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	<title>Rebel Yid - Ideas beyond the left/right, red/blue, and liberal/conservative thinking &#187; Fannie Mae</title>
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		<title>Ends and Means</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2012/01/ends-and-means-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most dangerous thinking in public policy happens when the ends are used to justify the means.  Our constitution was designed to move slowly; separation of powers was meant to constrain ‘easy’ changes.  Many social activists lament this.
Bill Clinton had the noble goal to increase home ownership for the poorer Americans.  In retrospect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Now for the Rest of the Story&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/12/and-now-for-the-rest-of-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edward Pinto]]></category>
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The outcome of the 2008 election centered around the financial collapse that hit just months before the vote.  Even the most committed capitalists were taken by surprise at what seemed like a significant failure of capitalism.  Outrage was magnified as taxpayer dollars were used to bail out Wall Street millionaires.  In the months before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dodd Frank Dummies</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/10/dodd-frank-dummies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act]]></category>
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One of the rules of the Dodd Frank Financial Reform bill was the cutting of the bank fees charged for debit cards.  I have read much about the financial collapse of 2008 and I do not recall any analyst who thought that high debit card fees had a significant role to play.
I did find many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost With the Wrong Map</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/02/lost-with-the-wrong-map/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/02/lost-with-the-wrong-map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Dodd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nassim Taleb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Black Swan]]></category>

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If you have the cue ball and just one other ball on the pool table lined up for shot in the corner pocket, AND you are a reasonable competent pool player then you can determine with some degree of accuracy and consistency that you will have a high degree of probability of sinking that shot.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wasting a Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/01/wasting-a-crisis-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worldcomm]]></category>

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In the Wall Street Journal, Culprits From Beltway Casting- The financial inquiry commission lets a crisis go to waste, (subscription required), takes exception to the partisan conclusion of the commission.    

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission reached a conclusion that appeared preordained. It was supported by the Democrats on the commission and rejected by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Greed and Crony Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/01/political-greed-and-crony-capitalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2011/01/political-greed-and-crony-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1920]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Smith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Destiny]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prostitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rebelyid.goroundhost.com/?p=1498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Michael Douglas’s character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street declared “Greed is Good” capitalism has been cast in a sinister role that it has yet to overcome.
The movie speech was rumored to be taken from a speech given by Ivan Boesky at a college address. Boesky was indicted for insider trader, served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Canadian Lesson</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/09/the-canadian-lesson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1934]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rebelyid.goroundhost.com/?p=2426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The default belief  of our economic history of the last 100 years has been an acceptance of the dynamic growth of capitalism punctuated by excesses of market greed that have to be corrected by the singular wisdom of government regulation.
On closer examination many of those moments of market greed and excess look more like incompetent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rational Delusion</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/09/rational-delusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/09/rational-delusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Age of Reason]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long Term Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nassim Teleb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard Deviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rebelyid.goroundhost.com/?p=1529</guid>
		<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>Who Built the Bonfire?</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/08/who-built-the-bonfire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/08/who-built-the-bonfire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Asness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stumbling on the Truth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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>Risk and Principle</title>
		<link>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/08/risk-and-principle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rebelyid.com/2010/08/risk-and-principle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Oliner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Reinvestment Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[global finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter FDR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Galbraith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Odds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a world of uncertainty it is more important to know the odds than to know the facts.
In a business bet, if you have a thirty percent chance of winning one hundred dollars or a seventy percent chance of winning forty dollars (with return of principal guaranteed) the better bet is the 30% chance.  (30% [...]]]></description>
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