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		<title>But Some Are More Equal than Others</title>
		<link>http://www.evehrlich.net/2008/12/but-some-are-more-equal-than-others/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports that “Google has approached…companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content…”
Well, sure – if you were Google, wouldn’t you want that?  What’s the big deal?
The big deal is this:
For several years, Google has led a coalition to “save the Internet” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Nitty Gritty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you get right down to the real nitty-gritty, as Shirley Ellis used to sing, the “net neutrality” debate comes down to this – is the market for broadband dominated by a voracious, two-headed cable-telco duopoly monster that will dominate the Internet and expropriate its transformative value?  That’s an important – if not the important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannot Sink But Will Not Swim</title>
		<link>http://www.evehrlich.net/2008/10/cannot-sink-but-will-not-swim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 1, the FCC issued a ruling that Comcast had endangered the “vibrant and open nature of the Internet” by slowing down customer use of BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer applications, and that it had misrepresented its practices to both its customers and the Commission.
The finding would appear decisive, but the Commission’s ruling has something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, That Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.evehrlich.net/2006/03/oh-that-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 10th grade daughter came home the other night with a home work assignment – to write a speech about a controversial subject.  The topic she chose was sex education in high school.  She was for it.  Her argument, with which many people disagree, was that sexual activity, like it or not, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Alan to Ben</title>
		<link>http://www.evehrlich.net/2005/10/from-alan-to-ben/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William McChesney Martin, who was Fed Chairman from Truman to Nixon, famously remarked that his job was to take away the punch bowl once the party got going.
He was referring, of course, to the Fed's role in the economy; when the economy gets too hot, and prices rise, the Fed's job is to tighten credit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>His Two Cents, For What It&#8217;s Worth</title>
		<link>http://www.evehrlich.net/2004/05/his-two-cents-for-what-its-worth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2004 17:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. — Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, submitted this exclusive piece to Outlook through Everett Ehrlich, author of the novel "Grant Speaks" (Warner, 2000) and a frequent commentator on National Public Radio.
The Treasury Department is printing up another new $50 bill with yet another new picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Mankiw and Dobbs Our Choices?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economists have looked out upon the world and pronounced it good.  Just last week, Gregory Mankiw, chair of the Council of Economics Advisors, told us that outsourcing and displacement are just another installment of the historical process of economics growth and betterment and we should stay our fears about them.  Somehow, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Political Party on a Laptop</title>
		<link>http://www.evehrlich.net/2003/12/a-political-party-on-a-laptop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. — Back in 1937, an economist named Ronald Coase realized something that helped explain the rise of modern corporations -- and which just might explain the coming decline of the American two-party political system.
Coase's insight was this: The cost of gathering information determines the size of organizations.
It sounds abstract, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gum</title>
		<link>http://www.evehrlich.net/2003/07/gum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1992, Singapore, a prosperous but somewhat up-tight city-state known for caning its criminals, decided there was too much gum on the sidewalk, so it outlawed gum. But, in response to pressure brought to bear by the U.S. government (after lobbying by the Wrigley Corporation) the Singaporeans will now let you buy sugarless gum over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grasso and Landis</title>
		<link>http://www.evehrlich.net/2003/05/grasso-and-landis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2003 17:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget how much Dick Grasso was paid. OK, ignore how much Dick Grasso was paid. The question it leaves behind is; just what is the chairman of the Stock Exchange supposed to do, anyway?
The answer is that the Chairman has two jobs. First, he’s supposed to represent the interests of the stock exchange’s owners – [...]]]></description>
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