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		<title>Inflation Must End in a Slump – Mises Institute</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/06/inflation-must-end-in-a-slump-mises-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was briefly fashionable to admit that interest rates were too low for too long, leading to a boom built on expansionist monetary policy. Unfortunately (related link my own): Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a ]]></description>
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		<title>New Deal in Old Rome</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/05/new-deal-in-old-rome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 05:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mises store: How Government in the Ancient World Tried to Deal with Modern Problems What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times. H.J. Haskell was a journalist with a huge background in ancient history, and here he does what everyone has wanted done. He details the amazing ]]></description>
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		<title>Is Budget Austerity Modern-Day Hooverism? &#8211; Robert P. Murphy &#8211; Mises Daily</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the debate over the federal government&#8217;s budget as the hot topic of the day, the proponents of big spending have gone into overdrive with their mantra that Herbert Hoover was a small-government liquidationist. As often as this myth is repeated, it&#8217;s important to show that it is wrong: Herbert Hoover was a big-government man ]]></description>
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		<title>Atlas Shrugged on the big screen</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/02/atlas-shrugged-on-the-big-screen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have reported before, there&#8217;s much in Ayn Rand&#8217;s writing that I do not like: As an articulation of what goes wrong when government and other coercive institutions intervene in the economy and in society, it is a masterpiece. As an articulation of the timeless morals which have sustained human society, it leaves something ]]></description>
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		<title>Alternatives to capitalism: Nikolai Bukharin on the division of labour</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/02/nikolai-bukharin-on-the-division-of-labour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A favourite brought forward. Thinking about the pressures on capitalism &#8212; or rather, on the interventionism that passes for capitalism today &#8212; and on the alternative which was most comprehensively implemented, I discovered this recipe for chaos and failure from Bukharin: Under communism people receive a many-sided culture, and find themselves at home in various ]]></description>
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		<title>On hampered markets and free</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/01/on-hampered-markets-and-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Transport Comittee today, one of the witnesses described the personal injury system as &#8220;the free market as it is today&#8221;. On closer questioning, it turned out that what passes for a market is hampered by heavy structural interventions and price controls imposed by the state. It occurred to me that the usual action of ]]></description>
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		<title>OpenEurope</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/openeurope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met today with the excellent think tank OpenEurope, along with other MPs of various parties: Open Europe is an independent think tank, with offices in London and Brussels, set up by some of the UK’s leading business people to contribute bold new thinking to the debate about the direction of the EU. While we ]]></description>
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		<title>Ofgem urges a shake-up of the energy market</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/02/ofgem-urges-a-shake-up-of-the-energy-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared at cobdencentre.org. Via FT.com, Ofgem urges a shake-up of the energy market, Sweeping reforms of the UK’s energy market must be brought in urgently to protect energy supplies, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deliver the £200bn investment needed in the power sector, the energy regulator said on Wednesday. Ofgem said options ]]></description>
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		<title>Soviet Britain</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/soviet-britain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the Institute for Economic Affairs, we discover the state devouring the economy – ie, the cooperative actions of free people – for over a century: See also The Times Online, ‘Soviet’ Britain swells amid the recession: The state now looms far larger in many parts of Britain than it did in former Soviet satellite ]]></description>
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		<title>Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/big-players-and-the-economic-theory-of-expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared on cobdencentre.org. Via FT.com / US / Economy &#38; Fed &#8211; Fed signals pullback in liquidity supports, we learn: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday upgraded its assessment of the US economy and highlighted its intention to shut down most of its crisis-fighting liquidity facilities in early 2010. And consequently: Stocks eased ]]></description>
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