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		<title>Re:  AIG Executive Bonuses</title>
		<link>http://brual.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/re-aig-executive-bonuses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are dozens of ideas floating around out there on how to punish AIG for the impending payment of $165 million of U.S. taxpayer money in executive bonuses.  Tar and feathers have been mentioned.  The New York Attorney General has issued a subpoena, something usually done only for criminal misconduct.  Team Obama is jawboning like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=216&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With This Idea?  Fix the Mortgage Mess!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Keeping the devil from the door of working people seems to be a worthy expenditure of federal funds at this point in time."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=186&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>$1 Trillion+ Federal Deficit in 2009 Now Certain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[de-leveraging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of collateralized obligations, they exist in consumer credit markets, too, and have received little attention.  According to the Fed in September of 2008, 48% of credit card debt ($463 billion) has been collateralized, along with 13%, or $220 billion, of non-revolving debt.  Grand total:  $683 billion.  Just as safe and secure as those good old CMOs were for the banks.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=177&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balancing Federal and Trade Deficits:  Not Likely</title>
		<link>http://brual.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/balancing-federal-and-trade-deficits-not-likely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s check the laundry list of issues confronting the US economy: o    a soft domestic economy, virtually flat, with inflation and unemployment both on the rise; o    foreign trade deficits in the area of $700 billion a year; o    federal deficits on the order of $400 billion a year and most def on their way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=169&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Economic Disinformation</title>
		<link>http://brual.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/republican-economic-disinformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post from February needs to be dusted off in honor of the Democratic National Convention. Administration     Change in National Debt as % of GNP &#8230;&#8230; Verdict&#8230;.. _____________________________________________________________ Eisenhower&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; -16.2%&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Outstanding Kennedy/Johnson&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. -16.5%&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Outstanding Nixon/Ford&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. -2.8%&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Adequate Carter&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. -3.2% &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.One term only Reagan&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; +20.5% &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Impeachable Bush Sr&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; +13.1% &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Shameful Clinton&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; -8.8%&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Very good Bush Jr&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=41&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rock&#8211;Ben Bernanke&#8211;Hard Place. Seriously.</title>
		<link>http://brual.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/rock-ben-bernanke-hard-place-seriously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 6, 2008 Wall Street greeted yesterday’s Fed announcement as if it was a declaration of victory, when in fact the Fed is now officially handcuffed, locked at the rates in effect when the summer paralysis set in. Played “Fed Funds Musical Chairs” for months, and the music stopped at 2%. Now, they need to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=136&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of Water</title>
		<link>http://brual.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/the-economics-of-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I&#8217;m in the midst of reading the new book by Maude Barlow called Blue Covenant&#8211;The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.  It is a shocking and deeply disturbing picture of the State of the Planet.  The premise is that water will be to the 21st century [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=114&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation + Recession = Stagflation</title>
		<link>http://brual.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/inflation-recession-stagflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Well, we sure dodged a bullet there, didn&#8217;t we?  Oil dropped $17 a barrel in a week, and now everything&#8217;s gonna be great!  Before you know it, gas will be back to $2.75, closed factories will be re-opening, and our homes will again be worth what they were two years ago.  Party [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=98&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gasoline Price Subsidy</title>
		<link>http://brual.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/gasoline-price-subsidy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Bush, during his press conference on Tuesday, criticized the Asian governments that subsidize gasoline costs, rambling on about market distortions, blah blah blah.  Yet, he is in the midst of mailing $150 billion to US taxpayers, the so-called fiscal stimulus package that kept retail sales out of the hopper in June.  Where does he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=91&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Here's where my tax rebate check went.</media:title>
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		<title>Stagflation:  It&#8217;s Official!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compared to June 2007, producer prices at the wholesale level are up 9.2%.  The Fed Funds rate sits at 2.25%.  Retail sales in June were up a paltry .1%, most of which was accounted for by high gasoline prices and Federal tax rebate checks.  GM is on its way to become Lancia, and scores of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brual.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1792581&amp;post=87&amp;subd=brual&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The U.S. economy is circling the bowl.  Good luck, Barack!</media:title>
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