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		<title>Why Businesses May Return Home</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/09/why-businesses-may-return-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The increase in crime in Mexico, especially kidnapping, will have a very chilling effect on the relocation of America manufacturing and other businesses across the border.  American executives and managers are just not willing to take the risks to visit their plants there.
News of capital crimes in tourist areas will not help their tourist industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rational Delusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[global finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nassim Teleb]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard Deviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We mortals pride ourselves as rational beings, but we act emotionally. We get attached to previous positions, and will discount or filter evidence rather than change our minds. We read the news for confirmation rather than information.  We are so inundated with information that we rely on emotional instincts to make quick decisions.
Our first instincts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the drop in home sales is a good thing.</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/08/why-the-drop-in-home-sales-is-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
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It is not Obama’s fault that home sales are dropping, though it is his fault that they did not drop sooner.  Why is it bad that the sales of home and home prices are dropping?
Yes, it eats up bank collateral and destroys individual’s home equity values.  But that is exactly what happens when a bubble [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Judgment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a long day of helping my daughter move into her apartment in Bloomington, Indiana, before classes start we went for a late bite at Applebee’s.  Apparently Indiana has a new law that EVERYONE gets carded if you order a drink.
Yes, even a shriveled up, hunched back, liver spotted, slow shuffling, thin haired, mismatched clothes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to confess that much of the rhetoric from the right on Muslims in America has crossed a line that I find uncomfortable.  Much of this is centered around the controversies of the mosque proposed a few blocks away from ground zero.
One problem is that Muslims are rarely portrayed in the media except in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explaining Huge Deficits with Low Interest Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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We are living in interesting times.  While the professional economists are trying to figure out what happened we have all become economists of sorts just to try and understand the events that greet us every day.
With huge deficits many would expect inflation as another weak willed government resorts to the printing press to solve its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demon Fodder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ground Zero Mosque]]></category>
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Issues like the GZ Mosque provide excellent fodder for the talking heads of the right and the left because it provides them with demons, and they both prefer demons to solutions.
Demons get people worked up and when their blood gets worked up they listen, write, call and participate,  which sounds like “ka-ching” to the media.
Such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Built the Bonfire?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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From StumblingOnTruth
Keep the Casinos Open
by Clifford S. Asness, Ph.D.
Excerpt:
Stepping back, nowadays the popular narrative is that this economic crisis was caused by Wall Street and derivatives. It was not. It was a real estate bubble caused by government, countless individual people, indeed Wall Street, and a bevy of other economic agents like mortgage and real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kill the Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/08/kill-the-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

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I spent the afternoon reviewing my company’s health insurance policy with some very capable administrators and the presentation was mostly about how the new health insurance law would impact our coverage and what we were allowed to offer, how it was offered, and the various penalties we would face if we decided not to cover, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Distracted</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/08/getting-distracted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a real problem with the border in Arizona.  And there is a real problem with the Mosque near Ground Zero.  But these are distractions from the greater issue of an economy out of control and a government that sees no problem it cannot solve, and no issue it should leave to the citizens [...]]]></description>
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