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		<title>Auction 86 &#8212; All Over, But Rural America is Shafted Again.</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/auction-86-all-over-but-rural-america-is-shafted-again/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/auction-86-all-over-but-rural-america-is-shafted-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Auction 86, the BRS auction, is over and all bids have cleared. There were no defaults.]]></description>
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		<title>The Embarq/CenturyTel Merger Is Moving Fast in Oregon</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/the-embarqcenturytel-merger-is-moving-fast-in-oregon/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/the-embarqcenturytel-merger-is-moving-fast-in-oregon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Embarq/CenturyTel merger is not just pending FCC approval. The transaction, which affects more than eight million access lines in 33 states, must be approved by regulatory agencies in several states.]]></description>
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		<title>Set a Fire Under Obama &#8212; and Abolish the Filibuster</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/set-a-fire-under-obama-and-abolish-the-filibuster/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/set-a-fire-under-obama-and-abolish-the-filibuster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wetmachine.mine.nu/?p=1455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The stimulus bill has been larded with tax cuts which will have virtually no impact on aggregate demand, and infrastructural spending which does have demonstrated immediate positive effect on aggregate demand has been trimmed back, to placate Republicans by a pusillanimous Obama administration. And despite the Obama administration's determination to have a kumbaya moment with right-wing Republicans, not a single House Republican voted for the scaled-back stimulus package.]]></description>
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		<title>Same Old, Same Old: How T-Mobile and the Rural Telecommunications Group Propose to Wreck the AWS-3 Auction.</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/same-old-same-old-how-t-mobile-and-the-rural-telecommunications-group-propose-to-wreck-the-aws-3-auction/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/same-old-same-old-how-t-mobile-and-the-rural-telecommunications-group-propose-to-wreck-the-aws-3-auction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2Z Networks recently filed a study I prepared for them in the AWS-3 service rules proceeding (07-195) before the FCC. In this study I identified how a coordinated effort between T-Mobile and the Rural Telecommunications Group threatened to wreck the AWS-3 auction by writing rules excluding technology proposed by key potential new entrants, including M2Z Networks, and adopting disastrous combinatorial bidding rules like those which provided a nearly half-billion dollar windfall for Verizon in the]]></description>
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		<title>A Recovery Plan Which Would Actually Work (and which isn&#039;t designed by the ex-chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs for his buddies)</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/a-recovery-plan-which-would-actually-work-and-which-isnt-designed-by-the-ex-chairman-and-ceo-of-goldman-sachs-for-his-buddies/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/a-recovery-plan-which-would-actually-work-and-which-isnt-designed-by-the-ex-chairman-and-ceo-of-goldman-sachs-for-his-buddies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have watched with a combination of amazement and horror at the way the Democratic leadership has caved in to demands that Congress enact the Paulson Plan. There are many reasons for opposing this ill-conceived plan, including the facts that it aims only at rescuing the shareholders and unsecured creditors of financial institutions and it was crafted by a former chairman of Goldman Sachs to bail his banker buddies out while leaving the rest of us with a bill for as much as $700 billion.]]></description>
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		<title>Esurance Assumes We&#039;re Stupid</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/esurance-assumes-were-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/esurance-assumes-were-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I'm just a grumpy old economist, but I was struck just how misleading a recent commercial from the Esurance auto insurance company is. It suggests that there are real savings, economically and ecologically, associated with the fact that Esurance provides only online proof of insurance cards.]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon&#039;s &#8220;Perfect Storm&#8221;: A Reason Why 700 MHz Band&#039;s C Block Cleared On the Cheap</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/verizons-perfect-storm-a-reason-why-700-mhz-bands-c-block-cleared-on-the-cheap/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/verizons-perfect-storm-a-reason-why-700-mhz-bands-c-block-cleared-on-the-cheap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[auction auction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auction system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bidders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bidding rules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[c block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carterfone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic area]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wetmachine.mine.nu/?p=1215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some critics of the 700 MHz Band Auction (Auction 73) attribute the failure of C Block  which consisted of large Regional Economic Grouping (REAG) licenses  to clear at the kinds of premium over the licenses in the AWS-1 auction that the Economic Area (EA) and Cellular Marketing Area (CMA) in the A, B, and E Blocks did to the fact that C Block had wireless Carterfone service rules attached. However, careful analysis of the dynamics of the auction suggest that interaction of the auction's combinatorial bidding, eligibility and activity rules, and the way in which minimum acceptable bids were calculated created a perfect storm in which Verizon was able to scoop up the two most populous REAGs for nearly half a billion dollars less than bidders were willing to pay earlier in the auction.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Obama is Wrong Even When He&#039;s Right</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/why-obama-is-wrong-even-when-hes-right/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/why-obama-is-wrong-even-when-hes-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wetmachine.mine.nu/?p=1146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's amusing to see Hilary Clinton and John McCain blasting Barack Obama for his remarks explaining why despair and bitterness over the way economic elites have marginalised them economically and politically have motivated large portions of the working class to vote for politicians and issues which are utterly contrary to their economic self-interest:  It's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment. It's less amusing to see Obama backtracking now with his claim that I didnt say it as well as I should have.]]></description>
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		<title>700 MHz: Breaking the C Block Package</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/700-mhz-breaking-the-c-block-package/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/700-mhz-breaking-the-c-block-package/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I apologise for the hiatus between this and my last 700 MHz Auction update, but with 36,419 bids over 261 rounds, analysing the data set is taking a bit of time. Among the several controversies arising the from now-completed auction has been ATT's claim that bidders were deterred from bidding on C Block because of the open access rules imposed on the block.]]></description>
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		<title>And the Wheels Fell Off&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/and-the-wheels-fell-off/</link>
		<comments>http://econoklastic.wetmachine.com/and-the-wheels-fell-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since the Federal Reserve began tracking home equity data in 1945 the amount of equity homeowners hold in their homes fell below 50% in the fourth quarter of 2007 according to the Federal Reserve .  More interesting still is the finding by Moody's Economy.com that approximately 10% of homeowners now have zero or negative equity in their homes. This resulted from a 8.9% drop in U.S. home prices in the fourth quarter of 2007.]]></description>
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