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	<title>Bye Bye Blue Smoke</title>
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		<title>Debt debate is tyrrany of bad ideas; stoner mark needs a job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess it&#8217;s been a year since I last blogged; maybe this is a yearly thing. Professor Krugman posts on the internal economic debate within the administration circa 2009, quoting Christine Romer as saying that there were many in the administration who wanted to shift to talking about the deficit after the stimulus was passed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2011/06/07/debt-debate-is-tyrrany-of-bad-ideas-stoner-mark-needs-a-job/</link>
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		<title>Linen Pants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello non-existent readers! I&#8217;ve been away for a while; much has happened. I learned about war and peace, and endured a cambridge winter. the spine is thicker, and the gut wider. Here&#8217;s a poem. Linen pants I’m no longer depressed Because I discovered Linen pants They were dressy, but comfortable They felt clean, and casual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2010/06/09/linen-pants/</link>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t care what you think of my cornbread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago today, Matthew Peter Gibney died from complications of whiskey, etc.. Matt was a metal guitar master, and, from what I can gather, a bit of a minor celebrity in the Jersey metal scene. He was funny as hell, in a very unique way. Take the cornbread track below for example. (The line [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2010/01/28/i-dont-care-what-you-think-of-my-cornbread/</link>
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		<title>How Peter Orszag destroyed Health Care (or, YOU LIE!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long break for me, during which I left the beautiful world of boutique finance to return to the New York Fed for a summer of number crunching. I&#8217;m now starting a Masters in Political Science at MIT, focusing on security, so this blog is going to be changing substantially: I hope to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2009/09/17/how-peter-orszag-destroyed-health-care-or-you-lie/</link>
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		<title>American Corporatism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#34;controlled bankruptcy&#34; of GM to be announced tomorrow (editorialized by Robert Reich here ) has got me thinking back on a class I took in college with Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps. Phelps&#8217;s class was refreshing for its historical and sociological perspective (and doubly refreshing for its lack of problem-sets) and its focus on seeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2009/06/01/american-corporatism/</link>
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		<title>The Dawn of Princely Capitalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back from a long blogging-vacation. I also find myself in the odd position of returning to the NY Fed to do some work on the financial crisis for a few months, so let me take this opportunity to take back all the bad things I said about the place in my previous posts. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2009/05/26/the-dawn-of-princely-capitalism/</link>
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		<title>Fuzzy math behind the bank bailout plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, and Jeffrey Sachs have all now published articles debunking the logic behind Tim Geithner&#8217;s bank rescue plan. The Stiglitz article does the best job, showing how the plan perfectly mirrors all the bad practices that got us into the financial crisis in the first place. All three articles attempted to give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2009/04/01/fuzzy-math-behind-the-bank-bailout-plan/</link>
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		<title>The saga of stoner Mark, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In financial news, Tim Geithner has at last unveiled the administration&#8217;s plans to deal with the toxic assets infecting bank balance sheets. The plan assumes, contrary to all evidence, that the problem currently facing the global financial system is one of liquidity, not solvency&#8211;i.e. if mortgage-backed assets were properly valued, they&#8217;d be worth much more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2009/03/28/the-saga-of-stoner-mark-part-2/</link>
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		<title>De-privatize the Fed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three sets of facts: As reported in the Times and elsewhere, AIG is still paying bonuses and won&#8217;t disclose the recipients of their bailout funds, mainly counterparties to credit default swaps at large investment banks. The Fed itself has resisted inquiries by Congress to disclose AIG counterparties who are receiving bailout money, and has denied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2009/03/15/de-privatize-the-fed/</link>
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		<title>Fear, Pervesity and Regret in Our Crumbling Chinese Castle, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A post in my ongoing series on the long-term aspects of the current economic crisis: Our Crumbling Chinese Castle: My previous post in this series posed the open question of whether and how financial chicanery on Wall Street &#8211;what I&#8217;m calling silly paper games&#8211;could lead to permanent wealth destruction in the US and a potentially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://darkcomedyhour.com/byebye/2009/02/17/fear-pervesity-and-regret-in-our-crumbling-chinese-castle-part-2/</link>
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