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	<title>the rational post &#187; trade</title>
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		<title>demise of the dollar</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2009/10/06/demise-of-the-dollar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This type of geopolitical conspiracy would be easy to dismiss from any other source, but speculation of an imminent de-dollarization by some of the world&#8217;s largest oil consumers is even more chilling when it&#8217;s penned by one of Britain&#8217;s most celebrated international journalists&#8230;
The demise of the dollar
By Robert Fisk, October 6, 2009
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning &#8211; along with China, Russia, Japan and France &#8211; to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen ...]]></description>
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		<title>after the crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2009/09/29/after-the-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/?p=1546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring the recent economic &#8220;upheaval&#8221; through the lens of history helps in at least two ways: 1) it assures us that humanity has faced similar dangers in the past and somehow lived to tell the tale, and 2) it suggests that the same entrepreneurial instincts that led us into trouble (yet again) also hold the key to restoring stability and growth. This speech by the President of the World Bank highlights a series of events that presaged the crisis — like the &#8220;emergence&#8221; of emerging economies, the popularity of leveraged finance, and growing imbalances of trade — focusing less on the outcome and more on the decades of unbridled expansion that inspired it&#8230;
Robert B. Zoellick
President, The World Bank Group
September 28, 2009 in ...]]></description>
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		<title>syntax error</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2009/03/16/systemic-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contagion could be used to describe much of the activity in the capital markets over the last 40 years, as global financial flows have accelerated, trade and capital barriers have disappeared, regulatory oversight has diminished, and financial innovation has made the packaging and sale of securities as easy as ordering a Big Mac combo. From defaults on recycled petrodollars in the early 1980s, to the Mexican peso crisis in 1994, to the &#8220;Asian Contagion&#8221; in 1997-98, and most recently the Great Collapse of 2008, what began as sanity checks on asset values and risk metrics quickly evolved into stampedes of herding capital feeling to higher ground. In this look at the nature and understanding systemic collapse, Kotok explores whether anything ...]]></description>
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		<title>china inc.</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2009/01/04/china-inc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[finance & economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This counter-factual analysis of China&#8217;s path toward capitalism reveals that the country&#8217;s biggest cities aren&#8217;t necessarily the engines of dynamic Asian progress that modern commentators have suggested, and that the country&#8217;s future may lie in rural areas where entrepreneurship and competition have thrived since Deng Xiaoping&#8217;s Four Modernizations&#8230;

Private ownership: The real source of China&#8217;s economic miracle
December 2008 • Yasheng Huang
The credibility of American-style capitalism was among the earliest victims of the global financial crisis. With Lehman Brothers barely in its grave, pundits the world over rushed to perform the last rites for US economic ideals, including limited government, minimal regulation, and the free-market allocation of credit. In contemplating alternatives to the fallen American model, some looked to China, where markets ...]]></description>
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		<title>the great black north</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/10/03/the-great-black-north/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Canadians flock to the polls later this month, quietly supplying 22% of America&#8217;s oil and 13% of its natural gas, its neighbours to the south have barely noticed. Cross-border oil flows are inevitable – given that America controls of a mere 2% of the world&#8217;s reserves and consumes almost 25% of supply – and securing its long-term petroleum assumes the full participation of Alberta&#8217;s carbon-rich tar sands and the off-shore bounty at Hibernia. Even Governor Palin&#8217;s Wildlife Reserve is virtually useless without passage by pipe across Canada&#8217;s Western provinces. Given the importance of &#8220;Securing America&#8217;s Energy Future&#8221; during a twin election year, it&#8217;s surprising that talk hasn&#8217;t returned to NAFTA, cleaner energy, or agricultural subsidies. Then again, maybe it isn&#8217;t&#8230;

Canada&#8217;s ...]]></description>
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		<title>an extraordinary episode</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/09/16/an-extraordinary-episode/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keynesian reflections from 1919 on the first era of true globalization, complete with bountiful trade, unparalleled upward mobility, liquid labor markets, secure international travel, and a blissful ignorance of the fragility of this new 20th Century World Order&#8230;
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August 1914! The greater part of the population, it is true, worked hard and lived at a low standard of comfort, yet were, to all appearances, reasonably contented with this lot. But escape was possible, for any man of capacity or character at all exceeding the average, into the middle and upper classes, for whom life offered, at a low cost and with the ...]]></description>
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		<title>the world is fat</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/05/28/the-world-is-fat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 19:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further commentary on the interconnected themes of income disparity, agricultural inflation, and selective de-globalization, this time by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen. Perhaps most compelling is the charge that a rising tide doesn&#8217;t lift all ships, and those who have benefited least from a &#8220;flattening&#8221; of our economic superstructure are often the most exposed to rising prices and shifting patterns of supply and demand. Also of note is the graphic artist chosen to visualize our scramble for scarce natural resources, yet another gifted Walrus alum&#8230;
The Rich Get Hungrier
By AMARTYA SEN in the New York Times
WILL the food crisis that is menacing the lives of millions ease up — or grow worse over time? The answer may be both. The recent ...]]></description>
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		<title>speculations on an oil tariff</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/03/25/speculations-on-an-oil-tariff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assuming that the United States decides to impose a $25 per barrel tariff on all imported oil (crude and product) – and Canada and Mexico were not exempt — let&#8217;s explore how this might affect:

a.    The volume of oil imported into the United States?
Volume responses to a $25 tariff would vary over time. In the near-term, there would only be a negligible decrease in the volume of oil imported (given a low short-run elasticity of energy demand) as industries, supply chains, and consumers remain highly dependent on existing petroleum infrastructure. The redistribution of the tariff (with tax reductions) would partially offset the incremental cost to businesses and consumers, but the policy is unlikely to completely offset the ...]]></description>
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		<title>question 3</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/02/29/question-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from the mid-term &#8220;problem set&#8221; in ENR-302&#8230;
3. The country of Xanadu is dependent of the use of domestically produced methanol for 100% of its energy needs. The price of methanol is set by a competitive market and the fuel is priced at $2.50 per gallon. Two large companies supply 80% of the market and each has costs of $1.50 per gallon.  The opposition party and most of the national labor unions argue that these two companies are making obscene profits. They demand that the President place a mandatory price cap of $2.00 on the price of methanol to prevent &#8220;this abuse of market power.&#8221;
Assume that the elasticity of demand is 0.4 and the elasticity of supply is ...]]></description>
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		<title>private risk, public reward</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/01/18/private-risk-public-reward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An expanded look at the role corporations and hospitable business environments have played in stabilizing the anarchic system of international relations. This work is based on an earlier paper which focused on the rise of the corporation as a key variable in the calculus of global peace and security&#8230;
Private Risk, Public Reward:
 Stabilizing Frameworks and the Rise of Corporate Hegemony
By Devin DeCiantis &#124; ISP-351 &#124; Economics &#38; Security
&#8220;The modern corporation as an institution is entitled to much more respect than it has frequently received.
It is, in fact, an institution at a cross-road in history,
Capable of becoming one of the master tools of society &#8211; capable also of surprising abuse.&#8221;
- Adolph Berle, Jr. The Twentieth Century Capitalist Revolution, 1954

Traditional theories about ...]]></description>
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		<title>factors of destruction</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2008/01/16/factors-of-destruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this recent Times OpEd, Rochester economics professor Steve Landsburg points out how easily John Q. Public overlooks cause and effect in 21st century markets. 
Let&#8217;s review: 1) goods and services require labor and capital to produce; 2) the price of labor and capital impact an item&#8217;s ultimate price; 3) factors of production are much less expensive in the developing world; 4) a decades-long public war on inflation in the developed world has prevented the price of goods from increasing in step with wages; however, 5) wage growth is now slowing and inflation has reached a 17-year high; thus 6) in their quest to find the lowest price, consumers who rebel against off-shoring jobs are simply biting the hand that ...]]></description>
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		<title>the rise of global corporations</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/12/12/the-rise-of-global-corporations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper was written for quite possibly the best combination of professor and class I&#8217;ve ever experienced. If only all academic endeavor challenged so profoundly, surveyed so broadly, and bore as much intellectual fruit&#8230;
Hegemonic Stability and the Rise of Global Corporations
by Devin DeCiantis
&#8220;The logic of markets is borderless,
but the logic of politics remains bounded.&#8221;
- Louis W. Pauley, Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy, 1997
 Traditional theories about power structures have focused on the role of states as principal agents in international affairs. In aggregate, these theories justify most of the major geopolitical incidents that have shaped the modern world order, but none of them effectively do so on their own. That’s not to suggest that ...]]></description>
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		<title>knowing the right beards</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/12/10/knowing-the-right-beards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.&#8221; In the case of Iran and the U.S., Sun Tzu&#8217;s prescient advice &#8212; combined with the thorough research of &#8220;your correspondent&#8221; &#8212; suggest that peace might be an easier wager than recent history predicts. With their popularity on the wane, like-minded conservatives in their ranks, and religious ideology on their side, Bush and Ahmadinejad have more in common today than either care to admit&#8230;
They think they have right on their side
Nov 22nd 2007 &#124; TEHRAN, From The Economist print edition
Why the Iranians see themselves in a very different light
IT IS not hard to find examples of the peculiar divergence between how the world looks from Tehran, Iran&#8217;s capital, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>victory is sweet</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/11/20/victory-is-sweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once the white gold of the natural resource world, catalyst of Caribbean war, and provider of luxurious European consumption, sugar still has its hold over American protectionist policy in some embarrassingly predictable ways&#8230;
Sugar Industry Expands Influence
Donations Spread Beyond Farm Areas
Special to The Washington Post &#124; Saturday, November 3, 2007; A01
When U.S. sugar farmers needed help this summer defending a $1 billion, 10-year subsidy plan in a new House farm bill, they found it in some surprising places. Among the 282 lawmakers siding with Midwest and Gulf Coast growers on a key vote was Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), who represents Queens and Manhattan&#8216;s East Side. The only sugar refinery in the New York area is well outside her district.
Four days ...]]></description>
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		<title>on the rise of middle powers</title>
		<link>http://www.freedom24.org/rationalpost/2007/09/27/on-the-rise-of-middle-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With great power may come great responsibility, but middle power certainly has its role to play policing the economic and political bulge. In this address at the CFR, Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister waxes idealistically about the challenges of a national resource bounty that rivals any in the world, a mixed ethnic heritage that is the model for progressive integration, and a desire to project Canadian sovereignty and foreign policy into the 21st century&#8230;
A Conversation with Stephen Harper [Rush Transcript; Federal News Services]
 September 25, 2007, Council on Foreign Relations
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PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER:  &#8220;Merci beaucoup,&#8221; Marie-Josee.  Thank you very much, Chairman Rubin, President Haass.  Our consul general, Dan Sullivan, is here.  And thank you all, ladies and ...]]></description>
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