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	<title>The Proud Profiteer &#187; Economics</title>
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		<title>Another Example Of The FDA Driving Up Drug Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/10/another-example-of-the-fda-driving-up-drug-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While everyone complains about the rising cost of health care, most Americans look to the government for the solution. It&#8217;s sort of like asking your dealer to help you kick your drug habit. All one needs to do is look at the daily examples where the government steps in and distorts the free market. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another REASON Bill Maher Is An Idiot, Profits</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/10/another-reason-bill-maher-is-an-idiot-profits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always wanting to hear the viewpoints of those who disagree with me, I always watch Bill Maher&#8217;s show when I get a chance. Typically, I end up asking myself the same question every time, &#8220;Why the hell am I even watching this?&#8221;  The reason I get so frustrated is Bill Maher states his opinions as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Lennon debunks Malthus&#8217;s centuries-old myth in seconds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[malthusian catastrophe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=2387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When free markets are not hindered by government dictates, the economics of scarcity spurs the entrepreneur to address these concerns with solutions such as better farming techniques in Malthus's day or living on the moon as Lennon so nonchalantly puts it. With that little quip, Lennon highlights the entire problem with Malthus's thesis. Technological advances push back the day of Malthus's catastrophe.]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Ignorance At The Health Care Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/02/economic-ignorance-at-the-health-care-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=1763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Obama held his health care summit with both parties. While working, I had it playing in the background. Unfortunately, I found my self laughing and yelling at the TV more often than I&#8217;d like to admit. What the summit highlighted to me is the complete ignorance of Obama when it comes to economics. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meltdown by Thomas E. Woods Jr &#8211; The best explanation of our current financial crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from a lecture Tom Woods gave about his book, Meltdown. Tom is an awesome presenter and makes boring topics entertaining. By the end of the lecture, you will understand exactly who caused the mortgage meltdown, the financial crisis and our current recession. This is a Youtube playlist, so the next part will automatically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captain Capitalism takes on GDP</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/01/captain-capitalism-takes-on-gdp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/01/captain-capitalism-takes-on-gdp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=1198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Captain Capitalism has a great post today on the merits of GDP. GDP is just a formula of economic output, but it does not take into account actual prosperity. If a city is destroyed by a tornado and we rebuild the city, GDP will increase. The problem is you are no better off than you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuela rationing energy&#8230; Go figure</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/01/venezuela-rationing-energy-go-figure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/01/venezuela-rationing-energy-go-figure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.proudprofiteer.com/?p=1184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another one bites the dust&#8230;.. The Venezuelan government, already facing power and water problems and a shaky economy, is including scheduled power outages nationwide as part of its ongoing electricity rationing efforts, the state-run news agency reported. Electricity Minister Angel Rodriguez said the latest energy-saving measures are meant to prevent a power collapse that could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here we go again&#8230;.Alan S. Blinder: When Greed Is Not Good</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/01/here-we-go-again-alan-s-blinder-when-greed-is-not-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/01/here-we-go-again-alan-s-blinder-when-greed-is-not-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan S. Blinder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan S. Blinder wrote another half witted op-ed about financial regulation and Wall Street&#8217;s return to &#8220;greed&#8221;. As all half witted intellectuals, he recognizes a symptom, but never questions the source. Here is a paragraph where he talks about Adam Smith. When economists first heard Gekko&#8217;s now-famous dictum, &#8220;Greed is good,&#8221; they thought it a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keynesianism Delivers a Decade of Zero by Ron Paul</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/01/keynesianism-delivers-a-decade-of-zero-by-ron-paul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2010/01/keynesianism-delivers-a-decade-of-zero-by-ron-paul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great piece by Ron Paul. This past week we celebrated the end of what most people agree was a decade best forgotten. New York Times columnist and leading Keynesian economist Paul Krugman called it the Big Zero in a recent column. He wrote that “there was a whole lot of nothing going on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Passes Health-Care Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2009/12/senate-passes-health-care-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.proudprofiteer.com/2009/12/senate-passes-health-care-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas America. How do you like being raped and pillaged for Christmas? Our government, once this is signed into law, has cut the final string to it&#8217;s founding principle of protecting individual rights. No longer are we individuals. We are now part of the &#8220;public&#8221;. Anything thing that can be construed as harmful to [...]]]></description>
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