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	<title>Scrutiny Hooligans &#187; Economy</title>
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	<description>If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. â€” Samuel Adams</description>
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		<title>Polling Supports Narrative: Economic Sabotage By GOP</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/07/polling-supports-narrative-economic-sabotage-by-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/07/polling-supports-narrative-economic-sabotage-by-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TPM: Polls Show Voters Believe GOP Intentionally Stalling Economic Recovery. Polls by Suffolk University, Washington Post/ABC News and PPP (commissioned by Daily Kos) show an economic sabotage narrative taking hold. 
The new data suggests that about half the country, including a majority of self-identified independents, believe that congressional Republicans are using their political power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you have tears, prepare to shed them now&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/07/if-you-have-tears-prepare-to-shed-them-now/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/07/if-you-have-tears-prepare-to-shed-them-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[for the 1%.
From New York Magazine&#160;, The End of Wall Street As They Knew It: As bonuses whither on Wall Street, soul searching at long last?
For New York’s bankers and traders, the new math suddenly reordered their assumptions about their place in a post-crash city. “After tax, that’s like, what, $75,000?” an investment banker at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Them Eat &#8230; Soon</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/05/let-them-eat-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/05/let-them-eat-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money Talks &#8211; The Haves &#038; the Soon-to-Haves
John Hodgman explains that the haves are creating an exclusive world of luxury and privilege for the soon-to-haves to have &#8212; soon.


The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook


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		<title>Boehner: The clearing of the market</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/03/boehner-the-clearing-of-the-market/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/03/boehner-the-clearing-of-the-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All the government&#8217;s efforts to help distressed homeowners stay in their homes have done, says Rep. John Boehner, is &#8220;delay the clearing of the market.&#8221; 
I love that euphemism, &#8220;the clearing of the market.&#8221; As in throwing families out into the street. It&#8217;s like how the Pentagon described the secret carpet bombing of Cambodian villages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSI: Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/30/csi-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/30/csi-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several recent reports worth noting on the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group that President Obama announced in his State of the Union address. Rachel Maddow brought New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman onto her show [timestamp 4:40] to discuss the RMBS Working Group&#8217;s charge. Schneiderman and fellow AGs Kamala Harris (CA), Beau Biden (DE), Lisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Math</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/29/smart-math/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/29/smart-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Resident Urban Planning guru and Asheville advocate, Joe Minicozzi, authored this piece for Planetizen. Joe has been discussing these ideas for a long time, and I&#8217;m glad to have this opportunity to share them with you. Normally I&#8217;d just excerpt pieces, but this one is so Asheville-oriented that I&#8217;m going to repost it in full.
Downtown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbit Punch</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/26/rabbit-punch-6/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/26/rabbit-punch-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! That’s terrific bunny &#8230;
New York Times&#160;: A Mortgage Investigation
The moment Obama mentioned a panel to investigate banks, I thought: &#8220;I hear you. Now show me.&#8221; The panel is to include New York AG Eric Schneiderman, a thorn in the side to an administration that seems keen on sweeping the whole thing under the rug. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Chinese Life</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/19/this-chinese-life/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/19/this-chinese-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, &#8220;This American Life&#8221; aired a story titled &#8220;Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,&#8221; about life in the Chinese factory that makes the iPhone and other consumer electronics. Apparently, others took notice. &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; for example. 


The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor &#038; Satire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbit Punch</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/13/rabbit-punch-5/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/13/rabbit-punch-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! That’s terrific bunny &#8230;
Welcome news for North Carolina:
Freightliner announces second shift, 1,100 new jobs
STATESVILLE, N.C. &#8212; During a press conference with Gov. Bev Perdue today, Freightliner announced the addition of a second shift at its Cleveland plant, a move that will create 1,100 new jobs.
The plant, which is located in Rowan County just over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those who fail to remember the past&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/02/those-who-fail-to-remember-the-past/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/02/those-who-fail-to-remember-the-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caterpillar Locks Out Canadian Union Workers, Aims to Cut Wages In Half. But more on that after the jump&#8230;
In the wake of a doubling of unemployment caused by austerity policies put in place in 1979 under Margaret Thatcher to slash government spending and bring down inflation, one of Thatcher&#8217;s economic advisors, Sir Alan Budd, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crucial Conversation Full House</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/17/crucial-conversation-full-house/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/17/crucial-conversation-full-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=26661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Schofield and Chris Fitzsimon came to Asheville this past week to provide a briefing on how policies out of Raleigh are affecting us all. The duo write for NC Policy Watch, a project of the NC Justice Center, who held last week&#8217;s budget symposium at AB Tech. There were over 80 attendees at this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard-Headed Money</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/16/hard-headed-money/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/16/hard-headed-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=26680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, Paul Krugman looks at Rep. Ron Paul&#8217;s fetish for Austrian economics. In contrast to Mitt Romney&#8217;s weathervane consistency, Paul&#8217;s ideology is rock solid. He continues in the faith even when proven wrong.  
&#8220;Austrians&#8221; opposes monetary expansion of the kind the Fed has carried out unless backed by hard money. It leads inevitably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Backs of Children and the Poor</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/12/on-the-backs-of-children-and-the-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/12/on-the-backs-of-children-and-the-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buncombe County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You saw the poverty facts that came out last week. Behind the rising percentages are real people struggling to meet their basic needs. Without a stable platform from which to operate, there is no time and there are no resources to utilize for purposes of escaping the poverty trap.
In light of these facts and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty Rising</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/05/poverty-rising/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/05/poverty-rising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buncombe County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know why I&#8217;m so focused on affordable housing, homelessness, multimodal transportation, and food security, just read this from AC-T:
Buncombe County’s poverty rate reached 17.1 percent last year while the national rate stood at 15.3 percent, according to Census Bureau estimates released last week.
That’s a switch from the middle of the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Dumbest</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/03/worlds-dumbest/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/03/worlds-dumbest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook


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		<title>Secret Fed Loans Disclosed</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/28/secret-fed-loans-disclosed/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/28/secret-fed-loans-disclosed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a lengthy report from Bloomberg:
The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Points to Ponder</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/21/points-to-ponder/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/21/points-to-ponder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asheville City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of important topics on tap for the last meeting of this incarnation of City Council. While there&#8217;s one issue that has folks banging the drum more loudly, there are several others that also have far-reaching consequences. I&#8217;d love to hear more from everyone about them.
For those of you interested in it, Civic Center Naming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quadruple Down Economics: Serious or CYA?</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/17/serious-or-cya/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/17/serious-or-cya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the congressional supercommittee expected to fail in its attempt to find at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade by next week, another group in Congress is urging even deeper cuts. 
WASHINGTON &#8212; With the deadline for a supercommittee deficit-reduction deal closing in, more than 150 members of Congress from both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naming Rights: Point/Counterpoint</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/15/naming-rights-pointcounterpoint/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/15/naming-rights-pointcounterpoint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asheville City Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Renaming the Asheville Civic Center has stirred up a controversy that grew stronger after People Advocating Real Conservancy sent an email around a couple of days ago. Since at least 2001, Asheville&#8217;s City Council has encouraged our Economic Development and Civic Center leadership to seek out entities willing to purchase naming rights to the aging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party of the Rich</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/12/party-of-the-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is little you don’t already know in Rolling Stone&#160;’s “How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich.” Still, having the narrative recounted in detail makes a timely reference for those headed toward that Thanksgiving dinner with conservative relatives. When faced with ballooning deficits during the Reagan administration, saner Republicans than todays’ reversed course [...]]]></description>
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