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Duncan Bowen Black better known by his pseudonym
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 Atrios (icon), is an American
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 liberal blog
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ger living in Philadelphia. His weblog Eschaton is one of the most popular political weblogs, receiving an average of over 100,000 hits every day. Black was also a regular guest economics expert on Air America Radio
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's The Majority Report
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and is currently a regular commentator on Sam Seder
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's internet radio
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 (Majority.fm) Majority Report.
After obtaining his BA from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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, Black obtained a Ph.D.
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 in economics
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 from Brown University
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 in 1999.
 
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