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	<title>Nontrivial Pursuits</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Embarrassing Error In Economics Textbooks Has Major Impact On Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 05:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	

	If you were to examine virtually any economics textbook currently used to teach Econ 101 in college classrooms, you will find &#8220;Tax Cuts&#8221; listed under the heading of &#8220;Tools of Expansionary Fiscal Policy.&#8221;

	It is an unfortunate error of great significance, for it is at least partly responsible for the failed experiments with Austerity that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libertarian Lunacy On Taxation &#038; Property Rights</title>
		<link>http://nontrivialpursuits.org/WordPress/?p=58</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
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	Ron Paul is one of those Libertarian enthusiasts who says The Government is stealing when it collects tax payments from citizens under the threat of imprisonment for failure to comply.

	They claim that compulsory taxation by The Government is a violation of their &#8220;property rights.&#8221;

	The fundamental flaw in the Libertarian argument can be found in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Affluent Republican Brother (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://nontrivialpursuits.org/WordPress/?p=57</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	
(The continuation of my rather lengthy response to my affluent Republican brother, Steve, re: tax hikes on rich people)

	Cutting the taxes of rich people is a profoundly inefficient way to put more dollars into the hands of individuals/firms that want to invest.  And what about the money that banks get from savers?  According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Affluent Republican Brother (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://nontrivialpursuits.org/WordPress/?p=56</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	(My apologies for neglecting this blog for so long.  It&#8217;s my &#8216;book&#8217; on Human Nature that I plan to publish in the next 2-3 months.  I&#8217;m trying, trying, trying to find the time to finish up.  So I thought I could at least re-post some of my old stuff that more recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much Debt In The Economy?</title>
		<link>http://nontrivialpursuits.org/WordPress/?p=44</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
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	In recent days/weeks, Paul Krugman has repeatedly focused attention on the similarities that exist between the Debt Crisis Craziness that has transfixed Europe and the Debt Crisis Craziness that The Republican Party has been foisting on the American people since they took over control of the House of Representatives.

	In both situations, you hear &#8216;conservative&#8217; voices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Republican Tax Stupidity</title>
		<link>http://nontrivialpursuits.org/WordPress/?p=55</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Recent</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	What is the current state of Republican Tax Stupidity?  Let&#8217;s ask Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader, who is heading to the University of Pennsylvania to give a speech on the subject.

	

	According to Jake Sherman, of Politico, Cantor will explain how the Republicans in Congress like him can &#8220;...make sure the people at the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Krugman Is My Hero, But He&#8217;s Wrong Re: TOO BIG TO FAIL</title>
		<link>http://nontrivialpursuits.org/WordPress/?p=54</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Recent</category>
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	I am an &#8216;economist&#8217; who is such a big fan of Paul Krugman, I have even proposed that he run for President next year (not a serious run, of course, but merely a symbolic one for the purpose of getting the nation to discuss the virtues of a Progressive Economic Agenda).

	There is really no economist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOPE</title>
		<link>http://nontrivialpursuits.org/WordPress/?p=53</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Recent</category>
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	I&#8217;ve been trying to spend more time on my &#8220;book&#8221; recently [at the expense of my blog] but I simply must take the time to comment on the exciting events taking place in Manhattan&#8217;s financial district.

	I am speaking, of course, of the daily massed demonstrations that protesters are calling Occupy Wall Street!

	I call this exciting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid Rich People (Part 4)</title>
		<link>http://nontrivialpursuits.org/WordPress/?p=48</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Recent</category>
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	From Stupid Rich People (Part 3):Being stupid, themselves, they don&#8217;t even realize that the agendas they propose are guaranteed to deprive the wealthy of real gains in their standard-of-living, gains that would have been possible, if only they had not been so stupid.

	Did I say deprive the wealthy of real gains in their standard-of-living?  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Eleven&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nontrivialpursuits.org/WordPress/?p=47</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		
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	I thought I might interrupt my Stupid Rich People Series to share my thoughts on this 10th Anniversary of the tragic attack on the World Trade Center towers by &#8220;suicide warriors&#8221; under the direction of Osama bin Laden.

	Ever since the Viet Nam War, when I developed a political conscience at 18 years of age, I [...]]]></description>
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