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	<title>Gabriel's scarcity rent - it's management stupid! &#187; Economics</title>
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		<title>More inequality or more convergence (tricks of your particular worldview)</title>
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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&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=620&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poisonous debt (&#8230;to the point of no return?)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2011/09/14/poisonous-debt-to-the-point-of-no-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nixon is known to many people for only a few things we did. But only economists remember that he was the one to definitively unpeg the dollar to the gold. That happened only 40 years ago, in 1971. I wasn&#8217;t born yet, but it&#8217;s not a long time in the long history of money. Much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=612&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And we are no longer asking &#8220;why&#8221; to the crisis</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2011/04/11/and-we-are-no-longer-asking-why-to-the-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how we tend to forget. Not so long ago some people were still being blamed, bankers mostly, the beheaded god Alan Greenspan, some professional confidence man (aka con) Bernie Madoff, and a few more, but except for the latter that has even seen the disgrace in its own family, the former have gone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=598&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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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&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=577&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=566&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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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&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=517&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;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>
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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&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=511&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The tipping point of the crisis (are we there yet?)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/01/21/the-tipping-point-of-the-crisis-are-we-there-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gabrielbcn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to talk about something when it has already happened. The crisis seems so predictable now (it was predictable before as well if you browse to older posts). Now the trick is about spotting the tipping point. Have we already seen the worst or are we going into a depression this time? If we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=466&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are we in a liquidity trap? (am I blind or is this another black swan?)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2009/01/09/are-we-in-a-liquidity-trap-am-i-blind-or-is-this-another-black-swan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liquidity traps are one of those obscure concepts hidden into macroeconomics books. Obscure enough to occupy some marginal comment only and disputed enough to be denied by the Austrian School of Economics.  Ludwig von Mises would label them as myths. But, as mytical as a black swans that have recenty decided to come out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=459&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crowding out time (more wood from the forced lenders)</title>
		<link>http://scarcityrent.com/2008/12/10/crowding-out-time-more-wood-from-the-forced-lenders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, right now the governments are pouring a lot of money into the system. Is it working? Can it work? Ain&#8217;t we trying to extinguish this fire the same way it started? A well known effect in macroeconomics is the multiplicator accelerator model: there is a multiplicative effect when new investments are introduced in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scarcityrent.com&#038;blog=780707&#038;post=446&#038;subd=gabrielbcn&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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