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		<title>ER economics 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, I was sent my doctor to the ER for treatment of a boil.  I&#8217;m doing well, thank you, but it was a huge pain.  Certainly more of a pain than wild animals, but not as much of a pain as hail; overall, I&#8217;d give it a 6 out of ten. When I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=2133&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>withdrawing your pension early</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonnydegani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxes, Pensions Etc.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a general rule, withdrawing your pension early is a terrible idea.  In addition to the natural consequences of using money that will be needed later in life, a worker who withdraws early from his pension will pay a hefty fine and lose the ability to invest the withdrawn money tax free. But there are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=2022&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>fighting financial dictatorship</title>
		<link>http://shomershekalim.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/fighting-financial-dictatorship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonnydegani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Theory & Economic Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, when governments needed money to help their respective economies, their options were limited to taxing their own people and invading other countries.  Such measures were difficult; after all, people generally dislike taxation (with or without representation) and other countries have a nasty habit of defending themselves.  A few hundred years ago, this all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=2010&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>why bituach menahelim is probably (but not always) NOT a good idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonnydegani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxes, Pensions Etc.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a common story.  You sit at your desk in the full belief that your finances are in order when in walks a man from an insurance company.  He&#8217;s not employed by your company, but he works on behalf of your company’s insurance company to assist workers in planning for their retirements.  The agent gives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=1997&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>tournament theory and the medical solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonnydegani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Theory & Economic Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shomershekalim.wordpress.com/?p=1797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why your incompetent boss makes so much more than you?  Well, economists have an answer, tournament theory.  Developed about 30 years ago, tournament theory suggests that most offices are a tournament where differing workers compete for a prize, which is usually given in the form of a promotion.  Tournament theory suggests [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=1797&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Later, Not Now</title>
		<link>http://shomershekalim.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/buy-later-not-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonnydegani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Theory & Economic Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, the AACI sent out a link to what I believe is one of the most disastrous examples of journalism I have ever seen in my life.  The article, which was printed in Ha&#8217;aretz on August 8, shouts, &#8220;Buy Now, Not Later.&#8221;  In this article, the author defies logic, standard economics, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=1733&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>yad2 &#8211; another man&#8217;s treasure</title>
		<link>http://shomershekalim.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/yad2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonnydegani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Save Money Now]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months before we got married, my wife and I began searching for some furniture for our new home.  Luckily, we had friends and family with an extra computer table and even a dining room table.  The only thing we had to pay for was our bed.  Unfortunately, the only decent bed we could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=1557&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gone with Your Home</title>
		<link>http://shomershekalim.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/gone-with-your-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonnydegani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Theory & Economic Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever read or saw Gone with the Wind, you had a first hand look at one of the most peculiar economic phenomena of the 1800&#8242;s.  During the American Civil War the Union (North) had surrounded the Confederacy (South) with a naval blockade aimed to cut off the Confederate States from trade.  Overnight, blockade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=1474&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Solutions Part 2: Young Couples and Families</title>
		<link>http://shomershekalim.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/housing-solutions-young-couples-and-families/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonnydegani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Theory & Economic Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks before I got married, my wife found a small place for us to live in Petah Tikvah.  Upon seeing it, I remarked that this small apartment, all of 35 meters, would be okay for the first year of our marriage, but then we&#8217;d surely move.  Four years later I not only still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=1437&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>why Bibi is right (and why government bureaucracy is wrong)</title>
		<link>http://shomershekalim.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/bibi-is-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonnydegani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Game Theory & Economic Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot believe I am in agreement with an Op-Ed from Haaretz.  In the following piece, Nehemia Shtrasler does a fantastic job explaining Bibi&#8217;s response to the current protests, that government control is the problem and removing it is the solution, and why students are shooting themselves in the foot by not embracing this simple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shomershekalim.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7061454&amp;post=1415&amp;subd=shomershekalim&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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