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		<title>Many Valentines, one day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don’t have to be a cynic to admit that Valentine’s Day is a big business opportunity for retailers, florists, jewelers, and restaurants.
Once the New Year’s celebration is over, the shelves at most stores become red and pink.
After Christmas, Valentine’s Day is the second -highest expenditure holiday, accounting for about $18 billion in sales.
According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the business of baseball</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignore the snow and the cold. Even though it’s only February, the hope of spring is upon us. That is, the hope that comes with Major League Baseball’s Spring Training.
It’s been a long three-plus months since the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers in the World Series. But pitchers and catchers are reporting for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When will the housing depression end?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depression — no other word fits for what has happened to the housing industry in this country for the past six years. The big question: Is this housing depression finally coming to an end?
The U.S. Census Bureau released the latest data on housing starts and building permits in the middle of January. Compared to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shouldn’t public servants face questioning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wanted to write about City of Colorado Springs’ police budget, former police chief Richard Myers refused to talk to me unless Steve Cox, who was the city’s chief of staff at the time, were present.
I thought this would be a waste of taxpayer money, and wrote about the department’s budget without Myers’ input.
When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A daunting task on the federal budget</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/2012/01/27/a-daunting-task-on-the-federal-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama will release his proposed 2012-13 budget in early February. Over subsequent months, members of Congress will debate and attempt to score political points on the budget, especially in an election year, while special interests with their snouts stuck deep in the federal trough will seek to suck up even more taxpayer dollars.
Make no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow it down</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When your daughter and her friends come home from college during winter break, you catch up on basic popular-culture phenomena. This includes terms, such as “rad” (for radical), music, and television shows, such as “Portlandia” (covered in the snobbish The New Yorker).
It’s not that high culture needs to legitimize popular culture, but rather that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad economic lessons from New York and California</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politicians love to talk about expanding exports as an economic plus. But growth in at least one kind of export is a clear negative: people.
Individuals, including entrepreneurs and investors, follow economic opportunity. If that opportunity is being restrained or squashed by costly public policies, then chances are pretty good that a state will be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Bach is well-equipped, so let him lead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I supported the strong mayor initiative and wrote favorably about the “Jenkins’ Proposal” that made it happen. I also supported Richard Skorman out of loyalty and a belief that with a new structure in place, experience would count.
A strong mayor is essential, and I now believe that Mayor Bach is the right man for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fed has added a little more clarity  to its monetary policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the business and policy fronts, 2012 started with a revelation that Federal Reserve officials would try to enhance clarity and transparency in monetary policy.
One might wonder if this is necessarily a good thing given the Fed’s actual decisions on monetary policy, especially over the past three-plus years. Do we really want to know more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2012 economic forecast</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/2012/01/13/the-2012-economic-forecast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You innocently ask people you just met what they do, and sometimes the answer isn’t what you expected.
I asked a woman I had met recently that question. The answer: dental hygienist.
Then I asked her what’s the most interesting thing she learned in that career, and she cheerfully answered that if you floss your teeth, you’ll [...]]]></description>
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