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		<title>Behind China Saying Not Enough Money to Buy US Debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Surely a Jest?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[currency reserves]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;ll admit it. I&#8217;m becoming a cynic. Well actually, I&#8217;m spending a lot of time learning how to understand the reality behind the so-called news. In fact, &#8220;news&#8221; as we used to know it doesn&#8217;t exist anymore. Headlines exist, media reports exist, even reporting agencies exist. The problem is that they don&#8217;t tell us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newindividualism.wordpress.com&blog=1893767&post=3447&subd=newindividualism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jobless Recovery 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Just Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m finally getting it! I believe I&#8217;m finally understanding government-speak! By Jove, it seems to me that there IS some factual basis for the phrase &#8220;jobless recovery!&#8221; What it means is that after the Democrats lose half their seats in both the House and the Senate in 2010, they&#8217;ll be jobless. And when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newindividualism.wordpress.com&blog=1893767&post=3443&subd=newindividualism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing You Do Matters to the Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punchinello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Great Adventure!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common sense in government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal responsibility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered how the government (at all levels) can continue to do some of the harebrained stupid things we&#8217;re reading about? Have you thought that a little common sense would go a long way toward getting the economy going again? So how come it doesn&#8217;t happen? Why does it seem that politicians repeatedly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newindividualism.wordpress.com&blog=1893767&post=3436&subd=newindividualism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong with Sarah Palin&#8217;s Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punchinello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[View from the Bottom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal conservative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Going Rogue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing wrong with Sarah Palin&#8217;s book, &#8220;Going Rogue!&#8221; Not one thing! I&#8217;ve just finished reading it, cover to cover, unlike (apparently) most of the people trying to marginalize the whole thing. It&#8217;s a straightforward chronicle of Governor Palin&#8217;s career in politics, from Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, through her governorship of the entire state. She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newindividualism.wordpress.com&blog=1893767&post=3417&subd=newindividualism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1-Step Fix for the Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punchinello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[View from the Bottom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GDP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[national productivity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The simplest possible way to fix the national economy would be to change the way we measure that economy. Instead of measuring how much people are spending, let&#8217;s totally get rid of the entire concept of &#8220;spending money&#8221; as any kind of useful information! Remove it totally! Blow it off completely!
Remove entirely from the equation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newindividualism.wordpress.com&blog=1893767&post=3408&subd=newindividualism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Credit Default Swap &#8211; CDS</title>
		<link>http://newindividualism.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/what-is-a-credit-default-swap-cds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punchinello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Word of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial market news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never really understood much about the world of finance. There are all these strange words, secret acronyms and phrases that sound like priestly incantations. It&#8217;s mostly because I&#8217;m now at the bottom of the economy that I&#8217;m curious about how all this happened, why it happened, and what will happen to the rest of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newindividualism.wordpress.com&blog=1893767&post=3399&subd=newindividualism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not About Our Children&#8217;s Future</title>
		<link>http://newindividualism.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/its-not-about-our-childrens-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punchinello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foolish Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national default]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian ruble]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new healthcare repair bills moving through congress promise to cost &#8220;only&#8221; $800-billion or so. The far more likely truth is they&#8217;ll cost upwards of $2-trillion. But those numbers ALWAYS come with the caveat, &#8220;over the next 10 years.&#8221; Why are we hearing about the next ten years, not about tomorrow afternoon? And have you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newindividualism.wordpress.com&blog=1893767&post=3387&subd=newindividualism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qualities of Excellence</title>
		<link>http://newindividualism.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/qualities-of-excellence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punchinello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Great Adventure!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brilliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clarity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[excellence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imagination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's easy to get caught up in complaining. Get a curmudgeon license for that (www.grumpy-people.com)! It's not so easy to focus on what's great in life, what's beautiful and to what levels the human spirit can rise. It takes effort to find what you want to vote for, rather than only what you want to vote against. But if you look around, you can see the real "green shoots" of the next great cycle.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newindividualism.wordpress.com&blog=1893767&post=3373&subd=newindividualism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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