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		<title>Entrepreneurship Helps Make America Great</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/06/entrepreneurship-helps-make-america-great/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[6/30/2010 &#8211; John Stossel -
For all its problems, America is a great place. And one thing that makes America great is its prosperity. Yes, some people have suffered during the recession &#8212; but compared to all the other countries in the history of the world, America is rich. Why?
One reason is that America is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Zappos Delivers Happiness</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/06/how-zappos-delivers-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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6/1/2010 &#8211; Gregory Ferenstein &#8211; 
The funny thing about business books is that for many stories, there are countless counterexamples of  management philosophies that are radically different, yet still successful. What is inspiring about Zappos.com, the world’s largest online shoe retailer, is that it is possible for a business to be founded on curiosity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Reasons to Rely on Private Sector Markets</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/04/top-10-reasons-to-rely-on-private-sector-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Freedom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[4/27/2010 &#8211; John Pisciotta &#8211; Acton &#8211;
Americans have less confidence and trust in government today than at any time since the 1950s. This is the conclusion of the Pew Research Center survey released in mid-April. Just 22 percent expressed trust in government to deliver effective policies almost always or most of the time. With the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Rules For Website Design</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/04/six-rules-for-website-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inc.com &#124; Crispin Porter and Scott Prindle &#124; 4/1/2010
These days, its more crucial than ever to make a good first impression online. If your website is hard to navigate or just boring to look at, you’re probably not going to get many repeat visitors. Crispin Porter + Bogusky&#8217;s partner managing director of interactive Winston Binch, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profit Over Principles</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/03/profit-over-principles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Competitiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethical Self-Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Townhall.com &#124; by Cal Thomas &#124; 3/2/2010
When Toyota President Akio Toyoda testified last week before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, an attitude was exposed that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) correctly characterized as fostering a &#8220;cutthroat corporate&#8221; environment that placed costs ahead of quality and safety. Such a priority would have been anathema [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Suffer, While Government Workers Prosper</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/02/americans-suffer-while-government-workers-prosper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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Yet another travesty is unfolding before our eyes in these United States of America.  While tens of millions of Americans continue to struggle through difficult economic conditions, with hundreds of thousands more losing their jobs every month, tens of thousands more losing their homes and their businesses, and millions more facing salary cuts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s &#8216;Free&#8217; Falling Economy</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/02/americas-free-falling-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investor&#8217;s Business Daily &#124; Feb. 1, 2010
The latest index of economic freedom shows America falling fast, being ranked for the first time as &#8220;mostly free.&#8221; We&#8217;ve fallen behind Canada, and it&#8217;s look out below.
Our accelerating descent into a command-and-control economy with government pulling the strings is taking its toll.
The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s 2010 index of leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crash Course</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2010/01/crash-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FT &#124; Review by  John Gapper &#124; Jan. 22, 2010
Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road from Glory to Disaster &#8211; by Paul Ingrassia

Japanese car companies, which overtook US ones in the early 21st century, leading to the bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler last year, used a method of industrial innovation called kaizen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Streamlining Innovation</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2009/12/streamlining-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes &#124; by Sramana Mitra &#124; Dec. 11, 2009
America is in dire need of some breakthrough innovation that can crack open significant new horizons. Yet, every year, numerous corporate and academic labs spend millions working on projects that have no commercial future, no application, no real justification for their existence. At best, they represent the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Liberate an Economy</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2009/10/how-to-liberate-an-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs understand the importance of freedom in the workplace.
City Journal &#124; by Guy Sorman &#124; October 21, 2009

Brian Carney and Isaac Getz’s Freedom, Inc. is a timely book. It’s also countercyclical and somewhat counterintuitive. After all, most of today’s writing about economics and business is haunted by the current crisis: nearly every author and commentator [...]]]></description>
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