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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; Commerce and its discontents</title>
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		<title>Annals of commerce &#8211; coffee and pens</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/02/technology-and-society/annals-of-commerce-coffee-and-pens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/02/technology-and-society/annals-of-commerce-coffee-and-pens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology and Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A little more than a year ago, I had some snarky reflections about Nestlé pod coffeemakers. Since then, I noticed that the Keurig system&#8217;s pods are more reasonably priced, though still a very expensive way to get a cup of coffee compared to starting with bulk coffee and good technology.  The Motley Fool has stepped [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Big Bird and the cultural contradictions of capitalism (A.K.A. the public television option)</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/arts-and-cultural-policy/big-bird-and-the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism-a-k-a-the-public-television-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/arts-and-cultural-policy/big-bird-and-the-cultural-contradictions-of-capitalism-a-k-a-the-public-television-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts and Cultural Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Big Bird, we need you to resolve the cultural contradictions of our capitalist society.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>U.S. banks seek European deals, don&#8217;t pause to thank U.S. regulators.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/financial-crises/u-s-banks-seek-european-deals-dont-pause-to-thank-u-s-regulators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/financial-crises/u-s-banks-seek-european-deals-dont-pause-to-thank-u-s-regulators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A story in today's New York Times talks about how U.S. financial firms are stepping in to buy up assets that European banks are being forced to shed. But it buries the lede: that government regulation deserves the credit for leaving them in the financial condition to do so.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Clicking off of Amazon.com</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/economics/clicking-off-of-amazon-com/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/economics/clicking-off-of-amazon-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Between September, 2010 and September 2011, I spent $1,042 buying books from Amazon.com. Since October, I have spent $0 there. As I describe today in the Nation online, I stopped clicking on Amazon after reading this terrific story by Spencer Soper describing Amazon’s poor labor practices at a facility near Allentown Pennsylvania. Incidentally, I encountered [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Chat with Elizabeth Warren about the Red Sox</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/sports/a-chat-with-elizabeth-warren-about-the-red-sox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/sports/a-chat-with-elizabeth-warren-about-the-red-sox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, not quite a chat, but a fundraiser at my colleague Ken Klee&#8217;s house.  (Ken and Elizabeth are old friends, both being law professors who specialize in bankruptcy).  There were about 30 people there.  The obvious reactions are those that many have had: she is very dynamic and intelligent.  She has thought through the campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Small town virtues</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/economics/small-town-virtues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/economics/small-town-virtues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Built Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urbanism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A listserv that several RBCers belong to has had a discussion  about why the ancient meme that cities are evil, unAmerican congregations of overeducated snobs, while folks in small towns are decent, commonsense types who look out for each other and embody real virtue, persists. To the point that no candidate for office boasts about [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why is MALDEF Honoring Walmart?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/income-distribution/why-is-maldef-honoring-walmart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/income-distribution/why-is-maldef-honoring-walmart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Income distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions and organizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walmart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I received an invitation from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) for its annual fundraising dinner in Los Angeles.  But what struck my eye was the icon in the middle of the invitation: &#8220;Walmart: Gala Chair.&#8221; Let&#8217;s be clear what it means to be a gala chair: it&#8217;s essentially [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;A pyromaniac in a field of straw men&#8221; George Will on Elizabeth Warren</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/watching-conservatives/a-pyromaniac-in-a-field-of-straw-men-george-will-on-elizabeth-warren/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/10/watching-conservatives/a-pyromaniac-in-a-field-of-straw-men-george-will-on-elizabeth-warren/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's a bad sign for American punditry that George Will's latest column slams Elizabeth Warren in such disgraceful fashion. It's a good sign for American politics that the dean of patrician conservative columnists felt the need to do so. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>65</slash:comments>
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		<title>Elizabeth Warren for Democratic Convention Keynote</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/campaigns/campaign-2012/elizabeth-warren-for-democratic-convention-keynote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/campaigns/campaign-2012/elizabeth-warren-for-democratic-convention-keynote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=23420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news from the Bay State, as PPP&#8217;s latest poll shows Elizabeth Warren up two points over Scott Brown. Bad news from Ron Suskind, who strongly suggests that Tim Geithner and White House officials undermined her, and didn&#8217;t like interference from women anyway. Well, there&#8217;s an obvious way to remedy any problems, and not-coincidentally move [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>LibDems Moot Good and Bad Ideas on Wealth and Fairness</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/britain/libdems-moot-good-and-bad-ideas-on-wealth-and-fairness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/britain/libdems-moot-good-and-bad-ideas-on-wealth-and-fairness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the U.S. debates the &#8220;Buffett tax&#8221; the LibDem party conference here in the UK is generating a series of proposals to address wealth inequality, from the inspired to the woolly-headed. Inspired: (not least because it&#8217;s so blinking obvious). Danny Alexander suggests hiring more Treasury auditors who are devoted to ensuring that wealthy people who [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy Free Market Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/financial-crises/happy-free-market-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/09/financial-crises/happy-free-market-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most annoying things about the troglodyte right is its celebration of &#8220;Tax Freedom Day&#8221; where supposedly you are no longer working for the government.  As soon as they start saying that they don&#8217;t want to benefit from Social Security, Medicare, national security, food safety, environmental protection, education etc. etc. then we can [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Annals of Commerce: The customer service function</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/management/annals-of-commerce-the-customer-service-function/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/management/annals-of-commerce-the-customer-service-function/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for reading the RBC. To assure quality, reader clicks and keystrokes may be recorded. [music you don't like, or at least the middle frequencies of it that a telephone can transmit]Please enter or speak your account number, followed by the pound sign&#8230;You entered &#8230;if that is correct, press one [music] We are experiencing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Damaging the U.S. Brand</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/international-affairs/damaging-the-u-s-brand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/international-affairs/damaging-the-u-s-brand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember seeing a cartoon years ago that portrayed a group of people at a self-service gas station. The cashier yells out &#8220;You, with the U.S. license plates, you pay BEFORE you pump!&#8221;. The caption read &#8220;On a recent trip to Canada, Howard discovered the shame of being from a debtor nation&#8221;. I thought of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shut Up or Put Up, Chuck</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/democrats-in-congress/shut-up-or-put-up-chuck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/democrats-in-congress/shut-up-or-put-up-chuck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2011 Democratic Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption in Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats in Congress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Chuck Schumer says about the deficit negotiations that &#8220;there needs to be revenues in any deal.&#8221;  Very true. What revenues might those be?  Well, the Democrats are talking about a lot of loopholes for the very wealthy.  Let me suggest one: treating the investment gains of hedge fund managers &#8212; mnay of whom make millions of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Take the Bourbon Slurpee</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/drug-policy/ill-take-the-bourbon-slurpee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/drug-policy/ill-take-the-bourbon-slurpee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the NBA Playoffs and Stanley Cup Finals on the web has introduced me to a relatively new and disturbing development: sweet, fruity distilled spirits. No, not a distilled spirit made out of fruit, such as applejack or grappa: the products I&#8217;m talking about are things like Jim Beam&#8217;s Red Stag, which is black cherry flavored, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>A good deal vs. a good life</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/microeconomics-and-policy-analysis/a-good-deal-vs-a-good-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/microeconomics-and-policy-analysis/a-good-deal-vs-a-good-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 19:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microeconomics and policy analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urbanism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of living in the East Bay is the off-leash dog park at Point Isabel, where we will go with ours later today.  On the way home, the devil has placed a temptation. If there&#8217;s a parking place in the shade, we can stop at Costco and load up on staples at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why I Could Never Be An Entrepreneur</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/popular-culture/why-i-could-never-be-an-entrepreneur/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/popular-culture/why-i-could-never-be-an-entrepreneur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strange world]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=19029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Saturday Night Live sketch from the late 1970&#8242;s featured a store that only sold Scotch tape.  Not tape &#8212; only Scotch tape.  Then, when the economy went bad, the sketch said that the store did well because everyone needed Scotch tape for their &#8220;Going Out Of Business&#8221; signs. It was a pretty funny sketch; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kahn v. Zasloff Smackdown</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/financial-crises/kahn-v-zasloff-smackdown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/financial-crises/kahn-v-zasloff-smackdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macroeconomic Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;which Matt will win because he will channel his Inner Tarantino and slice my head in half. But before then, let me express some skepticism that Matt&#8217;s rational actor utility-maximizer will come through for us. 1)  Strictly speaking, it seems to me that the competitive market theory does not imply that firms will always maximize [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is the Sociology of Ratings Agencies?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/financial-crises/what-is-the-sociology-of-ratings-agencies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/financial-crises/what-is-the-sociology-of-ratings-agencies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macroeconomic Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of talk across the blogosphere regarding Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s &#8220;downgrading&#8221; of US Treasury debt.  But let&#8217;s recall the source. Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s, together with Moody&#8217;s, is one of the great dupes of the recent financial crisis (villains, if you are more cynical).  It repeatedly issued AAA ratings to what we now know &#8212; and what any sharp-eyed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Feeding the Trolls</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/california-politics/feeding-the-trolls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/california-politics/feeding-the-trolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science and its methods]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=18495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is so.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;She Never Told Him&#8221;, A Lesson in Sales</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/commerce-and-its-discontents/she-never-told-him-a-lesson-in-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/commerce-and-its-discontents/she-never-told-him-a-lesson-in-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=17658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I am in a hotel room on some trip in an unfamiliar time zone, jet lag wakes me up at an odd hour and I watch television. Within 15 minutes, I again feel vindicated in my decision not to own an idiot box. At 4am or so in the morning in Southern California, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Annals of Commerce: the sacred and the profane</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/popular-culture/annals-of-commerce-the-sacred-and-the-profane/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/popular-culture/annals-of-commerce-the-sacred-and-the-profane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=17450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since 1984, advertising during the Super Bowl has been a sort of contest to match the success of Apple&#8217;s immortal commercial. There were a couple of home runs (Darthito Vader and the Volkswagen is a stitch) but mostly they seemed to try to one-up each other on the juvenile humor scale; Pepsi, for example, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Annals of commerce</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/popular-culture/annals-of-commerce-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/popular-culture/annals-of-commerce-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wretched excess]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=15956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Printer cartridges and safety razor blades, move over: this year&#8217;s Ramsey pricing award winner is the Nespresso coffee system&#8230;and these guys don&#8217;t even have the good grace to give you a break on the initial purchase that puts the tapeworm&#8217;s head in your wallet. Making espresso-family drinks at home has always been something of a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are Voluntary Hospitality and Customer Service in Conflict?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/travel-commentary/are-voluntary-hospitality-and-customer-service-in-conflict/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/travel-commentary/are-voluntary-hospitality-and-customer-service-in-conflict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Commentary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=15236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American travelers in the Arab world are often surprised by the lack of a customer service mentality in the private sector. The connecting airplane in Tripoli isn’t at the gate, and rather than giving an explanation, the staff all leave the area so as to avoid dealing with irate customers. The plumber in Cairo shows [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gambling and Losing in Las Vegas Housing, With Help</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/commerce-and-its-discontents/gambling-and-losing-in-las-vegas-housing-with-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/commerce-and-its-discontents/gambling-and-losing-in-las-vegas-housing-with-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House-price bubble]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=12960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The median price of new and resale houses and condos sold in Las Vegas in July dropped by over $9,000 relative to (gulp) the prior month. The federal tax incentive to purchase a house was worth up to $8,000, meaning there are no doubt people in Sin City who have already had that inducement’s value [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Markets need rules, and rules need enforcers.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/financial-crises/markets-need-rules-and-rules-need-enforcers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/financial-crises/markets-need-rules-and-rules-need-enforcers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libertarianism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=12403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Elizabeth Warren, Charles Fried gets what "libertarian" politicians don't: it's no favor to "markets" to let fraud run rampant.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Milton Friedman and the servile corporation</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/commerce-and-its-discontents/milton-friedman-and-the-servile-corporation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/commerce-and-its-discontents/milton-friedman-and-the-servile-corporation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=11200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In support of Friedman´s low view of corporate personality.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chairman Al&#8217;s Little Red Book</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/watching-conservatives/chairman-als-little-red-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/watching-conservatives/chairman-als-little-red-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=11061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan channels Mao Zedong.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Financial Regulatory Reform: Look to the Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/democrats-in-congress/financial-regulatory-reform-look-to-the-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/democrats-in-congress/financial-regulatory-reform-look-to-the-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats in Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=10889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to get good financial regulatory reform passed, get a bill to Conference.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Annals of commerce</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/management/annals-of-commerce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/management/annals-of-commerce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=10843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two examples of understanding how to do business so customers come back, and having staff right down to the dirty-fingernails level that also get it. My text for this sermon is Leon Leonwood Bean&#8217;s immortal prescription: &#8220;A sale is not completed until the customer has worn out the item and is still satisfied.&#8221; I. My [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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