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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>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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. E. Messamore</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		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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		<title>Creative Destruction</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/creative-destruction/604/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		Freedom creates optimal efficiencies because it demands the best from people and the best is always the outcome.  However, one of the byproducts of efficiency is creative destruction.
Take, for example, the typewriter.  At the height of the typewriter industry there were two notable typewriter manufacturers (there were more than two, but I am only referring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler and Contract Law</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/chrysler-and-contract-law/590/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		A few weeks ago Chrysler declared bankruptcy.  Under normal circumstances the bankruptcy law of this nation would have been upheld and the assets of Chrysler would have been sold off and all proceeds would have been allocated to the bond holders (debt holders) until their principal investment was completely repaid.  After the bond holders’ secured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do We Really Need to Legislate Vacation Time?</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/legislatevacationtim/586/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 14:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Moody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought the arrogance of Congressmen couldn't get any worse, Alan Grayson (D-FL) is going to introduce a bill to require that employers with more than 100 employees give their employees 1 week of paid vacation time.]]></description>
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		<title>Ford’s Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/ford%e2%80%99s-dilemma/583/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/ford%e2%80%99s-dilemma/583/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 18:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		Unlike Chrysler and General Motors, Ford Motor Company did not accept billions of dollars in bailout money from the Federal Government.  As a result, Ford has maintained a far better perception in the market than its domestic competitors.  People seem more willing to purchase a vehicle from a company that did not take the consumer’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comrade Compensation</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/comrade-compensation/569/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 16:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		“WASHINGTON &#8212; The Obama administration has begun serious talks about how it can change compensation practices across the financial-services industry, including at companies that did not receive federal bailout money, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“At the same time, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D., Mass.) is working on legislation that could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Thoughts: Buy American!</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/quick-thoughts-buy-american/562/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 22:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		Chrysler decided to declare bankruptcy last week but the Obama Administration decided that would not be allowed so they intervened.  In doing so they decided that they would give over half the company to the United Autoworkers Union, keep a chunk for the U.S. Government, give a sliver to the Canadian Government, and sell the [...]]]></description>
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