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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; China</title>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Hurt Feelings</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/chinas-hurt-feelings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogger FangKC queried the archive of the People&#8217;s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s mouthpiece, and discovered that 19 countries and organizations have been officially accused of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people. You can anticipate some such as the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/12/chinas-hurt-feelings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The West as Nuclear Proliferator</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/09/the-west-as-nuclear-proliferator/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Voice of Murder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of the bloody 1965 Indonesian mass murder of suspected communists is not often openly discussed history even in today&#8217;s Indonesia. Given the pervasive silence, estimates vary on the actual number of people killed, but it&#8217;s generally accepted as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/the-voice-of-murder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China Pulls a Lapham &#8211; UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/25/china-pulls-a-lapham/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/25/china-pulls-a-lapham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China space mission article hits Web before launch A news story describing a successful launch of China&#8217;s long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/25/china-pulls-a-lapham/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fannie and Freddie Taken Over</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/07/fannie-and-freddie-taken-over/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/07/fannie-and-freddie-taken-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redstate A good description of what just happened to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and some reasons why. This made me laugh. &#8220;If we were in China, they’d probably have “committed suicide” with bullets inexplicably entering the backs of their &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/07/fannie-and-freddie-taken-over/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China and Provincial Secessionism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extremely interesting post from Seth Weinberger on the opportunity for pulling China in the pro-Georgia camp, after the SCO failed to endorse Russian actions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Seth is as mystified as I am that the Russian foreign &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Graphics Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching for an image on my backup drive today and came across a cache of header graphics I&#8217;d thrown together for posts over the years. The diversity of subjects was kind of interesting as a gallery. Here&#8217;s a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China and the IOC Sham</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/24/china-and-the-ioc-sham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff JacobyTwo interesting points here. One, that China is not yet ready to be a free society, and two, the political sham of the modern day Olympics. &#8220;When thugs host the Olympics, thuggish behavior can be expected.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Further Proof That China Cheated</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/20/further-proof-that-china-cheated/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/20/further-proof-that-china-cheated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caches of Chinese Government documents found on a Chinese search engine show Chinese Olympic Gymnist Age as 14, too young to compete in the Olympics. Will the IOC do anything? I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d put money on it..]]></description>
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		<title>Lego Olympics</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/18/lego-olympics/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/18/lego-olympics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On your mark, get set, Lego!]]></description>
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		<title>Twittering Your Repression</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/twittering-your-repression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese journalist Zhou Shuguang was abducted by the security services in China on a manifestly fatuous charge. Incredibly, he used Twitter to keep the world informed throughout the ordeal.]]></description>
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		<title>US Easily Defeats Greece</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/us-easily-defeats-greece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking like the Redeem Team is exactly that so far. Greece fell 92-69 in Beijing, securing our quarterfinal berth.]]></description>
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		<title>Yaoch!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/yaoch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States pulverizes China 101-70.]]></description>
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		<title>Securing a Society for Sport</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/08/securing-a-society-for-sport/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/08/securing-a-society-for-sport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s Olympic security crackdown is as impressive as it is draconian. Plus, the largely pro-Western Uighurs are suffering rough treatment due to the Turkestan Islamic Party&#8217;s activities.]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Olympic Designer to Boycott Olympics</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/chinas-olympic-designer-to-boycott-olympics/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/chinas-olympic-designer-to-boycott-olympics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese architectural designer Ai Weiwei, who conceived the now famous &#8220;Bird&#8217;s Nest&#8221; Olympic stadium design for the Beijing games, will not attend the opening ceremonies in protest against Chinese dictatorship. He has some powerful words of explanation in the Guardian &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/chinas-olympic-designer-to-boycott-olympics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise, Central Planning is Still Stupid (Even in China)</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/surprise-central-planning-is-still-stupid-even-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/surprise-central-planning-is-still-stupid-even-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: 2 Dogs) Modern China has a curious capacity to make otherwise very sensible capitalists instantly forget every experience they&#8217;ve ever had with government central planning. The Western businessman on a trip to Shanghai looks up and sees all those &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/07/surprise-central-planning-is-still-stupid-even-in-china/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Breathe Strong</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/breath-strong/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/breath-strong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Sky Days by Derek Chatwood.]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the Nazis to Shame</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/putting-the-nazis-to-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/06/putting-the-nazis-to-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to robotic goose-stepping goons, the PLA is hard to top.]]></description>
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		<title>China &amp; Russia: Models and Modalities</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/china-russia-models-and-modalities/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/china-russia-models-and-modalities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama chats with Robert Kagan on a number of interesting things: Flash &#124; WMV &#124; MP3 (via: The American Interest). Of immediate interest is Kagan&#8217;s notion that the the emergence of global multipolarity induces an imperfect, baseline bipolarity of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/china-russia-models-and-modalities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Price of Chinese Silence</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/the-price-of-chinese-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/the-price-of-chinese-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The New York Times: Mr. Yu’s daughter had died in a cascade of concrete and bricks, one of at least 240 students at a high school here who lost their lives in the May 12 earthquake. Mr. Yu became &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/the-price-of-chinese-silence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Their Dirty Work</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/22/doing-their-dirty-work/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/22/doing-their-dirty-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 22:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many of you were as excited to find out we were torturing or helping out the torture of China&#8217;s non-terrorist-but-oppressed Uighurs? That line about releasing all Uighurs despite their status as a dangerous threat is extra-rich, too: why release &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/22/doing-their-dirty-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Journals from the Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/20/journals-from-the-earthquake/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/20/journals-from-the-earthquake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 13:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My China correspondent, Chris Bartlett, happens to live near where the earthquake in central China struck. He sent me an account of what happened there. He also reports now that, thanks to an &#8220;earthquake warning&#8221; from the government, tens of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/20/journals-from-the-earthquake/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sins of Omission &#8211; Updated</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/30/sins-of-omission/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/30/sins-of-omission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sin of omission that Hillary is committing with the re-telling of the Indiana plant moving to China (while not mentioning that it was sold to China during her husbands tenure,) is starting to gather some light. The following story &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/30/sins-of-omission/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton to Keep Defense Jobs Here</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/clinton-to-keep-defense-jobs-here/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/clinton-to-keep-defense-jobs-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an ad some of you may not have seen. But now (wonder of wonders) since Indiana is a battleground state in the Democratic primary, it&#8217;s been getting plenty of air play during the local news programs. Hillary Clinton: Right &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/clinton-to-keep-defense-jobs-here/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic Flame Snuffed Out</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/07/olympic-flame-snuffed-out/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/07/olympic-flame-snuffed-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another embarrassment for China. PARIS, April 7 (UPI) &#8212; The Olympic torch was doused Monday in Paris as demonstrators protested China&#8217;s civil rights record and involvement in Tibet, police said. After the flame was snuffed, the torch was put on &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/07/olympic-flame-snuffed-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Looming NoKO Disaster</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/25/looming-noko-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/25/looming-noko-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not the one you might think. The most interesting observation: &#8220;Not to be overlooked is the massive economic cost of reintegrating an antiquated North Korean economy into the modern economic world. The contrast between a backward North and a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/25/looming-noko-disaster/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tragic News for Leftists</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/23/tragic-news-for-leftists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to free markets, capitalism and freedom in general, the world is getting wealthier. The last quarter century has witnessed remarkable progress of mankind. The world’s per capita inflation-adjusted income rose from $5400 in 1980 to $8500 in 2005.Schooling and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/23/tragic-news-for-leftists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Into the Fair Tax Black Market</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/into-the-fair-tax-black-market/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/into-the-fair-tax-black-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Simón Pais-Thomas Toronto police recently seized shipments of 10,320,000 counterfeit cigarettes from China (PRC authorities themselves intercepted nine billion in 2007). Chinese made counterfeits bearing fake American branding such as Marlboro, are produced &#8220;in underground operations, caves and old &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/into-the-fair-tax-black-market/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Walls and Ladders</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/walls-and-ladders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Sébastien Boymond-Pfahrer) Howard W. French notices that attempts to evade and promote evasion of China&#8217;s Great Firewall &#8211;which blocks vast regions of the web from the Chinese public&#8211; are taking off inside the PRC. Li Xieheng, who coded the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/walls-and-ladders/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>African wages, high and sticky?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/african-wages-high-and-sticky/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/african-wages-high-and-sticky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip: Tyler. Chris Blattman has a conjecture, possibly high wages in Africa are holding back growth: One thing that has always struck me in the African countries I have worked is that the real wages (i.e. wages adjusted for &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/african-wages-high-and-sticky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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