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		<title>Recession Holding Back Education Too&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/recession-holding-back-education-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great&#8230; not only is the recession hurting my income today but it is likely to have a much larger economic impact on education (and thus earning potential) of future generations.  It a NY Times article last week titled &#8220;Facing Deficits, Some States Cut Summer School&#8221; many schools are cutting back or closing their summer school programs to save [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=709&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Stewart goes &#8220;mad&#8221; on Jim Cramer?</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/jon-stewart-goes-mad-on-jim-cramer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Daily Show]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those who missed The Daily Show last night it was awesome&#8230; Jon Stewart took it to Jim Cramer and CNBC on the lack of &#8220;financial reporting&#8221; on their supposed &#8220;financial news&#8221; cable network.  Not to be a spoiler&#8230; but there are some great video clips of Cramer off air.  Take 20 minutes of your day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=550&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>4.1M Blogs on WordPress</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/41m-blogs-on-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy cow!  I just read that there are 4.1 million blogs on WordPress.  We at Brokenspines are just one of 4.1M.  If a tree falls in a wood&#8230;
Not that anyone noticed, but we have addressed the &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; dilema of Fannie and Freddie on Brokenspines.  Well, as of last Sunday, it&#8217;s official &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=307&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conspicuous Consumerism</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/conspicuous-consumerism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[conspicuous consumption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norwegian American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption” in his 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class.  Conspicuous consumption has been discussed in the context of addictive or narcissistic behaviors induced by consumerism, the desire for immediate gratification, and hedonic expectations. 
Our friend Jared Diamond recently wrote a piece in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=134&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A House Divided</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/a-house-divided/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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The House of Representatives sustained President Bush’s veto of a $151B labor, health and education funding bill (HR3043).  The vote was 277-141, (15 not voting, 100% of Democrats supporting, 74% of Republicans opposing), failing by two votes to override the veto.  Minnesota’s Michelle Bachman and John Kline voted against the measure. 
Essentially, the Democrats and Republicans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=116&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Success without failure?</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/success-without-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave K.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to succeed without failing?
Over a couple of beers, a mound of fried calamari, and a plate of pesto-soaked ravioli, three Fight Club pugilists debated this topic the other night. It stemmed from a preview of our latest bout topic- The Wisdom of Crowds- the idea that the collective intelligence of a group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=84&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To our friends, neighbors, and family&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/to-our-friends-neighbors-and-family/</link>
		<comments>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/to-our-friends-neighbors-and-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The literary fight club members would like to offer our deepest sympathies to the friends, neighbors, and families of those who were involved in last night&#8217;s collapse of the St. Anthony Bridge in Minneapolis, MN &#8211; the place we call home.
While we speculate as to what caused this tradegy and try to figure out how it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=76&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anyone Else Worried?  The WSJ Becomes &#8220;Fair &amp; Imbalanced&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/anyone-else-worried-the-wsj-becomes-fair-imbalanced/</link>
		<comments>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/anyone-else-worried-the-wsj-becomes-fair-imbalanced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a world controlled by the fewer and fewer &#8221;major&#8221; media companies&#8230; I am truly worried about the acquisition of Dow Jones &#38; Co (e.g. The WSJ) by News Corp&#8230; creator of the Fox News Channel, which is anything but &#8220;Fair &#38; Balanced.&#8221;  Were is a young capitalist to turn for his daily news feed?  Blogs?
 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=75&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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