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	<title>Predictioneers Game</title>
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	<description>Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future</description>
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		<title>Update and Remarks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the long silence. I thought I would just engage in a little brazen self-interest and get you caught up on what I have been doing. The last half of the last chapter of The Predictioneer&#8217;s Game predicted failure at Copenhagen and highlighted why it would fail &#8212; especially the differences between the US, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan Corruption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To reduce Afghan corruption, Secretary Clinton could ask for a simple-to-implement concession. Select an outside agency (a major accounting firm, for instance) to audit Afghanistan&#8217;s books and the financial records of its senior government officials and senior civil servants. For the first audit &#8212; to be conducted based on the records as of one day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audio and Kindle Users: Figures for Book on Book Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several Kindle readers and audio book users asked me to make the figures available. They are in a pdf file available through the Book page.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.predictioneersgame.com/audio-and-kindle-users-figures-for-book-on-book-page</link>
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		<title>Iran rejects IAEA-brokered proposal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s news tells us that &#8221; And in a sermon at the main weekly prayers in Tehran on Friday, hardline cleric Ahmad Khatami gave vent to the misgivings of many in the regime. &#8220;What guarantee do we have that if we deliver our enriched uranium, we will get the fuel?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;If they want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.predictioneersgame.com/iran-rejects-iaea-brokered-proposal</link>
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		<title>Abbas about to depart. What it means</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Palestinian moderate leader Abbas indicating he will not seek re-election we must ask where the prospects for peace between Israel and Palestine are headed and why. I am ever optimistic that peace will push its way into that corner of the world by the end of Obama&#8217;s first term, but I must admit that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Mid-East Negotiations Started? How About, Continued!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Clinton is in the mid-east urging Israel&#8217;s government to stop the construction of further settlements and working on measures to build trust between the two sides. Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister obkjects that there should be no preconditions imposed on Israel before agreeing to start negotiations. Give me a break: start negotiations! These tired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.predictioneersgame.com/get-mid-east-negotiations-started-how-about-continued</link>
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		<title>My car-buying method put to the test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, Sorry for the long silence. I am being kept pretty busy on the book tour circuit. Having just returned from London and Dublin, I thought you might enjoy an article from the Irish Times. It seems the author of the article, starting out as a skeptic, put my car-buying approach to the test in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.predictioneersgame.com/my-car-buying-method-put-to-the-test</link>
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		<title>Stock Market Predictions: I Wish!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I am asked to pick stocks which I do with about the same rate of success as monkey with darts. My models are about strategic interaction in situations in which negotiation is possible and so is the threat or realization of coercion, bullying, or simple pressure. A properly functioning market does not have the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.predictioneersgame.com/stock-market-predictions-i-wish</link>
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		<title>What You Need To Know About Why Gov&#8217;t Programs Always Grow: Listen to Game Theory!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Health care reform is certainly one of the hottest policy questions around. Who wouldn’t want someone else’s help covering the costs of illness and accident? And who wouldn’t want to see less of our economy being spent on expensive treatments, doctor visits, and prescription drugs? But how can we add up to 15 percent of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.predictioneersgame.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-why-govt-programs-always-grow-listen-to-game-theory</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on some of your comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the nice comments on the book and the Jon Stewart appearance. It was lots of fun &#8212; he is smart and charming as well as very witty and quick on his feet. There is little that is secret about my algorithms, claims by the History Channel and some others notwithstanding. It is true [...]]]></description>
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