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		<title>Franchising&#8217;s Future</title>
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		<dc:creator>Garth  Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a documented fact that between the years 2002-2008 a lot of franchises were sold.   Not coincidentally this was also the time when the franchise lead generation portals began to proliferate. And so, one could argue, 2002-2008 could be seen as the Golden Age of franchise sales.  But with the success [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franchising as a Distributist Ideal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garth  Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does the does the arcane socio-economic philosophy of Distributism and the business system of franchising have in common?  On the surface it would appear that not only are the two concepts not philosophically similar, any comparison between the two is akin to comparing apples and oranges.   Upon further examination of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrooge, Franchising, and the Sudan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garth  Snider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Waldfogel, a University of Pennsylvania professor, has written an interesting and controversial little book called Scroogenomics.  His central premise is that every holiday season we Americans waste about 12 billion by buying gifts for people who place a value on the gifts that is less than what we actually paid for the gifts. [...]]]></description>
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