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		<title>The Great Game Version Two?</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/07/03/great-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When everyone is dead the Great Game is finished.  Not before.
-Rudyard Kipling, Kim, 1901

The Great Game describes the behind-the-scenes diplomacy and spy games played by the British and Russians for supremacy in Central Asia during the mid and late 1800s. Made famous by the Rudyard Kipling novel, Kim, it was a power struggle between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Recessions Happen?</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/07/02/why-do-recessions-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Labor Statistics released numbers yesterday stating that, non-farm payroll employment continued to decline in June (-467,000), and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.5 percent. Job losses were widespread across the major industry sectors, with large declines occurring in manufacturing, professional and business services, and construction. This means that roughly 14.7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM and Market Overexuberance?</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/07/02/gm-market-overexuberance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, General Motors had to remind investors that when it emerges from bankruptcy, its common stock will be worthless. Why did they have to do this? Well, apparently GM stock has undergone several days straight of heavy trading, and they cannot really figure out why anyone is buying up equity that will soon be worthless.
According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Give Oil A Bad Name</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/06/30/give-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously. The Russian giant oil firm Gazprom is forming a joint venture with the Nigerian state-run oil company, NNPC. The new firm will be called Nigaz. Way to do some branding research first.

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		<title>Flying and Child Safety Seats</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/06/30/flying-child-safety-seats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a thread currently going on at Flyertalk, my favorite website, about whether or not to mandate child safety seats for small children, who currently travel in their parent&#8217;s lap. The reasoning is that in any heavy turbulence, a parent may not be able to hold the child, thus putting that child in danger. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine Print is Too Overwhelming</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/06/29/print-overwhelming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A story in the New York Times describes the ordeal of the Bendor family, who purchased a cruise and travel protection from a company called Vantage Deluxe World Travel. The travel protection plan would protect them if they needed to cancel for any reason. When the father in the family had a heart attack before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kennedy-Dodd Health Care Bill: Why Even Bother?</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/06/28/kennedy-dodd-health-care-bill-why-even-bother/</link>
		<comments>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/06/28/kennedy-dodd-health-care-bill-why-even-bother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Budget Office release very preliminary numbers on the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill. The plan, which is mostly supported by Democrats, and mostly supported by President Obama, still lacks details. The upshot of the plan, from my skimming of the bill, is that it would require everyone to purchase health insurance, it would require [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Look</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/06/26/new-look/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the weather finally getting warm, we have changed the look of the site. After several years of using the Chameleon theme, we have decided to modernize things by changing to the Emerald Stretch theme by  Nikolaj Masnikov. All of the old functionality should be there, just with a new look.
I hope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LaTeX Support in WordPress</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/06/25/test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using the WP LaTeX plugin, this website now supports the  typesetting language. From now on, you will have the joy of getting more math in your posts.
To get you started, always remember that .
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		<title>A Win for the Fourth Amendment</title>
		<link>http://pubpolicy.com/2009/06/22/fourth-amendment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Parekh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some good news for our civil liberties, Federal courts have ruled to suppress evidence found at an airport checkpoint by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) because it violated the defendant&#8217;s fourth amendment rights. For those of you in need of a refresher, the fourth amendment protects us from unreasonable search and seizure. Specifically:
The right [...]]]></description>
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