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		<title>Recalling a Cold War adventure in Portugal</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[TweetJuly 24, 2026 &#8212;  Fifty years ago this month, I was one of a team of five MIT graduate students who were in Lisbon working for the Central Bank of Portugal.  Paul Krugman, another member of that  team  has reminisced, on the occasion of the semicentennial of the 1976 mission. I will contribute my own [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>1776</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[TweetJune 29, 2026 &#8212; Adam Smith’s book The Wealth of Nations shares with the Declaration of Independence its 1776 birth year and hence its 2026 semiquincentennial.  Both documents incarnated a set of liberal ideas that we associate with the Enlightenment.  Much is made of the egregious respects in which men who spread these ideals, at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Americans can’t afford Trump’s inflationary policies</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[TweetMay 31, 2026 &#8212; Political leaders find it difficult to deal with inflation.  Even in those cases when incomes rise faster than prices, voters complain bitterly about inflation’s effect on them.  Even when inflation occurs throughout the world, the public in each country holds its own politicians responsible. And even when an individual country is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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