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	<title>Howzit Howard</title>
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		<title>Where can we get more visitors?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With visitor traffic ebbing from the record levels of a year or two ago, there has been much discussion of possible sources of additional visitors.
A thoughtful post by a reader of this blog (check out the comments from time to time) set me to thinking about this.
He correctly notes that most Chinese tourism is tour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/18/where-can-we-get-more-visitors/</link>
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		<title>How labor contracts are negotiated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The layoff announcement at the Honolulu Advertiser, the contract settlements at TheBus and the Holiday Inn Waikiki, the longstanding labor unrest at the Pacific Beach Hotel, and the closure of Aloha Airlines, have all brought back memories of past experiences as a contract negotiator. I thought I would dredge up a few of these memories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/17/how-labor-contracts-are-negotiated/</link>
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		<title>A new kind of solar power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new solar panels at NELHA representative a different kind of solar power technology that bears watching.
It&#8217;s still about the rays of the sun producing current &#8212; the big word for this kind of power is photovoltaic &#8212; but the method and material differ.
Mountainview, Calif.-based SolFocus Inc., which had a Hawaiian blessing for the NELHA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/17/a-new-kind-of-solar-power/</link>
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		<title>Advertiser layoffs: Read all about it (online)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Honolulu Advertiser announced Wednesday it is cutting 54 of its 576 staff positions. Affected employees will be told by their supervisors.
You can read about it here for free, and that&#8217;s part of the problem, but only part. Honolulu newspapers face the same issues faced by newspapers across the nation, plus some special ones unique [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/17/advertiser-layoffs-read-all-about-it-online/</link>
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		<title>Hawaii&#8217;s economy: different? Or just slow?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When our turgid economy began to calm down, and real estate prices stopped soaring, I began to get this question when giving speeches:
&#8220;Is there going to be another bubble?&#8221;
No, I said, there won&#8217;t be, because the last bubble was caused by the sudden exit of Japanese investors at a time when they were driving the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/16/hawaiis-economy-different-or-just-slow/</link>
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		<title>Predatory lending and &#8220;market forces&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Akaka sits on the Senate Banking Committee and Tuesday he got to question Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke.
&#8220;My concern,&#8221; said Sen. Akaka, &#8220;is to educate the people&#8230; and empower them in our financial system. Given the recent failures, I&#8217;m concerned by the increasing lack of trust that individuals have in the banking system.&#8221;
Bernanke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/16/predatory-lending-and-market-forces/</link>
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		<title>Small businesses in times of big economic trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Honolulu district office of the Small Business Administration happily reports that it is performing, by the SBA&#8217;s own metrics, far better than district offices on the mainland, a sign of a stronger economy here.
But our stronger economy is still cooling, and has the potential to cool further, especially if things keep getting dicier on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/15/small-businesses-in-times-of-big-economic-trouble/</link>
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		<title>Headlines: Bush pushes Bernanke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At first I couldn&#8217;t understand why President Bush was bothering to hold a news conference Tuesday morning. The meat of the event seemed to be a rehash of White House announcements made the previous day.
And the president didn&#8217;t even mention something the Associated Press reported at about the same time, that he had vetoed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/15/headlines-bush-pushes-bernanke/</link>
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		<title>Aloha Airlines and reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been two interesting articles in local newspapers about shutdown of Aloha Airlines. What&#8217;s interesting about them is what they can tell you about what&#8217;s normal in situations like this.
Linda Chiem of Pacific Business News reported Friday that roughly half of the people who lost their jobs when Aloha closed at the end of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/14/aloha-airlines-and-reality/</link>
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		<title>Fannie, Freddie and (Uncle) Sammy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Dow dropped 200 points Friday to fall below 11,000 for the first time in two years, there were some who assumed it was set off by the latest record high oil prices &#8212; crude went to $147 a barrel for awhile &#8212; but the greater concern was something else.
Investors suddenly noticed that Fannie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kgmb9.com/howard/2008/07/11/fannie-freddie-and-uncle-sammy/</link>
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