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		<title>More inequality or more convergence (tricks of your particular worldview)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2012/01/31/more-inequality-or-more-convergence-tricks-of-your-particular-worldview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average Joe in Spain is now living worse off than in boom times. Anyone can tell you that. While some, many, citizens, scape the crisis altogether. Apart from the platitude as obvioulsy societies live better in Boom times than in Recession times, anyone can warn you of growing inequalities, and he will be right. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=620&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Basic macroeconomics again: government savings, private deficits and the Ricardian debt equivalence theorem</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2010/03/18/basic-macroeconomics-again-government-savings-private-deficits-and-the-ricardian-debt-equivalence-theorem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you brush up your basic macroeconomics you will remember this: in an open economy, if national saving is insufficient to finance national spending, an influx of foreign capital will be needed to balance the accounts. That&#8217;s the story of the US -or Spain-. Where we invest (spend) more than we save (earn). In times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=577&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dubai has financing troubles but&#8230; is it making a profit?</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/12/07/dubai-has-financing-troubles-but-is-it-making-a-profit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than two years ago I was writing about Conspicuous consumption: from Thornstein Veblen to Jumeirah Palm. The reference to Dubai was almost mandatory of course. I&#8217;ve been to Dubai and I like the place. We all know that recently it has run into some trouble financing its debt. They are expecting a bailout from the United [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=566&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iberia and British Airways&#8217; merger (two losers together don&#8217;t make a winner)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/11/14/iberia-and-british-airways-merger-two-losers-together-dont-make-a-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally they had to do it. Slumping for too long with revenues going down the drain finally made both companies not so choosy about each other, specially when the rest of the European partners are already married and the half-blood-European-Americans are not allowed. They finally had to sit together in the only remaining chair. Borrowed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=557&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For the pain in Spain, the banks are to blame (amongst others, let&#8217;s say)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/09/08/for-the-pain-in-spain-the-banks-are-to-blame-amongst-others-lets-saythe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being these days in Barcelona I&#8217;m amazed how several publications, I&#8217;m thinking of Forbes and their &#8220;Spanish banks in top form&#8221; article, can be so blind and misleading. If Spanish banks are in top form, buckle up Dorothy, as the ride is going to be very rough all over the world, you ain&#8217;t seen nothing! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=545&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery or rebound? (long lasting pains)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/08/18/recovery-or-rebound-long-lasting-pains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always nice to hear that Japan has grown a 3.7%. It makes eye-catchy headlines. But if you go deeper you see that the figure is just the annualisation of a mere 0.9% between April and June, and that in the first quarter the slump was around 11%. What does that tell us about statistical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=542&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On reorganisation and micromanagement temptations in times of crises (holding the steering wheel tight)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/08/05/on-reorganisation-and-micromanagement-temptations-in-times-of-crises-holding-the-steering-wheel-tight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note to the occasional reader: I had this post saved from long ago as a draft and I decided to let it go like it is, I&#8217;m in a different mindset now&#8230; see next post which is really today&#8217;s In times of crises, and by this I mean, for instance, when you&#8217;re in the latests [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=489&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green shoots, maybe, but don&#8217;t expect flowers</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/05/18/green-shoots-maybe-but-dont-expect-flowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 11:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m increasingly growing wary, or even tiresome, of anyone that talks about green shoots. Yes, put a lot of fertiliser over a bed of rocks and something will grow on that. Mostly weeds. After all, weeds are green, but they don&#8217;t make nice flowers. After pouring so many fertiliser taken from the forced lenders throughout the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=517&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I sense some hope&#8230; sorry not yet! (Pandora&#8217;s jar is still not completely open)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/04/27/i-sense-some-hope-sorry-not-yet-pandoras-jar-is-still-not-completely-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been hearing some musings about how the economic situation is improving. Yes, optimists are always necessary, though they can also be a bit annoying sometimes. In any case it&#8217;s good to reflect for a while on where are we now. Have the fundamentals of the current crisis changed so much that we can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=511&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving from the tyranny of success to the crisis-stifled innovation</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/03/24/moving-from-the-tyranny-of-success-to-the-crisis-stifled-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, your company used to work so well. You were succeeding. And since you were succeeding and you were the incumbent, you needn&#8217;t innovate. Well, of course, you were better than that and you decided to innovate anyway, letting go some leash and opening some space for incremental innovation, probably parting from your customers and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&amp;blog=780707&amp;post=499&amp;subd=gabrielbcn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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