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		<title>The new American Jewish establishment&#8230; a letter to Peter Beinart</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2010/06/03/the-new-american-jewish-establishment-a-letter-to-peter-beinart-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment,&#8221; Peter Beinart, 12 May 2010, New York Review of Books Harold Meyerson &#8211; The collateral damage from Israel&#8217;s raid, 2 June 2010, Washington Post Amos Oz &#8211; Israeli Force, Adrift on the Sea, 2 June 2010, NY Times Dear Mr. Beinart, I must thank you for writing your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debt, luck&#8230; and imperial collapse?</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2009/08/11/debt-luck-and-imperial-collapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is going to take more than luck for the Obama Administration to run forward with its massive deficits. After all, luck never provided Romans a means of replenishing Roman coffers via depleted grain supplies and it's likely not to provide Americans a means of replenishing the U.S. Treasury coffers via outsourced manufacturing.]]></description>
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		<title>On humanitarian aid: the one vs. the many</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2009/07/09/on-humanitarian-aid-the-one-vs-the-many/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smalrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I disagree with Kristof's main point of contention that humanitarians are "abjectively ineffective at selling their causes." A customer's inability to buy may not be defined the same as his lack of desire to buy. The G8 is a consumer of humanitarian causes, just like any other actor.]]></description>
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		<title>Bailing Miss Daisy</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2008/11/20/bailing-miss-daisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smalrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prediction: The day the bailout of the auto industry fails in the Senate, the DJIA drops more than 700 points. Why do I suggest this?  It&#8217;s fairly simple.  Today, Congress has agreed a bipartisan plan, provided the industry can present a &#8220;viable&#8221; and compelling business plan by December 2 &#8212; 12 days away.  So if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton and the job market</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2008/11/14/clinton-and-the-job-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smalrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton a contender for secretary of state &#8211; FT.com Around six months ago, when I was still supporting Hillary&#8217;s presidential bid, but conceding that it was falling short, I proposed that Obama would take the nomination.  Though many were riding high on the change they could believe in, my concession was based on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Towing the Party line&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2008/02/06/towing-the-party-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smalrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet again, I&#8217;m managing to neglect my blog here &#8211; everything from whether or not the economy is in a recession (and if so, for how long), to my absentee vote for John Edwards being mailed on the day he drops out of the race, to the New York Giants (a team I cared about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Ponzi&#8217;s Subprime Mortgage Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2007/08/13/charles-ponzis-subprime-mortgage-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smalrus.com/2007/08/13/charles-ponzis-subprime-mortgage-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smalrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back, I read the book, Ponzi&#8217;s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, by Mitchell Zuckoff. The book detailed the life of the ubiquitous Charles Ponzi, inventor of the first successful pyramid scheme. This scheme enabled Mr. Ponzi to get rich quick through what would be tantamount today to currency arbitrage. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomorrow Never Dows</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2007/08/02/tomorrow-never-dows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battle is over, Rupert Murdoch has won.  Not only has Mr Murdoch won, he has also done it with little effort.  His efforts to buy the revered American financial newspaper, the Wall Street Journal have ended with a family realizing its destiny and mismanagement of its own firm.  As Louis Ureneck was quoted in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-debate and carbon indulgences</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2007/05/03/post-debate-and-carbon-indulgences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smalrus.com/2007/05/03/post-debate-and-carbon-indulgences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 00:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smalrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I get into the main subject of this posting, I just wanted to recap the French debate. The New York Times put it best, it was the kind of &#8220;vivid confrontation that has disappeared from the American scene, where the candidates avoid each other as much as possible.&#8221; The post-debate polls ended up split, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>weird visitors &amp; french presidential election brief</title>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2007/03/25/weird-visitors-french-presidential-election-brief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.smalrus.com/2007/03/25/weird-visitors-french-presidential-election-brief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smalrus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to WordPress, I get to use firestats to see just where visitors to my website are coming from. The only thing is, a whois trace ends up ending at RIPE.NET, the portal to Europe&#8217;s internet link. Given the vast amount of &#8220;junk&#8221; websites out there, I&#8217;m wondering who in Russia and in Germany are [...]]]></description>
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