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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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		<title>Is a Resource Curse Crowding Out US Renewable Energy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TweetApril 19, 2026 &#8212; The Natural Resource Curse [NRC] refers to negative effects that a booming commodity sector can have on a country’s overall economic growth.  (Commodities are defined to include oil and natural gas, minerals, and often agriculture.) Many oil-rich producers in the Mideast and Africa, for example, have failed to achieve the prosperity [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Immigration Bad for America?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tweet March 23, 2026 &#8212; Immigration is perhaps the most incendiary issue these days, especially in the US. Is immigration bad for the economy, as many people apparently believe? Jobs Its opponents worry that immigrants compete with US citizens for jobs, housing, and so forth.  What that instinct misses is that those coming from abroad add [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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