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	<title>The Curious Capitalist &#187; Justin Fox</title>
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		<title>The jobs report: You have to admit, it&#039;s getting better</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/12/04/the-jobs-report-you-have-to-admit-its-getting-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate is down to 10%. Payroll employment, a more reliable month-to-month indicator, was "essentially unchanged." That's Bureau of Labor Statistics lingo for 11,000 fewer jobs than the month before. So the number is still negative, but after 21 straight months of 100,000+ job losses, it's pretty encouraging news.
Now for the usual caveats. These [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7603&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comcast goes one direction, Time Warner the opposite</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February, my employer, Time Warner, announced the completion of its spinoff of Time Warner Cable, the country's second-biggest cable system operator. Said Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes at the time:
We're confident that this separation will benefit Time Warner and Time Warner Cable stockholders. Both companies will be better positioned to compete, with capital [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7599&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In LA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lack of posting. Been on the move, and been sleepy. I'm currently sitting in a hotel room in downtown LA, getting ready for a Drucker Business Forum chat with Kai Ryssdal and Paul Zak about rational/irrational markets and then a radio interview on KPCC's AirTalk with Larry Mantle. And while we're on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7585&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are finance professors to blame for the financial crisis (part 3)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Coggan, a.k.a. The Economist's Buttonwood columnist, steers me to
a strange piece in the Financial Times today which attacks (without naming) Justin Fox's book The Myth of the Rational Market.
The column is basically a rehash of a blog post by Gene Fama, which I addressed here a couple of weeks ago. And it doesn't exactly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7579&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New column: All that glitters (it&#039;s about gold, get it?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new column is online and in the issue of TIME with the crying baby on the cover.
While we're on the topic of the cover, I should mention that Andy Serwer's cover story on The Decade From Hell is not purely an exercise in looking through the rearview mirror. Well, actually, it is mostly an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7575&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing without advertising the Ikea way</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/30/marketing-without-advertising-the-ikea-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the story, via Chris Matyszczyk, of how Ikea used Facebook to promote a new store in Malmö, Sweden:

It's all very clever. And it reinforced a belief of mine that this is the main reason why traditional media are struggling all over the world. It's not so much the decline in the number of people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7571&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This year&#039;s (gingerbread) model</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/29/this-years-gingerbread-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It's this year's gingerbread "house," built in the days after Thanksgiving by Curious Capitalist Jr., his maternal grandparents and his mother (I had nothing to do with it). Another view:

and the interior:

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		<title>Time to panic again! Or, on second thought ...</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/27/time-to-panic-again-or-on-second-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was too busy smashing potatoes (with shallots, butter and cream), falling asleep in front of the TV with the Giants-Broncos game on, and other such important matters Thursday to pay attention to the global market freakout occasioned by Dubai World's announcement that it was going to stop paying its debt bills for six [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7557&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Smurfsgiving</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/26/happy-smurfsgiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
From the tail end of this morning's parade. And then these guys came along:

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		<title>I gave a speech about Fischer Black, and all I got was this not-at-all-lousy T-shirt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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Aaron Brown organized an event at Bloomberg HQ tonight to celebrate the reissue of the late Fischer Black's books Business Cycles and Equilibrium and Exploring General Equilibrium. Haven't read 'em, so I told some Fischer Black stories from my book. And I got this swell T-shirt. If I weren't so tired I'd tell more (maybe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7546&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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