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		<title>Warning! Warning! This is not good news</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore #8212; (a href="http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): Did you feel it? Just a couple of hours ago, you went into debt for another $106. You never signed any paperwork or agreed to it – a handful of unelected officials took care of that for you – but you’re now on the hook for at least another Franklin./p
pEarlier today, the Treasury auctioned off yet another chunk of American debt. This time it offered seven-year bonds to the tune of $32 billion. In all, the nation will go in hock for yet another $118 billion this week. /p
pIt may sound like a lot, but it’s just another busy week of financing Washington for Geithner and his crew./p
pWhile so many of us in the financial punditry business#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>How and Why China Will Flood the Gold Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese government is telling people gold and silver are good investments that will safeguard their wealth. After last year's meltdown in the stock market, people believe it. After all, Chinese citizens don't receive government retirement money... and they don't have company pension plans like people in many other countries do.]]></description>
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		<title>Gold – getting in while the bull’s still hot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theo Casey, Investment Director of emThe Fleet Street Letter/em and member of emThe Right Side/em editorial team, discusses the merits of gold, the bull's run, and how to get in on the action.]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Depression: It’s worse than they think</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Beyond the Crisis... With most of the world’s economies officially out of recession, the FT launches a series examining the legacy of worst global economic crisis since the 1930s,” says the FT. But according to the figures below the headline, the crisis wasn’t so bad. The US economy walked backward only 3.5%. Now, it’s making progress again. 

The FT editors should keep their eyes on the road. The ‘recession’ did more damage than they think. And it isn’t over... There’s more trouble ahead.]]></description>
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		<title>What’s better than gold? Anything!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore #8212; (a href="http://todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): One good thing about kids is they are predictable. Give them five bucks and say they’ve got just one hour to spend it or it goes into their savings account and can bet another five bucks the cash will be spent by minute 59./p
pIt’s the same way for politicians. Give them some cash and they’ll have it spent in no time flat, even if they can’t find anything worth buying./p
pTake, for example, the infamous Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP in informal nomenclature. Passing the $700 billion program was a matter of financial and economic life and death according to Washington./p
pThey gave us the same panicky “must-have” arguments as a six-year-old in the toy aisle./p
pBut once they got#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Gold – Not the end, but possibly a correction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The price of gold has surged this year, taking gold shares upwards with it. Readers of my Xcelerated Profits Report have rung the register with 45% profits on Goldcorp (NYSE: GG) and a triple-digit winner on Golden Star Resources (NYSE: GSS). We’re also up big on Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY) at the moment.

All is good, right?

On the surface, perhaps. But not if you believe what the options market is saying…]]></description>
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		<title>How do retail sales stack up in an atypical recovery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Parenteau, currency and credit markets expert, and editor of The Richebacher letter, analyzes the current state of the economy, as represented by retail sales.  Can retail really drive the recovery?]]></description>
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		<title>What Obama was really doing in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore #8212; (a href="http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): It looks like we found out what President Obama was actually doing in China last week. When he wasn’t bowing to foreign leaders or taking tours of historic China, our leader was giving the Chinese some financial advice./p
pIsn’t that a scary thought?/p
pJust a couple of days after Obama touched down in Washington, China makes a very American decree. It’s telling its banks it had better shore up their capital situations or face strong sanctions from the government./p
pThey say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. America did it first, now the communists are following./p
pIn case you missed the news over the past year or so, China’s economy is flat-out soaring ahead. While no figure that disseminates from#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Energy Investments in the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Hunt, editor in chief of Stansberry’s free online investment digest, a href="http://www.thedailycrux.com/"The Daily Crux/a,  interviewed Marin [Katusa, Casey Research]to get his take on where oil prices are headed for the long-term... the regions where investors and traders should focus their dollars... and some of his favorite energy companies with massive upside.]]></description>
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		<title>Watching the dollar: No more Chicken Little</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the drop in the dollar worth watching? Just like the sun will eventually shine its last ray of light, the mighty dollar will someday buy its last barrel of oil or its final container of Chinese imports. 

We all know it is going to happen, so why bother discussing it. Right?]]></description>
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		<title>When will the depression be over? When the work is done.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Bonner, venerable voice of reason (with a touch of doom), at a href="http://www.dailyreckoning.co.uk"The Daily Recokoning/a, looks long term at gold, the markets, and the end of the depression.]]></description>
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		<title>Transportation Sector: powered by recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Transportation Sector: The Market’s Most Important Domain 

Airlines, railways, package carriers, even oil and gas pipelines are all industries that make up the transportation sector.

But why should you care about it?

Because transportation is actually the most important sector – and for good reason: growth or contraction here serves as a proxy for both U.S. and global economic growth.]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism is alive and well</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore – (a href="http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): Hallelujah, the markets work! You have no idea how happy I was this morning when I opened the Wall Street Journal and found an article detailing Goldman Sachs shareholder anger at the recent bonus payouts./p
pNow, I don’t care who makes what. That’s between bosses and their worker bees. But I do get a little peeved when Uncle Sam tries to tell some worker he can’t get paid per his contract./p
pBefore you go shouting about how Washington saved Wall Street and therefore we, as taxpayers, get a say over pay, let me ask you this. Does your mortgage company tell you what color to paint little Johnnie’s room? Does your car loan provider tell you how fast to#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Dollar, the Euro, and being Bullish on Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dollar nevertheless remains the world’s leading reserve currency, with the euro in second place. Investors are naturally anxious to protect themselves against markets, including currency markets, which have shown such a high degree of volatility. 

The Chinese, who have the greatest number of dollars in their currency reserves, have already suffered substantial losses. 

In what amounts to a crisis of the dollar, the euro is in second place as a reserve currency, but there are potential threats to the future of the euro, due to the weak productivity of the Mediterranean economies.]]></description>
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		<title>Audit the Fed – Amendment to a $200 billion bill frightens currency traders!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what was it that spooked the markets… Well… The only thing I can find was the report yesterday about falling Housing Starts that Chris told you about… Did you know that about 14% of US homeowners were either delinquent on their mortgage or in some stage of foreclosure? That is the highest rate since the group started collecting the data in 1972!

But there was something else that was announced as the day went on, that I think probably spooked the markets more than anything else… And that is a key House panel approved two amendments to a sweeping financial-overhaul bill that would give federal watchdogs new authority to audit the Federal Reserve, and would establish a fund of as much as $200 billion to help dissolve large, troubled institutions. Rep. Ron Paul (R., Texas) offered the amendment seeking to subject the Fed to audits.]]></description>
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		<title>Unorthodox Exit Plan – what the Fed has up its sleeves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“In the old days … the Fed controlled the federal funds rate with open market operations,” Antulio Bomfim, a former Fed economist now with Macroeconomic Advisors LLC in Washington told Reuters. “Now, at least in this period when reserves are over-abundant, the way the Fed hopes to raise the federal funds rate will be primarily by raising the interest rate it pays on reserves.”]]></description>
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		<title>I’d rather let Madoff invest my money</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore #8212; (a href="http://todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): I am starting to sound like a broken record, bashing the actions of our government every day for the last week, but I don’t care. What these ignoramuses are doing is simply criminal./p
pIt is becoming more and more apparent that today’s breed of politicians is good at only one thing, getting elected./p
pAs folks that have never run a business, never had to tell an employee to clean off his desk or risk any of their own money, our lawmakers should quit pretending like they know what they are doing and let the hard stuff up to the professionals./p
pLet ‘em outsource the legislation, I say./p
pDon’t get me wrong, I love my home state of Pennsylvania, but it is#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman Sachs – Defending the biggest kid on the block</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resident voice of reason at The Daily Reckoning, Bill Bonner takes a hard look at Goldman Sachs and replaces jealousy with admiration.
"We pick up sword and shield, ready to fight for Goldman, after reading the Financial Times. The FT has devoted a whole page to Goldman bashing. It’s time someone stood up to say a kind word for the firm."]]></description>
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		<title>What if They Stop Buying our Debt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pstrongDoug Hornig, senior prognosticator at a href="http://www.caseyresearch.com/crpmkt/crpSolo.php?id=168#38;ppref=CTP168ED1109C"The Casey Report/a, analyzes the alarming trend of U.S. federal debt and its future implications./strong /p
p“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” said Blanche DuBois, in the final words of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. Well, don’t we all./p
pMany citizens probably still cling to the old saw that public debt doesn’t matter because “we owe it to ourselves.” Wrong. Debt always matters. And as for whom we owe it to, it is a lot of kind (or, at least, not yet unkind) strangers./p
pAs recently as 1970, foreign holders of U.S. debt were essentially non-existent. But their slice of our obligation pie has steadily increased, especially over the past two decades, until now foreign#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>A lesson in Alaskan “waste management”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore #8212; (TFN): Some good friends of mine recently took their TV out to their front yard, put two high-brass shells in their 12 gauge and pulled the trigger.  They rendered the hunk of glass and plastic useless. Called it Alaskan waste disposal./p
pAfter last night, I’m ready to get out the 00 buckshot, myself./p
pI’ve got my eye out for good intentions, gone bad after spending the last three editions of Notes discussing the idea of financial regulatory reform./p
pDuring 52-mile commute home yesterday, they were all over the place, anything from idiotic signs to a couple of state cops setting a trap and writing tickets for not moving to the left lane when passing a stopped emergency vehicle./p
pThe gung-ho troopers had#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Goldbugs Beware!  The tax man cometh!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money Morning's Keith Fitz-Gerald brings us a sobering look at investing in gold.  If there is a moral to the story, it’s that nothing is what it seems anymore – not even gold.]]></description>
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		<title>Debt – the fall of the U.S. economic empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 19th century belonged to Britain, the 20th century belonged to America and in the 21st century, China will rule the business world. Whether you like it or not, this transition is already underway and it will intensify over the coming decades.]]></description>
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		<title>Should we Fire the Fed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All eyes and ears are on the Fed this week. With Bernanke in New York discussing potential new bubbles and the New York Fed getting heat for overpaying AIG’s many creditors, investors are having a tough time knowing exactly who to follow.

For those of you who hold up the “Fire the Fed” signs, move over. I am thinking about joining your camp.]]></description>
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		<title>Should “Big Tobacco” run the government?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore #8212; (a href="http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): If politicians would get their heads out of their re-election campaigns, they would not have to make hasty, thoughtless decisions that cost you and I money./p
pIn the days following Obama’s inauguration, Washington quickly passed a wide set of tax reforms. Part of the legislation included a $400 tax break for the country’s working class and increased healthcare funding for the country’s poor, unhealthy children thanks to increased taxes on the tobacco industry./p
pIt is no surprise neither measure has worked out as planned./p
pAccording to reports today, more than 15 million of us will have to pay back the $400 we saved in taxes over the last few months due to an error on Washington’s end./p
pI hope Uncle Sam#8230;/p]]></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>Hyperinflation – where is it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pKeith Fitz-gerald (a href="http://www.WhiskeyandGunpowder.com"  class="alinks_links"Whiskey #038; Gunpowder/a):br /
Everything we know about classic economic theory suggests the U.S. economy should be experiencing Zimbabwe-like hyperinflation right now, thanks to the nearly $2.2 trillion the U.S. Federal Reserve has pumped into the system./p
pBut we’re not…yet./p
pClassic economic theory says that money supply can be used to stimulate the economy and our central bankers seem to agree. That’s why they’ve pumped more than $1 trillion dollars into the economy, engineered countless bailout bonanzas for zombie institutions, put Detroit on life support, and delivered a bunch of financial Band-Aids to the trauma ward — all in a desperate bid to make Americans feel better about the global financial crisis./p
pTo their way of thinking, the trillions of dollars have been#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>If this is true, we all need a vaccine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore #8212; (a href="http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): It’s confirmation! On Friday I wrote how I may have a touch of the flu or some other mind-altering ailment because my thoughts were far more liberal than I am comfortable with admitting./p
pWell, it turns out my ultra-liberal, straight-ticket voting, French-guy marrying sister has a verifiable case of the pig flu. And guess who I had dinner with on Thursday night? You betcha, big sis. /p
pThere we have it: cause and effect./p
pFortunately, my head case was short-lived. By the time my venison sausage and eggs were off the front burner on Saturday morning, I was back to my old self, almost knocking my O.J. off the table stomping my fist over a local political battle./p
pIn Friday’s edition#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Can precious metals keep on flying?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pAre you sold on gold? The precious metal outperformed every major equity index in the world in 2008. The question is, can gold—and other precious metals—keep on flying? Or would buying today be buying high and selling low?/p
pPrecious metals have always been intriguing to investors because they tend to hold their value. In times of geopolitical crisis or currency devaluation, for example, the value of paper money might fluctuate, but a hard asset will always be worth something. As a result, historically, precious metals have been considered  a “safe haven” in times of economic and financial instability./p
pThat brings us to why gold is on a tear today. It declined in 2008 and early 2009 as panicked investors rushed into cash#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Crash Alert: The Future and Failure of the U.S. Dollar</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pa href="http://www.contrarianprofits.com/articles/author/bill-bonner/"  class="alinks_links"Bill Bonner/a (The a href="http://www.dailyreckoning.com"  class="alinks_links"Daily Reckoning/a)br /
In the short run, it might have enough life in it to bite investors on the derrière /p
pLondon , England /p
pWe got back from South America on Friday#8230; ready for a rest. So, we spent the weekend reading#8230; and occasionally, thinking. /p
pWhat we’ve been thinking is that the dollar is dead meat in the long run. But in the short run, it might have enough life in it to bite investors on the derrière. /p
pThe US stock market rose 73 points on Friday, to bring the Dow just 30 points south of the 10,300 mark. Why is this level important? It’s not really. But it reminds us that this is still just in “bounce range.” Big drops#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pstrongSlow Down#8230; or  Else/strongbr /
  By David Galland, Managing Editor, stronga href="http://www.caseyresearch.com/crpmkt/crpSolo.php?id=168#038;ppref=CTP168ED1109B"The  Casey Report/a/strong /p
pOn a whim  following our Denver Summit #8211; and despite truly abysmal weather #8211; Casey  Research CEO Olivier Garret and I cabbed it down to a local public golf course  for a quick nine holes. Afterwards we were returning to the hotel through a  neighborhood best described as poor, but not disreputable. While our cab made its  way down a side street, a radar gun-wielding policeman leaped out of the bushes  down the block, pulled the trigger, and waved our immigrant cab driver to the  curb. The offense, we soon learned, was going five miles an hour over the speed  limit in a school zone#8230; well after school was out#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>What could be worse than a housing bust?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pIf You Thought the Housing Meltdown Was Bad…br /
Doug Hornig, Senior Editor, (a href="http://www.caseyresearch.com/crpmkt/crpSolo.php?id=168#038;ppref=CTP168ED1109A"Casey Research/a):/p
p…wait until you see what’s in the cards for commercial real estate./p
pThat’s right, the next train wreck will be in commercial real estate. Couldn’t be worse than last year’s residential market crash? That remains to be seen. But it’s coming soon, probably as early as the second quarter of next year, and there’s nothing that can prevent it. The government will intervene, trying desperately to delay the day of reckoning, and may even succeed. For a while. But make no mistake about it, that train is going off the tracks no matter what./p
pEvery part of the sector – from multifamily apartment buildings to retail shopping centers, suburban office#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Gold Bubble – Is it big enough to burst?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBrian Hunt (The Right Side):br /
In the past three months, there’s been a very popular – and very wrong – thing to say about owning gold. /p
pI hear it a lot from inexperienced Wall Street analysts, bloggers, and money managers who spend little time living in the “real world”. /p
pHere#8217;s what they’re saying: “Gold is way too popular now#8230; It’s near the end of its bull market.” The recommended “action to take” is to cash in your gold profits and move on to something different./p
pI can tell you that taking this advice is a big mistake. Anyone who believes gold is too popular with the mainstream public simply doesn’t know who the mainstream public is#8230; and they don’t understand how bull#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Another Record Debt Sale = Record borrowing for the U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pIan Mathias (The a href="http://www.dailyreckoning.com"  class="alinks_links"Daily Reckoning/a):br /
The U.S. government will finish its historic streak of debt sales today with a record $16 billion offering of 30-year bonds. This will pile on top the $65 billion in 3-year and 10-year paper auctioned earlier this week, both records in their own right./p
pIt’s worth noting that Monday’s auction for 3-year debt was met with ravenous, near-record demand and that Tuesday’s 10-year sale met a bid-to-cover ratio of 2.8… historically high for the 10-year, but not even close to the 3.3 ratio for the shorter dated bonds the day before./p
p“The market is sending many errant signals right now,” notes Dan Amoss. “U.S. policymakers are trying to reinflate stocks, houses and wages, while also recapitalizing an undercapitalized#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>How to play the dangerous dollar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore – (a href="http://www.todaysfinancial.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): The dollar is a dangerous entity these days. Never has there been such a globally important currency with as much political and financial manipulation./p
pThe distortions from reality are mind-boggling, yet all of us depend on the status of the simple fiat for our financial wellbeing. /p
pThe person with the most skin in the dollar game is, no doubt, President Obama. The nation’s economy hinges on the fate of the greenback and the White House knows it. That is why it is doing anything it can to slow the slide./p
pEven if it is entirely psychological./p
pToday, reports are flowing from Washington that show Obama may have plans to use up to $210 billion in TARP money to lower the#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Investment Basics: Ten Rules for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pKeith Fitz-Gerald (a href="http://www.moneymorning.com"  class="alinks_links"Money Morning/a):br /
With all the financial woes in the global economy, the worst thing an investor can do is to “freeze up.” With all the ups and downs in the market, it’s all too easy for investors to allow their emotions to take control. That’s when the smallest mistakes turn into the biggest mistakes./p
pThere’s one antidote for this problem … remembering a few basic rules. Just embrace the 10 ideas that follow and you’ll be in line to make some serious money in the months ahead./p
pRule Number 1: Invest on the Right Side of Major Economic Trends:That old investing adage “Don’t fight the Fed” serves as a good example here. Rising interest-rate environments make meaningful gains difficult to sustain#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Japan’s Lost Decade – is it too late for U.S. to learn from their mistakes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pa href="http://www.contrarianprofits.com/articles/author/bill-bonner/"  class="alinks_links"Bill Bonner/a (The a href="http://www.dailyreckoning.com"  class="alinks_links"Daily Reckoning/a):/p
pThe Dow rose again yesterday – up 44 points. Gold went up too – to a new record of $1,114. /p
pCan anything stop stocks and gold? /p
pTrees do not grow to the sky, dear reader. And for every bounce there is a bust. /p
p“It’s amazing, the US is doing everything that Japan did wrong,” said a friend yesterday. /p
pLet’s see… in the 1980s Japan’s corporate leaders thought they were going to take over the world. Investors thought so too. They expanded. They wheeled. They dealed. Prices shot up and they all thought they were geniuses. /p
pIn the ‘80s, everyone wanted to be Japanese. Management consultants used Japanese words to describe commonplace insights. /p
pFor example, instead of saying#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The best sector for your money right now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore (a href="http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): I cannot say with total certainty that duct tape has ever saved my life. But I can say it has saved the day on more than one occasion, like the time I fell feet first into a frigid river, roaring with the power of Alaska’s springtime snowmelt./p
pIn the woods, you have to dry off fast or risk any number of calamities. Living in temperate rainforest, an emergency fire was a challenge. But thanks to duct tape’s inherent desire to burn, I was re-warmed in no time. /p
pBut my mundane story has got nothing on the bush pilot that returned to his Piper Cub (the plane, not one of Palin’s kids) to find a pissed off grizzly had utterly#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Reading between the lines: What the Kraft-Cadbury takeover bid says about the markets at large</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pJohn Stepek (Money Week UK):br /
Deal making is back! /p
pThat was the general reaction from the press when US food giant Kraft launched its first bid for British confectioner Cadbury less than two months ago. Pundits spewed out potential target prices like bingo numbers #8211; £8, no £10, no £12! – and analysts scribbled out scenarios involving white knights and rival bidders from across the globe. /p
pReality has been a little more disappointing. Despite attempts to talk up the deal, no rival bidders have come forth. And yesterday Kraft came back to the table with an offer that can only be described as – as Cadbury#8217;s board put it – #8216;derisory#8217;. /p
pIt#8217;s just another sign that there#8217;s a vast gap between#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Old-fashioned commodities; old-fashioned strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pa href="http://www.contrarianprofits.com/articles/author/chris-mayer/"  class="alinks_links"Chris Mayer/a (Penny Sleuth):br /
“If you can tell me something else where the fundamentals are so attractive…I’d be happy to put my money there,” said Jim Rogers, the famed investor and self-made billionaire in a recent interview. “But I don’t know of any other place.”  /p
pWhat’s he talking about? Today, we take a look and invest right alongside his idea. And it should start to pay off with the arrival of the first swallows of spring in 2010. It’s also timely now — in this weak-kneed economy — because it has traditionally held up well even in when the economy is on the ropes. Even the Great Depression couldn’t put this thing down./p
pWe start with simple truths. The world’s population has more#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The end of efficient markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore #8212; (a href="http://todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a): How efficient are the markets? It is like asking how smart is the human race We all know the answer, but few of us are willing to suck in our pride and admit there are a few dim bulbs among us./p
pJudging by the sudden rise in fame of Levi Johnson or Balloon Boy’s antics, the human brain is far feebler than we give credit./p
pAnd so are the markets./p
pIf you have taken a basic finance class anytime between 1965 and the present, you have likely studied Eugene Fama and his efficient market hypothesis./p
pEssentially, the University of Chicago professor created a cult-like following of investors and academicians that believe markets entirely reflect all known information and instantly react to#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Fine Wines – not your grandfather’s Investment Fund!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pUp 9.5% over 12 months, the Liv-ex 100 Fine Wine Index (below) has clawed back some of last year#8217;s losses, when the industry#8217;s main benchmark index fell 14.6% in 2008. So should you be piling into the fine wine market?/p
pProbably not. First off, new Asian buyers and a #8220;whole pile of Johnny-come-lately types#8221; are fuelling current demand. A six-litre bottle of Château Pétrus 1982 recently sold for a record £60,000 at auction in Hong Kong, a city where wine imports rose by more than 40% in the first eight months of the year. /p
pMeanwhile, in Christie#8217;s spring 2009 global sales, Asian and Chinese buyers accounted for 61% of the total sale value, compared to 7% in 2005. #8220;With demand coming#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>What the German experiment can teach us about the future of U.S. wealth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pa href="http://www.contrarianprofits.com/articles/author/bill-bonner/"  class="alinks_links"Bill Bonner/a (a href="http://www.dailyreckoning.com"  class="alinks_links"Daily Reckoning/a) – In 1949, the Soviets and the Allies divided Germany into two parts. One part followed a traditional capitalistic path to reconstruction. The other part took the socialist road. Remarkably, they kept this test going for 40 years./p
pOf course it was misery for many of the test subjects. People were so eager to get out of the East German control group, they risked their lives jumping over the barbed wire. Then, when the wall was down, the population of East Germany collapsed…more than one out of every ten people moved to the West!/p
pBut it was a great experiment for economists. Too bad they didn’t learn anything./p
pTo read the rest of Mr. Bonner#8217;s article his long-term recommendation for#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>India  China: hoarding gold and shunning dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Byron King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pByron King, a href="http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com"Whiskey and Gunpowder/abr /
Let’s review the big picture for gold. What’s going on? And what are people saying?/p
pFor much of 2009, gold traded in the range of low-mid $900 per ounce. There was a dip over the summer, with a strong upswing starting in September. Gold is now trading well over $1,000 per ounce, in fact just under $1,100./p
pTurns out that the government of India was buying gold in mid-October. Over a two-week span, the central bank of India bought 200 tonnes (metric tons) of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at an average price of $1,045. The IMF — over which the U.S. holds veto power for most actions — got approval to sell the gold from#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring your real wealth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore (TFN):br /
What is wealth? It is a question all of us need to ask ourselves every so often. If not, we lose track of where we are heading and where we’ve been. /p
pAs you’re reading this, I am nowhere near my computer. In fact, I’m not even in the office today. I spent the last three days increasing my “wealth.”/p
pWe all have different definitions of the word. Some of us give it a strictly monetary connotation. There is nothing wrong with that. In its most straight-forward definition, wealth is the abundance of money./p
pBut if I can take the risk of getting touchy-feely for a minute or two, I’d like to take it a bit further. To me, wealth is the#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Going Long on the Dollar?  Go Longer on Gold!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justice Litle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pa href="http://www.taipanpublishing.com"  class="alinks_links"Taipan/a Daily#8217;s Justice Litle review the current trends of gold, the U.S. Dollar and small caps.br /
Finding suprising strength in the dollar in the short term, he finds greater strength in gold and gold stocks for the long term./p
pemJustice Litle, Editorial Director, Taipan Publishing Group /embr /
Gold, small caps and the U.S. dollar have had a stable three-way relationship for the better part of the 2009 rally. Now the three could be parting ways./p
pDr. Marc Faber is one of the few market wise men whose thoughts are worth pondering. His monthly “Gloom, Boom #038; Doom Report” is always a good read. He is an active, Asia-based investor with decades of experience, hundreds of millions under management, and many prescient calls under his belt./p
pFaber#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Is it time to panic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore-(a href="http://todaysfinancialnews.com" target="_blank"TFN/a):Time to panic? If you are part of the Obama administration the answer is yes. If you are an American investor, hold off on the freaking out for at least another month or so./p
pWith the nation’s unemployment rate officially in double-digit territory and the under-employed rate ready to the 20% mark, the politicians that promised bliss in the days ahead are eating their words today./p
pAnd that means Wall Street is eating its recent gains./p
pFor nearly a month, the Dow has hovered around the 10,000 mark. After hundreds of billions of dollars were withdrawn earlier this year, it was relatively easy to put that money back to work and send the equities market higher./p
pBut now that the economic data is showing#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The best way to get through a debt crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pWhat’s the best way to get through a debt crisis? Straight through was our advice last week. For at least a thousand years, the business cycle went round and round without help from central bankers or economists. It is only since these geniuses have been on the case that really serious problems have arisen. The Panic of 1920 – in which the US government did nothing but cut taxes and spending – was quickly forgotten. The Panic of 1929, on the other hand, was followed by massive rigging and jiving by the authorities. It took 20 years and a world war to overcome; today it is still remembered today as the Great Depression./p
pMartin Wolf, speaking, gravely, for the world’s intelligentsia#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Time to dump gold?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pGold gained yet another powerful ally yesterday — hedge fund icon Paul Tudor Jones. The man who famously called Black Monday in 1987 and the Nikkei crash a few years later now thinks “gold appears to be cheap.” In a note to his investors, Tudor said, “I have never been a gold bug. It is just an asset that, like everything else in life, has its time and place. And now is that time… gold’s value should increase as its scarcity relative to printed currencies increases.”/p
p/p
pSo gold is now publicly loved by armchair investors, famous hedge fund managers and central banks… even as we write, Erin Burnett is “squawking” about it on CNBC. Are your contrarian senses tingling yet?/p
p#8220;So many#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Will Bernanke Kill Santa Claus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore (TFN): The Fed is meeting today. And I ask who cares? At this point, Bernanke and his troupe of politicians masquerading as economists are in so far over their heads, no matter what they do or say, you can bet the move is designed to protect their butts, not yours. /p
pWith the global economy taking off without us and foreign interest rates already on the rise, the Fed is desperate to look bullish while acting bearish./p
pAnybody that has ever tried to prove the existence of Santa Clause or the Tooth Fairy to a six year old knows what Bernanke is trying to do. At this point, he’ll do anything to change the subject and focus the attention on something#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Today’s the day for gold bugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore (TFN): Today’s the day. If you have ever hunted for undersea gold, you likely know Mel Fisher’s famous mantra. The great shipwreck hunter used the line thousands of times before it became the undeniable truth on the day he uncovered the “Atocha mother lode.” /p
pWhile today’s record-breaking surge in gold prices is not likely to create $450 million in newfound wealth for any singular investor, it is the day gold bugs have been waiting for. /p
pThanks to surprising news that India’s central bank shelled out some $6.7 billion to get its hands on 200 metric tons worth of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) gold stash, the bullion market is on fire today. /p
pWhy is this good news?  /p
pSeveral reasons.#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Brace, Brace, Brace – We’re Goin’ Down!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore (TFN): Believe it or not, I used to be a fishing guide. And a darn good one, too. It feels like a past life these days, but some of the memories of my summers spent in Alaska’s pristine wilderness come streaking back to me at the oddest of times. /p
pLike today, for instance./p
pEverywhere I look, there is evidence that the American economy is in shambles. As investors, the cards are certainly stacked against us. At this point it even looks like the system may be rigged./p
pBut we all know there is always a way out./p
pAs a guide, there was a handful of times when I was positive the outcome would be grossly negative. Like the time a freak storm#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Notes Version 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBaltimore (TFN): Welcome to Notes version 2.0. As Will moves on to his next successful endeavor at the family office, I could not be more pleased and nervous to be at the helm. After all, he set the bar high. /p
p/p
pWhat a time to be part of such a popular, well-regarded newsletter. From what I’ve heard and read, Notes subscribers are some of the most-informed, thought-provoking readers anywhere. I sincerely look forward to opening a dialogue with all of you. /p
pAs you know, there has never been a more pivotal time in this country’s financial future than right now. /p
pThe dollar is weak. /p
pThe word “jobs” has become an atrocious four-letter symbol for economic despair. /p
pThe government owns Detroit, Wall#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Energy, Brazil, Gold: What More Could You Want?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Byron King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pLet’s take a quick look at what’s happening in Brazil, over and above the 2016 Olympics being awarded to Rio de Janeiro./p
p“I don’t know if I will live to see it,” said Brazil’s president Luiz (Lula) da Silva a couple weeks ago. “But Brazil has to transform itself into a big power in the 21st century. We have everything to make it happen. We are not talking about a little country here.”/p
pNo, indeed. Brazil is not “a little country” anymore. Any prudent investor has to consider how to hitch a ride on the Brazil growth story. Brazil is transforming into one of the world’s great powers in this century. It’s important to follow the news from Brazil. At the same#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Investing Mistakes to Avoid at all Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pTwo distinct groups of investors have emerged since the U.S. stock market rally began in early March. Initially overly cautious and smug in their desire to protect themselves, the first group of investors were convinced the rally was going to sputter and stall. It hasn’t, and 57% later these investors now believe they’re getting left behind, so they’re piling into the key indices in effort to make up lost ground./p
pThe second group consists of investors who believe they can outsmart the market. They’ve stayed on the sidelines, planning to buy in and make their fortunes when the markets break down a second time. But they may never get their chance./p
pBoth strategies are flawed. And both ignore the single strategy that#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Can Democrats Anchor Unemployment Without Doing More Damage to the Deficit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pWith the unemployment rate soaring alongside the U.S. budget deficit, the Obama Administration and congressional Democrats are struggling to solve the nation’s problems before next year’s midterm election./p
pBut they may be struggling in vain./p
pSince 1945, the party that has controlled the White House has lost an average of 16 House seats in the president’s first midterm election, according to the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan publication in Washington. However, losses for the Democrats could be far steeper next year if they fail to put unemployed Americans back to work./p
pThen-U.S. President Bill Clinton and the Democrats lost 52 House seats in 1994./p
p“a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125487096440369163.html?mod=article-outset-box" target="_blank"strongUnemployment is the leading economic indicator when it comes to politics/strong/a,” Democratic pollster Peter Hart told strongemThe Wall Street Journal/em/strong.#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Retail Industry is Getting Attractive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe downtrodden retail industry is on the move today. Thanks to good  news from companies like Liz Claiborne (NYSE:stronga href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=liz" target="_blank"LIZ/a/strong) and Wet Seal (NASDAQ:strong/strongstronga href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=wtsla" target="_blank"WTSLA/a/strong), investors are putting some profits in their shopping bags. /p
pPrepare for the worst. Hope for the best. That’s the motto of the nation’s retail industry these days./p
pWith consumers stitching their wallets shut and retailers slashing their margins in an attempt to attract the few Americans left that are willing to spend, expectations are not high for stores setting up shop in the nation’s malls./p
pBut with low expectations come big surprises./p
pWith the first batter of the latest earnings season, strongAlcoa (NYSE:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=aa" target="_blank"AA/a)/strong, hitting a triple last night, optimism is on the rise. Thanks to some better-than-expected same-store sales figures#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Two Tips to Avoid Letting a Bad Stock Sucker-Punch You</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louis Basenese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pI confess… I got it wrong with gold./p
pUnlike some stockpickers and newsletter analysts, who proudly trumpet all their winners, while shuffling the losers under the rug, I have no problem admitting when my calls go against me./p
pAnd to the delight of all the naysayers, this happened just a couple of days ago when gold prices shot to a record high. That triggered my sell-stop and, rather than let my pride come before a fall and hang on, it’s time to move on./p
pDon’t get me wrong, though… I’m still convinced that the  yellow metal could suffer a correction for three main reasons…/p
ul type="disc"
liSo far, inflation hasn’t reared its ugly head. If it stays in hiding much longer, disillusioned investors will probably head#8230;/li/ul]]></description>
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		<title>Will Rise In September Retail Sales Carry into Holidays?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pRetail sales rose in September for the first time in 13 months, fueling hopes that the worst is behind retailers that head into the holiday season better prepared for a tough economic environment./p
pThree reports were unanimous that sales gained, but to different degrees: Market research firm Retail Metrics Inc. said sales rose 1.1% last month, Thomson Reuters tallied a rise of 0.6% and a tally by International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGS" target="_blank"GS/a) showed a 0.1% increase./p
p“Let the retail recovery begin,” said Michael Niemira, chief economist at ICSC. “a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RETAIL_SALES?SITE=AP#38;SECTION=HOME#38;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT#38;CTIME=2009-10-08-12-15-27" target="_blank"This is the start of a better performance and better fundamentals/a.”/p
pRetailers such as Target Corp. (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:TGT" target="_blank"TGT/a), Aeropostale (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:ARO" target="_blank"ARO/a) and Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:KSS" target="_blank"KSS/a) raised#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Touches a New Record</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p“Gold continues to climb…stoked by inflation worries,” says a headline in the emInternational Herald Tribune/em./p
pYesterday, strongit touched a new record – $1,050/strong – even as the dollar rose, oil slumped under $70 and stocks dipped very slightly./p
pWell, what do you expect? The United States added $1 trillion to its monetary base in the last year or so. The federal government is running a deficit of $1.7 trillion this year. And along comes Barack Obama with an idea to stimulate employment – spend more money! This time, Obama’s plan is a kind of ‘Cash for Workers’ program…in which businesses get a tax credit for hiring new employees./p
pstrongGold investors must think the new program will be the straw they’ve been waiting for./strong Government has#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Need to Look at these Three ‘Zombie-Free Zones’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pa href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Group_of_Funds"Quantum Fund/a co-founder a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros"George Soros/a had it right on Monday, when he said the U.S. recovery would be held back by  “basically bankrupt” banks and companies./p
pI  call them the “zombies,” the institutions being propped up by government  bailouts. Companies like Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t#38;source=web#38;ct=res#38;cd=1#38;url=http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:C#38;ei=twXNSsbxC8PhlAeH1pnKBQ#38;usg=AFQjCNFwjl7ESPNbyxcrHKutOaESRbTs3Q#38;sig2=LqojsjWfwCX25AbluxsKVg"C/a),  Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t#38;source=web#38;ct=res#38;cd=1#38;url=http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:BAC#38;ei=XQXNSqHcNJLVlAeW0NXNBQ#38;usg=AFQjCNEKGckcGG3-9j1ObVP11SYn8Edsgw#38;sig2=4egsYQiVHhk9cZ29AZfGzQ"BAC/a),  General Motors Corp., a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t#38;source=web#38;ct=res#38;cd=2#38;url=http://www.chryslerllc.com/#38;ei=pwbNSo-QAY2tlAerwsDQBQ#38;usg=AFQjCNGlaw2nwLSPhWjfKzgJBK6dsg-P2g#38;sig2=sFvCDsq-tgfwf0suuh6btw"Chrysler  LLC/a, etc. On an operating level, these walking dead are sucking the life out  of the recovery./p
pUnlike in previous downturns, huge resources have been devoted to propping up entities that should have been taken out of the picture./p
pOf course, it’s easy to avoid zombies directly. No one is going to force you to take a position in GM. But if you really want to know where to look#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Gas Industry Braces for Impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pIf the news today is an indication of things to come, the next few months are not going to be pretty. If the big boys are preparing for the worst, imagine the fear from the debt-ridden little guys. /p
pAnd so it begins. Just yesterday, we here at the a href="http://www.todaysfinancialnews.com/" target="_blank"emTFN/em/a offices got into a late-day discussion about the fate of the nation’s natural gas markets./p
pWith prices remaining low and entirely removed from the recent commodities bonanza, the nation’s expanding natural gas drilling industry is headed for trouble./p
pToday we got the news that proves our theory./p
pstrongConocoPhillips (NYSE:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=cop" target="_blank"COP/a)/strong, the third largest of the nation’s Big Oil players, announced it is cutting its capital spending budget by nearly 10% and is selling some $10 billion#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Soars To Another All-Time High!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p $1,055 for Gold!                      Global recovery prospects fuel run on the dollar#8230;Trichet to defend the dollar today?                                      Central Banks are diversifying#8230;And Now#8230; Today#8217;s Pfennig!/p
pGood day#8230; And a Thunderin#8217; Thursday to you! It#8217;s raining here in St. Louis, so, it must be Thursday! It#8217;s a big night for yours truly, but I#8217;ll talk about that at the end#8230; We#8217;ve got some big moves going on in the currencies and metals, so we had better get to it, and save the chit-chat for later, eh? But first, today is the funding deadline on our latest BRIC MarketSafe CD#8230; We#8217;ll have one more in November and then that#8217;s it!/p
pOK, front and center this morning, Gold has soared to another all-time high! When I turned#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Option-Sized Gains from $25 Silver</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe global economy is in a lull right now. Some expect a recovery sooner, rather than later. Others, like us, think that we could see a second downturn. Either way, there’s one investment you need to own right now: silver./p
pSilver is the most flexible metal on earth. We’re not talking about its malleability. We’re talking about how it is used./p
pLet’s take the point of view of those expecting a quick, painless recovery. In that case, silver is a great investment. It has many industrial uses other precious metals don’t. As the global economy kicks back into gear, we’ll see more demand from electronics manufacturers, battery makers and solar cell producers — all of which use silver in their products./p
pThere are#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>How to Profit from Immunotherapy  Regenerative Medicine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe procedure has been called “one of the most barbaric mistakes ever perpetrated by mainstream medicine.” Back when medicine was highly primitive, the process involved shoving an ice pick-like instrument between the upper eyelid and the eye in hopes of severing certain nerves of the frontal lobe./p
pThis was the early method of performing a lobotomy. And just 50 years ago, they were carried out not only on severely mentally ill people, but also on moody teenagers, or housewives who’d lost their enthusiasm for domestic work. Seriously. Over 40,000 Americans were lobotomized, often with catastrophic results./p
pThankfully, they’re a thing of the past. But it made me think about how medicine has changed over the years and what practices were once acceptable.#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>We’re Back to Growth… For Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pJust one bit of meaningful economic data so far this week: The American service sector grew in September for the first time in a year. The Institute for Supply Management’s nonmanufacturing index scored 50.9 last month, just 9/10ths of a point above the growth/contraction tipping point. That certainly isn’t a booming service sector, but having contracted for the last 11 months… we’ll take it./p
p“The Chicago Fed’s national activity index,” notes our macro adviser and fellow data dork Rob Parenteau, “continues to point to a second-half 2009 real GDP recovery. With the September release, investors focused on the index — a composite of more than 80 monthly indicators that provides a reasonably good proxy for real GDP momentum — slipping to#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Greetings from Qatar!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pQatar is a red-hot economy. Last year it grew around 18% and this year it ought to grow another 16%. We saw the headlines in the emGulf Times/em in the lounge while waiting for our transfer to Dubai./p
pstrongQatar’s greatest asset is its natural gas reserves./strong In fact, the largest gas field in the world is here. Its discoverers were disappointed when they found it in 1971. They were looking for oil./p
pThe boom Qatar now enjoys is the result of some daring investments in liquefied natural gas (LNG) back when people thought doing such a thing was a little batty. Faisal Al Suwaidi, the head of a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=Qatargas"Qatargas/a, deserves the props for his wager, which have paid off handsomely. Today, Qatar produces about one-quarter#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Three Roadblocks to Sony’s Turnaround</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pSony Corp. (NYSE ADR: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:SNE"SNE/a) is facing the first  consecutive annual loss of its 63-year history./p
pThe Tokyo-based company lost $1.1 billion (98.9 billion yen) last year, and it expects to lose another $1.4 billion (120 billion yen) in its fiscal year ending March 31.  That would be Sony’s first back-to-back annual loss since the company went public in 1958./p
pAnd despite renewed optimism within its ranks, Sony still faces a plethora of challenges, including a questionable direction, cost-conscious consumers and a strengthening yen./p
pThe onetime bellwether of the electronics industry has seen its market share crumble in almost every category: Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s (OTC ADR: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=OTC:NTDOY"NTDOY/a) Wii game console has supplanted Sony’s PlayStation brand, Sony has given up its lead in portable#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Eternal Depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pYesterday was another exciting day on Wall Street. The Dow rose 131 points…and gold shot up $25 to a new record, $1043./p
pstrongInvestors must be pondering the future./strong/p
pWhat will the future look like? No one knows. But investors thought they saw things they liked./p
pFor one thing, there was the Federal Reserve governor from New York, who told the world that there was no risk of a rate hike anytime soon. Bill Dudley knows which way the wind is blowing. He said the Fed would hold money policy loose “indefinitely.”/p
pstrongIndefinitely is otherwise known as “as long as it takes.”/strong/p
pBut as long as it takes for what? Ah…as long as it takes until the economy appears strong again./p
pHow long will that be? Ah…maybe#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Why All the Fuss Over Rare Earths?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pRare earth elements (REEs) have been the mystery metals of the mining world for years. Now, suddenly, everyone’s heard about them./p
pBefore we delve into the reasons behind all the publicity, here’s the basic skinny on REEs: One, they are rare, at least sort of. Two, they are indispensable to modern technology. Three, the number of active, dedicated producers is tiny, with more than 90% of the world’s supply coming from China./p
pIf you took high school chemistry, you probably remember the periodic table of the elements. But if you’re like most of us, even if you pulled a 95 on the chem final, you may not recall many of the details today. And there’s a better than even chance you never#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Stocks to Watch This Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe earnings season beginning today (Tuesday) is shaping up to be an important one, as it could have a significant impact on a struggling stock market rally./p
pSince the stock market rally reached a pinnacle nearly two weeks ago, a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXDJX:.DJI"the Dow Jones Industrial Average/a has lost about 3.3% while the a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXSP:.INX"Standard #38; Poor’s 500 Index/a has fallen about 3.7%. And if this week’s earnings report come in below expectations, the rally that helped stock prices surge more than 50% could come to an abrupt end./p
pFortunately, many of the companies set to report earnings this week are traditionally strong performers and for the most part, companies that have weathered the financial crisis. But not all of them have met Wall Street’s expectations./p
pThe quarterly results#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>RBA Raises Rates!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pPandora#8217;s Box of rate hikes is opened!                      Is the dollar being removed from oil trades?                     Deficits do matter, eh?                                      Gold heads toward its all-time high#8230;And Now#8230; Today#8217;s Pfennig!/p
pGood day#8230; And a Terrific Tuesday to you! A Tuesday morning that is seeing a HUGE currency rally VS the dollar on the news that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) opted to go ahead and hike rates now, and not wait for November#8217;s meeting, as I had thought they would do! WOW!/p
pThe first hike#8230; It has opened Pandora#8217;s Box of interest rate hikes around the world#8230; For, if the RBA went this soon, then we can expect Norway#8217;s Norges Bank to push their rate hike earlier on the calendar, maybe even later#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Traps Make Bank Stocks a Bad Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBillionaire investor George Soros said yesterday (Monday) that the U.S. recovery would be a slow one because of all the “basically bankrupt” financial companies impeding it./p
pU.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Congress agreed Friday that the financial system – not the American taxpayer – should bear the costs of bank bailouts. a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_C._Bair"Sheila Bair/a, head of the a href="http://www.google.com/finance?cid=14918074"Federal Deposit Insurance Corp/a. (FDIC), a href="http://www.moneymorning.com/2009/09/29/fdic-banks/"wants the banks to ante up $45 billion/a – three years’ worth of deposit-insurance premiums – to bail out the fund that insures bank deposits./p
pWhen it comes to bank stocks, we all know that there were a number of strongema href="http://www.moneymorning.com"  class="alinks_links"Money Morning/a/em/strong readers shrewd enough to buy Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AC"C/a) shares when the foundering giant’s stock price was below#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Lehman of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pNaturally, at the focus of renewed market pessimism is a struggling financial: CIT Group. (NYSE:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=CIT+Group."CIT/a) The company — a hundred-year-old staple of small/medium business lending — is no stranger to walking the credit tightrope. They narrowly averted fiscal meltdown late last year with $2.3 billion in TARP bucks… then again in July by goosing bondholders with a $3 billion a debt-to-equity deal. Back then we joked, “Look for this crisis to repeat in a couple weeks.” We were wrong… it took a couple months./p
pSo with some historic irony, one year and two weeks after a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=OTC:LEHMQ"Lehman Bros./a bit the dust, another debt-burdened, credit-reliant, potentially “too big to fail” institution is looking to either stick its bondholders with a raw deal or enter#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Three Big Movers to Start the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThey may not be the big mergers investors were hoping would fire off another winning week, but today’s movers help prove there is upside potential left in the market./p
pEven though the “Merger Monday” trend is not continuing this week, we have a Monday morning filled with positive news and upgrades. The action is putting new wealth into the pockets of plenty of investors./p
pOne of the morning’s biggest movers comes close to the form of a merger. With the news the Swiss technology company Kudelski has raised its tender offer price for strongOpenTV (NASDAQ:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=optv" target="_blank"OPTV/a)/strong to $1.55, shares of the American digital-television software manufacturer have surged ahead by nearly 20%./p
pEarlier this year, Kudelski offered to purchase the 87% of the company it does not#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Boom, Bust and Rebuild: Bank of America and the Kenneth Lewis Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pKenneth D. Lewis There are many ways to view Kenneth Lewis’  eight-year reign as Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ABAC"BAC/a) chief executive, but  two seem to hold the most landscape. /p
pOn one hand, the $130 billion he spent on acquisitions – FleetBoston Financial Corp., MBNA Corp., LaSalle Bank Corp., Countrywide Financial Corp., Charles Schwab Corp.’s (Nasdaq: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=schw"SCHW/a) U.S. Trust private banking unit and Merrill Lynch – that more than tripled the size of Bank of America, making it the largest U.S. lender both by assets and deposits./p
pOn the other, his open-wallet policy and the example it set forth almost perfectly encapsulates the boom, bust and nascent rebound of the U.S. housing and banking crisis – which later became the financial#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>A Jobs Jamboree Friday!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p The dollar remains well bid#8230;G-7 to hand currencies off to G-20? Car Sales collapse#8230;Auditing the Lehman cash movements#8230;And Now#8230; Today#8217;s Pfennig!/p
pGood day#8230; And a Happy Friday to one and all! Yesterday, I welcomed you to October. I had been prepared to tell you about a famous radio station here in St. Louis, that has long called October#8230; Rocktober#8230; But forgot, as usual! But anyway#8230; It#8217;s the first Fantastico Friday of Rocktober!/p
pToday is a Jobs Jamboree Friday too! And#8230; I#8217;m not getting a good feeling about today#8217;s labor report at the Jobs Jamboree. The forecast is for jobs losses to fall from -216,000 to -175,000, but the unemployment rate to tick up to 9.8% from 9.7%#8230; I got the feeling, baby,#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>OLED: The Next High-Tech Profit Opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe first chapter of a colossal technological shift in the electronics industry is beginning. Displays on small televisions, iPods and smart phones are getting smaller, clearer and brighter at a rapid pace — and it will forever change the way you work and play. Simply put, it’s difficult to overstate the potential of this future multibillion-dollar market…/p
pI’m talking about organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs. OLED displays are taking off in a big way. These next-generation displays are perfect for the mobile phone and personal media device markets because they are thinner than traditional displays and produce sharper images./p
pOLED — and active-matrix OLED — technology has now reached its tipping point. Very soon, we will begin to see OLEDs used in#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Ready to Retire? Think Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pRetirement is part of the  American dream. Unfortunately, the nation’s financial meltdown is making the act tougher than ever. Social Security alone won’t pay the bills./p
pYesterday evening, I had the courage to do something I have not done in a long time. I opened my 401(k) statement. It was a brave, bold move that made me ponder doubling up on my blood-pressure medicine before ripping the seal off the envelope./p
pIn the end, my ticker was fluttering with beats of joy: up 33% so far this year./p
pMy decision to overweight the small-cap sector in March paid off./p
pEven with those strong gains, the long-term trend line shows my heart is going to have to keep pumping for a couple extra years before#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>hhgregg, Inc.: The Only Retail Stock Worth Buying Right Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louis Basenese</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pFor the first time in six months, retail sales ticked higher  in August./p
pGranted, it wasn’t by much – a scant 0.7% higher than July. But it’s inevitable that consumers will eventually get back to their spending ways as this recession subsides./p
pAnd if you’re looking for a way to play it, consider stronghhgregg,  Inc./strong (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=HGG" target="_blank"HGG/a). Here’s  why…/p
pstronghhgregg, Inc: This Retailer is Bucking the Industry Trend/strong/p
pBased in Indianapolis, the hhgregg operates 111 retail stores selling consumer electronics and home appliances. Yes, I know that’s the same stuff you can get at your typical strongBest Buy/strong (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=BBY" target="_blank"BBY/a), strongHome Depot/strong (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=HD"HD/a), or strongLowe’s/strong (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=LOW" target="_blank"LOW/a)./p
pBut this company is hardly typical./p
pWhile most retailers are focused on survival, hhgregg’s in full-on attack mode. It’s not pinching pennies#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Could Goldman Sachs Share GM’s Fate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pInvestment banks have gotten fat off the land since 1982, when the great U.S. bull market got its start. Their business has multiplied many-fold, and their earnings have soared into the stratosphere, to a level far higher than any other sector./p
pNow, JPMorgan Chase #38; Co.  (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=jpm"JPM/a) has issued a report suggesting that investment-banking returns on capital will be sharply down over the next few years. Perhaps this will be only a moderate downturn./p
pHowever, there’s also a good chance that labor-cost pressures – combined with tightening margins – will take the likes of JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=gs"GS/a) down a path similar to that  of General Motors Corp. (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGRM"GRM/a) and a href="http://www.google.com/finance?cid=4090940"Chrysler Group LLP/a, a href="http://www.moneymorning.com/2009/06/01/general-motors-bankruptcy-2/"both  of which#8230;/a/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Rally Rests on a Knife-Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe longer the rally persists, the more dangerous it becomes. /p
pThe S#38;P 500 is up almost 60% since March. The Dow just had its best quarter since ’98./p
pYesterday, the Dow slipped 29 points. Is the rally finally rolling over? Or is this a genuine bull market, just taking a pause?/p
pstrongIf it is a real bull market it’s a funny-looking bull – one that is missing parts! /strong/p
pFor example, corporate earnings are missing. P/E ratios are rising far above the corporate earnings that support them. This puts the market 35% overvalued on a cyclically-adjusted P/E basis, says Smithers #38; Co./p
pAnd if you look at it in terms of its “q” ratio – a comparison of capitalisation and replacement costs – the#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Should Invest in the ‘New’ Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pPundits greeted Angela Merkel’s convincing election win in Germany Sunday with a collective yawn. Commentators think the German economy is sluggish and over-dependent on exports, and believe that a change in the German government from a grand coalition to a center-right coalition will make little policy difference./p
pI think that’s wrong. It’s an erroneous viewpoint that’s symptomatic of the short memories of the chattering media. It’s also one that could cause investors to miss out on a href="http://www.moneymorning.com/2009/06/18/germany-emerging-market/" target="_blank"one of  the best profit plays in the global marketplace today/a./p
pI’m  talking about Germany – the real powerhouse of Europe./p
h3The “New” Germany/h3
pFrom the 1950s to the 1980s, West Germany consistently delivered high growth rates and low inflation. West German engineering proved superior to any other#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Are the Bears Turning Bullish?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pSome of Wall Street’s most prominent bears are turning bullish right now. But that doesn’t mean that your small-cap portfolio is safe. Here’s why these brilliant minds think that we’re back on the path to recovery — and why they’re wrong./p
pI was in Manhattan last week attending Grant’s Fall Investment Conference. The U.N. General Assembly is meeting there, and the streets were blocked off in places. The NYPD was out in full force. I heard one passerby complain about the inconvenience of it all to one police officer. He responded, “Don’t blame the NYPD, blame the General Assembly.”/p
pWith the General Assembly in Manhattan and the G-20 in Pittsburgh, government has taken over the headlines this week. It seems half the#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Four Companies Set to Profit from a Federal Cash Injection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pWhat do strongCisco Systems/strong (Nasdaq: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=CSCO" target="_blank"CSCO/a), strongIBM/strong (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=IBM" target="_blank"IBM/a), strongAT#38;T/strong (NYSE: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=T" target="_blank"T/a) and strongIntel/strong (Nasdaq: a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=INTC" target="_blank"INTC/a) all have in common?/p
pThe obvious answer is that they’re four of the most  successful technology companies on the planet./p
pBut they’re also heavily involved in the modernization plans for America’s “Smart Grid” – a topic I introduced in a previous column./p
pMake no mistake, with a decade-long project as monumental as modernizing the country’s “Smart Grid,” the devil is truly in the details. And the Commerce Department released the finer details of the initiative last week./p
pUntil now, one of the big problems with the “Smart Grid” was the lack of set standards. Without them, each power company would be free to do as it pleases, resulting in a hodge-podge of#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>A Century of Bad Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pNot much happened yesterday. The Dow fell 47 points. The newspapers attributed the reversal to surprisingly low consumer confidence numbers. Apparently, consumers aren’t so sure this crisis is over. As we reported yesterday, they’re saving money#8230; maybe even at an 8% rate. /p
pOil didn’t move yesterday. Neither did gold./p
pThe Wall Street Journal reported that markets were reacting to “emmixed data/em”./p
pThat is to say, some reports were encouraging. Others were not. It was as if one weather forecaster called for a blizzard. The other for sunny skies and warm temperatures. Investors didn’t know how to dress./p
pAmong the dark clouds was an item on the falloff in tax revenues. States are having a hard time balancing their books, because their tax receipts#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s Buying Oil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pAs the US strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) approaches capacity (721.5 million barrels filled out of a total possible 727 million, and will be filled by January 2010), the federal government will fade out of the oil-buying business. Some bearish traders believe that this factor can weigh in on prices, since most petroleum stocks in the United States are government-held rather than private. Bullish traders have also used the filling of the Chinese SPR as a reason that oil should go much higher./p
pThe team at Casey’s Energy Opportunities believe that strongplanned government buying or selling of crude oil for SPRs actually have very little impact in the overall market./strong However, an overall drawdown of worldwide inventory could put downward pressure on the#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Whiplash Wednesday!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pCurrencies rebound VS the dollar#8230;Aussie and kiwi lead the currencies higher#8230;Data and Central Bank speeches today#8230;Gold rebounds back to $1,000! And Now#8230; Today#8217;s Pfennig!/p
pGood day#8230; And a Wonderful Wednesday to you#8230; Instead of a #8220;turn around Tuesday#8221;, we#8217;re seeing a whiplash Wednesday! And for once in a month of Sundays, the Big Dog, euro didn#8217;t lead the other little dogs (currencies) off the porch to chase the dollar down the street!/p
pNo#8230; This time it was the currencies of Australia and New Zealand that led the charge VS the dollar#8230; The euro has taken up the charge since opening the doors to a new day of trading in Europe, so#8230; It looks like it#8217;s a #8220;take the dollar to the woodshed#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Think China vs. India</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe U.S.’ potential conflict with Iran might pale in comparison to a fight brewing between China and India, says a href="http://www.contrarianprofits.com/articles/author/chris-mayer/"  class="alinks_links"Chris Mayer/a. “This one doesn’t seem to get much attention in the Western media, but I’ve read some dire stuff from the Eastern media. By their lights, the Sino-Indian border hasn’t been this tense since 1986-87, when the skirmishes broke out between Indian and Chinese troops./p
p“The issue is a disputed border between the two. They fought a 32-day war over it in 1962. China emerged victorious, but the whole thing settled nothing. The border between the two remains hotly contested. It is nearly 2,500 miles long and winds its way across difficult mountainous terrain. There is a northeastern state in India#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation is Our Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pOn one hand, the deflationists are claiming that given the extremely high debt levels in the West, further inflation is impossible. On the other side of the argument, many proponents of inflation are calling for Zimbabwe style hyperinflation. In this business, everyone is entitled to their opinion; however it is my contention that we will get neither deflation nor hyperinflation. strongIf my assessment is correct, once business activity picks up, our world will have to deal with high inflation./strong/p
pAlthough I have great sympathy for the deflation crowd, given the reckless attitude of the central bankers and their ability to create debt-based money, I do not believe deflation (contraction in the supply of money and total debt) is very likely./p
pFor sure,#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Your Guaranteed Triple with the Stock Market ‘Trump Card’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe market’s rally so far this year has given way to a flood of profits for investors. Since early March, the Dow is up more than 49%. But starting today, you can begin cashing in even larger gains using the stock market “Trump Card,” which can guarantee you at least triple your money./p
pBut first, there’s a catch…/p
pThese “Trump Cards” aren’t traded very often. And you can’t find them on an exchange. That’s what makes them so lucrative. You see, it’s this lack of liquidity that makes these high-yield bonds, as they’re called, double and even triple overnight./p
pOnce you get past the sometimes-frustrating volume issue, you’ll find many advantages high-yield bonds use to trump regular stocks./p
pFirst, there is the time element.#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation, Deflation, Peak Oil and Complex Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[p style="padding-left: 30px;"emIn my father’s house are many mansions. Surely one of them has a room with no elephants in it…./em/p
pNot to crunch too many metaphors right here at the top, but a consensus seems to be firming up in the animate jello of the Internet that we have entered the Season of the Witch. An odor of ripeness fills the virtual air — something between dead carp and apples baking./p
pWhatever else appears to be going on in the upper stories and verdigris-tinged turrets of capital finance — currency rackets, gold switcheroos, interest rate arbitrage games, concealment of losses under rugs and behind curtains, Chinese fire drills performed by Spanish prisoners, executive three-card-monte set-ups, boardroom work-arounds, accounting quicksteps, Peter-to-Paul-shuffles, check kitings, pigeon#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>No bailout Needed: Good News from The Rags</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pIt has been a long time since we had good news from the newspaper industry. But thanks to today’s upbeat figures from Gannett (NYSE:strong/strongstronga href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=GCI" target="_blank"GCI/a/strong), the industry is surging. Lee Enterprises (NYSE:stronga href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=LEE" target="_blank"LEE/a/strong) has taken the lead./p
pThere is a rare bit of good news for the newspaper industry this morning – and it’s a whopper!/p
pShare prices across the downtrodden sector are soaring today thanks to word from strongGannett (NYSE:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=GCI" target="_blank"GCI/a)/strong that the company expects to handily beat its third-quarter earnings projections./p
pGannett told its investors today to expect per share earnings (after one-time costs) in the range of 39 cents to 42 cents when the company releases its latest quarterly figures on October 19./p
pBefore the press release, estimates pegged the figure at 28 cents per#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to Toxic Assets?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pPop quiz: what happened a year ago today? /p
pHere’s a hint:/p
p style="text-align: center;"/p
pThe House put the kibosh on the first rendition of The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 — Former Treasury Sec’y Hank Paulson’s three-page request for a $700 billion blank check for his buddies on Wall Street./p
p“Investors” threw a tantrum, crashing the Dow 777 points — its biggest point loss in history. Approximately $1.2 trillion in Wall Street shareholder value was wiped out, also a record. This day a year ago, the real market pain began. The S#38;P fell about 20% over the next two weeks./p
pThe House eventually passed a package — aimed at cleaning up “toxic assets” on big Wall Street balance sheets, but also rife with pork barrel#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe rally may end any day, but it didn’t end yesterday. Stocks rose 127 points, as measured by the Dow. Oil closed at $66. Gold rose $2.50. /p
pWe said we were doing some serious thinking this week. Maybe it is the season. But more and more, our thoughts become grayer. Less black. Less white. Less hard. Less soft./p
pA few years ago, it looked to us as though the world financial system had gone to war. We cheerfully awaited the victory parade. We figured Mr. Market would whup the feds good and hard. It hasn’t happened so far./p
pOn one side, are the forces of a natural market correction#8230; following a long, long period of expansion. strongThe easier money gets, the more#8230;/strong/p]]></description>
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		<title>Stop The Presses!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p A bias to buy dollars remains#8230;Looks like coordinated jawboning#8230;Fujii now talks about intervening! Gold remains below $1,000#8230;And Now#8230; Today#8217;s Pfennig!/p
pGood day#8230; And a Terrific Tuesday to you! Well#8230; Stop the presses#8230; You know the presses that are talking about the countries that are on the docket to begin a rate hike cycle, because#8230; Russia has thrown a cat among the pigeons this morning with a rate CUT#8230; Let me tell you why this is a big deal#8230;/p
pWell, when everyone is thinking that the G0-GO countries of Norway, Australia, and Brazil will probably begin their rate hike cycles this year, and other won#8217;t be far behind#8230; While the U.S. drags its feet and wallows in the zero rate mud#8230; The thinking#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Must Reads September 28, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/economy/27jobs.html?em"US job seekers exceed opening by record number/a /strongemNYT/emstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://www.thedailycrux.com/content/2960/Dan_Ferris"Why you must buy this “world dominator”/a /strongemThe/emstrong /strongDailystrong /strongCruxstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/27/world-bank-chief-to-take-shots-at-the-fed/"World Bank chief takes a shot at the Fed/a /strongemWSJ/emstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/09/5324.html"How well has the Federal Reserve served America?/a /strongemNaked/emstrong /strongemCapitalism/emstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://english.caijing.com.cn/2009-09-28/110267252.html"Andy Xie: Why one bubble bursts deserves another/a /strongemCaijing/emstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/david-rosenbergs-special-report"David Rosenberg’s special report/a /strongemZero/emstrong /strongemHedge/emstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://www.thedailycrux.com/content/2962/REITs"3 ways to profit from a CRE collapse/a /strongemThe/emstrong /strongemDaily/emstrong /strongemCrux/emstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/gold-whats-next-0"Gold: What’s next?/a /strongemZero/emstrong /strongemHedge/emstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1926356,00.html"Why Michael Moore hates capitalism/a /strongemTime/emstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"stronga href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/09/chicago-fed-index-economic-activity.html"Chicago Fed index lower in August/a /strongemCalculated/emstrong /strongemRisk/emstrong/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"strong /strong/p]]></description>
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		<title>The 7 Safest Places Canada’s Best Economist Is Parking his Cash</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p class="MsoNormal"David Rosenberg, chief economist for Gluskin-Sheff, is a contrarian with a superior intellect than our own. That’s why we hang on most every word he says./p
p class="MsoNormal"Throughout the “sh*t hitting the fan” events of last fall, and the subsequent policy response, we’ve listened intently on what this Canadian had to say. The picture he paints today is one of bearish conviction. That’s exactly the reason he’s come under recent criticism as his ilk of ivory tower economists have started calling an end to this recession./p
p class="MsoNormal" Though we don’t think he has anything to prove, he released a special report reaffirming his key points. You can read it in a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/david-rosenbergs-special-report"full here/a. But if you don’t have the time to peruse the twenty-two page (slightly#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Gander Mountain: Going Private, Sending a Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pI hope the federal government is paying attention. As regulations and costs increase, more companies, like Gander Mountain (NASDAQ:strong/strongstronga href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=gmtn" target="_blank"GMTN/a/strong) are going private. It is not good news for the nation’s vital financial sector. /p
pCould this be a sign of things to come? Earlier today, strongGander Mountain (NASDAQ:a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=gmtn" target="_blank"GMTN/a) /strongannounced its two largest shareholders have made a deal to take the company private./p
pIn an economic environment where regulations are increasing by the minute and costs are rising even faster, middle-weight companies are quickly realizing it is better business to buy their shares from the secondary market and go private./p
pSure, the move is costing Gander Mountain a pretty penny – a premium of about 35% of Friday’s closing price – but the handful#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>What if Everyone in the World Wanted a One-Ounce Gold Coin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pIf we’re right about where the price of gold is headed, the general public will someday clamor to buy all things gold. While gold stocks will be where the real leverage is, the rush will start with gold itself. As a gold editor, I have a very natural question: is there enough to go around?/p
pAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 6.783 billion earthlings. Meanwhile, CPM Group, a highly respected industry organization, estimates there are 4.8 billion ounces of above-ground gold in the world. And this includes jewelry, electronics, and dental. So, even if everyone around the world volunteered to have their chain, cross, or tooth melted into a coin, we’re already short. Those towards the end of the#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the Money: Washington to Wall Street…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBy Adam Lass, Senior Editor, a href="http://www.taipanpublishing.com"  class="alinks_links"Taipan/a Publishing Group/p
pstrongemThis American company has gained 777% the old-fashioned way: selling junk in backroom deals./em/strong/p
pAs regular readers know, I am a Ford man./p
pBack when I was a kid, you had to make three really important choices. First, you had to pick a political party. Didn’t matter how well you knew the candidates – you picked a party and that’s what you were./p
pWe are talking Democrat or Republican here. Libertarians weren’t much discussed, and backing the Socialists could get your parents blackballed at work. And if you wanted peace around the dinner table, you just went with the same side your folks did./p
pSecond, you had to choose “your” baseball, basketball and football teams. We didn’t have#8230;/p]]></description>
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