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	<title>Crikey &#187; Economy</title>
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		<title>What makes a nation rich?</title>
		<link>http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/world-poverty-map-1209</link>
		<comments>http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/world-poverty-map-1209#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nations are not born rich or poor, says <b>Daron Acemoglu</b>: governments make them that way. The key to a country's prosperity lies in free and dependable democracy. ]]></description>
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		<title>Sovereign debt looms as the next subprime</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/sovereign-debt-looms-as-the-next-subprime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/sovereign-debt-looms-as-the-next-subprime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david hirst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street has its head on the sand on the next stage of the coming financial calamity.]]></description>
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		<title>Economists unite against Anna Bligh</title>
		<link>http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/24/economists-statement-on-queensland-asset-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/24/economists-statement-on-queensland-asset-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anna Bligh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A who's-who of Australian economists, from all across the ideological spectrum, have sent an open letter to the Bligh government, criticising its proposed asset sales as "economically unsound" and "based on spurious claims".]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Dyer Index: boom fatigue as Black Friday looms</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/the-dyer-index-boom-fatigue-as-black-friday-looms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/the-dyer-index-boom-fatigue-as-black-friday-looms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Stevens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dyer Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[America is heading towards Thanksgiving and the now-familiar ritual of "will the retail surge from Friday onwards save the economy (and our bonuses)?"]]></description>
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		<title>Trade unions, AFR, out of the loop on jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/trade-unions-afr-out-of-the-loop-on-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/trade-unions-afr-out-of-the-loop-on-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Financial Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/trade-unions-afr-out-of-the-loop-on-jobs/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two stories in <i>The Australian Financial Review</i> and other papers this morning illustrate just how out of touch both the paper and the Australian trade union movement are with the economy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama in danger of Hoovering the economy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ringmasters of Obama’s economic policy must go. Obama is becoming another Hoover, incapable of turning from the advice of the money masters, writes <b>David Hirst</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Black hole sun not shining on housing, US recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/black-hole-sun-not-shining-on-housing-us-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/black-hole-sun-not-shining-on-housing-us-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US housing market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/black-hole-sun-not-shining-on-housing-us-recovery/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The black hole that is the US housing crisis continues to widen, sucking in more and more American homeowners and making a mockery of the confident assertions of politicians, policymakers and the stockmarket that the worst is over.

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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Banking competition: the great Australian oxymoron</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9717</link>
		<comments>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9717#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia's Big Four banks are at the core of our entire economy, says <b>Evan Jones</b>, and the idea that they're "in competition" with each other is a farce. Together, these institutions wield enormous power. ]]></description>
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		<title>Congress to lift the ceiling on US&#8217; $12 trillion debt</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/congress-to-lift-the-ceiling-on-us-12-trillion-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/congress-to-lift-the-ceiling-on-us-12-trillion-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Federal Reserve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/congress-to-lift-the-ceiling-on-us-12-trillion-debt/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The $12 billion US government debt may force Congress to engage in a brawl with the President that could see the government shut down. It could also lead the Obama administration to produce the toughest Budget in a decade, with massive spending cuts.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/congress-to-lift-the-ceiling-on-us-12-trillion-debt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cut up your credit card</title>
		<link>http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/11/forgive_us_our_debts.php</link>
		<comments>http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/11/forgive_us_our_debts.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[credit cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal debt]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Megan McArdle</b> <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/mcardle-ramsey-debt">recently interviewed</a> finance guru Dave Ramsey, who advocates one simple message: ditch your credit cards and live debt-free. Would the world really be a better place without the plastic fantastic?]]></description>
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		<title>The next meltdown is coming in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-meltdown-is-coming-in-2012-2009-11-17</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-meltdown-is-coming-in-2012-2009-11-17#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wall street crash]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may not be the global Apocalypse predicted by certain Hollywood action films, but there will be an epic disaster in 2012, says <b>Paul Farrell</b>: the next big Wall St crash.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>If we are what we drive, we&#8217;re changing gear</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/if-we-are-what-we-drive-were-changing-gear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/if-we-are-what-we-drive-were-changing-gear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto industry]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/if-we-are-what-we-drive-were-changing-gear/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australians are rapidly embracing motorbikes (especially scooters) and diesel-powered cars, according to the latest Motor Vehicle Census from the ABC. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>US public debt ticks over to $12 trillion</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/us-public-debt-ticks-over-to-12-trillion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/us-public-debt-ticks-over-to-12-trillion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/us-public-debt-ticks-over-to-12-trillion/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While America was having last weekend off, the country's public debt ticked over the impossible to comprehend figure of $US12 trillion -- over 80% of the country's annual GDP.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Australia&#8217;s economy is kicking America&#8217;s arse</title>
		<link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/173775-australia-what-recession?source=article_sb_picks</link>
		<comments>http://seekingalpha.com/article/173775-australia-what-recession?source=article_sb_picks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aussie dollar]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia's natural resources, healthy banking sector and equity culture has seen the country virtually skip out on recession while the US struggles to keep its head above water. <b>Elliot Gue</b> casts a jealous eye over Australia's recent economic performance.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Get ready for an RBA rates ramp up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/get-ready-for-an-rba-rates-ramp-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/get-ready-for-an-rba-rates-ramp-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rate rise]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/get-ready-for-an-rba-rates-ramp-up/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank will continue to lift its key cash rate as long as "economic conditions evolved as expected", the minutes for the last board meeting reveal.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/get-ready-for-an-rba-rates-ramp-up/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Forty-nine million Americans go hungry</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/forty-nine-million-americans-go-hungry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/forty-nine-million-americans-go-hungry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/forty-nine-million-americans-go-hungry/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For all the talk of a recovery in the US economy, a grim reality has been outlined in Washington for all the world to see: America can't feed all its 303 million people, with one in seven going short at some stage in a week.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>US finance sector&#8217;s sick reality</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/us-finance-sectors-sick-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/us-finance-sectors-sick-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past month, 24 US banks have failed, two big finance companies have gone into bankruptcy, followed by a small credit card provider. But American investors don't care; they know if the banks are small enough, the regulators will clean up.]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s dirty Yuan devaluation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/chinas-dirty-yuan-devaluation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/chinas-dirty-yuan-devaluation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/chinas-dirty-yuan-devaluation/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[China's dirty devaluation of its currency to allow it to move in value with the fall in value as the US dollar is hurting its rivals in recovering Asia, such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wall St conspiracy theories: a field guide</title>
		<link>http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/11/12/biggest-wall-street-conspiracies?page=full</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/11/12/biggest-wall-street-conspiracies?page=full#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99016</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Goldman Sachs really a Giant Vampire Squid? Did naked short-selling kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros? <em>The Big Money</em> ranks some of the paranoid theorising going on atop the financial world's grassy knoll.]]></description>
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		<title>The Ayn Rand revival of 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Going-GoingGalt-341</link>
		<comments>http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Going-GoingGalt-341#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[objectivism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With bailouts, salary caps and health care reform, 2009 has been a year of Big Government in the US -- sparking a renewed interest amongst the country's Right in the libertarian, free-market philosophies of Ayn Rand. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart&#8217;s failure is the US writ large</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/wal-marts-failure-is-the-us-writ-large/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/wal-marts-failure-is-the-us-writ-large/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Motors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/wal-marts-failure-is-the-us-writ-large/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[However Wal-Mart's sales grow, so grows the US economy -- and in the past two quarters it's been a miserable story from the retailer: some store sales have sunk, as overall retail sales have drifted lower.]]></description>
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		<title>Kohler: Why China won&#8217;t save the world</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/China-economy-government-democracy-pd20091113-XQRKS?OpenDocument</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/China-economy-government-democracy-pd20091113-XQRKS?OpenDocument#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Happell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[China's economic growth will not be a panacea to the world's financial woes so long as it remains a largely undemocratic state, says <b>Alan Kohler</b>: it isn't a consumer society, and the export dollars just aren't there.]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation: a dummy&#8217;s guide</title>
		<link>http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-is-inflation-and-how-does-one.html</link>
		<comments>http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-is-inflation-and-how-does-one.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Price Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's the threat that keeps on giving: <b>Mike Shedlock</b> puts inflation under the microscope: what is it, and how do we measure it?]]></description>
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		<title>Crunching the unemployment data</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/11/12/unemployment-stats/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2009/11/12/unemployment-stats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Possum Comitatus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Possum Comitatus</b> charts the latest ABS Labour Force Survey, with a state-by-state, gender and age breakdown of the data.]]></description>
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		<title>Charting Nouriel Roubini&#8217;s horrible stockmarket calls</title>
		<link>http://wallstcheatsheet.com/breaking-news/economy/a-chart-of-roubinis-horrible-trackrecord-in-2009/?p=3513/</link>
		<comments>http://wallstcheatsheet.com/breaking-news/economy/a-chart-of-roubinis-horrible-trackrecord-in-2009/?p=3513/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nouriel Roubini is usually credited with predicting the Global Financial Crisis. However, the rest of his prognostications have been all over the place, as this handy graph shows.]]></description>
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