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		<title>GMOs to the Rescue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist has two excellent articles on GMOs and their increase in use throughout the world.  They both basically state that there has been an increase in their adoption, particularly in the developing world.  Their opposition seems to lie mostly in Europe now (with some resistance in India as well).  It happens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Keynes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it turns out John Maynard Keynes would have probably completely disagreed with the counter-cyclical policies we are currently seeing (reactions to free markets and deregulation leading to the over-regulations and over-muzzling of markets). I confess not having read Keynes&#8217; Treatise on Money (apart from several excerpts in our Macroeconomics class which I must have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staple a Green Card to their Admittance Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice quote from Businessweek, worth repeating:
U.S. education gets rapped, too. India and China produce more scientists and engineers than the U.S., and international students who attend American universities generally must return home as soon as they&#8217;ve graduated. &#8220;We&#8217;re forcing these people to do their productive work elsewhere,&#8221; says Mark Chandler, general counsel of Cisco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Censorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you happy that Google refuses to censor itself in China, here is a list of countries in which it continues to do so [via Forbes]. 
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		<title>John Maynard Keynes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Yes Virginia, Markets are Efficient</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Et tu Stiglitz?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Super-Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>How to invest in Currencies – Kiplinger’s method</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>How to invest in Stocks – Kiplinger’s method</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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