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		<title>Babies For the Sake of Economic Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is considering to lift the one-child-per-family policy in order to prevent their economy from slumping. Similar to the U.S. focus on consumption for economic stimulus, society is increasingly serving the economy instead of the economy serving society. Read more.
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		<title>Socialism And Capitalism in One Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A small village in Oaxaca, Mexico, is making joint decisions on how to manage and distribute the fruits of their village enterprise: growing and selling pine trees. Their forests had formerly been farmed by a state-owned enterprise to the point of extinction. Since the villagers took over the forest, their little enterprise has grown sustainably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally: a Step in the Right (Economic) Direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current administration in tandem with the Federal Reserve finally started addressing the underlying structural issues of the current economic crisis.
The Fed
The Fed&#8217;s decision to buy $600 billion of outstanding treasury bills, also euhpemistically called &#8220;quantitative easing,&#8221; is nothing more than a decision to print $600 billion of new dollars and pay off outstanding government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water, Nuclear Energy, and the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s news are interestingly connected: in the California desert, construction has begun on a solar thermal plant to power three million homes, while the desert state Dubai, which is part of the United Arab Emirates, is running out of oil based energy and is planning to complement its energy production with nuclear power plants. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A True Tragedy of the Commons in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 2 million people displaced and wheat and barley fields parched, Syria is the newest example of what happens, when natural resources are overused. In spite of year long and expensive irrigation debates, Syrias water tables are dropping, wells are becoming salty, and formerly lush farmland is turning into desert.
Read more.
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		<title>Education for Profit &#8211; an Oxymoron?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like a no-brainer to ask colleges that their students should be able to pay off their school loans from the fruits of their education. This is what the Department of Education&#8217;s &#8220;Gainful Employment&#8221; rule proposes. As can be expected, the main opposition comes from for-profit colleges, whose main focus is not educating our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Got it Right This Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time, the criticism of the Fed comes from an unexpected direction: the Tea Party.  Peter Schiff, a Republican senate candidate from Connecticut, calls for &#8220;swallowing the bitter medicine, &#8221; i.e. finally start paying off our debt instead of treating the current crisis by printing more money and keeping the interest rates irresponsibly low. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Time &#8211; Not Only for the Watching</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of on-line movies and Internet video rentals, I began feeling like a dying breed in my longing for outings to the local movie theaters with my Sweetie, which we usually turn into a romantic date night with dinner before and an after-movie discussion over hot chocolate in one of our town&#8217;s many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumption for the Sake of Consumption?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life in the Slow Lane]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After September 11, the Bush administration&#8217;s main appeal to the American public was to go out and shop. In the U.S., where consumer spending constitutes 70% of all economic activity, the solution to the current (and former) economic crisis is seen in increased consumer spending.
As a way out of the current economic crisis, Germany&#8217;s trading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bills are Coming Due &#8211; on Both Sides of the Atlantic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Debt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While only a few weeks ago President Obama and his Treasury Secretary, Mr. Geitner, chided their European counterparts not to focus too much on cutting back public finances for the sake of healing the economy, yesterday the Group of 20, including the U.S.  agreed on a final resolution to do just that: to halve their [...]]]></description>
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