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		<title>How to Solve Illegal Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently started looking into more efficient ways of dealing with some critical issues plaguing our country: obviously one of the first problems that came to mind was illegal immigration.
Our politicians have told us time and time again how this is such a corrosive issue, and politicians don&#8217;t lie.  But how can we use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Crowds in the Clouds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are happy to announce some excellent new resources that have come to our attention and which we are adding to the  Resources page of our website. 

Crowdworks Library : A library of papers dealing with Prediction markets, divided by subject. Get all our prediction markets information right here!


Bitcoin : Bitcoin, a P2P electronic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember Y2K?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=2062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the late 1990&#8217;s the problems of the world were very different.  Terrorism was not as big a perceived threat and people were just warming up to global warming, with &#8220;buying local&#8221; not meaning much to anyone.  One of the big problems at the time was Y2K.  Everyone knew the ushering of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Efficiently Sell your old items</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=2059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago we wrote an article on the pros and cons of eBay vs. Hand-me-downs.  We were curious to see whether older, inefficient methods could be replaced by newer, more efficient ones.  Our results were mixed.  It turned out that you never receive much for used items, and it takes a while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Proud Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=2091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a contribution from a loyal DumbAgent fan. We are happy to feature it, not least because it ties to (and expands upon) our article on where Higher Education is headed.  We have left the footnotes in, referring to his sources for dollar amounts, and while this article was not written by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America’s arbitrary laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=2060</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The gambling laws in the United States do not make much sense.  Then again, many laws in many places have more to do with tradition, history and personal whims, and therefore can seem odd when looked at with a fresh eye.  Gambling laws, however, are counterintuitive and cost the government millions in potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Point of Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another article extolling the virtues of immigration into the United States.  
We at DumbAgent believe that borders should be completely open to immigration of all sorts.  Simple Supply and Demand mean that workers will travel (often very far and through perilous terrain) to find jobs to which they are suitably matched. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let commuters be commuters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A curious incident happened recently in New York city: when the city stopped running its bus routes X25, X29, X90, and QM22 a private company took its place.  Transport Azumah started running private charter buses on these exact routes.  The result was that the customers were happy, the city didn&#8217;t have to run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game Theory in Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Youtube User JimBobJenkins has some excellent primers on Game Theory available on his Youtube Channel, which include matrices and game trees and address familiar concepts such as The Prisoner&#8217;s Dilemma, the Ultimatum Game and Forward Induction.
Videos can be found here.
Of course, if you want to then see some other Game Theory videos from the web, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Orszag Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ocean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Effective July 30th (not 31st) Peter Orszag has left the Obama administration, and the fact that he has may speak volumes about what the administration was, and is, thinking.  Orszag, now former director of the OMB, was a proponent of Behavioral Economics, and he had brought other like-minded people on board with him.  [...]]]></description>
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