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		<title>When Should You Trust The Experts?</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/02/8311/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the themes I seem to revisit most often is how the intelligent among us screw up so often.  When a candidate is heavily promoted because of his or her intelligence above other characteristics, it makes me want to scrutinize the other qualifications more carefully.
A campaign is not an IQ test, nor is it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Correlations</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/02/cultural-correlations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Richardson]]></category>
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A few weeks ago I posted an article on the Rebel Yid Facebook Page by local columnist Charles Richardson, Tripping Over Stereotypes.  It addressed a comment from Rick Santorum that assumed that most welfare recipients were black, even in Iowa with a small black population.  It did not brand Santorum as a racist, but addressed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selective Income Statistics</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/02/selective-income-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Reynolds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Reynolds writes in The Wall Street Journal, Tax Rates, Inequality and the 1%, 12/6/11.
Excerpt:
A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (CB0) says, &#8220;The share of income received by the top 1% grew from about 8% in 1979 to over 17% in 2007.&#8221;
But here&#8217;s a question: Why did the report stop at 2007? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ants at a Picnic</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/ants-at-a-picnic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Boaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbyists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cato&#8217;s David Boaz writes Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue in The Cato Policy Report for Jan/ Feb 2012
Excerpt:
The libertarian argument for keeping more of society in the private sector is not that there&#8217;s no self-interest or corruption in business; it is that the market system has more competition, more checks and balances, and more incentives to satisfy customers. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Structural Unemployment</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/structural-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carpe Diem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimum wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>

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Mark Perry analyzes the current Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment data is his blog, Carpe Diem, a required daily read for me.
Excerpt from Interesting Facts from Today&#8217;s Employment Report, 1/6/12:
The unemployment rate for workers with a college degree fell to 4.1% in December, which  is the lowest jobless rate for that group since January 2009, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unexpected Genius</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/unexpected-genius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfred Marshall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Pursuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sylvia Nasar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1879 as Karl Marx was becoming popular in Europe Alfred Marshall wrote The Economics of Industry.   Marx was a reaction to the principles of Adam Smith.  Karl Marx focused on the distribution of an existing pie where Adam Smith sought the benefits for all of an expanding pie.  Marx saw the profit motive as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin Franklin on Venture Capital</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/benjamin-franklin-on-venture-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Thinker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crony capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Anderson]]></category>
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Larry Anderson writes for American Thinker, Venture Capitalism Not Crony Capitalism, 1/20/12:
Excerpt:
The moral difference between a Governor Keith and a Thomas Denham (venture capitalist)  is staggering. Keith made lavish promises (not just to Benjamin Franklin) based on the use of money that Keith did not have or that did not belong to him. People were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spoons and Leaf Blowers</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/spoons-and-leaf-blowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milton Friedman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pajamas Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zombie]]></category>

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With Pelosi explaining that unemployment benefits are the best form of stimulus spending and the President suggesting that further regulation actually creates jobs, it is hard to  conceive of more misguided economic thinking.

On a tour in China economist Milton Friedman asked why workers were using shovels instead of earth moving equipment to dig large holes at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Economics is Also Bad Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/bad-economics-is-also-bad-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John taylor]]></category>
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John Taylor and John Cogan write in the Wall Street Journal   Stimulus has Been a Washington Job Killer  10/3/11
Excerpts:
Temporary, targeted tax reductions and increases in government spending are not good economics. They have repeatedly failed to increase economic growth on a sustainable basis. What may come as a surprise is that such policies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro Market vs. Pro Business</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/pro-market-vs-pro-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank Bailouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Hannan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free market]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Hannan writes in the UK The Telegraph with Memo to the Occupy Protesters: here are ten things we evil capitalists really think.
Point 1:
Free-marketers resent the bank bailouts. This might seem obvious: we are, after all, opposed to state subsidies and nationalizations. Yet it often surprises commentators, who mistake our support for open competition and [...]]]></description>
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