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<title><![CDATA[Is $275,000 per job a good deal?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Joe Klein argues that the Republican talking point that Obama's stimulus plan will cost $275,ooo per new job created is ''phony-baloney propaganda.'' I had actually been thinking it was the best anti-stimulus argument that John Boehner's office had managed...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126119156&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hard times lead to crowded, multi-generational homes]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Increasing numbers of older grandparents are moving in with their adult children and their grandchildren in order to save money and to share care-giving duties, writes Jane Glenn Haas, the O.C. Register&#8217;s &#8220;Our Time&#8221; columnist. She quotes ...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126111252&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Layoffs hit close to home (online chatter)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from recent job-related chat on Twitter.com:   My buddy&#8217;s wife just got laid off from her job. What a downer. Fullerton,  CA View Tweet    I think I&#8217;ve developed carpal tunnel syndrome by nightly job-hunting online. I really hope I fin...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126112147&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Make it a Crime, by Arnold Kling]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[James Hamilton writes,  I believe there was an unfortunate interaction between financial innovations and lack of regulatory oversight, which allowed the construction of new financial instruments with essentially any risk-reward profile desired and the abil...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=1750112611201&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>RSS widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:34:20 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Penny Anti Protest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[My regular readers know that I favor eliminating the penny, and that Barack Obama is sympathetic to the idea. Professor Robert Whaples of Wake Forest alerts me to a blog posting that suggests a way to reach this goal:Retailers should simply round down the ...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126117678&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/01/penny-anti-protest.html]]></link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kiwanis giving free basketball tickets to jobless workers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Local Kiwanis clubs are offering free tickets to unemployed workers and their families for a Feb. 8 basketball game in Anaheim between the Anaheim Arsenal and the Reno Bighorns. Officers of the community-service organization said the goal of the free-ticke...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=1750112611282&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>RSS widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advice for Tim Geithner]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales.<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126116997&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>RSS widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Krugman on Stimulus Skeptics]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman is unhappy with the economics profession:What's been disturbing, however, is the parade of first-rate economists making totally non-serious arguments against fiscal expansion. You've got John Taylor arguing for permanent tax cuts as a response...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126118052&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2009 RGE Monitor World Economic Outlook - Executive Summary]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With the industrial world already in outright recession and the emerging world navigating towards a hard landing (growth well below potential) we expect global growth to be flat (around -0.5%) in 2009. This will be the worst global recession in decades as ...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126118693&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:16:14 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dream job requires snorkeling, blogging (online chatter)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from recent job-related chat on Twitter.com:   Anyone looking for a job? $100K for 6 mo&#8217;s of work, duties include snorkeling, blogging, &#38; other fun stuff! http://www.islandreefjob.com/ Costa Mesa,  CA  View Tweet   (It&#8217;s real, but...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126114461&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mayors say OC-LA No. 2 in '09 U.S. job losses]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The O.C.-Los Angeles-Long Beach area is expected to suffer the second-largest drop in jobs among U.S. metropolitan areas this year, with only the New York City area being worse, reports the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The mayors&#8217; &#8220;Metro Unemploy...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126111684&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bush's biggest economic errors]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I have a new TIME.com piece up about George Bush's eight biggest economic policy errors. It begins here, but it's one of those irritating (but multiple page-view generating) galleries, so if you'd prefer to consume al a carte, here are the eight erroneous ...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126113411&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Is there a problem?  And is there a solution?  My answers: yes, and yes.  Here are some numbers for the compensation received in 2006 by some of the folks who helped get us into our current mess:   Bear Stearns: $34 million for CEO James Cayne.  The acknow...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126117216&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:19:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Origin of Singaporean Crime Policy, by Bryan Caplan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When I was filling out my customs form for Singapore, I was chilled to see the all-capital letters, ''DEATH FOR DRUGS IN SINGAPORE.''  Philosophically, I have nothing against the death penalty, but of course I have everything against drug prohibition.*  St...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126116147&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:40:35 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Infrastructure Spending as Stimulus]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From Nobel laureate Gary Becker:Some of this infrastructure spending may be very worthwhile-I return to this issue a bit later- but however merited, it is difficult to believe that they would provide much of a stimulus to the economy. Expansion of the heal...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126116534&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Some Random Books, by Arnold Kling]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two books arrived in the mail while I was away.  I was at a Liberty Fund seminar.  During a conversation at dinner, someone introduced me to some concepts due to Michael Oakeshott.  Gene Callahan explains it,  Central to Oakeshott's last major work on poli...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126111262&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:12:15 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Census still seeking 800 O.C. workers this year]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Census Bureau says it is still seeking 800 workers to help with field surveys and other part-time work this year. Agency officials say they were overwhelmed with calls after a Register story reported the Census Bureau was on a major hiring campaig...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126118231&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>RSS widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Healthy Banks or Healthy Markets?, by Arnold Kling]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[John Hempton writes,  If the bank runs for three years it will again be solvent.  If it runs for less than six years it will be fully and adequately capitalised.  This is in fact how the Japanese mega-banks recapitalised.  I blogged about it here.  At the ...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=1750112611326&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS news feeds</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/free_news_widgets.asp'>Widgets</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:44:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Eric Raymond on Hacking, Open Source, and the Cathedral and the Bazaar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book--why open source software development has been so successful, the culture of open source, under what conditions open source is likely to...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126111221&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>News widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Letter from Birmingham Jail, by David Henderson]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With Martin Luther King day being celebrated tomorrow, it's appropriate to read or reread his ''Letter from Birmingham Jail,'' written in April 1963.  Some powerful passages are below.  On why he went to Birmingham even though he wasn't from Birmingham (an...<img src="http://www.feedzilla.com/tools/t.asp?rd=17501126119276&cat=business&cat2=economy" width="1" height="1"> <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>RSS widgets</a> and <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/rss.asp'>RSS feeds</a> on <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Feedzilla.com</a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:00:33 -0500</pubDate>
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