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<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Dirty trade: How important are greenhouse-gas emissions from international transport?]]></title>
	<author>VoxEU.org: Recent Articles</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.VoxEU.org/index.php?q=node/7432"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=709143</id>
	<updated>2011-12-17T00:09:45Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Anca Cristea, David Hummels, Laura Puzzello, 17 December 2012It is well known that international trade leads to greenhouse-gas emissions but policymakers often focus their attention on the production of goods and not their shipment. This column presents findings...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>VoxEU.org: Recent Articles</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=55</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Tracking the euro-zone economy in real time]]></title>
	<author>Free exchange</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/12/business-cycles?fsrc=gn_ep"/>
	<link rel='related' title='portrait' type='image/jpeg' href='http://econolog.net/images/portraits/122.jpg'/>
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=721180</id>
	<updated>2012-01-13T12:12:26Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[THE short-term outlook for the world economy seems to hinge on whether a resolution to Europe's debt crisis can be found. A resolution, in turn, will be difficult to come by if the euro zone falls back into recession. If output is shrinking and unemployment...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Free exchange</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=122</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Globalisation and higher education: Different degrees of success]]></title>
	<author>VoxEU.org: Recent Articles</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.VoxEU.org/index.php?q=node/7410"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=705198</id>
	<updated>2011-12-10T00:10:20Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[David Hummels, Rasmus Jrgensen, Jakob R. Munch, Chong Xiang , 10 December 2012With stagnating wages and lingering unemployment, income inequality is back in the headlines. Is globalisation to blame for this inequality? Is more education a solution? This column...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>VoxEU.org: Recent Articles</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=55</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[5 Things You Need to Know About Wildlife Corridors]]></title>
	<author>TreeHugger</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/treehuggersite/~3/u69BHnERwR8/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-wildlife-corridors.html"/>
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	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=689251</id>
	<updated>2011-11-10T19:39:24Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Protecting habitats is very important to the survival of many species, but its not enough. To really thrive, these habitats must be connected to one another by wildlife corridors....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>TreeHugger</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=266</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Patent Boxes: An innovative way to race to the bottom?]]></title>
	<author>VoxEU.org: Recent Articles</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.VoxEU.org/index.php?q=node/6706"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=621572</id>
	<updated>2011-06-30T15:11:41Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Rachel Griffith, Helen Miller, 30 June 2012Governments around the world are grappling with the question of how to tax the income from intellectual property. This column asks whether offering tax breaks called Patent Boxes after the box companies must tick on...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>VoxEU.org: Recent Articles</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=55</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Mann-Ornstein: &quot;It's Even Worse than It Looks&quot;]]></title>
	<author>Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/05/mann-ornstein-its-even-worse-than-it-looks.html"/>
	<link rel='related' title='portrait' type='image/jpeg' href='http://econolog.net/images/portraits/301.jpg'/>
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=782856</id>
	<updated>2012-05-15T15:34:39Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Jack Citrin writes:UC Berkeley | Institute of Governmental Studies: Special Session of the Research Workshop on American Politics: Please join us Friday, May 18 at noon in the IGS library (109 Moses Hall), for a special session of the Research Workshop on American...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=301</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Shoe Entrepreneur]]></title>
	<author>Offsetting Behaviour</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OffsettingBehaviour/~3/VDIqmJc7NNo/shoe-entrepreneur.html"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784297</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:35:39Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[I'm not a shoe guy, but I do love this story of entrepreneurial achievement. Ferragamo started as a bootmaker for Hollywood films, found some of his customers still found the boots uncomfortable, went to the University of Southern California to learn about...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Offsetting Behaviour</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=482</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Incentives matter: prison file]]></title>
	<author>Anti-Dismal</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Anti-dismal/~3/M8CgNlfWvrU/incentives-matter-prison-file.html"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784192</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:22Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[The Times-Picayune reports on Louisiana's, in the U.S., prison system and the perverse incentives for sheriffs to keep inmate numbers high. Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Anti-Dismal</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=21</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[The Boehner/Obama Fiscal Brawl]]></title>
	<author>TaxVox: the Tax Policy Center blog</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/05/17/the-boehnerobama-fiscal-brawl/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784334</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:30Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Listening to Barack Obama and John Boehner over the past few days put me in mind of two testosterone-addled 22-year olds preparing for a bar fight, rather than the President of the United States and the Speaker of the House discussing fiscal policy.First, Boehner...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>TaxVox: the Tax Policy Center blog</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=454</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Why Do Firms Differ?]]></title>
	<author>Organizations and Markets</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2012/05/17/why-do-firms-differ/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784229</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:33:26Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[| Peter Klein |This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of two major contributions to strategy and organization, Nelson and Winter&amp;#8217;s Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change and Lippman and Rumelt&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;Uncertain Imitability: An Analysis of Interfirm...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Organizations and Markets</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=196</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Comment on Austerity games by DOCM]]></title>
	<author>Comments for The Irish Economy</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2012/05/17/austerity-games/#comment-283801"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784320</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:05Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[@ Ronan LyonsAn amusing and informative flow chart!Have you considered the possibility that an emergency IMF loan and a dramatic 12 month austerity cure - as detailed in summary outline - might be a winner rather than a loser?Given the delusional nature of...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Comments for The Irish Economy</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=406</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Record Closing Low For 10-Year Treasury Yield]]></title>
	<author>WSJ.com: MarketBeat Blog - WSJ.com</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/05/17/record-closing-low-for-10-year-treasury-yield/?mod=WSJBlog"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784259</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:17Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[The 10-year Treasury yield closed at 1.702%, a record low, while stocks continue to get hammered, with the Dow down more than 130....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>WSJ.com: MarketBeat Blog - WSJ.com</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=295</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Kedrosky : Facebook Has Institutional Overhang]]></title>
	<author>The Big Picture</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBigPicture/~3/sLq2pZ5D5hI/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784201</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:34Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Paul Kedrosky, author of the Infectious Greed Blog and a Bloomberg contributing editor, talks about the outlook for Facebook Inc.&amp;#8217;s initial public offering. Kedrosky speaks with Erik Schatzker, Stephanie Ruhle, Scarlet Fu and Sara Eisen on Bloomberg Television&amp;#8217;s...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>The Big Picture</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=37</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Facebook's Missing Risk Factor]]></title>
	<author>DealBook</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/facebooks-missing-risk-factor/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784213</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:51Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Facebook arguably left one risk factor out. So DealBook submits the necessary passage, free of any legal fees....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>DealBook</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=73</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[The Chief Scientist on the undergraduate distortion.]]></title>
	<author>Core Economics</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://economics.com.au/?p=8858"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784291</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:35:35Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[TweetIan Chubb notes how the current funding system for undergraduate education distorts research funding at Universities. The point is correct and will continue as long as undergraduate education is tied to research funding. Economics has generally benefitted...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Core Economics</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=375</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[MLR Killing Off Business, Hurting Consumers, NAIFA Survey Says]]></title>
	<author>John Goodman's Health Policy Blog</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://healthblog.ncpa.org/mlr-killing-off-business-hurting-consumers-naifa-survey-says/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784287</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:35:05Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Agent commissions have declined dramatically since the medical loss ratio (MLR) provision of the health care reform law went into effect, forcing many agents to reduce their services to clients, consider charging fees for services they had been providing at...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>John Goodman's Health Policy Blog</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=357</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Schumer Proposes 30% Tax on Facebook Co-Founder, Other Who Renounce U.S. Citizenship for Tax Purposes]]></title>
	<author>TaxProf Blog</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/05/schumer-proposes-30-tax.html"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784237</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:33:39Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Bloomberg: Schumer Proposes Tax on People Like Facebooks Saverin: U.S. Senator Charles Schumer proposed legislation that would impose a 30% capital gains tax on people like Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin unless they show they didnt renounce their U.S....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>TaxProf Blog</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=238</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Peston on The Eurozone]]></title>
	<author>Economics</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/peston-on-the-eurozone"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784219</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:56Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[As the Eurozone continues to be bufferted by instability in Spanish Banks, and uncertainty over Greek membership of the single currency. Robert Peston fronts a programme on The Euro on BBC2 tonight. It remains to be seen if he offers any answers to Mervyn Kings...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Economics</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=92</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Greek Drama]]></title>
	<author>Slate Magazine - Moneybox</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=915694fd3c4d3d4686ad363feaf7d1a6"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784276</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:52Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[All eyes are now on the possibility of a Greek exit from the eurozone. Indeed, it even has its own ridiculous portmanteau wordGrexit. Everyone from foreign financial institutions to the IMF is preparing for it, and the German government is telling anyone wholl...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Slate Magazine - Moneybox</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=341</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Back to the Future: The Netscape and Google I.P.O.'s]]></title>
	<author>DealBook</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/back-to-the-future-the-netscape-and-google-i-p-o-s/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784216</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:53Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[While Facebook may be the biggest I.P.O. to come out of Silicon Valley by far, history will judge it as less creative than the Google offering in 2004, and certainly less world-shaking than when Netscape first sold its shares in 1995, writes David Streitfeld...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>DealBook</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=73</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Wiping Out $90,000 in Student Loans in 7 Months]]></title>
	<author>WSJ.com: Economics Blog</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/05/17/wiping-out-90000-in-student-loans-in-7-months/?mod=WSJBlog"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784267</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:20Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Faced with $90,000 in student debt from his days at Harvard Business School, one man vowed to eliminate every penny within a year. He did it with help from a second job and a flask....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>WSJ.com: Economics Blog</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=297</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Buffett Rides to Media Generals Rescue]]></title>
	<author>WSJ.com: Deal Journal - WSJ.com</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/05/17/buffett-rides-to-media-generals-rescue/?mod=WSJBlog"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784252</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:12Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Warren Buffett is famous for exacting a high price while serving as a lender of last resort for companies needing immediate access to cash, and this mornings financing deal with Media General has many of the hallmarks of a classic Buffett arrangement....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>WSJ.com: Deal Journal - WSJ.com</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=290</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Comment on Austerity games by The Dork of Cork]]></title>
	<author>Comments for The Irish Economy</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2012/05/17/austerity-games/#comment-283780"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784317</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:04Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[If we leave the eurozone because of this - cuts to the medium of exchange via cuts to Dole , pensions , civil servants wages etc won&amp;#8217;t work as that is where the remaining medium of exchange is coming from.Anymore cuts and you will have to right off private...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Comments for The Irish Economy</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=406</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Treasury Wants To Make Banks Boring Again By Selling CDOs Of Community-Bank Hybrid Capital Instruments]]></title>
	<author>Dealbreaker</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dealbreaker/~3/Lmr6h8GjXzg/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784325</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:09Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[&amp;#8220;Make banking boring again&amp;#8221; is a favorite reaction to news that JPMorgan was screwing up its VaR modelling of its attempt to get long gamma with improperly delta-hedged tranches of the CDX.NA.IG.9 and, sure, maybe, but don&amp;#8217;t tell Treasury:...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Dealbreaker</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=485</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Where Prosecutors Might Focus in Their JPMorgan Inquiries]]></title>
	<author>DealBook</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/where-prosecutors-might-focus-in-their-jpmorgan-inquiries/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784212</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:51Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[As with the Martha Stewart criminal case, any false statement that JPMorgan employees and executives make to a government official can be the basis for a prosecution....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>DealBook</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=73</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[China Releases Judicial Interpretation for Hearing Civil Anti-Monopoly Actions]]></title>
	<author>Antitrust &amp; Competition Policy Blog</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/antitrustprof_blog/2012/05/china-releases-judicial-interpretation-for-hearing-civil-anti-monopoly-actions.html"/>
	<link rel='related' title='portrait' type='image/jpeg' href='http://econolog.net/images/portraits/22.jpg'/>
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784193</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:24Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Posted by D. Daniel Sokol John Ren (T&amp;D) notes that China Releases Judicial Interpretation for Hearing Civil Anti-Monopoly Actions. ABSTRACT: On May 8, 2012, Chinas Supreme Peoples Court (&quot;SPC&quot;) released the Judicial Interpretation (&quot;JI&quot;) on Anti-Monopoly Law...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Antitrust &amp; Competition Policy Blog</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=22</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Dimon to Appear Before Senate Committee]]></title>
	<author>DealBook</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/senate-committee-to-invite-dimon-to-hearings/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784211</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:51Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, will appear before a Senate Banking Committee hearing that will look at the bank's surprise trading loss....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>DealBook</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=73</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Live Chat: Facebooks IPO]]></title>
	<author>WSJ.com: Deal Journal - WSJ.com</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/05/17/live-chat-facebooks-ipo/?mod=WSJBlog"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784256</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:12Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[WSJ's David Benoit, Steven Russolillo, Stephen Grocer and Paul Vigna will take your Facebook questions in a live chat at 1 p.m. Friday. Ask your questions now....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>WSJ.com: Deal Journal - WSJ.com</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=290</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Comment on Austerity games by John Corcoran]]></title>
	<author>Comments for The Irish Economy</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2012/05/17/austerity-games/#comment-283773"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784305</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:35:56Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[@Frank GaltonExcellent article....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Comments for The Irish Economy</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=406</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz eyeing introducing a sedan model hydrogen fuel cell vehicle around MY 2017]]></title>
	<author>Green Car Congress</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/greencarcongress/TrBK/~3/5NyEYE17DCk/simon-20120517.html"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784224</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:32:24Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[The 2011 F-Cell. Click to enlarge. Mercedes-Benz, which has begun leasing of the limited production B-Class F-Cell hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (earlier post) in California, is on track to roll out a MY 2015 next-generation B-Class F-Cell in much larger quantities...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Green Car Congress</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=128</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[What Economists Get Wrong About Science and Technology]]></title>
	<author>Slate Magazine - Moneybox</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=2e5c2e50be36e66766be22a9bdc85ebe"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784274</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:51Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. On May 21, Future Tense will host an event in Washington, D.C., called How To Save Americas Knowledge Enterprise. Well discuss how the...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Slate Magazine - Moneybox</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=341</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[What JPMorgan Didn't Learn From Previous Bad Trades]]></title>
	<author>DealBook</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/what-jpmorgan-didnt-learn-from-previous-bad-trades/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784209</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:50Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[A multibillion-dollar trading loss at JPMorgan may remind some of the disaster at the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund in 1998, Floyd Norris writes in The New York Times. If regulators take the lessons from JPMorgan's debacle to heart, they could close...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>DealBook</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=73</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Can Timeouts Change the Outcome of Basketball Games?]]></title>
	<author>Marginal Revolution</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/marginalrevolution/feed/~3/hJMRrqIwi5I/can-timeouts-change-the-outcome-of-basketball-games.html"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784281</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:54Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[From Serguei Saavedra, Satyam Mukherjee, James P. Bagrow. Here is the paper, here is the abstract:In basketball, timeouts are believed to reverse the momentum of a game. However, here we show timeouts have no significant effect on the final outcomes of games....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Marginal Revolution</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=484</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[US Auto Assemblies Have Gone Parabolic]]></title>
	<author>&nbsp;Modeled Behavior</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://modeledbehavior.com/2012/05/17/us-auto-assemblies-have-gone-parabolic/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784335</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:32Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[No rate of increase like this on record. This what convergence to the long run growth path should look like. As noted earlier housing permits are close to going parabolic as well, but we have yet to get confirmation of a similar movement in starts. Perhaps...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>&nbsp;Modeled Behavior</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=471</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Whos A Brokers Best Friend In Facebook IPO?]]></title>
	<author>WSJ.com: MarketBeat Blog - WSJ.com</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/05/17/whos-a-brokers-best-friend-in-facebook-ipo/?mod=WSJBlog"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784264</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:18Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Brokers looking for a piece of the Facebook IPO action need a friend within the office....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>WSJ.com: MarketBeat Blog - WSJ.com</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=295</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[The Most Important Problem in Renewable Energy R-Squared Energy TV Ep. 22]]></title>
	<author>R-Squared Energy Blog</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/R-squared/~3/J72N3rPIWKA/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784234</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:33:34Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[In this week&amp;#8217;s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question about the artificial leaf being worked on by Daniel Nocera at MIT. I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various storage schemes, and explain why I believe storage is the most important...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>R-Squared Energy Blog</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=219</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Comment on Irrational Greeks? by The Dork of Cork]]></title>
	<author>Comments for The Irish Economy</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2012/05/17/irrational-greeks/#comment-283766"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784313</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:02Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[@Tim France has run a long term high defecit , like almost all countries because its chooses not to be truely sovergin. i.e. to recycle its interest rates between its CB &amp;amp; treasuary or simply produce debt free money treasuary money that can be subsequently...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Comments for The Irish Economy</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=406</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[The Wrath of Cons]]></title>
	<author>Slate Magazine - Moneybox</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=569c9abe0dfc6dc8bdb43f0d6f41de27"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784277</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:52Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Mitt Romney wants to make the 2012 election a referendum on the economy. Facing an electorate that likes Barack Obama personally, Romney has said again and again that Obama is a nice guy who just doesnt know how to create jobs. The last thing Romney needs is...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Slate Magazine - Moneybox</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=341</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Booming Shipping Network]]></title>
	<author>The Big Picture</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBigPicture/~3/a04Np2i0UJE/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784202</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:35Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Very cool graphic showing the extent and route of global shipping lanes:&amp;nbsp;Click to enlarge:Source: Nicolas Rapp...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>The Big Picture</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=37</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Comment on Austerity games by Frank Galton]]></title>
	<author>Comments for The Irish Economy</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2012/05/17/austerity-games/#comment-283763"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784319</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:05Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[@AllA little birdie brings news of a Willem Buiter presentation and the following highlights therein.Ireland: off the charts figures on debt and errors of historic proportions on policy, most notably our favourite evening in government buildings in September...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Comments for The Irish Economy</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=406</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[How Good a Doctor Are You?]]></title>
	<author>John Goodman's Health Policy Blog</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://healthblog.ncpa.org/how-good-a-doctor-are-you/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784286</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:35:05Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Getting a medical degree is not easy: It requires 10 years of medical education and 16,000 hours of clinical experience to get certified to provide treatment. Even so, most of us think we can make equally as good diagnoses as our doctorsas long as we have a...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>John Goodman's Health Policy Blog</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=357</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Fitch Could Not Think Less Of Greece Right Now]]></title>
	<author>Dealbreaker</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dealbreaker/~3/ip8HDMruN2Q/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784324</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:09Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Fitch ratings agency downgraded debt-crippled Greece deeper into junk territory on Thursday, warning of a probable Greek exit from the euro currency union if new national elections next month produce an anti-bailout government. Fitch said it had cut Greeces...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Dealbreaker</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=485</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[The Assessment of Market Power of Airports]]></title>
	<author>Antitrust &amp; Competition Policy Blog</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/antitrustprof_blog/2012/05/the-assessment-of-market-power-of-airports.html"/>
	<link rel='related' title='portrait' type='image/jpeg' href='http://econolog.net/images/portraits/22.jpg'/>
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784194</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:24Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Andreas Polk, Berlin School of Economics and Law and Volodymyr Bilotkach, Newcastle Business School address The Assessment of Market Power of Airports. ABSTRACT: Airport regulation regimes are under revision in many countries. The...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Antitrust &amp; Competition Policy Blog</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=22</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Call For Papers: AALS Section on Insurance Law]]></title>
	<author>Conglomerate</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/theconglomerate/feed/~3/CS5rzKKpTcI/call-for-papers-aals-section-on-insurance-law.html"/>
	<link rel='related' title='portrait' type='image/jpeg' href='http://econolog.net/images/portraits/249.jpg'/>
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784242</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:33:44Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Insurance and Consumer Protection2013 AALS Annual MeetingJanuary 4-7, 2013New Orleans, LouisianaThe AALS Section on Insurance Law will hold a program on Insurance and Consumer Protection during the AALS 2013 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The program is scheduled...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Conglomerate</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=249</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Business Day Live: Bicycles Boom in Silicon Valley]]></title>
	<author>DealBook</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/business-day-live-bicycles-boom-in-silicon-valley/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784217</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:53Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Madison Avenue's skepticism about Facebook. &amp;#124; High-end bicycles boom as Silicon Valley thrives. &amp;#124; For TV advertising, a disruptive technology....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>DealBook</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=73</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Dear TPG-Axon Investors]]></title>
	<author>Dealbreaker</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dealbreaker/~3/RjfMMgfJvzM/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784322</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:08Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[April performance.April MTD: 5.35%QTD: 5.35&amp;#038;YTD: 15.46%Continue reading &amp;raquo;Follow Dealbreaker on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Hedge Funds, performance, TPG-Axon Partners...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Dealbreaker</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=485</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[How Ackman Won in the Fight Over Canadian Pacific]]></title>
	<author>DealBook</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/how-ackman-won-in-the-fight-over-canadian-pacific/"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784215</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:31:52Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Although his rhetoric was at times overheated, William A. Ackman waged a smart campaign to win changes at the railroad company....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>DealBook</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=73</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Comment on Austerity games by John Corcoran]]></title>
	<author>Comments for The Irish Economy</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2012/05/17/austerity-games/#comment-283759"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784321</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:05Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[I understand it&amp;#8217;s the best of three. I believe all Irish politicans;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4NP4oXQp3o&amp;amp;feature=relmfu...]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Comments for The Irish Economy</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=406</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[Comment on The Greek Crisis and European Political Contagion by Paul W]]></title>
	<author>Comments for The Irish Economy</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2012/05/15/the-greek-crisis-and-european-political-contagion/#comment-283757"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784318</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:36:04Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[@VB Correct, not a guru&amp;#8230;an entrepreneur reacting positively to the times (your 15 yr timeframe is too far beyond the story)&amp;#8230;.At least he is ahead&amp;#8230;..Can&amp;#8217;t see the schoolteachers running Ireland taking risks and succeeding&amp;#8230;.....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>Comments for The Irish Economy</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=406</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>

<entry>
	<title><![CDATA[NY Fed: Median Dealer Forecast First Fed Hike in Q3 2014]]></title>
	<author>WSJ.com: Economics Blog</author>
	<link rel='alternate' href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/05/17/ny-fed-median-dealer-forecast-first-fed-hike-in-q3-2014/?mod=WSJBlog"/>
	
	<id>http://econolog.net/post.php?post_id=784266</id>
	<updated>2012-05-17T19:34:19Z</updated>
	<summary type='html'><![CDATA[Surveyed ahead of the late April Fed meeting, Wall Street's biggest banks largely expected the central bank to follow through on its projected path for monetary policy....]]></summary>
	
	<contributor>
		<name>WSJ.com: Economics Blog</name>
		<uri>http://econolog.net/blog_search.php?blog_id=297</uri>
	</contributor>
	<gd:rating value='0' min='0' max='100'/>
</entry>
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