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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; finance</title>
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		<title>The True Cost of Wind Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/05/02/the-true-cost-of-wind-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 03:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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The problem with wind energy is that it drives prices down!  From Bloomberg news:
After years of getting government incentives to install windmills, operators in Europe may have become their own worst enemy, reducing the total price paid for electricity in Germany, Europe’s biggest power market, by as much as 5 billion euros some years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biggest Con in History EVAH!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/03/the-biggest-con-in-history-evah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr.hoo</dc:creator>
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Matt Taibbi breaks it down (once again).  Make the time to read this and you&#8217;ll get a much better grasp on the insane shit that&#8217;s gone down over the past year of &#8220;recovery&#8221;. This &#8220;bailout&#8221; has been like having the guy who mugged you sending you his dry cleaning bills for getting your blood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Know It&#8217;s Gauche to Quote Oneself, But&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/22/i-know-its-gauche-to-quote-oneself-but/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;I just can&#8217;t resist.  This is something I wrote right here on this here blog-o-thingy waaaaaaaay back in October of 2008:
the Democratic Party is happy to use the efforts of thousands of dedicated volunteers to elect their candidate; don’t expect the Democrats to return the favor, when those thousands of people are demanding mortgage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Imperial Conquest of Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/22/the-imperial-conquest-of-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come to think of it, this would explain the $700 BILLION bailout of the banking sector&#8230;

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		<title>Wait, Those Weren&#8217;t Suggestions?</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/11/19/wait-those-werent-suggestions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s &#8220;Seven Deadly Sins&#8221; sound more like the Mission Statement for the leaders of the transnational corporations that dominate our society!

1. Wealth Without Work
2. Pleasure Without Conscience
3. Knowledge Without Character
4. Commerce Without Morality
5. Science Without Humanity
6. Religion Without Sacrifice
7. Politics Without Principle

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		<title>Nice Work If You Can Get It</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/08/23/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Rate that banks pay the Federal Reserve to borrow money for up to 90 days, &#8220;No Questions Asked&#8221;: 0.5%.
Rate that banks pay depositors for regular savings accounts: 0.05%.
Rate that banks charge borrowers for borrowing money with many &#8220;questions asked&#8221;: 5.25%.
Nice work, if you can get it.
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		<title>Should&#8217;ve Paid Attention in &#8220;Stocks for Jocks&#8221; (EC 10)</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/07/22/shouldve-paid-attention-in-stocks-for-jocks-ec-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/07/22/shouldve-paid-attention-in-stocks-for-jocks-ec-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Writing in Vanity Fair, Nina Munk explores Harvard&#8217;s staggering endowment losses in Fiscal 2009 (the amount they lost that year is about DOUBLE the total amount of the endowment in 1993):
last December [2008], the university sold $2.5 billion worth of bonds, increasing its total debt to just over $6 billion&#8230;
To be clear, even if you’d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winners and Losers (which are you?)</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/07/21/winners-and-losers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr.hoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like not everyone is hurting in this economic downturn. Check out Matt Taibi&#8217;s recent RS article in which he uncovers how Goldman Sachs has managed to manipulate markets and their own regulators to make the major economic bubbles of the past 100 years into massive profit booms for their firm. Even now, they have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billyburg Bust</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/07/14/billyburg-bust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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An article in New York magazine discusses the dozens of stalled or foreclosed residential construction projects in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn&#8230; home to some dear friends of Noise Is Information.
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		<title>Canada to Sell, Buy, &#8220;Non-Self-Sustaining&#8221; Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/06/02/canada-to-sell-buy-non-self-sustaining-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/06/02/canada-to-sell-buy-non-self-sustaining-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[






See if you can discern the principle at work in these two news reports below.
First, from yesterdays&#8217; National Post:
The [Canadian] federal Department of Finance has flagged several prominent Crown corporations as &#8220;not self-sustaining,&#8221; including the CBC, VIA Rail and the National Arts Centre, and has identified them as entities that could be sold as part [...]]]></description>
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