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	<description>The irrelevant, irreverent and irrational ramblings of a self-exiled Canadian yuppie peon trading his time for money in the heart of Corporate America. Stranger in a somewhat strange, though vaguely familar land trying to grok all the absurdities of modern (American Corporate) life while trying to tell an entertaining story.</description>
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		<title>We Are More by Shane Koyczan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the highlights of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games was the slam poetry reading by Shane Koyczan.  Here is there text of the poem. When defining Canada you might list some statistics you might mention our tallest building or biggest lake you might shake a tree in the fall and call a red leaf [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1261923&amp;post=118&amp;subd=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Game Theory and Morality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently reading a book on game theory.  This quote in particular caught my attention: [In game theory] acts are judged  by their consequences alone.  No moral value is placed on the act itself.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1261923&amp;post=115&amp;subd=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The puzzle of private equity &#124; Buttonwood&#8217;s notebook &#124; Economist.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<title>The truth about grit &#8211; The Boston Globe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<title>Jill and Kevin&#8217;s Wedding Entrance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<title>Thoughts on the Canadian Political Crisis &#8211; Stephen Harper You Need to Resign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadians are waking up to the mind boggling possibility that may be going into a worst recession in a generation led by a government comprised of politicians who either want to break-up the country or turn it into a socialist worker&#8217;s paradise and led by a prime minster who had not more than weeks ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1261923&amp;post=104&amp;subd=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You America</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear America, Thank you for making history. Thank you for finally turning the page on the last 8 years. The next 4 years will not be easy but thank you for taking a major step in the right direction to repair the damage of the last 8 years that arguable should never have been.   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1261923&amp;post=96&amp;subd=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama taps Wassup!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the old Wassup commericals that Bud use to run?  I remember the watching and imitating that dumb (but highly entertaining and memorable) commercial as we pulling crazy all nighters on out dot-com startup &#8211; yes THAT long ago, but good times.  (A shout out of the old crew &#8211; Jag, Paul, Tim, Urbo and Jeff!) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1261923&amp;post=93&amp;subd=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts (original and otherwise) on the Banking Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So yet another week passes and we see ourselves in deeper and deeper into this, as yet named, financial crisis (somehow &#8220;Sub-Prime&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t seem adequate anymore, the generic &#8217;2007-08 Banking Crisis&#8217; will probably be what we settle on.) And this topic has certainly been on the minds of many of my fellow classmates (primarily because of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1261923&amp;post=84&amp;subd=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Matter with Canada?  Thinking about the coming Canadian election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alvin Leung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an intriguing outside-in article decrying the decline of &#8220;good government&#8221; in Canada from Slate.com and got me thinking about the upcoming Canadian election. Yes, amazingly a US-media outlet deemed it necessary to comment on the rather fractitous state of Canadian politics especially when they have this oxygen draining Presidential poll still going down Nov 4.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1261923&amp;post=78&amp;subd=confessionsofaneconomicrefugee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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