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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; capitalism</title>
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		<title>Athens into Persepolis</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/athens-into-persepolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rasmussen has polled the public on whether they agreed with President Bush&#8217;s characterization of capitalism as the &#8220;highway to the American Dream.&#8221; Only 44% voiced support for capitalism, 33% were undecided and 22% expressed opposition. A grim finding. Only Republicans &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/athens-into-persepolis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Market Forces</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/on-market-forces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(via: Inkcinct)]]></description>
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		<title>The Post-Post-American World</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/01/the-post-post-american-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, did you enjoy the much discussed post-American world order? Hope you didn&#8217;t miss it. Surely it didn&#8217;t lack for advertising. But if you did happen to step out for a moment, we just lived through the end of market &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/01/the-post-post-american-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Folly of Heroes</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a day for indignity. Just when I&#8217;d stopped shaking my head at the image of Paul Krugman accepting the Nobel Prize, I read two of my most cherished heroes offering rather embarrassing endorsements for bad things. Christopher Hitchens, always &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Talk about your free markets</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/talk-about-your-free-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[neatorama&#8220;We live in a capitalist society,&#8221; she tells us. &#8220;Why shouldn’t I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?&#8221;&#160; Is this a hoax or just free markets?]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Economies: Efficacy Without Moral Narrative</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/mixed-economies-efficacy-without-moral-narrative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Ian Murchison &#124; website) The nationalization of Fannie &#38; Freddie is often presented as a crisis of faith for the political right, due to its manifest incompatibility with the advertised belief in the &#8220;free market.&#8221; However, Sunder Katwala at &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/mixed-economies-efficacy-without-moral-narrative/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Muffin Mogul</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/the-muffin-mogul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The power of capitalism in a lovely little ad by Nexus Productions for the Royal Bank of Canada: Quicktime Video via Motionographer. &#124;&#124;]]></description>
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		<title>The Tidal Empires of War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/the-tidal-empires-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Charles Roffey &#8211; Charles &#38; Fred) Someone once said that in Damascus you truly can get a little bit pregnant. It&#8217;s a good aphorism, because if you asked the foreign minister of almost any state in the Middle East &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/30/the-tidal-empires-of-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Elect Phil Gramm!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/28/elect-phil-gramm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an interview by Stephen Moore (HT: GR): So what if a President Barack Obama were to impose 50% or 60% tax rates on these CEOs and other big earners? Mr. Gramm pounces: &#8220;When you help a company raise capital, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/28/elect-phil-gramm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Backdoor Kyoto &#8212; The Next Chapter</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/15/backdoor-kyoto-the-next-chapter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The march of the watermelons towards control of US policy continues apace: Polar bears will now be listed as &#8220;threatened&#8221; under the Endangered Species Act. But in announcing the listing, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said the decision should &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/15/backdoor-kyoto-the-next-chapter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Blessing of our Vice</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/19/the-blessing-of-our-vice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. &#160; -Winston Churchill]]></description>
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		<title>The Ecumenical Reform Coalition Strikes Back</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/06/the-ecumenical-reform-coalition-strikes-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Romney&#8217;s odds of winning the nomination now highly improbable, and the press directly asking Huckabee if he wants to be Vice President, the McCain-Huckabee alliance many of us have longed feared is now quite visible on the horizon. Even &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/06/the-ecumenical-reform-coalition-strikes-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Noneconomic Man in Modern Europe</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/noneconomic-man-in-modern-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Tal Bright Thomas Barnett bemoans the grotesque state of economics education in Europe, which often ranges from the anti-capitalist to the simply fatuous. But consider this item he cites: Great French HS textbook: &#8220;Globalization implies subjugation of the world &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/noneconomic-man-in-modern-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We are tired of leaders who rather than asking what we can do for our country, ask nothing of us at all.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/29/we-are-tired-of-leaders-who-rather-than-asking-what-we-can-do-for-our-country-ask-nothing-of-us-at-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s part of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius&#8217; response to the SOTU last night. Jim Hoft&#8217;s reaction: &#8220;Huh?&#8221; and drawing the obvious comparison to another famous redistributionist. My first thought was: &#8220;Ask? Well I&#8217;d be much happier if they&#8217;d &#8216;ask&#8217;; that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/29/we-are-tired-of-leaders-who-rather-than-asking-what-we-can-do-for-our-country-ask-nothing-of-us-at-all/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gates &amp;#9829 Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commenting on Bill Gates&#8217; advocacy for &#8220;kinder capitalism,&#8221; Steven Bainbridge notes: But when did Bill Gates ever believe in capitalism? He’s an inveterate monopolist and has been since the beginning. Monopolists hate real capitalism, precisely because they hate competition. Monopolists &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/29/gates-9829-capitalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Privatization Under Thatcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short video clip on Maggie&#8217;s privatization efforts in the 1980s, and the intellectual rationale behind expanding the investor class. It&#8217;s not about creating prosperity, it&#8217;s about educating a nation in what makes prosperity possible.]]></description>
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		<title>Free Shipping Illegal in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big Amazon user. I think it&#8217;s a lazy guy thing. I know what I want, I don&#8217;t want to window shop at the mall or go to the hassle of actually driving and parking and wandering around in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/free-shipping-illegal-in-france/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism Primer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Bookwork Room comes this 1948 classic &#8220;Fun and Facts about American Business.&#8221; It&#8217;s a cartoon short that portrays the birth of an entrepreneur, and how bringing his idea to fruition through hard work pays off not just for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/capitalism-primer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Echoing a wonderful discussion we had in the fall of 2006 on the nature of Fascism (see here, here and here) Jonah Goldberg writes a book which bristles at the use of the term by the contemporary left. I would &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/08/liberal-fascism-the-secret-history-of-the-american-left-from-mussolini-to-the-politics-of-meaning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Milton Friedman vs. Naomi Klein</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! To start off the year right, let&#8217;s have a look at a mock-up of a debate between Naomi Klein, reporter-activist extraordinaire, and Milton Friedman, king of economic liberty (via Instapundit). This video was put together by Devil&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/02/milton-friedman-vs-naomi-klein/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>â€œSmall-Government Libertarianâ€</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to have caused some confusion with my previous post, â€œPutting the Question to the Bishop,â€ by an inartful use of the term â€œsmall-government libertarian.â€ The more I think about, the clearer it becomes to me that this term &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/08/07/%e2%80%9csmall-government-libertarian%e2%80%9d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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