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		<title>How to shop for Christmas presents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Christmas approaching, and TV commercials diligently reminding us to shop for presents, we are about to re-enter the yearly ritual, whether physical or online, of finding the perfect present for the so-and-so who has everything and, crucially, finding it at the best price. So it seems like a good time to revisit what sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Crisis is half full</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since we declared that this is a good financial crisis, we&#8217;re glad to hear of others that are finding it to be the same, mostly by taking a pro-active stance.  As Craig Barrett states: &#8220;You can&#8217;t save your way out of a recession; you have to invest your way out&#8221;. 
Read the full Schumpeter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Decriminalization at Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Libertarian Free-marketers, it should come as no surprise that we believe drugs should be decriminalized.  In fact, throw all of our free market ideals out of the window and we&#8217;d still be clamoring for decriminalization, if not legalization.  Since the &#8220;War on drugs&#8221; in the United States has yielded no tangible results, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food is Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the Economist sheds light on the proposed taxes on Junk food.  As free market enthusiasts, we have problems with sin taxes in general. On the other hand, we don&#8217;t believe junk food even falls under that status. 
Sin taxes, or Pigouvian taxes, are taxes levied on certain goods and activities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Influenza’s New Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We at Dumbagent have always been fans of the Iowa Electronics Market, even using their Influenza Prediction Market as an example of The Dumb Agent Theory at work.  We were therefore quite disappointed when we searched this site for information (after a post by Midas Oracle) for information about H1N1 and found no markets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a good Crisis it’s been</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies like AIG and Lehman Brothers, along with many banks, have ceased to exist.  Unfortunately many jobs have been lost and many people displaced.  Let&#8217;s hope for the best for all of them.  Also, many people have lost money in the housing market and have had to foreclose.  But apart from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Hand at Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have another program we are happy to introduce and, although we don&#8217;t usually judge a book by its cover, we&#8217;re all the more happy to do so because of its name. 
Invisible Hand is a program that can be downloaded and remains, true to its name, invisible most of the time.  Only when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Protectionism Local</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this era of globalization, where the world is flat and everyone is a mouse click away, people have been buying closer and closer to home.  People buy goods that are produced nearby in order to help their local community and reduce their carbon footprint.  As we have mentioned in the past, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stupidity of Crowds?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Patrick of Broadstuff.com has a post about how the Wisdom of Crowds isn&#8217;t the wisdom of crowds at all, citing the 0.9%, 9%, 90% rule, wherein 0.9% of user generated content is composed of creators, 9% commentators, and 90% consumers (carry the remaining 0.1%?).  This means that all the content you read on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stiglitz Tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Stiglitz has recently declared that a Tobin tax is both &#8220;possible and necessary&#8221;, and that it should be levied on all international financial transactions.  He adds: “The financial sector polluted the global economy with toxic assets and now they ought to clean out.”
We do not disagree with Nobel Laureates lightly, but here we [...]]]></description>
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