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	<description>"Many creative writers keep journals; the sociologist's need for systematic reflection demands it." -C. Wright Mills</description>
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		<title>Perfect Urban Storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYTimes reports on the ongoing crisis for cities in the current economic crisis. It seems to be the perfect storm that threatens to bring back the cities of the 1980s.
“This is the first time for at least two decades that all three major general tax sources — property, income and sales — have all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cuzproduces.com/index.php/2008/10/07/perfect-urban-storm/</link>
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		<title>Back on the Mac!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dow may have gone plummeted to sub-10,000 levels, but I&#8217;m soaring! My folks dropped off my old Marconi frameset (the &#8220;Macaroni&#8221; as CH would call it) on Saturday and I got a chance to reassemble it and go for a ride yesterday. After a few weeks of jogging, which became much more pleasant once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cuzproduces.com/index.php/2008/10/06/back-on-the-mac/</link>
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		<title>Stiglitz on the crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know, I like Joe Stiglitz more and more. Though I&#8217;ve been fortunate to have a much appreciated fellowship with him, his star status and the all-too-frequent sycophantic behavior I&#8217;ve seen people indulge around him has led me to be unduly skeptical. And of course, the fact that he is an economist (albeit a liberal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cuzproduces.com/index.php/2008/10/03/stiglitz-on-the-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Bike Hook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JS and team (?) have entered this proposal in a competition to redesign the bicycle infrastructure of Red Hook. Lots of great ideas, including free movies from the &#8220;Beer Barge&#8221;.
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		<link>http://www.cuzproduces.com/index.php/2008/10/03/bike-hook/</link>
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		<title>Short-selling the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYTimes has an article on the growth of credit-default swaps in municipal and state bonds. The &#8220;benefit&#8221; of a market in CDSs for cities and states is that it is supposed to introduce financial discipline to government financing and compel weak entities to shore up their financing. Basically, this submits legislation even more effectively [...]]]></description>
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