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<title><![CDATA[Hitting the Roof!]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1261381167&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Upcoming legislation in the House of Representatives will raise the debt ceiling to more than 12 Trillion Dollars - about three-quarters of the Nation's gross domestic product (GDP).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:39:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Failed Banks Exceeds 100]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1256810561&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[<P>The FDIC's failed bank list has now officially exceeded 100 institutions for 2009.</P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:02:41 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Recession is Over? But the Depression Goes On!]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1255392146&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Some exuberantly optimistic economists are now saying that the recession is over. What do we think?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:02:26 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What Cost Samples?]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1249638538&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Despite new regulations from the Food &amp; Drug Administration, doctors continue to dispense millions of samples every day to patients around the United States. Are those samples truly free, or are there costs to pay?

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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:48:58 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lubricating Bank Credit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When the gears of a machine are out of alignment, mechanics adjust the gears and lubricate them, allowing the gears to flow more freely. So too, the gears of our economy need a mechanical adjustment. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:40:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Roadmap to a Cure]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1236903885&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[<P>In all the talk about bailouts, markets, toxic assets and government intervention heard in the media, none of the pundits or media moghuls have noticed that there isn't a real cure, only band-aid solutions. Let's look at a cure. </P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:24:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Economic Solutions in the Digital Age]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1234171150&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[While it is perfectly true that arbitrage trading could, theoretically, decline a market in a matter of seconds, are economic solutions comparably fast in the digital age? We don&#8217;t think so.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:19:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Toxic Asset Acquisition Won&#8217;t Work]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There has been much talk about restoring the original TARP plan to the acquisition of toxic assets from the banks. We don&#8217;t think it will work to restore the system. Here&#8217;s our thinking.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:30:14 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Much Stimulus is Enough to Stimulate?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As House leaders unveiled their legislation for an unprecedented $825 Billion stimulus package that includes $275 Billion in tax breaks over two years and $550 Billion in new spending, we ask whether it&#8217;s going to be enough to really stimulate economic recovery?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:04:08 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Way Home: A Keynesian Approach]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1229511623&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[For those who accept our assessment that the world is in an economic depression, which we dubbed Depression 2.0, there must be a solution that will bring the economy to recovery. Did John Maynard Keynes have the answer?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:00:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It's About Time]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1228198213&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[<P>Monday, the Business Cycle Dating Committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) determined that a U.S. recession is underway and that it began following a December 2007 peak. We predicted it in July 2007. What took them so long?</P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:10:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Exigencies of the Contemporary Economy]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1228107222&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[<P>The prognosis for a positive and quick recovery of the capital and credit markets heard recently on any variety of news outlets is fundamentally, hearsay. The truth, in the end, will prevail, but it&#8217;s scary, at best.</P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:53:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can They Alter The Inevitable?]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1227628824&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Since September, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Secretary of the Treasury Henry &#8220;Hank&#8221; Paulson have been trying desperately to prevent a global economic meltdown. Can their efforts actually work or is the crisis inevitable?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:00:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why They Pulled The TARP Over Congressional Eyes?]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1226767050&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Congress is asking Treasury why it changed the TARP program from one of toxic asset acquisition to one of capital injection into banks and financial companies.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:37:30 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Underestimating GDP]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1225417874&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[We are somewhat concerned by the report of the Bureau of Economic Analysis which showed that Real Gross Domestic Product&nbsp; decreased in the 3rd quarter by -0.3%.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:51:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Great Tsunami]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<P>Today, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform that our economy is in "in the midst of a once-in-a century credit tsunami."</P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:12:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Invest in America]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<P>Yesterday, after extensive deliberation with economists in the United States and Europe, The Epicurus Institute proposed to Congress an alternative to the Paulson Bill, which is now expected to fail once more in the House. </P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:48:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Increase the Limits Now!]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1222487821&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The time is come to wake up and smell the scent of a monetary vacuum created within our banking industry by antiquated systems, rules and regulations. In particular, the $100,000 cap on depositor insurance.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:57:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Fix Is In? Says Who?]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1222050190&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">The present economic crisis affecting the Nation will soon become a global economic depression. While few economists are willing to say so, the simple fact is that investor confidence, and indeed interbank confidence is shaken to its foundations. <BR></SPAN></P>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:23:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[When the Shoe Drops, Lookout!]]></title>
<link>http://www.epicurusinstitute.org/press/index.php?subaction=showfull&amp;id=1221439003&amp;archive=</link>
<description><![CDATA[Wall Street is poised for a massive sell-off and Lehman Brothers, one of the Street's oldest firms, is likely going to be forced into bankruptcy. Is global economic depression far behind? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:36:43 -0400</pubDate>
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