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	<title>Macroeconomic Woes &#187; Brian Finn</title>
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		<title>The Center Should Not Hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Finn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of Brandon’s previous post “The Center Can Not Hold” is ripped from the end of the famous TS Elliot poem The Wasteland. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.… The poem was written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying Shampoo from China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Finn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, the WSJ reported that the CEO of alibaba.com, a business to business platform that primarily helps Chinese manufacturers connect with Western buyers, was forced to resign after it was discovered that more than 2,300 sellers registered on the site committed fraud, sometimes with the help of Alibaba’s sales staff. As shocking as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall of Airline Pilots And Rise of Hedge Fund Managers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Finn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free markets and their discontents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Income disparity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://macroeconomicwoes.com/?p=283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a great scene in the Steven Spielberg movie Catch Me if You Can where Leonardo DiCaprio playing the young Frank Abiginale has his “Aha” moment. Frank’s parents have just gotten divorced and he has run away from home seeking a life on his own in NYC. He is down on his luck and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why OpenTable is a Short</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Finn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been told that you shouldn&#8217;t short high valuations. Short broken business models instead. A lot of guys have been shorting high valuation stocks like NetFlix and Amazon.com. They have gotten crushed as these businesses go from strength to strength. Now the market is afraid of anything that has a model that might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Libya Right Now Is a Dow at 6,500 Type Moment for the American Foreign Policy Establishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Finn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Beltway]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Every once in a while a pitch comes along that looks like the sweetest, juiciest, fattest pitch you are ever going to see. That is what you wait for. &#8212; Warren Buffett In watching the US pensiveness and inaction regarding Libya, I couldn’t help but think of the above Warren Buffet quote. Here we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ending Arab Regimes With Facebook Invites</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Finn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember being at Harvard in the basement of Annenberg and watching the war in Iraq begin on FoxNews. It was right before Spring Break and I was sitting there with an Australian guy who I rowed with. This Aussie was particularly opinionated and wasted no time in sharing his opinion with me that that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Man Who Would Be King (If Obama Lets Him)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Finn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been said that without George W. Bush, Obama would not have been president. There is some truth to that. Had the Bush presidency not gone up in such spectacular flames and had the mood of the country not been so dire it is hard to imagine that Americans would have gravitated the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Jennings and Singularity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Finn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just this past week, we saw an IBM computer beat Ken Jennings on Jeopardy. Over a decade ago, an IBM computer bested Gary Kasparov at chess. Each time artificial intelligence triumphs in a realm that we once thought was the unique purvey of human intelligence – the media will celebrate, the pundits will ponder the [...]]]></description>
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