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	<title><![CDATA[Ask The Experts: Focus on Housing]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 20, 2009 -- We got a chance to bring in real estate gur-ess and MoneyWatch blogger Alison Rogers for this week&#8217;s &#8220;Ask the Experts&#8220;. Ali...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Mutual Fund Fee-asco]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 20, 2009 -- Here&#8217;s a primer on mutual fund fees. I think that I held my hands in that particular position because I was subconsciously praying that after...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[State Unemployment Rates: A Small Victory For Little Rhody]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 20, 2009 -- I used to live in Rhode Island, which is why I still take an interest in what&#8217;s happening there. Little Rhody has gotten crushed in the...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Stimulus Spending: What Americans Did With $600]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 18, 2009 -- While ambling around the Bureau of Labor Statistics site (a fantastic trove of information), I stumbled upon a Consumer Expenditure Survey that...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[TARP Audit Finds Geithner Gave Away The Farm]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 17, 2009 -- Special Inspector General for TARP (aka &#8220;SIGTARP&#8221;) Neil Barofsky said something we&#8217;ve all known for a while: the government gave...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[GM on the Mend]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 16, 2009 -- When is a loss good news? When you&#8217;re General Motors and the loss could have been worse. Call me a cheerleader or a concerned citizen, but I...]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:19:02 PST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Gasparino: The SEC is &#8220;INEPT&#8221;]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 12, 2009 -- Here&#8217;s my interview with Charlie Gasparino, author of &#8220;The Sellout&#8220;. In addition to calling the SEC &#8220;inept,&#8221; watch to...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Mr. Wrong, the Stock Market Bear]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 12, 2009 -- I should have expected the massive stock market rally&#8211;after all, at the end of March, I had heard that the guy who I consider one of the...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Veteran&#8217;s Day: Please Stop Thinking About Money]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 11, 2009 -- &#8220;Whereas the legislatures of twenty-seven of our States have already declared November 11 to be a legal holiday: Therefore be it Resolved by...]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:44:47 PST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[10.2% Unemployment: 1983 and 2009]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November  9, 2009 -- I love this chart from this morning&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. It&#8217;s a quick comparison between today and 1983, which was the last time the...]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:06:44 PST</pubDate>
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