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	<title>An Experiment in Scotch &#187; Economics</title>
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	<description>&#34;I write to discover what I believe.&#34; Michael Lopp on Twitter</description>
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		<title>With These Kinds of Friends, Who Needs Enemies?</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2012/02/friends-enemies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently started receiving Kiplinger’s magazine, a Christmas gift from my dad. I was working through the first issue I received when on page 9, I ran into an article of such glaringly bad advice that I almost thought it was parody. Thankfully, though Kiplinger’s is fomenting stale financial advice on their readers, they have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some People Are Just Baby Tossers</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2012/01/some-people-are-just-baby-tossers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand portrayed a society where the best and the brightest people essentially picked up their proverbial basketball and went home, leaving the rest of us struggling, mediocre morons to fend for ourselves as said society broke down (she also seemed to favor situations where women got raped, possibly a window into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the MF Global Bankruptcy Is Important To You</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/11/why-the-mf-global-bankruptcy-is-important-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/?p=1591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed. — John Kenneth Galbraith If you follow the financial news on a semi-regular basis, you know that MF Global, a futures fund run by Jon Corzine, former governor of New Jersey, went bankrupt last week. If you don’t read the financial news, well God [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bedtime Story To Haunt Your Sleep</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/11/a-bedtime-story-to-haunt-your-sleep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/11/a-bedtime-story-to-haunt-your-sleep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/?p=1588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you will a friend–perhaps imaginary, perhaps not–who spends money as if it grew on trees. He buys things constantly, upgrading to the latest and greatest, always drives a new car. None of this is a problem if he’s independently wealthy but let’s say he’s not. Let’s say he makes $40,000 a year but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Exogenous Event</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/11/an-exogenous-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/?p=1585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, it appeared that something of a plan, however roughly sketched out, had been drawn up in the great European debt crisis. Markets around the world rejoiced with something bordering on abandon even though astute observers questioned the lack of details in the plan. The plan revolved around bondholders taking an approximate 50% haircut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Occupy Wall Street Is Really About</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/10/what-occupy-wall-street-is-really-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican response to the Occupy Wall Street movement is one of shallowness and misunderstanding. It’s hypocritical in nature. Instead of seizing on the anger that is clearly driving OWS as well as the Tea Party, conservatives are maligning the motives of individuals and missing the entire point which is that people are sick and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Endgame</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/10/the-endgame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a simple description of what is driving the markets. It is basically a counter party risk situation involving the biggest banks in the Western financial system. If you keep this in mind most of the things that are happening will be more clear, even though the mind of the status quo rebels against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner Says Europe Will Follow Our Lessons, God Help Them If They Do</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/09/geithner-says-europe-will-follow-our-lessons-god-help-them-if-they-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, Timothy Geithner made comments in the financial media regarding how he thought Europe would get out of the mess they are in. “I think you’re going to see them draw on the lessons of our crisis, draw on the lessons of things that worked here in the United States,” Geithner said in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of The Euro For Dummies</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/07/the-end-of-the-euro-for-dummies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/07/the-end-of-the-euro-for-dummies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the end of the world as we know it]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/?p=1517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s start with a story. You and I are friends. You discover that you’re going to come up a little bit short on the rent this month and ask to borrow $100 from me. I agree, loaning you $100 at 10% interest (we’re just doing that to keep the math simple, I would never loan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts On A Lecture</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2010/12/thoughts-on-a-lecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/?p=1439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I attended the Jones Day lecture in the Tate series at SMU. The talk was given by Professor Joseph Stiglitz who’s CV/biography can be found here. It was an interesting talk and I thought it would be worth writing a synopsis of Professor Stiglitz’ ideas and views along with my thoughts 24 hours [...]]]></description>
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