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	<title>ETF2L &#8211; Latest activity in &#8220;Valve&#039;s economist will be the new finance minister of Greece&#8221;</title>
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    	    <title>Reply by Dr.Chicken George</title>
    	    <link>https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/off-topic/topic-31003/page-1/?recent=525893#post=525893</link>
    	    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to Team Drachma 2. After 14 years in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 21:33:48 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by san alex</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from Solid</i>
		<blockquote>[...]

He's not expressing a political opinion, merely stating some facts.</blockquote>

Thanks for clearing that up for me.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:07:12 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by lazybear</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[Esports express wrote about this: http://esportsexpress.com/2015/01/former-hat-salesman-becomes-greek-finance-minister/

It's pretty good stuff.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:26:52 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Metal Gear</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from san alex</i>
		<blockquote>No politics, topic closed. (http://etf2l.org/forum/off-topic/topic-30874/page-1/)</blockquote>

Pls remove your head from your anus.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:28:44 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Selektionsfaktor</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[Cheers :)
If I understood it correctly, he never stayed at Valve HQ for long due to his university commitments, but works with Valve until now (or recently, at least).

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/yanis_varoufaki/

Here's a podcast with him talking about Valve's company structure and the Steam economy. Very interesting to listen to a non-gamer, but economically educated standpoint.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:08:54 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Solid Speerlaiye</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from san alex</i>
		<blockquote>No politics, topic closed. (http://etf2l.org/forum/off-topic/topic-30874/page-1/)</blockquote>

He's not expressing a political opinion, merely stating some facts.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:40:59 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by san alex</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from Freakie</i>
		<blockquote>[...]

Don't do backseat moderating.</blockquote>

This could be a slogan to get new admins: "Don't do backseat moderating, join us now!"]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:26:31 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Freakie</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from san alex</i>
		<blockquote>No politics, topic closed. (http://etf2l.org/forum/off-topic/topic-30874/page-1/)</blockquote>

Don't do backseat moderating.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:07:14 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by san alex</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[No politics, topic closed. (http://etf2l.org/forum/off-topic/topic-30874/page-1/)]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:42:28 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Kaneco</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[<i>Quoted from ondkaja</i>
		<blockquote>I don't think he was at Valve for more than a couple of months, however he did study the economy of TF2, which is published in a blog post here: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/arbitrage-and-equilibrium-in-the-team-fortress-2-economy/
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he was at valve for at least a year. And worked on the various game economis (started on  tf2 one)

I wish him all the best, clearly he knows what hes doing.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:51:11 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Ond kaja</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[I don't think he was at Valve for more than a couple of months, however he did study the economy of TF2, which is published in a blog post here: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/arbitrage-and-equilibrium-in-the-team-fortress-2-economy/]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:40:42 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by kKaltUu</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[It's probably because players here don't take interest in either greece or trading.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:40:30 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Reply by Selektionsfaktor</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[Too political/academic, eh? Ah well.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:37:39 +0100</pubDate>
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    	    <title>Created by Selektionsfaktor</title>
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    	    <description><![CDATA[http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/27/us-greece-election-finmin-idUSKBN0L00QU20150127

I'm still thinking about something witty to comment on it. Something about free crates (keys to purchase separately) and burning hats to stifle the economy.]]></description>
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    	    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:50:58 +0100</pubDate>
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