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	<title>Cultural Shifts &#187; D. T. Cochrane</title>
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		<title>Marx and the current &#8216;crisis&#8217; of capitalism</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/338</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. T. Cochrane</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[autonomy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The latest upheavals in the global financial markets have revived interest in the political economic analysis of Karl Marx.  Sales of Marx&#8217;s opus Capital - which English media insists on calling by its untranslated German title, Das Kapital - have reportedly skyrocketed.  The UK Times published a lengthy commentary asking, &#8220;did he get it right?&#8220;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart: The Bank</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/260</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. T. Cochrane</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[consumption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although it has been met with stiff resistance in its efforts to offer banking services in the US, Wal-Mart has succeeded in opening a bank in Mexico.  It plans  to open 80 more by the end of 2008.  Located within their stores, the banks are targetted at low-income earning households.  Their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$7.3 billion gone?</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/257</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/257#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. T. Cochrane</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A trader with the French bank Société Générale has been implicated in fraud that cost the bank $7.3 billion.  Knowledgeable of the various security mechanisms meant to prevent this sort of fraud, Jerome Kerviel was able to hide his transactions from controllers.  It appears that Kerviel did not perpetuate the fraud for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time to stop listening</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/222</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/222#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. T. Cochrane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Editorials &amp; Interviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[liberalization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On January 8, the Toronto Star featured on its editorial page a commentary by Joseph Stiglitz. The former chief economist of the World Bank is vaguely predicting stagflation - stagnation plus inflation - and expressing his concern about how this will affect workers and consumers.  He also worries that government and central bank policies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peak oil?: Oil supply and accumulation</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/205</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/205#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. T. Cochrane</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[X-Featured]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[capital]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corporations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[differential accumulation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[liberalization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[peak oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[power theory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although a peak and decline in oil production is a geological certainty, we should question whether it is actually occurring right now. The supply of oil within the global market depends on much more than the geological realities of production.]]></description>
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		<title>Oh science, when will you learn?</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/204</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/204#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. T. Cochrane</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Notes &amp; Asides]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Truth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching a History channel series called The Universe. Apart from the horrible dramatisation of &#8217;sinister&#8217; stars and &#8216;evil&#8217; planets, something about the series has been really bothering me. It&#8217;s the arrogance with which the scientists who appear on it present their theories. In particular, one episode titled &#8216;Alien Galaxies&#8217; included a lengthy discussion [...]]]></description>
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