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		<title>Prieur’s readings (November 24, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. Please also add the links to any other worthwhile articles you would like to share to the comments section. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hold Reserves, Loan Money or Own Something</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cash, bonds and stocks are the three primary asset classes for securities investors.  They point to the three basic things you can do with your money other than spend it or donate it .  You can hold it in reserve (cash). You can loan it (basically bonds).  Or, you can own something with it (stocks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings (November 23, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. Please also add the links to any other worthwhile articles you would like to share to the comments section. ]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (November 16 – 22, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stock markets succumbed to a bout of profit-taking last week, sparked by concerns that the rally has overshot the pace of economic recovery. Riskier assets were showing signs of fatigue as the US dollar – the catalyst of many recent moves – stabilized. Read more about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly "Words from the Wise" review.]]></description>
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		<title>Gross: Anything but .01%</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gross, co-founder and co-CIO of PIMCO, is to my mind one of the shrewdest money men around. His monthly newsletter, this month entitled "Anything but .01%", therefore always makes for thought-provoking reading. This post features a few excerpts from the report.]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated (November 20, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Coxe has updated his popular webcast on Friday, November 20 - good news for his followers. Follow the link from this post.]]></description>
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		<title>Picture du Jour: Plunging dollar erodes non-US investors’ returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the US dollar falling down a precipice, spare a thought for non-US investors invested in US stocks and bonds. Click through for some interesting graphs.]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke Rewind – The Fed Head’s same old words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pChuck Butler (The a href="http://www.dailyreckoning.com"  class="alinks_links"Daily Reckoning/a):br /
What a ride yesterday for the currencies! Gold? Well, at one point gold had shot up $24 on the day! It topped out at $1,142… The shiny metal then gave some back on profit taking, but gold holders have got to love it! Those who keep waiting for a pullback. Well, they might still be waiting when the cows come home./p
pYesterday, we had a couple of Fed Heads talking, but the Big Kahuna stood out and moved the markets with his statements… Here’s the skinny…/p
pBig Ben was giving a speech, and said, “The Fed will monitor closely the currencies, and the Fed’s policies will ensure that the dollar is strong.” Now, when he first uttered those#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Donald Coxe – Investment Recommendations (November 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The November edition of the Coxe Basic Points research report (subtitled "The Power of Zero") by Donald Coxe has just been published. His investment recommendations are listed in this post, and a link to the full report is also provided.]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (November 9 – 15, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read about the shenanigans of the financial markets, together with some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators during the past week, in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated (November 13, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Coxe has just updated his popular webcast - good news for his followers. You can access the recording here or from the sidebar of the Investment Postcards site (the column on the right-hand side) by clicking on Don&#8217;s photograph.

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		<title>Prieur’s readings (November 9, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. Please also add the links to any other worthwhile articles you would like to share to the comments section. ]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (November 2 – 8, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/words-from-the-investment-wise-for-the-week-that-was-november-2-%e2%80%93-8-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A hesitant economic recovery, tame inflation and severe credit headwinds suggest that monetary policy will need to stay very easy for at least another year. Liquidity trends will not be a constraint on higher prices for risk assets for a while,” said BCA Research. Read more about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Prechter: Stocks, commodities topping; dollar set for major rally</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/bob-prechter-stocks-commodities-topping-dollar-set-for-major-rally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["I think stocks are topping out, commodities are topping out and the dollar is making a bottom," says Robert Prechter in an interview on Tech Ticker, as reported in this post.]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated (November 6, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/don-coxe-webcast-%e2%80%93-updated-november-6-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Coxe has updated his popular webcast on November 6. You can access the recording from the sidebar of the Investment Postcards site.]]></description>
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		<title>The week ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/the-week-ahead-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The video clips in this post provide a handy summary of the reports expected on the economic, financial and corporate front around the globe during the week ahead.]]></description>
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		<title>Longer-term bond indicators flash “sell”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long-term bond indicators have just reversed course for the first time since a buy signal was given at the beginning of 2007 and now indicate a primary sell signal. Read on ...]]></description>
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		<title>The week ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The video clips in this post provide a handy summary of the reports expected on the economic, financial and corporate front around the globe during the week ahead.]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/words-from-the-investment-wise-for-the-week-that-was-oct-26-%e2%80%93-nov-1-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rewind the movie to before the stock market lows of March 9: stocks down, corporate bonds down, commodities and gold down, emerging-market currencies down, safe havens in fashion, including the US dollar and government bonds. In short, risky assets closed sharply lower over the past few days as concerns mounted over the outlook for central bank policy and the sustainability of the global economic recovery, with investors only warming momentarily to the US emerging from recession as shown by the Q3 GDP report.]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated (October 30, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Coxe has just updated his popular webcast, reflecting his latest outlook on (shaky) financial markets. You can access the recording here or from the sidebar of the Investment Postcards site (the column on the right-hand side) by clicking on Don&#8217;s photograph.

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		<title>Gross: Rally in risk assets at its pinnacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The six-month rally in risk assets – while still continuously supported by Fed and Treasury policymakers – is likely at its pinnacle,” said Bill Gross in his latest newsletter. Read on for the full text.]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings (October 27, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. Please also let me know what you have been reading. ]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated (October 23, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Coxe has just updated his popular webcast - good news for his followers. You can access the recording here or from the sidebar of the Investment Postcards site (the column on the right-hand side) by clicking on Don&#8217;s photograph.
Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (October 12 – 18, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Risky assets remained in favor during the past week, generally helped along by fairly robust economic data and better-than-expected corporate earnings reports. A number of bourses, crude oil, inflation-linked bonds and high-yielding corporate bonds and currencies recorded fresh highs for the year, whereas gold hit an all-time high of $1,070.20 per ounce.
Assets such as government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings (October 17, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to a number of thought-provoking articles I have read over the past few days that you may also find of interest. Please also add the links to any other worthwhile articles you would like to share to the comments section. ]]></description>
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		<title>Volume Perspective on U.S. and China ETFs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last article, we estimated the probable price range of the S&#38;P 500 based on historical and implied volatility, and suggested that the positive area of the range was more likely than the negative area for the next few weeks, because of the moving average trend indicators and the declining volatility of the 1-month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings (October 14, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Probable Price Ranges for SPY, FXI, UUP and TLT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no way to realistically make a precise price prediction for a particular date for a traded security.  It is possible, however, to observe the recent historical volatility (standard deviation) of a security to make realistic estimates of the probable range within which the security price may close through a future date.
In this article, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury inflation protected securities ETF</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vlada Kynsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/Ssh4oGKGY6I/AAAAAAAACDw/cRNPMvszsZY/s1600-h/inflation.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388689584391873442" title="inflation" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="inflation" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_28p7XDn4Qb0/Ssh4oGKGY6I/AAAAAAAACDw/cRNPMvszsZY/s320/inflation.jpg" border="0" //abr /span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"Right now we are globally in period of low interest rates and low inflation rate. In some economies even with deflation. What should we do when inflation will start to rise again?/spanspan style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" How to invest money when inflation is inching up?/spanbr /br /The best investments against inflation are a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://stockweb.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-invest-in-gold.html"investing in gold/a, index linked bonds, national savings index linked certificates, shares and property.br /br /I will focus more on less risky inflation protected securities like TIPS (Treasury inflation protected securities) or "linkers" (inflation indexed bonds/gilts). Coupon payments reflect rising inflation and/or interest rates. TIPS are generally one of the safest investments. It should be a part of retirement or standard portfolio for better diversification.br /br /There are already some ETFs following TIPS indexes like span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"iShares Barclays TIPS Bond (TIP)/span or span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"SPDR Barclays Capital TIPS (IPE)/span. Recently PIMCO launched their exchange traded funds for inflation hedging span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"PIMCO BROAD U.S. TIP (TIPZ)/span and span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"PIMCO 15+ Yr. US TIPS Index Fund (LTPZ)/span and strongPIMCO 1-5 Year US TIPS Index Fund (STPZ)/strong.br /br /These funds protect against US inflation. International exposure provides fund span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"SPDR DB Intl Govt Infl-Protected Bond (WIP)/span which access inflation protected securities in 18 countries. Around 70 % of its portfolio come from foreign developed countries and 30 % from emerging markets. Regionally holdings include securities from France, UK, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Turkey or South Africa. Contrary to US TIPS this fund offers another diversification against weakening US dollar as international bonds are in 15 different currencies.div class="blogger-post-footer"http://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xmlimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6675237082283386719-1713926646477319338?l=stockweb.blogspot.com' alt='' //div
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		<title>Prieur’s readings (October 2, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated (October 2, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Coxe has just updated his webcast - make a point of listening to this popular recording.]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings (September 29, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. Please also add the links to any other worthwhile articles you would like to share to the comments section. ]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings (September 28, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. Please also add the links to any other worthwhile articles you would like to share to the comments section. ]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the FOMC communiqué, the S&#38;P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. In addition to global stock markets declining, risky assets such as commodities, oil, gold and other precious metals all sold off as pundits worried about the winding down of quantitative easing puncturing the "liquidity rally". Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>Bonds  equities: Expect a major shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a guest contribution by Dian Chu, asking the very topical question of which rally will end first - equities or bonds.]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings (September 26, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Coxe has just updated his webcast - make a point of listening to this popular recording.]]></description>
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		<title>Bond Funds Price Change vs Volatility</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stock volatility versus price change gets a lot of financial media attention, but bonds don&#8217;t get so much.
Bonds are an important part of portfolios that deserve investigative attention too.
This article provides data for  bond funds of various types in terms of price rate of change (not total return) versus price volatility to help &#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221; investors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 14 – 20, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/words-from-the-investment-wise-for-the-week-that-was-september-14-%e2%80%93-20-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marking the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers demise, risky assets last week again marched higher to the tune of economic data supporting the argument of a global economic recovery, resulting in many global stock markets scaling fresh peaks for the year. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-lessons/don-coxe-webcast-%e2%80%93-updated-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Coxe has just updated his webcast - make a point of listening to this popular recording.]]></description>
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		<title>Donald Coxe – Investment Recommendations (September 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["After the grandest recession /recovery stock market rally on record, this is hardly a good time to commit new money into equities," recommended Donald Coxe in the September edition of his popular Basic Points research report. Read on ... ]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/commodities/don-coxe-webcast-%e2%80%93-updated-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Coxe has just updated his webcast - make a point of listening to this popular recording.]]></description>
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		<title>Volatility Indexes, Risk Appetite, Mispriced Risk, And Where We Think We Are Headed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Taggart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If over the past six months or so it has seemed as if you were partying like it was 1999 it might be time to reevaluate your stance.  One thing that we have been taking a closer look at lately is the pricing of risk.  Obviously when investors think that risks are low they will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (August 24 – 30, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stock markets, in general, again logged gains last week as pundits perceived economic data to be better than expected. But the recovery path is not home and dry yet, as shown by declines in crude oil, a number of emerging stock market indices, small cap indices and high-yield corporate bonds. All said, risky assets displayed some fatigue despite positive economic reports. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>The lie of the investment land, according to Hugh Hendry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hugh Hendry, founder of Eclectica Asset Management, shares his views on the investment scene in his latest "Fund Manager Commentary" that has just been published. He is not only outspoken, but also a top-notch investment manager - just the right ingredients for compelling reading material.]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings (August 29, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/prieur%e2%80%99s-readings-august-29-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also find enjoyable. Please also add the links to any other thought-provoking articles you would like to share to the comments section. ]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (August 17 – 23, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/commodities/words-from-the-investment-wise-for-the-week-that-was-august-17-%e2%80%93-23-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After starting the week with a broad-based sell-off, stock markets resumed their five-month uptrend as investors’ confidence in the recovery prospects of the global economy gained traction. With risky assets back in favor, a number of bourses and crude oil closed at fresh highs for the year, showing resilience in the face of a sharp correction in China. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (August 10 – 16, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/commodities/words-from-the-investment-wise-for-the-week-that-was-august-10-%e2%80%93-16-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the week marking the second anniversary of the start of the credit crunch, stocks, copper, nickel, zinc and sugar recorded fresh 2009 highs. But caution crept back into investors’ vocabulary on Friday when it dawned upon pundits that markets were running away from economic reality. On top of that, Chinese equities – a leading stock market on the way up – saw a reversal of fortune and declined to a five-week low. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/commodities/don-coxe-webcast-%e2%80%93-updated-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Coxe has just updated his webcast - make a point of listening to this popular recording.]]></description>
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		<title>WealthTrack’s Great Investors: A Conversation with Eveillard and Whitman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week in the WealthTrack series on Great Investors, Consuelo Mack features two legendary value investors who share their different views of the bear market and their strategies in it. Watch the video for a discussion with still cautious Jean-Marie Eveillard of First Eagle Funds and the very bullish Marty Whitman of Third Avenue Funds. ]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (August 3 – 9, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/commodities/words-from-the-investment-wise-for-the-week-that-was-august-3-%e2%80%93-9-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Risky assets last week again marched higher to the tune of economic data supporting the argument of a global economic recovery. A realization among investors that the economic transition from recession to recovery was gaining momentum resulted in many global stock markets and commodities scaling fresh peaks for the year. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly "Words from the Wise" review.]]></description>
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		<title>Global Macro Trading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Taggart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being the largest hedge fund strategy in 1990 representing 71% of the overall hedge fund assets global macro has shrunk and now only represents about 15% of total assets.  While most people assume that this dropoff in assets was due to poor performance the numbers actually show a totally different story.  In fact according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (July 27 – August 2, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investors (or should I say "Johnny-come-latelies"?) last week again favored the reflation trade on the back of better-than-expected US earnings announcements and economic data, indicating that the trough of the recession might be behind us, or at least be stabilizing at depressed levels. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>Video-o-rama: The yin and yang of China/US relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly, four of the clips included in this week's Video-o-rama compilation deal with Chinese-related issues. But a bumper selection of a variety of other topical issues are also included. Happy watching ...]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Casey’s Trade of the Decade: Short Bonds, Buy Metals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pAnother underground investor mowing down the green shoots is a href="http://www.caseyresearch.com"  class="alinks_links"Doug Casey/a of Casey Research. We know Doug well. He owns land in Argentina’s Salta province. And he’s a frequent visitor of strongemNotes/em HQ/strong. /p
pLast time he was down, we went out for a big steak dinner in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, where our offices are. After dinner, Doug regaled us with stories of his near death experiences in Third World countries. Doug has made fortunes in countries that most people couldn#8217;t pronounce!/p
pDoug is very contrarian, and he #8220;lets the bastards have it#8221; like no one else we know. It used to be that even in front of an audience full of anarcho-capitalists Doug would clear out a few seats./p
pBut times they are#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jeremy Siegel: Are Stocks Still The Best Long-Term Investment Vehicle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pFor more than a decade, author and academic Dr. Jeremy Siegel had the Midas touch.  His book “Stocks For the Long Run,” first published in October 1996, surveyed more than 200 years of stock market history both in the United States and abroad and made a compelling case that common stocks are the very best long-term investment vehicle. Better than cash. Better than bonds. Better than real estate. Better than gold./p
pIn the roaring bull market of the 90s - and since - his book was required reading. Millions of investors were strongly influenced by his research./p
pIn the process, Siegel became a celebrity, appearing regularly on network and cable investment shows. He is also now an advisor to WisdomTree Investments, a#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Jeremy Grantham: Boring fair price!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Grantham has become a familiar and very popular face on this site. For those treasuring his insight, wisdom and prescient calls, he has just published the July edition of his quarterly newsletter, entitled Boring Fair Price.]]></description>
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		<title>WealthTrack’s Great Investors: A Conversation with David Swensen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week in the WealthTrack series on Great Investors, Consuelo Mack features the never-before-aired portions of her wide-ranging interview with David Swensen, renowned endowment chief of Yale. Among the topics covered are his assessment of the new investment reality and where he is investing his own money.]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (July 20 – 26, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Goodbye safe havens, hello risky assets" seemed to be the theme during the past week as investors placed their bets on a global economic recovery, propelling stocks and other risky assets higher amid better-than-expected earnings reports. Global stock markets, commodities, oil, precious metals, high-yielding currencies and corporate bonds all put in a stellar performance as a bullish mood prevailed. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>The “renaissance” of global macro investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this guest post Henry McVey of Morgan Stanley highlights his current views on the direction of financial markets, and argues that a key upshot of the current crisis will be an augmented role for the traditional top-down, macro-investing approach.]]></description>
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		<title>Picture du Jour: Coppock shows bottom in Treasuries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my post of yesterday, arguing that government bond yields have in all likelihood bottomed, I have also analyzed the Coppock indicator for a longer-term perspective. Read on for the interesting finding.]]></description>
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		<title>High-Quality Bonds: The Best Weapon to Battle Deflation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe Fed is flooding the system with as much funny money as it can. US monetary base has shot up by over 100% this year. It’s the largest increase in 50 years by a factor of 10. This build up of freshly printed dollars threatens a dangerous inflation… but not yet./p
pAs emNotes /emfaithful will know, we pinned our colors to the inflation mast some time ago. It is a clear-and-present danger. Especially considering that the feds have no way of paying off their massive debts without triggering an inflationary episode./p
pBut underground investor a href="http://www.contrarianprofits.com/articles/author/tom-dyson/"  class="alinks_links"Tom Dyson/a says when it comes to the prices of goods and services now, deflation is the name of the game./p
pTiming is everything in the investment world, of course. And#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Ben &#8220;Systemic Risk&#8221; Bernanke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shalom P. Hamou</dc:creator>
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Plea for a New World Economic Order.br
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Chapter III.br
Greenspan Conundrum and Bernanke Global Saving Glut./spanbr
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span style="font-size: 16pt;"Paragraph 7: Systemic Risk,
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      centeri"I am similarly skeptical of notions that
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      pi- particularly the
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market-stability regulator,br
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      /i/p
      piThat is mission impossible. Indeed, the
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summer. br
      /i/p
      piMuch as we might wish otherwise, policy-makers
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piI am arguing here that Bernanke is the only cause of
the sub prime mess./i/p
piWhether he engineered it on purpose or by sheer
stupidity is still up for debate./ibr
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pAs we saw in span style="font-variant: small-caps;"Chapter
III: Greenspan Conundrum and Bernanke Global Saving Glut. Paragraph 3:
Bubbles amp; Bursts./span the only one cause of Crash is
an excessive inversion of the yield curve./p
pThe problem of the sub-prime MBS were known already to the
public since the beginning of 2007. We have to suppose that it was
known before to the Federal Reserve System.br
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 href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells5dec05,1,7029604.story?coll=la-headlines-business"
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Fargo buying more 'sub-prime' mortgages/abr
      font color="#676767"Los Angeles Times - /fontDec
5 2006
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 alt="Trend - Sub Prime Mess"
 src="http://sites.google.com/a/yield-curve.net/predictive/tract/conundrum/systemic-risk/greenspan/sub-prime.png"
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      font size="-1"a
 href="http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2355975.ece"
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trims sub-prime risk/abr
      font color="#676767"Independent - /fontMar
14 2007nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;
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 rel="nofollow"Uncertainty
shrouds sub prime situation/abr
      font color="#676767"Moneycontrol.com - /fontAug
10 2007nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;
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      font size="-1"a
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crisis claims further scalp/abr
      font color="#676767"AboutProperty.co.uk - /fontNov
5 2007nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;
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 rel="nofollow"Swan
upbeat about sub-prime fallout/abr
      font color="#676767"Fairfield Champion - /fontDec
6 2007nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;
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      font size="-1"a
 href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23094236-643,00.html"
 rel="nofollow"Bank
of China hit by sub-prime woes/abr
      font color="#676767"The Australian - /fontJan
22 2008nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;
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pKnowing that such a risk existed Bernanke should have lowered
the short-term rates before December 2006./p
pIt is only on September 18th, 2007 that Bernanke lowered the
target fed fund rate from 5.25% by a mere 0.50% to 4.75%!/p
pOn March 5th, 2009 the 30 Years US Treasury Bond yield went as
low as 4.621%. It went as low as 4.617% on September 10, 2007!/p
pOn December 11 He lowered the target for Fed Funds by
ridiculous 0.25% When on December 4th the yield on 30 Years US Treasury
Bonds were 4.309%./p
pOn January 31 he ibraised/b/i
the target to 4.25%. When on January 23, 2008 the Yield on the 30 Years
US Treasury Bond was as low as 4.102%!!!/p
pIt was never relevant to Bernanke that average American,
notably those who were reimbursing variable rate mortgages, did suffer
from these strict monetary policy.br
/p
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pShould he have acted decisively and normalised the yield curve
by lowering, according to our computation the rates to around 1% when
he knew what was happening as we showed the sub prime mess wouldn't
have occurred and the number of mortgage who defaulted would have been
a fraction of what they were./p
pWas it the result of indecisiveness, mere stupidity or more
worrisome, a carefully plan to gain power?/p
pubThe Power of a Central Banker:/b/u/p
pI have learned several things in my previous life as a trader:/p
p- When you can turn to only one person or institution in order
to solve a problem, they did cause it in the first place./p
p- When a professional make a mistake more often than not he
did that on purpose./p
pBen Systemic Risk Bernanke is no beginner in economic
depressions:br
br
/p
center
i"For many years, the principal debate about the causes of the
Great Depression in the United States br
was over the importance to be ascribed to monetary factors. br
br
It was easily observed that the money supply, output, and prices all
fell precipitously in the contraction and rose rapidly in the recovery;
the difficulty lay in establishing the causal links among these
variables. br
br
In their classic study of U.S. monetary history, Friedman and Schwartz
(1963) presented a monetarist interpretation of these observations,
arguing that the main lines of causation ran from monetary
contraction—the result of poor policy-making and continuing crisis in
the banking system—to declining prices and
output. br
br
Opposing Friedman and Schwartz, Temin (1976) contended that much of the
monetary contraction in fact reflected a passive response of money to
output; and that the main sources of the Depression lay on the real
side of the economy br
(for example, the famous autonomous drop in consumption in 1930)."/ibr
br
Ben S. Bernankebr
span
 style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 1px;"Essays
on the Great Depression./spanbr
span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 14pt;"Chapter
1: The Macroeconomic of the Great Depression.br
A Comparative Approachbr
November 21supst/sup, 2002/span
/center
br
br
center
i"However, in 1963, Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz
transformed the debate about the Great Depression. br
That year saw the publication of their now-classic book, A Monetary
History of the United States, 1867-1960. br
br
The Monetary History, the name by which the book is instantly
recognized by any macro-economist, br
examined in great detail the relationship between changes in the
national money stock-br
-whether determined by conscious policy or by more impersonal forces
such as changes br
in the banking system--and changes in national income and prices. br
br
The broader objective of the book was to understand how monetary forces
had influenced the U.S. economy over a nearly a century. In the process
of pursuing this general objective, however, Friedman
and Schwartz offered important new evidence and arguments about the
role of monetary factors
in the Great Depression.br
br
In contradiction to the prevalent view of the time, that money and
monetary policy played at most a purely passive role in the Depression,
Friedman and Schwartz argued that "the [economic]
contraction is in fact a tragic testimonial to the importance of
monetary forces" (Friedman and
Schwartz, 1963, p. 300).br
br
To support their view that monetary forces caused the Great Depression,
Friedman and Schwartz revisited the historical record and identified a
series of errors--errors of both commission and omission-br
-made by the
Federal Reserve in
the late 1920s and early 1930s. br
br
According to Friedman and Schwartz, each of these policy mistakes led
to an undesirable tightening of monetary policy, as reflected in sharp
declines in the money supply. Drawing on their
historical evidence about the effects of money on the economy, Friedman
and Schwartz argued that the declines in the money stock
generated by Fed actions--or inactions--could account for the drops in
prices and output that
subsequently occurred.br
br
Friedman and Schwartz emphasized at least four major errors by U.S.
monetary policy-makers. The Fed's first grave mistake, in their view,
was the tightening of
monetary policy that began in the spring of 1928 nbsp;and
continued until the stock market crash of October 1929 (see
Hamilton, 1987, or Bernanke, 2002a, for further discussion). br
br
This tightening of monetary policy in 1928 did not seem particularly
justified by the macroeconomic environment: nbsp;The economy was
only just emerging from a recession, commodity prices
were declining sharply, br
and there was little hint of inflation. br
br
Why then did the Federal Reserve raise interest rates in 1928? br
The
principal reason was the Fed's ongoing concern about speculation on
Wall Street. br
br
Fed policy-makers drew a sharp distinction between "productive" (that
is, good) and "speculative" (bad) uses of credit, nbsp;and they
were concerned that bank lending to brokers and investors was
fuelling a speculative wave in the stock market. nbsp;When the
Fed's attempts to persuade banks not to lend for speculative
purposes proved ineffective, nbsp;Fed officials decided to
dissuade lending directly by raising the
policy interest rate.br
br
The market crash of October 1929 showed, if anyone doubted it, that a
concerted effort by the Fed can bring down stock prices. nbsp;But
the cost of this "victory" was very high. According to Friedman and
Schwartz, nbsp;the Fed's tight-money policies led to the onset of
a recession in
August 1929, nbsp;br
according to the official dating by the National
Bureau of Economic
Research. br
br
The slowdown in economic activity, together with high interest rates,
was in all likelihoodnbsp;br
the most important source of the stock
market crash that followed in
October. br
br
In other words, the market crash, rather than being the cause of the
Depression, as popular legend has it, was in fact largely the result of
an economic
slowdown band the inappropriate monetary policies that
preceded it/b.
br
br
Of course, the stock market crash only worsened the economic situation,
hurting consumer and business confidence and contributing to a still
deeper downturn in 1930."/ibr
br
Governor Ben S. Bernankebr
span
 style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 1px;"Money,
Gold, and the Great Depression./spanbr
span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 14pt;"At
the H. Parker Willis Lecture in Economic Policy, Washington and Lee
University,br
Lexington, Virginia.br
March 2supnd/sup, 2004br
br
/span
/center
pBernanke by terrorizing the Congress got 700 Billions of TARP
to save his fellow bankers. By doing that he made the whole congress on
both side of the aisles accomplice of his policy and forced them to
give it a stamp of approval.br
br
/p
center
i"Each of the policy options I have discussed so far involves
the Fed's acting on its own. In practice, the effectiveness of
anti-deflation policy could be significantly enhanced br
by cooperation
between the monetary and fiscal authorities. br
br
A broad-based tax cut, for example, accommodated by a program of
open-market purchases nbsp;to alleviate any tendency for interest
rates to increase, would almost
certainly br
benbsp;an effective stimulant to consumption and hence
to prices.br
br
Even if households decided not to increase consumption but instead
re-balanced their portfolios nbsp;by using their extra cash to
acquire real and financial assets, the resulting increase in asset
values would lower the cost of capital
and br
improve the balance sheet positions of potential borrowers. A
money-financed tax cut br
is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's
famous "helicopter drop" of money"/ibr
br
Governor Benjamin Shalom Bernankebr
span
 style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 1px;"Deflation:
Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here./spanbr
span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 14pt;"Before
the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C.br
November 21supst/sup, 2002br
br
/span
/center
pHe hijacked the powers of the executive and of the congress,
American Democracy./p
pBy deciding who would be rescued and who would failed, or more
bluntly said who would get protection and who wouldn't he asserted his
power over the banking communities (those with more than 100 billions
in assets)./p
pWe
all remember how he offered Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase amp;
Co. at
a price which was so small that they had to increase it, how Lehman
Bros., a systemic entity according to the Bernanke definition was
allowed to go bankrupt. We all remember how Goldman and JPMorgan Chase
amp;Co. became suddenly bannk holding companies and hence could
receive Bernankes' protection without having received $1 of customers'
deposit. We remember how AIG which is not even a Bank was rescued by
the FED. We remember the way Bernanke twisted the arm of Bank of
America in the Merryl Linch deal. Bernanke decides who will become rich
and who will disappear.nbsp;/p
pOn March 3suprd/sup, 2009 he revived the stock
market by organizing a
meeting of his Systemic Friends and startied a
coordinated lift:/p
center
i"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for
merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy
against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.br
br
It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which
either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and
justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from
sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate
such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."/ibr
br
Adam Smith br
June 5supth/sup, 1723 – 17 July 17supth/sup,
1790br
span
 style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 1px;"An
Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations./spanbr
span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 14pt;"Book
I, Chapter X, Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of
Labour and Stock, br
Paragraph 86.br
March 9supth/sup, 1776/span/center
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pGod wanted that this meeting took place on the
anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith Book!/p
pHe even invited President Obama to assist: he said that given
the PER of stocks they were good value for long term gain./p
pHe distributed billions by purchasing assets that were far
beyond the legal powers of the FED and refused to be audited on the
ground that it would create economic turmoil.br
/p
pBy making believe that he saved the economy he expected to get
the benefit of being a the saviour of Capitalism. Putting him above the
law.br
br
/p
centeri"I will argue here that, to the contrary, there
is much that
the Bank of Japan, in cooperation with other government agencies, could
do to help promote economic recovery in Japan. br
br
Most of my arguments
will not be new to the policy board and staff of the BOJ, br
which of
course has discussed these questions extensively. br
br
However, their
responses, when not confused or inconsistent, have generally relied on
various technical or br
legal objections—- objections which, I will argue,
could be overcome if the will to do so existed."/i br
br
Prof. Benjamin Shalom Bernankebr
span
 style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 1px;"Japanese
Monetary Policy: A Case of Self-Induced Paralysis?/spanbr
span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 13pt;"For
presentation at the ASSA meetings, Boston MA, br
January 9supth/sup, 2000./span/center
br
br
pFinally he is getting the role of Systemic Risk regulator,
hence getting even more power from terrorized officials and from the
public./p
pNow you know that the Power has switched from Wall Street to
Washington: 20th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20551./p
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i"he intends only his own security; and by directing that
industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value,
he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other
cases, br
led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of
his intention. br
br
Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was
no part of it. br
br
By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that
of the society br
more effectually than when he really intends to promote
it. br
br
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade
for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common
among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them
from it."/ibr
br
Adam Smith br
June 5supth/sup, 1723 – 17 July 17supth/sup,
1790br
span
 style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 1px;"An
Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations./spanbr
span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 14pt;"Book
IV, Chapter II, Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign
Countries br
of such Goods as can be Produced at Home , Paragraph 2.br
March 9supth/sup, 1776br
/span/center
pbThe "depression" was Bernanke Arson of the Reichstag:/b/p
div style="margin-left: 40px;"
pbThe Reichstag fire (German: Der Reichstagsbrand)/b
was an arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on February 27
1933. The event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany./p
pAt 21:25hrs (UTC +1), a Berlin fire station received an alarm
call that the Reichstag building, the assembly location of the German
Parliament, was ablaze. The fire started in the Session Chamber,[1] and
by the time the police and firefighters had arrived, the main Chamber
of Deputies was engulfed by flames.br
/p
pInside the building, a thorough search conducted by the police
resulted in the finding of a naked Marinus van der Lubbe. Van der Lubbe
was a Dutch insurrectionist, council communist and unemployed
bricklayer who had recently arrived in Germany, ostensibly to carry out
his political activities. The fire was used as evidence by the Nazis
that the Communists were beginning a plot against the German
government. Van der Lubbe and four Communist leaders were subsequently
arrested. Adolf Hitler, who had been sworn in as Chancellor of Germany
four weeks before, on 30 January, urged President Paul von Hindenburg
to pass an emergency decree to counter the "ruthless confrontation of
the Communist Party of Germany".[citation needed] With civil liberties
suspended, the government instituted mass arrests of Communists,
including all of the Communist parliamentary delegates. With them gone,
and their seats empty, the Nazis went from being a plurality party to
the majority; subsequent elections confirmed this position and thus
allowed Hitler to consolidate his power./p
pMeanwhile, investigation of the Reichstag fire continued, with
the Nazis eager to uncover Comintern complicity. In early March 1933,
three men were arrested who were to play pivotal roles during the
Leipzig Trial, known also as "Reichstag Fire Trial": Bulgarians Georgi
Dimitrov, Vasil Tanev and Blagoi Popov. The Bulgarians were known to
the Prussian police as senior Comintern operatives, but the police had
no idea how senior they were; Dimitrov was head of all Comintern
operations in Western Europe./p
piHistorians disagree as to whether van der Lubbe acted
alone or if the Nazis were involved. The responsibility for the
Reichstag fire remains an ongoing topic of debate and research./ibr
/p
pThe day after the fire, Hitler asked for and received from
President Hindenburg the Reichstag Fire Decree, signed into law by
Hindenburg using Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. The Reichstag
Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany and was used by
the Nazis to ban publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi
cause. Despite the fact that Marinus van der Lubbe claimed to have
acted alone in the Reichstag Fire, Hitler, after having obtained his
emergency powers, announced that it was the start of a Communist plot
to take over Germany. This sent the Germans into a panic and isolated
the Communists further among the civilians; additionally, thousands of
Communists were imprisoned in the days following the fire (including
leaders of the Communist Party of Germany) on the charge that the Party
was preparing to stage a putsch. With Communist electoral participation
also suppressed (the Communists had previously polled 17% of the vote),
the Nazis were able to increase their share of the vote in the March 5,
1933 Reichstag elections from 33% to 44%. This gave the Nazis and their
allies, the German National People's Party (who won 8% of the vote) a
majority of 52% in the Reichstag./p
pWhile the Nazis emerged with a majority, they had fallen short
of their goal, which was to win 50%–55% of the vote. The Nazis thought
that this would make it difficult to achieve their next goal, which was
to pass the Enabling Act, a measure that required a two-thirds
majority. However, there were important factors weighing in the Nazis'
favor. These were: the continued suppression of the Communist Party,
and the Nazis' ability to capitalize on national security concerns.
Moreover, some deputies of the Social Democratic Party (the only party
that would vote against the Enabling Act) were prevented from taking
their seats in the Reichstag, due to arrests and intimidation by the
Nazi SA. As a result, the Social Democratic Party would be
under-represented in the final vote tally. The Enabling Act, which gave
Hitler the right to rule by decree, passed easily on March 23, 1933. It
garnered the support of the right-wing German National People's Party,
the Catholic Centre Party, and several fragmented middle class parties.
This measure went into force on March 27 and, in effect, made Hitler
dictator of Germany./p
/div
center
center
centeri"/iiBut apart from this
contemporary mood, the ideas of economists and political philosophers, br
both when they are right and when they are wrong, br
are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is
ruled by little else. /iibr
br
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any
intellectual influences, br
are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. br
br
Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, br
are distilling their frenzy from some
academic scribbler of a few years back.br
br
/i
iI am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly
exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. br
br
Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the
field of economic and political philosophy br
there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are
twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas nbsp;which
civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to
current events are not likely to be the newest. br
But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are
dangerous for good or evil."/i
br
br
John Maynard Keynes, 1supst/sup Baron Keynes of Tiltonbr
June 5supth/sup, 1883 – 21supst/sup
April 1946br
span
 style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 1px;"The
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money./spanbr
span style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 13pt;"
Concluding Notes on the Social Philosophy Toward Which the General
Theory Might Lead, Chapter V.br
13suptn/sup December 1935br
br
/span
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span style="font-size: 12pt;"My Political
Orientation
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		<title>Is the yield curve indicating better tidings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The yield curve has steepened dramatically since the advent of the credit crisis. This post explores the implications of the yield curve for the stock market.]]></description>
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		<title>Port Data, Green Shoot or a Weed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Taggart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been following port data you no doubt saw the large spike in March of both inbound and outbound volume, and then a bit of continuation in April and May.  A lot of people, both mainstream media as well as bloggers, came out saying that this was a huge green shoot and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Words from the Wise” – offline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my return from Europe a few days ago, I have been experiencing constant internet connectivity problems. This has hampered my efforts to compile a decent version of the “Words from the Wise” review this week. My apologies for not being able to occupy a chunk of your Sunday reading this weekend, but rest assured, bull market, bear market or muddle-through market, the service will be back with a vengeance next week.

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		<title>Video-o-rama: Goldman Sachs ad nauseam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am experiencing Internet problems and have difficulty accessing my data sources. This week’s video compilation is therefore posted without the usual introductory paragraphs. But I’m sure the interesting clips will speak for themselves.
Wall St Cheat Sheet: AIG - writing stories about people who play &#8220;it&#8221; safe
&#8220;Evidently, AIG is a company that plays &#8216;it&#8217; safe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karn: Credit and credibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a fascinating e-book, "Credit and credibility", Richard Karn, author of the "Emerging Trends Report", is now offering his assessment of today's financial turmoil and what he considers to be the five most pressing issues the global economy will face in the years ahead.The first two chapters are shared in this post.]]></description>
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		<title>The ascent of money</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World" by Niall Ferguson is now available in a full-length four-part documentary. Known for his intellectual firepower, Ferguson is a historian who specializes in financial and economic history and teaches at Harvard. The Ascent of Money is well researched and especially relevant for putting the current financial crisis in historical context. ]]></description>
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		<title>Background Info on Leading Bond ETFs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We find that investors tend to have a clearer understanding of the portfolios behind equity funds than behind bond funds.  This blog post is provided to shine some light in a comparative way on the portfolios and recent performance of several leading bond ETFs.
To be clear, we are not recommending any particular asset allocation or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Rosie right on bonds?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post features David Rosenberg arguing in favor of bond yields staying low for an extended period of time. Will Rosie be on the money? I am not so sure ...]]></description>
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		<title>Change How You Are Investing or Face Retirement At The Poverty Level</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[h3 class="post_date"The carnage of the past two years in the stock market is giving investors a clear warning; learn a new way of doing things or get ready for more of the same. The money clock never stops ticking and the longer you wait to make the necessary changes to stop the bleeding in your accounts the less you’ll have when you retire. Every day you put this off increases the chance of being broke in retirement.br /
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pThis is the most important money decision you will ever make./p
pThe losses the Baby Boomers have racked up in the stock market all but guarantee they will have to work well past their retirement age or survive on Social Security which puts them below the poverty#8230;/p/div]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (July 6 – 12, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/commodities/words-from-the-investment-wise-for-the-week-that-was-july-6-%e2%80%93-12-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past week has been characterized by a fresh wave of risk aversion, as uncertainty over the global economic outlook took its toll on stock markets, commodities and precious metals, and investors favored safe-haven assets such as government bonds and the Japanese yen. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>WealthTrack’s Great Investors: A Conversation with Robert Rodriguez</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/bonds/wealthtrack%e2%80%99s-great-investors-a-conversation-with-robert-rodriguez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week in the WealthTrack series on "Great Investors", Consuelo Mack travels to Los Angeles to interview Robert Rodriguez, CEO of First Pacific Advisors. His 25 year track record of running both a top performing stock and bond fund has earned him the accolade "best fund manager of our time". The outspoken Rodriguez who sheltered shareholders from the credit crisis explains why he is even more worried now about the future and how he intends to invest as a result. ]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Coxe has just updated his webast - make a point of listening to this popular recording.]]></description>
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		<title>Debt Deflation and the Japanese Yen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Taggart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last post we discussed our views on deflation and how it will  be around  longer then most investors think.  Most people are stuck on the idea that hyper inflation is just around the corner and that you must be buying gold, most other commodities, and Asian stocks and at the same time short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Face to face with Hugh Hendry</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/bonds/face-to-face-with-hugh-hendry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, Hugh Hendry, founder of Eclectica Asset Management, shares his views on a number of topical issues in a three-part interview. He is not only outspoken, but also a top-notch investment manager – just the right ingredients for compelling viewing material.]]></description>
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		<title>Rosenberg interview: Cold truth about the economy and markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Rosenberg, widely-followed economist, yesterday made an impressive appearance on CNBC, discussing the economic and market outlook in a fair amount of detail. Make sure not to miss this clear-thinking analysis.]]></description>
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		<title>Are Banks Really Coming Back?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[h3 class="post_date"First-quarter earnings reports for the big banks weren’t bad on the surface. But banks had to pull some rabbits out of the hat to do it. For example, Goldman Sachs skipped December in order to post improved numbers./h3
h3 class="post_date"And Bank of America arbitrarily assigned a higher value to its Merrill Lynch assets. Earnings reports this quarter may also impress investors. Trade revenue is up on the big spread between treasury and other bonds. And the banks earned fees in May helping each other raise capital./h3
div class="entry"
pBut all the important stuff is down. Mergers and acquisitions dropped 56 percent from last year. And equity underwriting also fell in June after the boom in May. Underwriting of bonds also dipped. Companies issued 22 percent less#8230;/p/div]]></description>
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		<title>WealthTrack’s Great Investors: A Conversation with Bill Gross</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this first edition of a new WealthTrack series on “Great Investors”, Consuelo Mack sat down with “Bond King” Bill Gross, co-chief investment officer of PIMCO, and discussed how he was reconciling his big-picture, secular views of lower investment returns with his higher-return-oriented investment goals. Do not miss any of this great interview.]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (June 29 – July 5, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/commodities/words-from-the-investment-wise-for-the-week-that-was-june-29-%e2%80%93-july-5-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holiday-shortened week saw pundits pondering the depth of the economic rabbit hole as the curtain closed on the second quarter. As investors vacillated, most financial markets were characterized by a roller-coaster ride. The worse-than-expected US jobs data left no doubt that the economy was in recession. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly "Words from the Wise" review.]]></description>
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		<title>Video-o-rama: Roller-coaster ride into the long weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holiday-shortened week saw investors pondering the depth of the economic rabbit-hole. As investors vacillated, most financial markets were characterized by a roller-coaster ride. Friday's worse-than-expected jobs data left no doubt that the economy was in recession. The highlights of the discussions were captured on video and are included in this video-o-rama compilation. ]]></description>
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		<title>EPS Forecasts Portend Positive Market … Sort Of</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the consensus earnings estimates coming out of Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s and &#8220;the Street&#8221; (via Thompson Reuters) are realistic, then it looks pretty good for a stable to rising market value.  We say value instead of prices, because price and value don&#8217;t always coincide.
At 923 the S&#38;P 500 is about 12 times the 2010 $74.10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (June 22 – 28, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Words from the Wise” this week comes to you in a shortened format as I do not have access to my normal research resources while on the road in Europe. Although very little commentary is provided, a full dose of excerpts from interesting news items and quotes from market commentators is included. ]]></description>
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		<title>Deflation And What We Are Doing About It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Taggart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We decided that it was worth sharing our views of the inflation/deflation debate with all of our readers.  In our weekly newsletter we are already positioned to take advantage of some of the current as well as potential trends that will benefit from our scenario.
The following are our views on different parts of the puzzle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video-o-rama: Potpourri of bulls and bears</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s video-o-rama comes to you a day late as I make my away from Cape Town to Europe. Topics range from another round of discussion about the proposed regulatory reform to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke facing a grilling on Capital Hill over the Bank of America-Merrill Lunch deal to the usual debate on the outlook for the economy and financial markets.]]></description>
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		<title>Bye-Bye Muni Bonds? “Muni-TARP” to Follow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 25 (Bloomberg) – “Barack Obama may be the worst thing that ever happened to tax-exempt bonds &#8230;. “ 
We certainly agree and see more trouble for tax-exemption down the road.
Obama Chief of Staff, Emanuel said, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”, and the administration is taking that advice by sponsoring and subsidizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing SDR Issuance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pFed confuses markets, risk assets get sold#8230;  SNB intervenes to stop franc#8217;s rise#8230; ECB issues 12-month liquidity#8230; Bernanke to get grilled? And Now#8230; Today#8217;s Pfennig!/p
pGood day#8230; And a Tub Thumpin#8217; Thursday to you! Yes, I know the currencies and commodities got whipsawed yesterday, and my Cardinals got spanked, but that#8217;s no reason for us to not enjoy a Tub Thumpin#8217; Thursday! Every day is a gift, and it has nothing to do with stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities!/p
pOK#8230; Not that I try to be philosophical, sometimes it just comes out that way! Besides, you don#8217;t want to think that I#8217;m just a smart *** all the time! HAHAHAHAHAHA!/p
pWell, as I said in the open, the currencies and commodities got whipsawed yesterday, and the culprit#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Bond on China and the Fed’s “punch bowl”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Bond, head of asset allocation at Barclays Capital, discusses the outlook for Chinese growth, government bond yields and other topical issues in a two-part interview.]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (June 15 – 21, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caution last week crept back into investors’ vocabulary for the first time in more than three months as they weighed the prospects of a global economic recovery and whether the “green shoots” needed more monetary water. As risk-taking moderated, profit-taking on equities and commodities set in after a colossal advance since early March. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>Don Coxe webcast – updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Coxe has just updated his webast - make a point of listening to this popular recording.]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Prieur du Plessis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.]]></description>
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		<title>Video-o-rama: Regulatory reform dominates debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The financial debate during the past few days was dominated by President Obama's sweeping revamp of financial market supervision, and this issue also occupies a number of slots in today's Video-o-rama. But the video clips are not all about regulation, as pundits are also trying to figure out whether there are in fact economic "green shoots" and what the implications for financial markets might be. ]]></description>
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		<title>German Investor Confidence Is On The Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pCurrencies stop the dollar#8217;s run#8230;  BRIC meeting could get ugly for the dollar#8230; RBA meeting notes good for Aussie dollars#8230;  Depressing data / forecasts for housing#8230;  And Now#8230; Today#8217;s Pfennig!/p
pGood day#8230; And a Terrific Tuesday to you! Thundering storms moved through here this morning, as I was preparing to leave home and drive to the office. As slow as I am with getting around these days, I got pretty wet from my car to the office building. But, I didn#8217;t melt, as most would have thought! HA! And, I#8217;ll dry out soon enough#8230; Well before anyone else comes in!/p
pOK#8230; Well#8230; When I left you yesterday, the dollar was on a rampage, from the comments by the Russian Finance Minister, Kudrin#8230;#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings</title>
		<link>http://www.straightstocks.com/investing-in-china/prieur%e2%80%99s-readings-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to some thought-provoking articles I have read over the past few days that you may also find of interest.]]></description>
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		<title>Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (June 8 – 14, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Signs of stability characterized trading on financial markets during the past week. As investors placed their bets on a global economic recovery, equities, base metals and crude oil made further headway, with long-term government bond yields remaining at elevated levels. Read all about this and the implications for financial markets in the weekly “Words from the Wise” review.]]></description>
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		<title>Prieur’s readings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post provides links to some interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.]]></description>
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		<title>Video-o-rama: Risky assets – optimism waxing, pessimism waning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post features a selection of a few worthwhile video clips produced over the past few days.]]></description>
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		<title>Faber: The frame of mind of American economic policymakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["I seldom become depressed, but when I consider that prosperity is created by 'peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice' I really think the US and other Western governments are doing their very best to impoverish their countries," said Marc Faber in a thought-provoking two-part article. Read on ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bain Capital To Acquire 18% Stake In Gome For USD400 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is reported that U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital is to buy a 18% stake in China's electronic retail giant Gome for USD400 million.
In addition, Bain Capital will acquire 12% of Gome's HKD4.6 billion convertible bonds at an annual interest rate of 5%. These bonds were issued by Gome in May 2007 and will [...]]]></description>
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