

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