<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0">

<channel>
	<title>DumbAgent.com</title>
	
	<link>http://dumbagent.com</link>
	<description>Ceteris Paribus... Somewhat</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:55:24 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<!-- podcast_generator="podPress/8.8" -->
		<copyright>© </copyright>
		<managingEditor>ocean@dumbagent.com ()</managingEditor>
		<webMaster>ocean@dumbagent.com()</webMaster>
		<category>Economics and Finance</category>
		<ttl>1440</ttl>
		<itunes:keywords>Economics, Finance, Theory, Education, Markets, Investing, Econ, Mathematics</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle />
		<itunes:summary>Audio posts of Dumbagent.com: Portal for discussion of Economics and Finance, Economic and Financial Theory, and related subjects. </itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author />
		<itunes:category text="Education">
  <itunes:category text="Higher Education" />
</itunes:category>
<itunes:category text="Business">
  <itunes:category text="Investing" />
</itunes:category>
<itunes:category text="Business" />
		<itunes:owner>
			<itunes:name />
			<itunes:email>ocean@dumbagent.com</itunes:email>
		</itunes:owner>
		<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:image href="http://profile.ak.facebook.com/object2/1473/41/n41758870112_312.jpg" />
		<image>
			<url>http://profile.ak.facebook.com/object2/1473/41/n41758870112_312.jpg</url>
			<title>DumbAgent.com</title>
			<link>http://dumbagent.com</link>
			<width>144</width>
			<height>144</height>
		</image>
		<atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dumbagent" /><feedburner:info uri="dumbagent" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>Dumbagent</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><item>
		<title>John Maynard Keynes</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/uwbhCkVUzsY/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/john-maynard-keynes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[econ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keynes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keynesian Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milton Friedman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youtube]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are all Keynesians now&#8221;.  This phrase, uttered by Milton Friedman and popularly attributed to Richard Nixon (who did say something similar), shows the influence this one man and his economics has had on our past century, and continues to have in this one.  No Economic analysis is complete without an explanation of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/john-maynard-keynes/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/john-maynard-keynes/</feedburner:origLink></item>
		<item>
		<title>Yes Virginia, Markets are Efficient</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/3wfiGvZ7yl8/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/yes-virginia-markets-are-efficient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dumb Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preferred stock investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S&P]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S&P 500]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investing basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investment strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investment tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market investing advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stock Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value stock investing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1536</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the recent controversy surrounding Free Markets, and more specifically, the &#8220;How could we be so stupid as to believe markets could work?&#8221; statements, we feel it is time to clear the air and make a couple blanket statements:
Efficient Markets does Not mean continuous growth
It is excusable in a way.  We [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/yes-virginia-markets-are-efficient/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/yes-virginia-markets-are-efficient/</feedburner:origLink></item>
		<item>
		<title>Et tu Stiglitz?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/Fc8IgFbBTDw/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/et-tu-stiglitz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles of Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blackouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freefall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Stiglitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have all heard of Joseph Stiglitz; the Nobel prize winning economist who releases books every now and then.  You may also be familiar with his belief in more regulation for the economy and his criticism of President Obama&#8217;s rescue plan for the financial industry, famously remarking that whoever came up with it is [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/et-tu-stiglitz/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/et-tu-stiglitz/</feedburner:origLink></item>
		<item>
		<title>Super-Markets</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/84jjnu2OKi0/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/super-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles of Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macroeconomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microeconomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, not of the Groceries variety, but of the mask and cape variety.  More specifically: beating evil dictators at their own game. 
Those of you who read The Economist or follow our Tweets (conveniently accessible here: @Dumbagent) may have seen how Kim Jong-il was finally forced into an apology thanks to economics. 
It seems [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/super-markets/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/super-markets/</feedburner:origLink></item>
		<item>
		<title>How to invest in Currencies – Kiplinger’s method</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/S_GEeo4SgUE/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/how-to-invest-in-currencies-kiplingers-method/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dumb Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Currencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dollar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiplinger's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kosnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investing basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investment strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investment tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market investing advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market investing basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value stock investing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Along the same vein of our last article on this subject, we continue to find amusing investment tips in Kiplinger&#8217;s:
Page 31 of their February 2010 edition is called:
Make a Buck off a Sagging Dollar &#8211; by Andrew Tanzer
This articles states how, since the US Dollar is falling, what alternatives an investor should find in order [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/how-to-invest-in-currencies-kiplingers-method/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/how-to-invest-in-currencies-kiplingers-method/</feedburner:origLink></item>
		<item>
		<title>How to invest in Stocks – Kiplinger’s method</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/zIRG27HTHqg/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/how-to-invest-in-stocks-kiplingers-method/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dumb Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glassman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment calculator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiplinger's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investing basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investment strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock investment tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market investing advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market investing basics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value stock investing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As long time proponents of market efficiency, we are still amused by the investment methods that keep getting regurgitated.  They tend to fall under two main camps: The Charting methods, that analyze past performance and try to find trends, and the Fundamentals method, which analyzes various companies and determines which is undervalued.  Of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/how-to-invest-in-stocks-kiplingers-method/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/how-to-invest-in-stocks-kiplingers-method/</feedburner:origLink></item>
		<item>
		<title>Happy Birthday to 2 very Dumbagents!!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/W7I2FDxrtWg/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/happy-birthday-to-2-very-dumbagents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/happy-birthday-to-2-very-dumbagents/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to Jason Nagashima and Rebecca Gebhardt!! We hope you have very Efficient and Globalized Birthdays! 
Have a few drinks too
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/happy-birthday-to-2-very-dumbagents/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/happy-birthday-to-2-very-dumbagents/</feedburner:origLink></item>
		<item>
		<title>Friedrich von Hayek</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/DX1fxfGkelM/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/friedrich-von-hayek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Austrian school of economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Hayek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich von Hayek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keynes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Road to serfdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Friedrich von Hayek was an Austrian economist, always staunchly pro Free market, Free trade and anti-socialist.  He was also the most prominent proponent of what is now called the Austrian school of Economics and first became well known thanks to his book: The Road to Serfdom. 
These days, while almost everyone remembers Keynes, relatively [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/friedrich-von-hayek/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/friedrich-von-hayek/</feedburner:origLink></item>
		<item>
		<title>The Twitter Bubble</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/ns8PPNY9ODU/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/the-twitter-bubble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Our Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Followers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are avid Twitter users, the following paragraph will be old news: once you join Twitter, you notice how many Followers others have.  People you have never heard of, and who seemingly have very little to offer, will have tens of thousands of followers. How come you have so few? [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/the-twitter-bubble/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/the-twitter-bubble/</feedburner:origLink></item>
		<item>
		<title>Commanding Heights – World Economics</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Dumbagent/~3/-PFhz-KT12Y/</link>
		<comments>http://dumbagent.com/commanding-heights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commanding Heights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lenin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Economic Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youtube]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have any interest whatsoever in the workings and machinations of the world, we heartily recommend watching Commanding Heights at some point in your life.  Here we feature much of it in our playlist, to give you a taste:
From the Dumb Agent Youtube channel, the playlist is here. 
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://dumbagent.com/commanding-heights/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		<feedburner:origLink>http://dumbagent.com/commanding-heights/</feedburner:origLink></item>
	</channel>
</rss>
