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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 11:04 AM Original message |
Robert Reich: The Great Pendulum of Economic Outrage Is About to Swing Again |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
1. Reich is one of my absolute favorites. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 05:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. I don't think you'd have that opinion if you had a case up before NLRB |
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SomeGuyInEagan (872 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. His 6/25/08 MarketPlace audio commentary echos this ... |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
3. First, You reach inside the wallets of Big Business and take back the taxpayer $ they stole.... |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
4. did Big Government really stifle the economy in the 1970s? |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I don't believe that for one moment |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 11:41 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. That part struck me as BS |
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SergeyDovlatov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 12:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Didn't we have horrible inflation from 1970-1980? |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 12:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Yes, but good luck explaining it to some people |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 03:36 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. It is a breach of fiduciary duty for a b-o-d to consider ANYTHING other than profitability |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. the inflation wasn't really that horrible |
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SergeyDovlatov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 04:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Sure. Deficit spending of the supply side variety is no better. n/t |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Didn't the price of oil go up by 4x in the 70s? Might that have had something to do with... |
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SergeyDovlatov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 04:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Most likely it was the result of Nixon closing the gold window |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 05:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Its nice that you can blithely make such assertions. You must be an economist. n/t |
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Binka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 05:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. He Is Something But It Isn't An Economist |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-26-08 09:38 AM Response to Reply #17 |
28. I did a search. A Soviet man by that name died in 1990. Doesn't tell me about this guy. n/t |
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SergeyDovlatov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 06:07 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Okay. One of the reasons. |
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SergeyDovlatov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 06:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. Here is another paper from federalreserve.gov |
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bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 08:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. They are everywhere - we have generations, now, raised on the idea that the "Free" Market |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 10:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
27. Due to increases in oil prices n/t |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-26-08 12:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
29. More to do with charging the Vietnam War than Keynesian Economics. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 03:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. no, but the free marketeers like to pretend it did, |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. thank you, |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
18. "Began with Enron" huh? How short your memory, Mr Reich |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
19. It's sad, really.. Corporatists fear equlibrium more than anything |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
23. And, it happened without Ralph Nader. n/t |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
24. From now on I'll write off anything Robert Reich has to say. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-25-08 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
26. "The first 20 years were good" For whom, might I ask? n/t |
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