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		<title>Brad Delong Wrong Yet Again and Again and Again: oh why can&#8217;t we have smarter reform liberals</title>
		<link>http://rppe.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/brad-delong-wrong-yet-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scandalum Magnatum, takes Brad Delong to task for botching  Kelecki in a recent post.
Brad DeLong damns Kalecki with praise:

I WAS EXPECTING A 6% PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH QUARTER, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!
Productivity increased 9.5 percent in the nonfarm business sector during the third quarter of 2009 as unit labor costs fell 5.2 percent (seasonally adjusted annual rates). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1032&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gun Registry Gone: Good Lesson in Lack of political Imagination</title>
		<link>http://rppe.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/gun-registry-gone-good-lesson-in-lack-of-political-imagination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some months ago I wrote about what I found problematic with the dogmatic proposition that the existing long gun registry was all good.  Any opposition party could have introduced a private member&#8217;s bill which amended  the existing legislation in three ways:
One: Abolish registration fees.  If registering long guns is a public good than it should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1028&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heteros start a new Economics Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new economics blog on the internets staffed by a venerable group of heterodox heretics. This can only be a good thing as homogeneity is overrated.  The Real World Economics Review Check it out.
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		<title>The Nonsense of Planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Mattick 1939

III.
The major part of the theories of planning hitherto devised can be appraised only as literature, since their authors have refrained from touching upon the laws by which capitalist relations are governed. Their starting point was always discontent with existing conditions. They noted, as anyone may readily do, what was ably set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1022&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belief in Global Warming is being like a Marxist:  You read it in the Wall Street Journal First</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the genius of Marxism, and a reason for its enduring appeal, is that it fed man&#8217;s neurotic fear of social catastrophe while providing an avenue for moral transcendence. It&#8217;s just the same with global warming&#8230;.
&#160;

That is genius.  Worrying about how humans organize themselves into ultimately counter-productive and anti-social  systems and then suggesting that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1019&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lunacy on Loonie spreads to the Department of Finance via the Bank of Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point we are going to have to throw in the towel and conclude that there is a concerted effort to promulgate the noble lie.  It was one thing when the business press argued that the BOC faced technical limits to their capacity to retrench the value of the Canadian dollar, and yet another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1013&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tough talking Carney retrenched dollars rise. Or did he?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would be really mad if you took my analysis and went long on the Canadian dollar especially if you found out I had taken a short position.  None of what you hear, half of what you see.  But seriously can we credit Carney with the non-trivial ( near 5 cent) decline in the Canadian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1007&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We do not do spin&#8230;We don&#8217;t lose our focus: Carney the rain maker</title>
		<link>http://rppe.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/we-do-not-do-spin-we-dont-lose-our-focus-carney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to Mark Carney talk tough is like watching Stephane Dion pound his fists on the table.  Well ok a little more credible than that.  Being a former GS man you know he knows people who know people.  Some of which I should think are quite unpleasant characters.  Problem is there is not really a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=999&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are currency traders and Bank economists dumb as a sack of hammers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short answer is no despite what has been argued here and here.  Bank economists may be a comfortable and no doubt arrogant bunch (imagine combining the natural arrogance of economists with the comfy smugness of Canadian bankers&#8230; thankfully a cocktail party I will never be invited to).  But do we really believe they do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=992&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forget the Bank of Canada: We need an INVITE program to stem appreciation of the CDN Dollar.</title>
		<link>http://rppe.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/forget-the-bank-of-canada-we-need-an-invite-program-to-stem-appreciation-of-the-cdn-dollar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If what we are worried about is an overvalued CDN dollar which is caused by speculative flows then why the focus on the Bank of Canada?  Exchange rates are not really in the BOC’s mandate.  Sure in the case where an appreciating CDN dollar is causing further deflationary pressures it could be argued that exchange [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=986&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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