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							<title><![CDATA[Syria's Other Problem: Inflation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/27/syrias_other_problem_inflation_120131.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Hanke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wars wreak havoc; life, property, and dreams are destroyed. In the process, wars &mdash; including civil wars, like Syria&rsquo;s&mdash; progressively consume a country&rsquo;s accumulated capital stock, too. In other words, as wars rage on, the destructive war economy gradually eats...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Troubled Currencies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/19/troubled_currencies_119300.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Hanke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For academics, the term "troubled currency" might be a term of art. But for people who are faced with such a currency, they know a troubled currency when they see one. Today, this is the case for millions of people around the world &mdash; most notably in Iran, North Korea, Argentina,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North Korea: From Hyperinflation to Dollarization?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/18/north_korea_from_hyperinflation_to_dollarization_118860.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Hanke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, North Korea has been crushed by a communist command economy, producing little besides mass starvation. More recently, the plight of North Korea&rsquo;s economy has been exacerbated by harsh, foreign economic sanctions &mdash; which only seem to have driven the regime to double...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve vs. Small Business]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/04/the_federal_reserve_vs_small_business_118681.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Hanke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Given all the attention that the Federal Reserve has garnered for its monetary &ldquo;stimulus&rdquo; programs, it&rsquo;s perplexing to many that the U.S. has been mired in a credit crunch. After all, conventional wisdom tells us that the Fed&rsquo;s policies, which have lowered...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe, a Troubled Region]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/19/europe_a_troubled_region_118042.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Hanke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most recent banking crisis in Europe erupted on the Island of Cyprus. Among other things, one result of the final EU-IMF bailout package was the imposition of capital controls, or restrictions on currency convertibility.
Currency convertibility is a simple concept. It means residents...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Malfeasant Central Bankers, Certain Recession]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/blog/Malfeasant%20Central%20Bankers%2C%20Again%2C%20November%202011%5B1%5D.pdf</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Hanke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are witnessing two inchoate, high-energy movements in the United States. The first &ndash; the so-called Tea Party movement &ndash; appeared in 2009. It is a quintessentially American revolt against the political establishment.The second &ndash; Occupy Wall Street &ndash; appeared...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Goodbye Official Recession, Hello General Slump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/blog/Good-Bye%2520Recession%2C%2520Hello%2520Slump%2C%2520July%25202011.pdf</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Hanke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. recession officially ended in June 2009. With  that, a normal post-recession boom failed to materialize. Instead, an  unwelcomed slump ensued. Since the recession bowed out, the average  annual GDP growth rate has been a paltry 1.6% &#194;&#151; well below the long-run  trend growth rate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Weak Dollar Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/04/16/the_weak_dollar_problem_109579.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Hanke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben S. Bernanke has  embraced a weak dollar policy. And he is not alone. The weak dollar  mantra is very much in evidence on most of the boulevards and in the  back alleys of Washington, D.C. The idea even has a certain appeal to  the common man on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fed Up]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/25/fed_up_96177.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Hanke</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a lot of finger pointing going on over who's to blame for the financial crisis: bankers, derivatives traders and the regulators who failed to keep an eye on them. Let me add two names that usually escape the dragnet: Fed chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his predecessor, Alan...]]></description>
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