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		<title>Free markets are for losers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to believe me. The S&#038;P says so. At the very heart of the supposedly free market, right there on Wall St., they&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes are the solution, not the problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far as I can tell, if corporations and the top 1% paid anything like a fair share of taxes, budget problems would melt away. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What part of &#8220;Stop Stealing!&#8221; is hard to understand?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bank of America has now jumped the shark, gone right over the top, past the frozen limit, and exposed themselves. This ought to be unbelievable. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s right isn&#8217;t always what&#8217;s good</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something that bothers me about the current conversation (diatribe?) about the sins of the bankers. The tone of a lot of the talk is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not about taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Out of Africa: Financial Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>In which I disagree with Krugman (o_O)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>To bail or not to bail</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/09/to-bail-or-not-to-bail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/09/to-bail-or-not-to-bail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is actually not the question. Not now. The time to ask that question was four, five, six, and more years ago. The time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Blast from the Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have birds. I use newspapers to line the bird cages. However, I haven&#8217;t bought a newspaper since November of 2004. It&#8217;s too depressing. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Globalization for me but not for thee</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2005/12/globalization-for-me-but-not-for-thee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2005/12/globalization-for-me-but-not-for-thee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globalization is good. Regions adept at making thingummies can use their natural advantages to produce them cheaper than anyone else, efficiently saving everyone money. Globalization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Markets Cost Too Much</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2005/08/free-markets-cost-too-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a given in the United States that free markets can solve all problems. Bureaucratic inefficiency? Give the job to competing businesses and waste [...]]]></description>
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