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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Economics</title>
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		<title>Bring Back Welfare, Please</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/07/bring-back-welfare-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are 11.6 million unemployed persons in the United States today. Meanwhile, the current estimate of the total cost of the spending package passed to alleviate this distress is $827 billion.  President Obama &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/07/bring-back-welfare-please/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>BOHICA</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/06/bohica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot that can be said about the &#8220;stimulus bill&#8221; winding it&#8217;s way through our legislative process, but nothing compares with just seeing what&#8217;s in the bill. McQ over at QandO does a good job of breaking it down &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/06/bohica/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Party Personality Disorder</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself complaining to a Libertarian colleague of mine today (note the capital &#8216;L&#8217;), about the deplorable political consensus that has emerged on the bailout strategy for economic resuscitation. The bipartisan policy is a ghastly trifecta of the ineffective, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/05/the-third-party-personality-disorder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our Government&#8217;s Economic Policy Explained</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/02/our-governments-economic-policy-explained/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/02/our-governments-economic-policy-explained/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fred Thompson. With only the most minor quibbles I not only laughed, but cried. Pretty much dead on: The sad thing is that it isn&#8217;t only &#8220;liberal&#8221; economists, it is the meat of the profession and plenty of so &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/02/our-governments-economic-policy-explained/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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>A Solution to the Financial Crisis? Sharia!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/a-solution-to-the-financial-crisis-sharia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni (of Rogue Economics fame), blames the lingering financial crisis in part on the American War on Terrorism, which inaugurated an allegedly &#8220;suspicious attitude&#8230;toward Muslim investors.&#8221; She goes further though, and argues that the only solution to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/a-solution-to-the-financial-crisis-sharia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bits and Pieces: 11-18-08</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/18/bits-and-pieces-11-18-08/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/18/bits-and-pieces-11-18-08/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russ Roberts:&#8221;Oh Please-President Bush has lost the right to say this.&#8221; Also, he has a great Mea Culpa on why he missed this, and a discussion that fits right into my theme about how many missed this meltdown, and advice &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/18/bits-and-pieces-11-18-08/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Schiff&#8217;s Payback</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/peter-schiffs-payback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The insufferable Peter Schiff has a video going around, which frankly, is just brilliant. He may be unpleasant at times, but he nailed this thing, and took mounds of abuse while doing so. More importantly, I KNOW HOW HE FEELS! &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/peter-schiffs-payback/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>De-leveraging</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/16/de-leveraging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the topic of tonight&#8217;s podcast I thought a little visual data might help. First, the explosion in US debt: Henry Blodget explains: From the early 1920s through 1985, the average level of debt-to-GDP in this country was 155%. The &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/16/de-leveraging/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Playmates during crisis</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/20/playmates-during-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does the object of our desire tend to change during tough times? Yes, according to this paper on men&#8217;s preferences when it comes to Playboy&#8217;s models: Consistent with Environmental Security Hypothesis predictions, when social and economic conditions were difficult, older, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/20/playmates-during-crisis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scamming</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/23/scamming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had a crisis that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/23/scamming/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers get credit for their part in the debacle</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/20/consumers-get-credit-for-their-part-in-the-debacle/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/20/consumers-get-credit-for-their-part-in-the-debacle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington PostThis is not good news for consumers.&#160; Reminds me of Phil Gramm&#8217;s &#8220;whiners&#8221; comment.&#160; &#8220;Wall Street has lived beyond its means, but so has Washington. Both did so, in part, because consumers and voters on Main Street wanted it &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/20/consumers-get-credit-for-their-part-in-the-debacle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>George Reisman vs. Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/28/george-reisman-vs-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Reisman&#8217;s Blog&#8220;The loot?and?plunder theory is the theory of Obama, of the Democratic Party, and of much of the Republican Party. It is time to supplant it with the sound economic theory developed by generations of intellectual giants ranging from &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/28/george-reisman-vs-barack-obama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Free Riding?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/free-riding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Taborrak has a story: How an Economist Thinks Over the weekend a crew came round my neighborhood offering to paint house numbers on the curb. Large bold curb numbers, they pointed out, make it easier for emergency service workers &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/free-riding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/creative-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think this is a fascinating blog, Creative Capitalism. Of Course, I am a geek. Creative Capitalism: A Conversation is a web experiment designed to produce a book &#8212; a collection of essays and commentary on capitalism, philanthropy and global &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/creative-capitalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Milton: Video Link Fixed</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/happy-birthday-milton/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/happy-birthday-milton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is Milton Friedman&#8217;s birthday! For all kinds of coverage, go to my Milton Friedman Memorial page. Scroll to the bottom and there is a huge collection of thoughts on his passing. Here is one of my favorite bits:]]></description>
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		<title>How Supermarkets Can End Poverty</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namibian supermarket selection (photo: Olivier Peyre) One of great inequities in the modern world is that in relative terms, food in poor and starving countries often costs far more than in the wealthy developed world. That&#8217;s because industrial countries tend &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/01/how-supermarkets-can-end-poverty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Select Rants</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/28/select-rants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who love New York Times bashing, I am in rant mode at Risk and Return. What a bunch of balderdash. Also, if you want a good idea of where housing prices may go, I also have &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/28/select-rants/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Greg Mankiw for President</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/25/greg-mankiw-for-president/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/25/greg-mankiw-for-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it really too late for him to be a candidate? Too bad. Mankiw&#8217;s platform surely would be our nation&#8217;s best. Mankiw coyly calls it &#8220;pandering.&#8221;  I call it a breath of fresh air &#8211; along with refreshing rationality. No wonder &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/25/greg-mankiw-for-president/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I love this map</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/i-love-this-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one right here. Here is a picture, but the real one is cool, cool cool. You can find other maps like this here.]]></description>
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		<title>This is well timed</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/this-is-well-timed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two straight weeks of 400k+ jobless claims (the level we have been told signals a recession) and the minimum wage goes up making it more expensive to hire low skilled employees by 12%. How about that for well thought out &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/24/this-is-well-timed/">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>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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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>Is The Evidence In On Minimum Wage?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/09/is-the-evidence-in-on-minimum-wage/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/09/is-the-evidence-in-on-minimum-wage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the most recent unemployment numbers were released, the media bleated about the highest percentage increase in the jobless rate since 1986. For example, The New York Times lamented: The unemployment rate surged to 5.5 percent in May from 5 &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/09/is-the-evidence-in-on-minimum-wage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Is Cheap</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/09/fashion-is-cheap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How remarkable: As luxury fashion has become more expensive, mainstream apparel has become markedly less so. Today, shoppers pay the same price for a basic Brooks Brothers men’s suit, $598, as they did in 1998. The suggested retail price of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/09/fashion-is-cheap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Silent Tsunami</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/silent-tsunami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an update to this previous post, be sure to read this from The Economist. Governments ought to liberalise markets, not intervene in them further. Food is riddled with state intervention at every turn, from subsidies to millers for cheap &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/silent-tsunami/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Spending is Ugly</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/19/consumer-spending-is-ugly/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/19/consumer-spending-is-ugly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While spending increased in March by 1.8% over a year ago, adjusted for inflation it was way down. The only reason sales were positive was gasoline, though food sales were positive. Even there, that is mostly due to inflation and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/19/consumer-spending-is-ugly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ripple Effects in the Food Trade</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/17/ripple-effects-in-the-food-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted first at Registan.net When last I touched on the global food crisis and how it is impacting Afghanistan and the rest of Central Asia, I noted that countries continuing to ban wheat exports would make the problem worse by &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/17/ripple-effects-in-the-food-trade/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Feldstein on the Economy, Credit Markets and Economic Risk</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/21/martin-feldstein-on-the-economy-credit-markets-and-economic-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Departing director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Martin Feldstein, on the economy, credit markets and a lot more in his latest opinion piece and discussion on the Charlie Rose show.]]></description>
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		<title>Fundamentally there was no housing bubble?-Update</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/14/fundamentally-there-was-no-housing-bubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So claims Alex Tabarrok. Alex and his blogmate Tyler are two of my favorite bloggers, but on this matter I think Alex is wrong. Unlike for some, his argument doesn&#8217;t invite scorn from me, because humility should teach us that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/14/fundamentally-there-was-no-housing-bubble/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blood For Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Kennedy II supports blood for oil. In recent months, my TV has been bombarded with ads from Joe Kennedy promoting his Citizens Energy program, such as the following: The heating oil distributed by Citizens Energy comes from Venezuela on &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/blood-for-oil/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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