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		<title>Monetary lessons from Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US can avoid some of the Japanese mistakes.. From us on Seeking Alpha: American Monetary Lessons From Japan&#8217;s Last 2 Decades &#8211; Seeking Alpha]]></description>
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		<title>The German Employment Miracle</title>
		<link>http://shareholdersunite.com/2011/12/12/germany-labour-market-policy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=germany-labour-market-policy</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany experienced a 1.2% decrease in unemployment while its economy was plunging between 2007-9. That&#8217;s quite remarkable, how did they do it? Any lessons to learn? On Seeking Alpha, from Shareholdersunite.com American Lessons From The German Employment Miracle &#8211; Seeking Alpha]]></description>
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		<title>What caused the financial crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Credit Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the curious case of the US, where the truth is ever more compromised by ideology, there are different narratives. But the evidence is pretty clear-cut.. Fannie, Freddie, and the CRA are Not Responsible for the Financial CrisisBy Mark Thoma &#124; Jul 4, 2011 If we want to minimize the chance of another financial crisis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new top dog in policy thinking</title>
		<link>http://shareholdersunite.com/2011/05/19/brooks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=brooks</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 02:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rationally using our non-rational characteristics. His ideas are not new though (much is owed to behavioural economics and social psychology), but it&#8217;s a good read nevertheless.. David Brooks: What&#8217;s the big idea?Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian His theories on society were fashionable 200 years ago, so why are British politicians such fans of this New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you think austerity works..</title>
		<link>http://shareholdersunite.com/2011/04/27/austerity-balance-sheet-recession/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=austerity-balance-sheet-recession</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Credit Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think again. Not a surprise, this.. Austerity Won&#8217;t Shrink the Deficit in a Balance Sheet Recession Cullen Roche Despite the continuing woes in Europe there are still people out there who think the USA should cut off its arm in order lose weight. Well, that’s not quite how it works during a balance sheet recession. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did the poor cause the financial crisis?</title>
		<link>http://shareholdersunite.com/2011/02/04/financial-crisis-3/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=financial-crisis-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Credit Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson on the case..From Project Syndicate: 2011-01-19 Did the Poor Cause the Crisis? WASHINGTON, DC – The United States continues to be riven by heated debate about the causes of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Is government to blame for what went wrong, and, if so, in what sense? In December, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ZeroHedge unhinged again</title>
		<link>http://shareholdersunite.com/2011/02/03/durden-koo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=durden-koo</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Durden back into fight club mode, but as usual, almost entirely devoid of substance.. We wrote a much more extensive piece on this character earlier, so we will be brief here. He&#8217;s at it again this morning attacking Richard Koo, one of the few who got Japan rightly diagnosed as suffering from a balance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of the best ideas, but hardly a new one.. Barry Ritholtz excellent website  is embracing (with one, rather silly caveat) Lou Gerstner&#8217;s call for reinventing government, and rightly so. Government tends to get larger almost by default because: As people get richer and many of their basic material needs are satisfied, their demand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No inflation worries</title>
		<link>http://shareholdersunite.com/2011/02/01/austrian-economics-inflation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=austrian-economics-inflation</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wasn&#8217;t it that if the central bank increases money supply, inflation risks increase? Apparently not, and that from a group of economist who usually predict mayhem under these circumstances.. Interesting! WHY CREDIT DEFLATION IS MORE LIKELY THAN MASS INFLATION – AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE By Cullen Roche We’ve seen an endless parade of neoclassical economists commit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The holy grail of macroeconomics?</title>
		<link>http://shareholdersunite.com/2010/12/05/koo/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=koo</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say &#8216;balance sheet recession.&#8217; The one book everyone should read to understand the present predicament. Only by actually understanding what&#8217;s going on can proper policies be evaluated.It&#8217;s not the first time we&#8217;ve mentioned it here. Koo is every bit as relevant for the US today as it has been for understanding Japan&#8217;s lost decades. Book [...]]]></description>
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