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	<title>Grey Swan &#187; Society</title>
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		<title>Public Sector Unions Must be Banned</title>
		<link>http://greyswan.net/2009/01/public-sector-unions-must-be-banned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a major underlying theme with the rapidly growing state and federal debt &#8212; unions. Over the past 30 years unions have won lucrative defined benefits contracts that placed affordable benefits in the present (e.g. 1978), but pushed off unafordable benefits to the future. Police officers could work for 20 years, and then retire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Cooling</title>
		<link>http://greyswan.net/2008/05/global-cooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 18:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grey Swan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of debate about global warming this past year as temperatures have failed to rise. Of course climate is a complex topic and there are many factors that contribute to how warm or coool a particular year will be. Everything from sunspots to ocean currents have an important impact on global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The US Forever</title>
		<link>http://greyswan.net/2008/05/the-us-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grey Swan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love America. I like western culture. I don’t ever want to be oppressed by people from another country. A long time ago I would have thought these thoughts and then moved on to playing a game or read a book. But unfortunately, now I am worried enough to shut down the Xbox360 and blog. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Demographer&#8217;s Folly</title>
		<link>http://greyswan.net/2007/07/the-demographers-folly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grey Swan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author&#8217;s Note: I have returned home from extended vacation and hope to begin frequent blogs again.
Alarmists have trumpeted the end of the world for many years. Now, a simple extrapolation of continued low fertility rates in Japan predict the last Japanese person will die around the year 2600 (give or take a few hundred years). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Price of Luxury Goods is Spiraling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily news reports stress that the price of luxury good tends to increase faster than the rate of inflation. Increasingly, middle and upper middle class families are being priced out of the luxury good market altogether. Why? I believe that a combination of age old factors and new trends are the root cause. This includes [...]]]></description>
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