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		<title>A Short Note On The US And Global Economic Outlooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released advanced data for the 4th quarter of 2011. US economy expanded in real terms by 2.8 per cent from the preceding quarter and by 1.7 per cent for all of 2011 per our forecast. The 2011 growth rate of 1.7 per cent subscribes to standard economic theory after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4655&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment On The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Meeting/Statement Of January 24-25, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we suggested soon after the publication of the Bloomberg news report of January 04, 2012 about the Federal Reserve&#8217;s intention to reveal its interest rate forecast, the Fed&#8217;s monetary policy making Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), together with the interest rate forecast, has also released its forecast of two variables comprising the Fed&#8217;s mandate: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4617&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Commentary On The 2012 State Of The Union (SOTU) Address</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, in what is perhaps his final State of the Union Address to the representatives of the people of the United States in the Congress, has delivered a speech which shows signs of beginning to yield to our critique of his nearly 4 years in office. The president, as we have always done [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4604&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The State</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2012/01/17/the-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.&#8221; Western civilization&#8217;s attempt to seriously think about the state [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4576&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local/Global Economics</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2012/01/16/localglobal-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human nature being what it is, in America or elsewhere, the cave always prevails. Shadows on the walls inside, made because of the light outside, feel ensconced, apprehensive of melting away if they step out of their troglodytic confines. Utopia is a romantic myth. Dystopia is fear. Reality is what it is, between heaven and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4569&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability In India</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2012/01/04/sustainability-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bow to thee, Mother, richly-watered, richly-fruited, cool with the winds of the south, [[verdant] with the crops of the harvests] O! Mother of Krishna (original: sasyasyamalam mataram) Her nights rejoicing in the glory of the moonlight, her lands clothed beautifully with her trees in flowering bloom, sweet of laughter, sweet of speech, The Mother, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4533&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012: A Short Note On The US Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We forecast the US economy, given the Federal Reserve&#8217;s monetary accommodation through mid-2013 and all other factors including the geopolitical remaining normal, to continue to grow at about 1.5 per cent real growth rate returning unemployment to about 7.5 per cent, close to its level in December 2008. Employment will rise in the agriculture and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4518&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of Fiscal Year (FY) 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is considerable consternation for good reason about the NDAA appropriations for FY 2012. Al Gore campaign adviser from 2000 and well known feminist Naomi Wolf wrote on Project Syndicate, the United Nations (UN) blog, concerned about the epidemic of endemic violation of civil liberties since 9/11 from America to Middle East And North Africa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4496&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The War Memorial</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/30/the-war-memorial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amorphous Tea Party in America wants to jettison the country into the two shining seas, for it resembles the East India Company&#8217;s tea dumped into the Boston Harbor by the coalescing revolutionary movement in 1773 protesting taxation, without representation, by a monarch separated by an ocean from his colonies. In 1783, the Treaty of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4483&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women, Society And Violence</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/29/women-society-and-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theorists of non-violence, best known among them Johan Galtung of Norway (a former professor of mine), have categorized various forms of violence in a society. Two typical ways in which violence, besides the very obvious physical violence, is perpetrated are structural violence and cultural violence. Structural violence has to do with the political and economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4478&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gathering Storm</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/28/the-gathering-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenneth Pollack, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst at The Brookings Institution, raised the alarm bell on Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Iraq by writing a book called The Threatening Storm. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003, an inevitability since the end of the well executed first Gulf War in 1991, making an error in judgment which he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4455&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India Inc., And India</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/28/india-inc-and-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, India&#8217;s largest corporation by market capitalization, recently promised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that his company will invest about $7 billion per year, on average, over the next two years by 2014, the year of anticipated general elections. Concerns about high inflation (about 10 per cent) have led to government policies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4459&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Road To The Promise Land</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/27/the-road-to-the-promise-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hebrew Gives 1. Asher Ehyeh Asher, I am that I am: YHWH, or bearing any other name, is the one God of all, Hebrews and non-Hebrews. 2. The Jewish people lose their exclusivity as the chosen children of YHWH. 3. Jewish exile has ended in Israel, the Biblical homeland of the Hebrew people, no matter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4448&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning Of Christmas For The Non-Believer</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/25/the-meaning-of-christmas-for-the-non-believer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The infidels have a long history. The cult of YHWH since Abraham&#8217;s covenant with his god excommunicated those who did not believe in the god of Abraham. The myth of slavery of Moses and his people in Egypt to blame the establishment of Israel and its warring tribes on the declining empire proscribed idol worship. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4419&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Un) Commonsense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The five senses, but for the rarity of the naturally occurring telepathy and clairvoyance, receive information and store it in memory to associate experience with its recurrence, in shades or in whole. Sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste together constitute commonsense. Education has a way to democratize the uncommon extra senses which used to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4415&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China And The Emerging World Order</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/22/china-and-the-emerging-world-order/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tectonic plates are shifting in geopolitics, veering ideologically toward more state control of market economies. This shift is caused and characterized primarily by the certain rise of China as the world&#8217;s largest economy by 2016 and on a par on a per capita or average basis, of about $30,000 income for each of its 1.3 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4395&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Short Note On The US Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this note is to highlight the risk to the US economy from China in the face of unpreparedness of the country&#8217;s economic policy makers. China is on track to be the world&#8217;s largest economy with a size in the range of $16 to $18 trillion real output by 2016 at an annual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4388&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama For America, Again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Washington Post-ABC poll gives hope to the president: 49 per cent of Americans approve of his performance in the Christmas spirit of forgiveness perhaps. This is the highest he has recorded since March of this year according to the poll. Obama continues to be tied with Republican contender Mitt Romney and leads Newt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4319&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bhagavad Gita In Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The humble sages, by virtue of true knowledge, see with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater. Those whose minds are established in sameness and equanimity have already conquered the conditions of birth and death. They are flawless like Brahman, and thus they are already situated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4317&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty In America: Rich Dad, Poor Dad?</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/19/poverty-in-america-rich-dad-poor-dad-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University reported the US Census Bureau&#8217;s latest poverty numbers on Twitter. The data is encouraging. America is taking sides: to be rich, a choice, or to be poor, a Hobson&#8217;s Choice. 1 in 2 Americans are low income, no matter their education or socio-economic class. The vulnerability of Americans can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4300&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics As Memory</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/19/politics-as-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transformations LLC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rule of, for and by the people has always been a rhetorical abstraction since Demosthenes and Cicero. The cultivation of leaders to run the affairs of the state had separated the mob, ordinary citizens, from the senate and its military heroes during the Roman Republic. Elitism acquired through education in the arts and the military [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4292&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sasha, Malia And Facebook</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/18/sasha-malia-and-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government Surveillance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Daughters are ready to get social on the media. The parents are nervous. Michelle and Barack Obama do not want their children exposed to the private rants of their Facebook friends, online, in writing, nor do they want their private family communications upstairs in The White House inadvertently shared by their daughters with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4287&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ustad Zakir Hussain In Hyderabad On December 17, 2011</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/18/ustad-zakir-hussain-in-hyderabad-on-december-7-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 06:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rhythm of life, &#8220;pulse&#8221;, was the leitmotif of Ustad Zakir Hussain&#8217;s percussion performance at Chowmahallah Palace in Hyderabad, India. Ever the boyish student and globetrotting statesman of the art of the varied nuances of strumming the Indian drum, the concert in open air by the 60 year old tabla maestro who looks about a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4278&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Person In The US-China Marriage</title>
		<link>http://ctamirisa.com/2011/12/17/the-other-person-in-the-us-china-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I left India in July 1990 on an Air India flight as a younger man of 21 to study in the United States, the national and flagship airline served a drink unavailable in Indian stores: Coca Cola. 22 years later, I am in India as an Indian-American having worked for the United States government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4262&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Indian Rupee And The Unsustainable Chinese Yuan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) has done the right thing. Again. About 15 years after the Asian Crisis. Faced by hot money inflows from foreign institutional investors (FII) because of economic drag due to poor economic management in the United States since 1993 and the consequential unprecedentedly low interest rates in all of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4253&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Etatism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Hyderabad, India: Sometime ago, a senior United States Department of State diplomat, who had Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s ear, pontificated in public print about the zeitgeist: etatism, including in Etat Unis. Close on the heels of this widely accepted view within the fashionable Washington foreign policy circles which have an air of Anglo-French [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4245&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment On The December 13, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is clear that the Federal Reserve is observing a Phillips Curve trade-off in the short run between unemployment and inflation. The institution is also curtailing further monetary expansion through other means as indicated in the statement. The striking sentence in the December 13, 2011 FOMC statement from the Federal Reserve System, however, is &#8220;[s]trains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4241&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guns, Drugs and Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Hyderabad, India: Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) in the US Department of Justice (DoJ), in an operation known as Fast and Furious, purchased guns in the United States, in a sting operation of the Mexican drug cartels, and passed them onto cartel members on the Mexican side. The idea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4220&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whither Chinamerica?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>India After Durban?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Hyderabad, India: Jayanthi Natarajan, India&#8217;s environment minister, put her country firmly in the lead of global climate talks by claiming the future at the Conference of Parties, COP 17, of the United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa. The past, she said, belonged to the industrialized countries, and that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctamirisa.com&amp;blog=10986329&amp;post=4199&amp;subd=ctamirisa&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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