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		<title>Are we addicted or spoiled when it comes to oil?&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First in a three-Part series on energy &#160; Oil and politics mix like, well, oil and water. In his 2006 State of the Union address, for example, George W. Bush declared, “America is addicted to oil.” It was a striking and bewildering comment from a Republican president, not to mention a former oilman. As for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perry Sanders and shrewd dealing&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 15:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest J.P. Morgan debacle concerns the loss of $2 billion thanks to ill-conceived trades that were intended to hedge risk. It’s the tip of an iceberg of similar activity that many consider to be shrewd entrepreneurial dealing — but it is not. Any kind of arbitrage, despite however Wall Street might justify it, ends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business opportunities and threats in China&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When talking about doing business in China, two words tend to come up time and time again: opportunities and threats. That was the case at a Hofstra University (Long Island, New York) conference on May 8 titled “US-China: Opportunities for New Business Partnerships.” Speakers included executives doing business in China, academics, economists, media members, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is college worth it?&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 1,300 students will be graduating from UCCS today, so it seems like an opportune time to once again question whether higher education is worth the money? Let’s take a look at some statistics. A National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education study showed 57 percent of the 2,142 Americans surveyed claimed that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earnings fairness&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of residents are angry about the decision to pay former Memorial Health System CEO Larry McEvoy more than $1.15 million in severance. But, who’s to blame? Is it McEvoy? The hospital board of trustees that approved the severance amount? Or is it City Council, the governing body that holds the board of trustees accountable? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus and bailouts — told you so&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come on, admit it: It’s fun to say, “I told you so.” Unfortunately, there are times when you wish that you were not able to do so. For me, as a free-market economist, that’s been the case with the economy for more than four-and-a-half years now. Of course, a Nobel Prize in economics wasn’t necessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An MBA’s value in the most unexpected places&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who needs an MBA? Well, you might be surprised. As a business columnist, economist, and adjunct professor in an MBA program, I often see the value of business principles and ideas in different situations. And I’m not just talking about owning, managing and working in a business, or making assorted career choices. Beyond such obvious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of two cities&#160;</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/2012/05/04/a-tale-of-two-cities-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of Charles Dickens’ famous novel about Paris and London during the French Revolution, we are talking about Colorado Springs Utilities and the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department, representing two radically different “cities” or mindsets. Dickens’ opening paragraph still resonates: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadband Internet helping start-ups&#160;</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/2012/04/27/broadband-internet-helping-start-ups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raymond Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking the plunge into the waters of entrepreneurship can be invigorating, enriching and/or downright dangerous. If a startup succeeds, it means the owner is providing a good or service that others need or want, and supplying it at a profit. However, owning and operating a business is a risky, costly endeavor. Just consider that 31 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our drug dilemma&#160;</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/2012/04/27/our-drug-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Sassower</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to understand why former vice-president Dick Cheney claims that President Obama has been an “unmitigated disaster,” but it’s evident that even his progressive supporters are becoming disenchanted with him. In the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia regional presidents discussed the effects of drug traffic to the U.S. and the failed policies [...]]]></description>
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