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	<description>The freedom to reason.  The reason for freedom.</description>
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		<title>How high tax rates create over-leverage</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/how-high-tax-rates-create-over-leverage/724/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/how-high-tax-rates-create-over-leverage/724/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		(Leverage: amount of debt that a company uses in its capital structure.  This is called leverage because it effectively multiplies, or leverages, the equity owners’ gains or losses.)  Over the last few years we have seen firsthand how over-levered companies can create an unstable environment.  Heavily levered firms such as investment banks, AIG, General Motors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The blind leading the blind</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/the-blind-leading-the-blind/721/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		Remember how everyone told us that investment banks were trading securities, more specifically derivatives, which are so complex that not even Warren Buffet or Alan Greenspan understood them and this led to the downfall of the economy?  Well, there is no longer any need to concern yourself with any of that.  You see, even though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why big business loves big government</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/why-big-business-loves-big-government/707/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/why-big-business-loves-big-government/707/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[campaign contributions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		This is in addition to an article titled &#8220;How the left was won&#8221;
We are presented with visions of big government beating down big business and helping the small businessman and laborer.  Government tells us that it will protect us by putting reins on Wall Street, requiring expensive drug testing, and regulating hedge funds.  Why then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the left was won</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/how-the-left-was-won/704/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/how-the-left-was-won/704/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		I, like many of you, have always wondered why it is that liberal economics dominate the ranks of well-educated, intelligent, financially well-off people.  Why people that would benefit from welfare and other transfers of wealth would vote democrat is self-explanatory.  However, the reasoning behind a wealthy businessman, an educated and well paid college professor, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who did the Robber Barons rob?</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/who-did-the-robber-barons-rob/679/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/who-did-the-robber-barons-rob/679/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Donald Shum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		It sounds like such an ugly term, “Robber Baron.”  The phrase brings to mind thoughts of abuse and theft.  But who and what exactly did these so called Robber Barons rob?
The most famous Robber Barons were John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt.  Each of these men built up remarkable wealth – each would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers&#8217; unions are ruining education</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/teachers-unions-are-ruining-education/661/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/teachers-unions-are-ruining-education/661/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		I remember being told on sports teams that it was not winning that mattered, but having a good time.  Well, damn it, I have a good time winning!  Competition is bad.  That&#8217;s what our nation is teaching children; it is also what the nation&#8217;s teachers&#8217; unions are pushing on our public school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiz: Who spends the most?</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/quiz-who-spends-the-mos/649/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/quiz-who-spends-the-mos/649/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coca-Cola
Starbucks
McDonald's
Google
Microsoft
Intel
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism: A Love Story &#8211; Close, But No Cigar</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/capitalism-a-love-story-close-but-no-cigar/633/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/capitalism-a-love-story-close-but-no-cigar/633/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. E. Messamore</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Huffington Post article, film critic Marshall Fine veritably gushes over Michael Moore's latest diatribe, Capitalism: A Love Story, calling it "an urgently important piece of work." The film's grievances are legitimate and even admirable. Its conclusions and central premise however, are critically flawed.]]></description>
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		<title>The inherent problem with socialized health care</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/inherent-problem-with-socialized-health-care/628/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/inherent-problem-with-socialized-health-care/628/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		I think this graph deserves an article of its own, as it speaks volumes. Yet another case in which people with good intentions do far more harm than good.
Credit for the graph goes to the Goldwater Institute.  The study from which the graph is derived can be found here: Goldwater Institute Study.

Thanks to John Stossel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whole Foods Libertarian Support</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/whole-foods-libertarian-support/619/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/whole-foods-libertarian-support/619/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey, recently published this editorial in the Wall Street Journal criticizing the Democrats&#8217; health plan: WSJ Article by John Mackey.  In response to this article and John Mackey&#8217;s general libertarian ideals towards health care and other issues, many liberal-leaning Whole Foods shoppers have banded together to boycott the grocer.  A leading [...]]]></description>
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