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		<title>Selected Central Government Debt Ratios:  An image begs a thousand questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When discussing with my undergrad students why I thought Japan Inc. was bust I trotted out the graph below.  However, this morning while looking at the graph several questions came to mind.
1) From 1998 &#8211; 2008 what was average real interest rate in Japan and how does that compare to the ten years previous to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1059&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EI Claims Up in September</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bulk of the descriptive meat is here:
&#8220;Continued large year-over-year increases in EI beneficiaries in large centres in the West
EI data by sub-provincial region, sex and age are not seasonally adjusted. Therefore, they are compared on a year-over-year basis.
In Ontario, the number of EI recipients more than doubled in 10 of its 41 large centres [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1055&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something interesting happened on CBC Radio this morning: spending cuts or tax increases</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe it was the 7:oo am news cycle when the CBC started carrying a interview they did with a bank Conference Board economist  who argued that the Cons were going to have to make some hard program spending choices when it came to getting the 60 billion deficit under control.  And that  was that.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1049&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Styalised facts being what they are: CD Howe, the Fraser and CCPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Fast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things just pass as fact when further scrutiny turns things around a bit&#8230;or at least requires a couple of qualifications. When I see words like *always* and *never* my bullshit sensor goes off the scale.  As for example in this passage from the good cop bad cop of Canadian economics blogs:
One can predict with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&blog=614355&post=1043&subd=rppe&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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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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