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	<title><![CDATA[Clipped Roman Coins and Shrunken Coke Cans]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-keiser/clipped-roman-coins-and-s_b_114902.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>I have written about how recent upward consumer price trends for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-keiser/starbucks-and-americas-fi_b_113746.html">Starbucks</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-keiser/why-no-save-our-happy-mea_b_114682.html">McDonald's</a> are indicative of America's slide into penury as the credit crisis hits and the US dollar sinks, and fast-food chains become increasingly unaffordable for millions of Americans.</p>

<p>Add Coca-Cola to the mix to fully understand America's toxic cocktail of inflation, dollar collapse, and loss of empire.</p>

<p>The Romans, to pay for the cost of maintaining their empire, started a debilitating cycle of inflation by expanding the...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-08-02T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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