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	<title>Re: The People</title>
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		<title>Why unemployment is ignored by Washington&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/why-unemployment-is-ignored-by-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting exchange with Larry Summers, the shithead who advises the Messiah on issues of unemployment:
White House officials express confidence in the steps taken, saying the stimulus is spending money and creating jobs ahead of schedule, and forestalling far higher unemployment. They say they opted against direct jobs programs not for political reasons but because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=2969&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Someone else who gets it&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/someone-else-who-gets-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic collapse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Naked Capitalism the blogger, George Washington, continues on the theme we have written been covering here: American corporations are clearly pursuing the Cramer Gambit by focusing on foreign markets not simply as suppliers of goods, but also as the customer for those goods.
Guest Post: One Reason that the Stock Market is Rising While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=2957&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More chart porn: Service employment falls two years running</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/more-chart-porn-service-employment-falls-two-years-running/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 70 years of record keeping, the American economy has never recorded a back-to-back, year-over-year, decline in employment in the services sector of the economy.
Since this is so unprecedented in the economy, we thought we might take a snapshot of this elusive bird so everyone could stare at it with the awe we felt when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=2911&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond chart porn: If history rhymed, would we hear it?</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/beyond-chart-porn-if-history-rhymed-would-we-hear-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political-economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most often indulged exercises in this economic crisis is to compare it to other, previous, crises &#8211; in particular, to the big daddy of all economic crises, The Great Depression.
It&#8217;s fun, educational, and a little like pornography: both a source of inspiration and a sort of how to manual.
As with porn, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=2917&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neal Fox: Fuck The Fed</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/neal-fox-fuck-the-fed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terribly addictive little jingle&#8230;
 
more about &#8220;Neal Fox Fuck The Fed&#8220;, posted with vodpod
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		<title>Because your day doesn&#8217;t suck enough&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/because-your-day-doesnt-suck-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/?p=2908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another piece of economic news from the beginning of October (which we missed, sorry):
Using a specially-designed telephone survey, which Princeton University’s Survey Research Center put in the field in June and July 2008, we experimented with three different ways to measure offshorability. In the first, professional coders used the answers to standard CPS questions to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=2908&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Omigod, dude! You&#8217;re killing us!</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/omigod-dude-youre-killing-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[an economy is not a ledger book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is becoming truly painful to read the bullshit coming out the progressive wing of the Democratic Party these days. The latest example is this piece of specious reasoning by some shithead named Marshall Auerback, who blogs at Huffington Post and on the website, New Deal 2.0:
We&#8217;ve said it before and we&#8217;ll say it again. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=2898&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dean Baker: Cure for unemployment? Work shorter hours</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/dean-baker-cure-for-unemployment-work-shorter-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movement to reduce hours of work is bubbling up from the underground.
From Dean Baker, Co-director    of the Center for Economic and Policy Research: 
&#8220;&#8230;There is an easy and quick way to begin to get these unemployed workers back to work. It involves paying workers to work shorter hours. The mechanism can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=2889&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good news from the Ministry of Plenty&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/good-news-from-the-ministry-of-plenty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lies damned lies and statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Plenty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Grey Lady is a whore]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/?p=2876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=2876&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Answer: 4</title>
		<link>http://pogoprinciple.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/answer-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charley2u</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Question: How many times has Washington bailed out Citigroup to keep it from going bankrupt?
Posted in General Comment Tagged: Bailout, financial crisis, international financial system, Wall Street Crisis      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pogoprinciple.wordpress.com&blog=3951967&post=2871&subd=pogoprinciple&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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