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	<title>tobia, eo nomine &#187; Economics</title>
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	<description>Demystifying corporate culture, traversing finance, exploring music and occasionally dabbling in oenophilia.</description>
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		<title>I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/08/11/i-have-no-spur-to-prick-the-sides-of-my-intent-but-only-vaulting-ambition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Good of The Atlantic writes, Meeting with the presidents of Mexico and Canada in Guadalajara, President Obama said Monday that he&#8217;ll start pursuing comprehensive immigration reform later this year. Is this too ambitious? After all, energy and health care are still up in the air. I say yes.]]></description>
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		<title>Time to eat out more&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/08/05/time-to-eat-out-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leading economic indicators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waitress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hugo Lindgren via Derek Thompson of The Atlantic: The hotter the waitresses, the weaker the economy. In flush times, there is a robust market for hotness. Selling everything from condos to premium vodka is enhanced by proximity to pretty young people (of both sexes) who get paid for providing this service. That leaves more-punishing work, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up up and away!</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/07/28/up-up-and-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[401k]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I received the quarterly statement for my 401k from April  1 to June 30 and was pleased to see that my portfolio was up 21.35% for that period. This is in stark contrast to the prior year where the value of my portfolio decreased over 41%. With the current year being up 13.65%, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Furthering the stimulus debate</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/01/29/furthering-the-stimulus-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high speed rail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst a much longer and quite frankly excellent dissection of the discussions regarding the fiscal stimulus, Megan McArdle scribes: So. It&#8217;s time to admit what we already know: proponents of the stimulus are in favor of this package in large part because they favor a fairly large transfer of resources to the public sector, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would you tell him? To Shrug.</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2009/01/12/what-would-you-tell-him-to-shrug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atlas shrugged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wall street journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Moore has an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal titled &#8220;&#8216;Atlas Shrugged&#8217;: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years&#8221;. Moore discusses how eerily similar the current situation in Washington is to the events in Ayn Rand&#8216;s epochal novel. This hit home for me in that I have been reading &#8216;Atlas Shrugged&#8217; for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5.19</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/12/18/519/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/12/18/519/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortgage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty year fixed mortgage rates dropped to a 37 year low this week to an average of 5.19%. Time to refinance. And, apparently well qualified buyers with great credit and a large down-payment will be able to find rates as low as 4.5%. According to the industry, mortgage brokers are receiving a surge of calls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When you think you have heard it all&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/12/02/when-you-think-you-have-heard-it-all/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/12/02/when-you-think-you-have-heard-it-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syracuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hillary clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The PostStandard tweets that, &#8220;Central New York leaders praise Clinton&#8217;s legacy&#8220;. The only &#8220;legacy&#8221; she has is that she promised 200,000 new jobs for Upstate New York in 6 years and delivered none in eight. Actually, all she has accomplished is at least 32,000 lost jobs in Upstate New York. That is a hell of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somemoreecards</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/08/01/somemoreecards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2008/08/01/somemoreecards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myspace]]></category>

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		<title>Roth IRA</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2005/02/14/roth-ira/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2005/02/14/roth-ira/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<title>Current Portfolio</title>
		<link>http://blog.tobia.org/2004/11/19/current-portfolio/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.tobia.org/2004/11/19/current-portfolio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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