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		<title>Comment on Too Big To Fail by Click Here To Continue Reading</title>
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		<dc:creator>Click Here To Continue Reading</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Black Hole by Verdi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Verdi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Carel, I&#039;m just testing the new CAPTCHA. If you can read this, it works!</description>
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		<title>Comment on Golden Standard and the House Market by Verdi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Verdi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re right, even though you made a typo yourself :)</description>
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		<title>Comment on Financial Crisis Part I: The Origin by Steve F</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve F</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bravo! I like these writings, they are very educative.</description>
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		<title>Comment on Euro-bonds? Certainly Not a Good Idea Yet! by Steve F</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve F</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very informative and interesting writing. Thank you.</description>
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		<title>Comment on Golden Standard and the House Market by adrian verum</title>
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		<dc:creator>adrian verum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it is :THE GOLD STANDARD&quot; and &quot;THE HOUSING MARKET&quot;

correct that first and i may read the rest of you post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it is :THE GOLD STANDARD&#8221; and &#8220;THE HOUSING MARKET&#8221;</p>
<p>correct that first and i may read the rest of you post.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Obama&#8217;s Dilemma by adrian verum</title>
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		<dc:creator>adrian verum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>your closing line underlines the bullshit above it !

republicans of course love their children and do more for them, have more children, are better educated and give much more to charity, than their liberal / democrat counterparts.
besides that, republicans are more married with children, more prosperous, more entrepreneurial and volunteer more for military service .
republicans rely much less on government and government assistance programs.
republicans make up the overwhelming majority of the 53% of people who pay federal income taxes as opposed to democrats who make up most of the 47% who do not pay federal income taxes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>your closing line underlines the bullshit above it !</p>
<p>republicans of course love their children and do more for them, have more children, are better educated and give much more to charity, than their liberal / democrat counterparts.<br />
besides that, republicans are more married with children, more prosperous, more entrepreneurial and volunteer more for military service .<br />
republicans rely much less on government and government assistance programs.<br />
republicans make up the overwhelming majority of the 53% of people who pay federal income taxes as opposed to democrats who make up most of the 47% who do not pay federal income taxes.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Can You Manage an Economy? by adrian verum</title>
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		<dc:creator>adrian verum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>if juggling interest rates was the only thing governments did, the western democracies would be in great shape.
nowadays companies first concern is not competition, but political risks, i.e. taxation and regulation, secondly: legal risk and thirdly: media and n.g.o. risk, all of which can screw up the best laid business plan and destroy the most well managed company, overnight.

example:.....recently a company in the usa had to contribute 150 million to the asbestos class-action lawsuit settlement , because in the 1920&#039;s they published a healthy cooking book and one of the recipes recommended the use of of an (asbestos filled) flame suppressing cooking plate, widely used and manufactured by other companies ) over the stove&#039;s gas burner.
all, just to avoid the cost of having to defend thousands of individual frivolous shakedown lawsuits.  

the last thing we need is governments (i.e. bureaucrats and political demagogues, who have never run a business and pretend to know better than the wealth creators how to create wealth, but are really only interested in redistributing others peoples money and even manage to do that inefficiently.)
to micro-manage the economy.

government / politics prevent the free market from optimizing the economy.

boy, i just commented on the first 2 paragraphs of this post......... i guess i&#039;ll have to write a book about the rest sometime..........

f.i. : &quot; free markets and capitalism create poverty and limit the wealth of the nation &quot; !?!? (please read &quot;the wealth of nations&quot; and if you take a close look at the poorest nations in the world... there are 2 things you won&#039;t find.....free markets and capitalism !

or.... its bad that only 10% is actually involved in production........i.e. : it is the great productivity of that 10% that makes the service sector and our standard of living possible .... if we can get to a point were just 1% can produce all we need and want, we&#039;ll all be the richer for it. 
it is in primitive societies where you find 100% engaged in production, i.e. hunting, gathering and bartering to survive.
&quot;division of labor&quot; mean anything to you,..... mr. economist ???

and... advertising and marketing are &quot;production costs&quot; ..... oh come on...without marketing and advertising there would be no demand for anything new... and therefore...&quot; NO PRODUCTION&quot; !!! supply side economics anyone ?!?

it is past my bedtime now, so i&#039;ll comment on the last 3 paragraphs another time perhaps.

it must be past your bedtime too, didn&#039;t i notice somewhere you are turning 70 in march ???
it must be an old photo of you on this blog, because you don&#039;t look a day over 50.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if juggling interest rates was the only thing governments did, the western democracies would be in great shape.<br />
nowadays companies first concern is not competition, but political risks, i.e. taxation and regulation, secondly: legal risk and thirdly: media and n.g.o. risk, all of which can screw up the best laid business plan and destroy the most well managed company, overnight.</p>
<p>example:&#8230;..recently a company in the usa had to contribute 150 million to the asbestos class-action lawsuit settlement , because in the 1920&#8242;s they published a healthy cooking book and one of the recipes recommended the use of of an (asbestos filled) flame suppressing cooking plate, widely used and manufactured by other companies ) over the stove&#8217;s gas burner.<br />
all, just to avoid the cost of having to defend thousands of individual frivolous shakedown lawsuits.  </p>
<p>the last thing we need is governments (i.e. bureaucrats and political demagogues, who have never run a business and pretend to know better than the wealth creators how to create wealth, but are really only interested in redistributing others peoples money and even manage to do that inefficiently.)<br />
to micro-manage the economy.</p>
<p>government / politics prevent the free market from optimizing the economy.</p>
<p>boy, i just commented on the first 2 paragraphs of this post&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; i guess i&#8217;ll have to write a book about the rest sometime&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>f.i. : &#8221; free markets and capitalism create poverty and limit the wealth of the nation &#8221; !?!? (please read &#8220;the wealth of nations&#8221; and if you take a close look at the poorest nations in the world&#8230; there are 2 things you won&#8217;t find&#8230;..free markets and capitalism !</p>
<p>or&#8230;. its bad that only 10% is actually involved in production&#8230;&#8230;..i.e. : it is the great productivity of that 10% that makes the service sector and our standard of living possible &#8230;. if we can get to a point were just 1% can produce all we need and want, we&#8217;ll all be the richer for it.<br />
it is in primitive societies where you find 100% engaged in production, i.e. hunting, gathering and bartering to survive.<br />
&#8220;division of labor&#8221; mean anything to you,&#8230;.. mr. economist ???</p>
<p>and&#8230; advertising and marketing are &#8220;production costs&#8221; &#8230;.. oh come on&#8230;without marketing and advertising there would be no demand for anything new&#8230; and therefore&#8230;&#8221; NO PRODUCTION&#8221; !!! supply side economics anyone ?!?</p>
<p>it is past my bedtime now, so i&#8217;ll comment on the last 3 paragraphs another time perhaps.</p>
<p>it must be past your bedtime too, didn&#8217;t i notice somewhere you are turning 70 in march ???<br />
it must be an old photo of you on this blog, because you don&#8217;t look a day over 50.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Obama&#8217;s last chance to signify? by adrian verum</title>
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		<dc:creator>adrian verum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>is  ? + 6 = 14  an intelligence test to gain admission to this blog ???  isn&#039;t that setting the bar a kind of low ?

so you would be a &quot;palestinian freedom fighter&quot; !?!...........and infiltrate israel and kill a young family of four, in their beds.........give two retarded women packages to deliver at an outdoor market and then remotely blow them up killing 50 jews, arabs and palestinians ........attack the israeli  compound at the olympics and kill the athletes..........blow civilian airplanes out of the sky.........shoot thousands of rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas.......send suicide bombers into restaurants ...etc...etc ?!

who has been doing the &quot;systematic terrorizing&quot; since 1948 ? israel is desperately trying to fend off and contain both palestinian terrorism and the genocidal intentions of the arab / muslim world, which would like nothing more than to have another holocaust of 6 million israeli jews and jews anywhere. 
out of thousands of mosques worldwide, from iran to indonesia and somalia to chechnya, at friday prayers the hate speech pores out.... &quot; islam must dominate the world, the saturday people need to be killed first, the the sunday people next...(as a catholic, you are a sunday person !) the rest must convert or be killed or subjugated&quot; !!! 

this is just dealing with your first paragraph, i may come back later and address the rest of your post, but reading down a little bit further..........unless you consider jews animals, &quot; road kill &quot; applies to animals, you must mean..: &quot; traffic deaths &quot;, not ?

bye the way, i am not jewish or israeli</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>is  ? + 6 = 14  an intelligence test to gain admission to this blog ???  isn&#8217;t that setting the bar a kind of low ?</p>
<p>so you would be a &#8220;palestinian freedom fighter&#8221; !?!&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..and infiltrate israel and kill a young family of four, in their beds&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;give two retarded women packages to deliver at an outdoor market and then remotely blow them up killing 50 jews, arabs and palestinians &#8230;&#8230;..attack the israeli  compound at the olympics and kill the athletes&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.blow civilian airplanes out of the sky&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;shoot thousands of rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas&#8230;&#8230;.send suicide bombers into restaurants &#8230;etc&#8230;etc ?!</p>
<p>who has been doing the &#8220;systematic terrorizing&#8221; since 1948 ? israel is desperately trying to fend off and contain both palestinian terrorism and the genocidal intentions of the arab / muslim world, which would like nothing more than to have another holocaust of 6 million israeli jews and jews anywhere.<br />
out of thousands of mosques worldwide, from iran to indonesia and somalia to chechnya, at friday prayers the hate speech pores out&#8230;. &#8221; islam must dominate the world, the saturday people need to be killed first, the the sunday people next&#8230;(as a catholic, you are a sunday person !) the rest must convert or be killed or subjugated&#8221; !!! </p>
<p>this is just dealing with your first paragraph, i may come back later and address the rest of your post, but reading down a little bit further&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.unless you consider jews animals, &#8221; road kill &#8221; applies to animals, you must mean..: &#8221; traffic deaths &#8220;, not ?</p>
<p>bye the way, i am not jewish or israeli</p>
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		<title>Comment on Financial Crisis Part I: The Origin by Verdi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Verdi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reminds me of this quote &quot;If you consume less, you have more energy to grow&quot; that came with a picture of a hugely expanded cactus.</description>
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