<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The Institute for Economic Democracy &#187; Economic Democracy: A Grand &#8230;</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.ied.info/blog/category/breviews/economic-democracy-a-grand/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.ied.info</link>
	<description>Sustainable World Development -- Elimination of Poverty and Wars</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:48:04 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Stopping this Financial Crisis in its tracks, Eliminating Poverty, and Providing Full and Equal Rights for All.</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/1336/stopping-this-financial-crisis-in-its-tracks-eliminating-poverty-and-provide-full-and-equal-rights-for-all</link>
		<comments>http://www.ied.info/blog/1336/stopping-this-financial-crisis-in-its-tracks-eliminating-poverty-and-provide-full-and-equal-rights-for-all#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Democracy: A Grand ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ied.info/?p=1336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A short summary on causes of poverty and how society can restructure to full and equal rights for each citizen during this global financial crisis and reduce employed labor time and resource consumption by half without loss of quality of life.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.ied.info/blog/1336/stopping-this-financial-crisis-in-its-tracks-eliminating-poverty-and-provide-full-and-equal-rights-for-all/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Updated Books: Money; A Mirror Image of the Economy, and Economic Democracy; A Grand Strategy for World Peace and Prosperity</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/1350/updated-books-money-and-economic-democracy-a-grand-strategy-for-peace</link>
		<comments>http://www.ied.info/blog/1350/updated-books-money-and-economic-democracy-a-grand-strategy-for-peace#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Democracy: A Grand ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money; A Mirror Image of the Economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ied.info/?p=1350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Institute for Economic Democracy and IED Press are pleased to announce newly updated revisions of two of our main books: <a href="/books/money">Money: A Mirror Image of the Economy</a> and <a href="/books/economic-democracy-world-peace">Economic Democracy: A Grand Strategy for World Peace and Prosperity</a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.ied.info/blog/1350/updated-books-money-and-economic-democracy-a-grand-strategy-for-peace/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>An Open Letter to President Barack Obama&#8217;s Economic Recovery Team: Full and Equal Rights and a Quality life for All</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/1247/hank-paulson%e2%80%99s-and-ben-bernake%e2%80%99s-gamble-with-unlimited-creations-of-money-stopping-the-financial-crash-in-its-tracks-and-restructuring-to-full-and-equal-rights-and-a-quality-life-for</link>
		<comments>http://www.ied.info/blog/1247/hank-paulson%e2%80%99s-and-ben-bernake%e2%80%99s-gamble-with-unlimited-creations-of-money-stopping-the-financial-crash-in-its-tracks-and-restructuring-to-full-and-equal-rights-and-a-quality-life-for#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bail Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Democracy: A Grand ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundamental Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ied.info/?p=1247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By J.W. Smith With the world economy still imploding the U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pulled out all stops. The Federal Funds rate was dropped essentially to zero and they declared their intention to recapitalize financial institutions through buying up their worthless debt, taking an ownership position through buying [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.ied.info/blog/1247/hank-paulson%e2%80%99s-and-ben-bernake%e2%80%99s-gamble-with-unlimited-creations-of-money-stopping-the-financial-crash-in-its-tracks-and-restructuring-to-full-and-equal-rights-and-a-quality-life-for/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Bailout-Rescue Main Street, Alternative Solutions</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/1195/bailout-rescue-main-street-alternative-solutions</link>
		<comments>http://www.ied.info/blog/1195/bailout-rescue-main-street-alternative-solutions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bail Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Democracy: A Grand ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundamental Economics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ied.info/blog/1195/bailout-rescue-main-street-alternative-solutions</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Macro-economics can be compared to using a Rube Goldberg machine to scramble and fry an egg, and the end result is significantly delayed, plus the egg will be full of egg shells.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.ied.info/blog/1195/bailout-rescue-main-street-alternative-solutions/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives, The Federal Reserve, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and How the Financial Crash Could Have Been Avoided</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/1165/credit-default-swaps-derivatives-the-federal-reserve-henry-paulson-ben-bernanke-and-how-the-financial-crash-could-have-been-avoided</link>
		<comments>http://www.ied.info/blog/1165/credit-default-swaps-derivatives-the-federal-reserve-henry-paulson-ben-bernanke-and-how-the-financial-crash-could-have-been-avoided#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bail Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Democracy: A Grand ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundamental Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ied.info/?p=1165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By J.W. Smith Steve Kroft in Sixty Minutes did a great job describing what credit default swaps were and how they were bringing down the biggest banking houses in the nation. As explained in the above video, credit default swaps are nothing but insurance policies given a different name so as to avoid retaining the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.ied.info/blog/1165/credit-default-swaps-derivatives-the-federal-reserve-henry-paulson-ben-bernanke-and-how-the-financial-crash-could-have-been-avoided/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Georgia&#8217;s South Ossetia war Has a Connection to American Airmen Finishing Out Their Lives in Soviet Prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/961/georgias-south-ossetia-war-has-a-connection-to-amerian-airmen-finishing-out-their-lives-in-soviet-prisons</link>
		<comments>http://www.ied.info/blog/961/georgias-south-ossetia-war-has-a-connection-to-amerian-airmen-finishing-out-their-lives-in-soviet-prisons#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Democracy: A Grand ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ied.info/?p=961</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Russia's defense of Slavic people of South Ossetia when Georgia, under America's tutelage, attacked that break-a-way province is being portrayed by many as Russian aggression.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.ied.info/blog/961/georgias-south-ossetia-war-has-a-connection-to-amerian-airmen-finishing-out-their-lives-in-soviet-prisons/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Corporate Control of Food, Facing Famine &amp; Starvation, Solving the Current Food Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/913/corporate-control-of-food-facing-famine-starvation-solving-the-current-food-crisis</link>
		<comments>http://www.ied.info/blog/913/corporate-control-of-food-facing-famine-starvation-solving-the-current-food-crisis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Democracy: A Grand ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundamental Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ied.info/?p=913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by J.W. Smith We would like to hear from those who can expand upon these perceptions. Early corporations burned all the spice trees they could not control so as to maintain the high price of spices. Modern corporations controlled America&#8217;s foreign policy, Destroying the farming industry of poor countries through selling highly-subsidized, thus low-priced, grains [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.ied.info/blog/913/corporate-control-of-food-facing-famine-starvation-solving-the-current-food-crisis/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Economic Democracy: A Grand Plan&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/844/economic-democracy-a-grand-plan</link>
		<comments>http://www.ied.info/blog/844/economic-democracy-a-grand-plan#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Democracy: A Grand ...]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ied.info/?p=844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Books News, Inc. has posted several reviews for this book in their web site. Here is a copy of the reviews: Economic democracy; a grand strategy for world peace and prosperity; green economics for sustainable development, 2d ed. Smith, J. W. Institute for Economic Democracy, ©2008 476 p. $35.00 HC79 978-1-933567-10-5 In Money: A Mirror [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.ied.info/blog/844/economic-democracy-a-grand-plan/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a $5.2 Trillion Bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://www.ied.info/blog/776/fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-a-52-trillion-bankruptcy</link>
		<comments>http://www.ied.info/blog/776/fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-a-52-trillion-bankruptcy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jwsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bail Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Democracy: A Grand ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundamental Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ied.info/?p=776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By J.W. Smith When established in the 1930s, Fannie Mae was a government sponsored, non-profit financial institution, designed to provide low-cost home loans to a nation traumatized by the Great Depression. In 1970, FMae was privatized so as to remove it from the federal budget and Freddie Mac was established the same year. As government [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.ied.info/blog/776/fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-a-52-trillion-bankruptcy/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
