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				<title>Inflation Isn't the Point of Monetary Easing (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14327</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Matt O&#8217;Brien has been doing some great coverage of monetary policy recently. He and I agree that the Fed ought to be pursuing a more expansionary monetary policy. However, I think his specific argument for monetary easing isn&#8217;t quite right:


Why is steadily rising NGDP so important? ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Why Inflation Isn't a Moral Issue (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14281</link>
				<description><![CDATA[One of the recurring themes you see in debates over monetary policy is the idea that inflation is a moral issue. People will often point out indignantly that today&#8217;s dollar is worth only five percent of what dollars were worth a century ago. Inflation hawks sometimes describe inflation as a ki...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Mirage of Free-Market Roads (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14244</link>
				<description><![CDATA[If you're driving through certain West African countries, you'll be stopped every few miles by armed men&#8212;often in police uniforms&#8212;who will demand payment in exchange for letting you pass.

I have a somewhat similar experience every time I drive from my home in Philadelphia to Washingto...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Real Victims in the Patent Wars (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=14144</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Last May, James Thompson, the maker of a popular calculator app for the iPhone, got a nasty surprise. "Just got hit by very worrying threat of patent infringement lawsuit," he tweeted.

The letter came from a Texas company called Lodsys LLC. The firm, widely described as a "patent troll," doesn't ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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