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		<title>It&#8217;s Damn Tough Being Master of the Universe Anymore</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/02/17/its-damn-tough-being-master-of-the-universe-anymore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of the Huffington Post: &#8220;On Wall Street, there&#8217;s some feeling that things just aren&#8217;t what they used to be.&#8221; &#8220;The industry that many allege played a fundamental role in the financial crisis is now dealing with the ramifications of the meltdown, albeit in its own way. The prospect of smaller profits combined with public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1603&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calling a Brief Timeout</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/01/25/calling-a-brief-timeout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Les AuCoin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2nd edit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that it&#8217;s an earth-shaking announcement  or anything, but I&#8217;ve decided to dedicate all my available hours in the rest of the month and February to meeting a big editorial deadline. My silence does not connote agreement or disagreement with any of the world&#8217;s madness that&#8217;s sure to transpire! My best advice: keep your heads [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1640&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bonamici Meets the Wayne Morse Test</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/01/17/why-its-bonamici-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I watch the special election campaign unfold in Oregon’s First Congressional District—the seat I captured for Democrats for the first time 38 years ago—I think of advice the iconic Senator Wayne Morse gave me in my first race in 1974. In the darkness of his car at the end of a long day of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1615&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Moyers is Back&#8211;With Woody Guthrie as a Metaphor</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/01/13/bill-moyers-is-back-with-woody-guthrie-as-a-metaphor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Predatory Capitalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Moyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Predatory capitalism has aroused Bill Moyers to come out of retirement in the effort to take the country back from Bain Capital and return it to its people. His new show, Moyers and Company, premieres tonight on PBS. In this program announcement, Moyers uses the life of the iconic Woody Guthrie as a metaphor for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1609&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come, Children &amp; Ye Shall Hear How Wall Street Is a Black Marketeer</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/01/06/come-children-ye-shall-hear-how-wall-street-is-a-black-marketeer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to arm you against Tea Party arguments that suggest government rather than unchecked, runaway capitalism on Wall Street created the economic mess we&#8217;re in and that, instead, the financial industry must be regulated to prevent an even worse economic meltdown. In a recent book review in this space, I wrote about Wall Street&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1538&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review of &#8216;Confidence Men&#8217;&#8211;A Forensics Study of the Economic Crash</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/01/06/book-review-of-confidence-men-a-forensics-study-of-the-economic-crash/</link>
		<comments>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/01/06/book-review-of-confidence-men-a-forensics-study-of-the-economic-crash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street & the Education of a President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind, is the work of the first author who had inside access to the Obama White House. Suskind doesn&#8217;t waste his opportunity; he names names of culprits in the greatest failure of the American financial system since the Great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1519&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newt Really, Truly Hates Slash &amp; Burn Politics. (Now.)</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/01/05/newt-really-truly-hates-slash-burn-politics-now/</link>
		<comments>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/01/05/newt-really-truly-hates-slash-burn-politics-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. Newt&#8217;s shrieks of protest against the cutting ads being used against him are making me go, &#8220;Ooooh, noooo!&#8217; After all, through the years, these are some of the little candy kisses this dollop of human kindness  has tossed off at his opponents: &#8220;The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1509&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A List Of &#8220;Don&#8217;ts&#8221; To Make You Happy</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2012/01/02/a-list-of-donts-to-make-you-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal happiness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new year is a good time to review the personal rules by which we live. These seem to have worked for me: Don&#8217;t spend time with the wrong people. Life’s too short to spend with people who suck happiness out of you. Mix with people who nurture, care, amaze, and stimulate you. Don&#8217;t hold [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1492&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s: Cioppino, Pinot Gris &amp; Just Us Two</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2011/12/31/new-years-cioppino-pinot-gris-just-us-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 06:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sue and I are usually homebodies on New Year&#8217;s Eve. Time to notch another mark in time together (in June, it will be 48 years!) and bask in the memories we&#8217;ve made. Tonight we saw the New Year in with candlelight, Sue&#8217;s cioppino, and a great Pinot Gris from Oregon&#8217;s King Estates. I really don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1477&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NW Indians Welcome the New Year in &#8220;The Longhouse Way&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://lesaucoin.org/2011/12/31/nw-indians-welcome-the-new-year-in-the-longhouse-way/</link>
		<comments>http://lesaucoin.org/2011/12/31/nw-indians-welcome-the-new-year-in-the-longhouse-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les AuCoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Other Americans could learn a lot from the traditional Native American concept of &#8220;the gift economy.&#8221; Simply put, it is reverence for the gifts Nature gives us for nourishment and other life-supports. Which means, take what one needs and no more. Do not waste natural gifts, be it fish, mammal or fowl. Do not despoil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lesaucoin.org&amp;blog=10274505&amp;post=1463&amp;subd=thelesaucoin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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