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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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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>What do you want to read about?</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/what-do-you-want-to-hear-about/697/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		Rise of Reason has been a bit quiet lately as I have been fairly busy with business and applying to graduate schools.  However, I&#8217;m dedicating more time to spreading the value of freedom!
I am curious to know if there is anything any of you want to see an article about.  If there is anything in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The morality of free markets</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/the-morality-of-free-markets/683/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		When I debate my points regarding free markets and free societies I often find myself being criticized by my more left-leaning rival debater for being “heartless” and having no compassion for my fellow man.  If I may be so blunt, I find my positions to hold the highest possible moral ground.  Allow me to explain.
Many [...]]]></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>
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		<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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		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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private schools]]></category>
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		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>Video News: Renting from the Government</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/video-news-renting-from-the-governmen/656/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/video-news-renting-from-the-governmen/656/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Stossel, Peter Schiff, and Andrew Napolitano discuss the government's extension of unemployment and housing credits as well as its plan to rent directly to people whose homes have been foreclosed.]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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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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