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		<title>The Income Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The income gap is growing! Oh the horror,&#8221; says the left-wing progressive. &#8220;Hear hear!&#8221; agrees the liberal, the socialist, and the anarchocommunist. &#8220;We must take down the rich to reduce the gap!&#8221; cries the union boss, who currently resides in a tent on public land near Wall Street. But what good does it do to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=628&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Darwinism in the GOP?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the San Francisco Chronicle, &#8220;if one of the current crop of Republican hopefuls becomes president, Social Darwinism is back.&#8221; Okay, I think a history lesson is in order. The claim in this article is that Social Darwinism consists of the belief that &#8220;life was a competitive struggle in which only the fittest could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=626&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s &#8220;99%&#8221; are the World&#8217;s Top 32%</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people throughout the US protest to take more money from the richest 1% of Americans, they organize those protests using iPhones, travel to those protests using cars, and film those protests using digital cameras. Through this entire process, not a single one of them has stopped to think about how rich they really are. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=621&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Choice Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something else I want to append to the ideas described in my previous post. I&#8217;d like to expand a little bit on the process society goes through in choosing whether the man lives or dies. The reason Krugman was reframing the binary choice in such an unrepresentative way is because he believes people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=617&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Krugman and Social Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman is at it again (emphasis mine): CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Representative Ron Paul what we should do if a 30-year-old man who chose not to purchase health insurance suddenly found himself in need of six months of intensive care. Mr. Paul replied, “That’s what freedom is all about — taking your own risks.” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=611&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Krugman&#8217;s solution to our economic woes: SPACE ALIENS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes. Space Aliens. Brilliant! Why didn&#8217;t I think of that? All we need is a space alien attack, and suddenly we&#8217;re saved! The competition for survival will give the entire human race the incentive it needs to regain productivity, spurring the economy into recovery. Of course, we could just restore the competitive free market and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=602&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s what Obama is gonna do if he stays for 4 more years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He will continue doing much of what he&#8217;s done for the last 2.5 years. That means: More indefensible bureaucratic expansion. [link] More regulation of company mobility to prevent profitable enterprises from fleeing Democratic majority states to search for more freedom elsewhere. [link] More economic failure, leading to Carter-style stagflation. [link] More debt growth, as he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=574&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama is Actively Holding Back the Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to secure reelection, Obama will have to argue that the economy would&#8217;ve been worse without his policies. He will argue extensively that no matter how bad things are, they would&#8217;ve been worse without him. However, that&#8217;s not what the data shows. As you can see, the natural growth of the economy normally results [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=571&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Leaders of America Express Reservations About Freedom of Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 11:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a little scary. My generation isn&#8217;t too fond of the right to freedom of speech. And when I say &#8220;Future Leaders of America,&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean it in the trite and meaningless way it&#8217;s normally used- I mean it literally. Georgetown University is famous for producing many of the political leaders of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=562&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dangers of Debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 00:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The central theory of Keynesian economics is that markets can be stabilized by borrowing and spending heavily during recessions and paying it off during boom periods. However, one of the major problems with this idea is that it completely ignores the risk associated with credit. According to a new analysis of the Great Recession, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tbschemer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9429573&amp;post=558&amp;subd=tbschemer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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