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	<title><![CDATA[The Payoff from College: Money Is Only Part of It]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 23, 2009 -- A college education is probably the smartest investment you can make for yourself or your child. But the non-financial payoff is at least as great...]]></description>
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	<title><![CDATA[Why It&#8217;s Worth It To Send My Kid to Yale]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 18, 2009 -- My daughter is applying to an elite (read expensive) college. Is the expense justifiable as an investment in her human capital? A close reading of...]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:32:36 PST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Are We in Another Bubble?]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November 11, 2009 -- Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr. Doom, makes a persuasive case that the weak dollar and low interest rates are building another massive asset bubble. What...]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Eric Schurenberg</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:08:36 PST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Why Financial Literacy is a Mirage]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[November  4, 2009 -- Financial literacy is today's Very Worthy Cause. In reality, though, it's no more than amiable smokescreen-a way to blame consumers for the...]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Eric Schurenberg</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:17:29 PST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The One Free Lunch Left for Investors]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[October 30, 2009 -- High quality growth stocks are trading at unusually low prices compared to the rest of the stock market. Comparative values this low are so rare...]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Eric Schurenberg</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:58:15 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[How to Profit from Insider Trading]]></title>
	<link>http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/blog/financial-independence/insider-trading-for-the-rest-of-us/575/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[October 27, 2009 -- Raj Rajaratnam, the putative head of the alleged insider trading ring at the Galleon Fund, may not have a firm grip on his moral compass. But he...]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Eric Schurenberg</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:56:00 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Want Recovery? History Says Be Patient. Very Patient.]]></title>
	<link>http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/blog/financial-independence/want-recovery-history-says-be-patient-very-patient/566/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[October 23, 2009 -- Take a long enough perspective, and it is no surprise that what some had been calling the GGBAT (the Greatest Global Boom of All Time) ended with...]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Eric Schurenberg</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:54:28 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Enough with Dow 10,000! These Numbers Actually Count]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[October 19, 2009 -- Are you tired yet of the Dow at 10,000? I am, as most financial reporters are, even as we can&#8217;t seem to help but follow each uptick over the...]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Eric Schurenberg</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:10:48 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Retire the 401(k). Replace it With This.]]></title>
	<link>http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/blog/financial-independence/retire-the-401k-replace-it-with-this/558/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[October 15, 2009 -- Now that Time Magazine and the New York Times have joined CBS MoneyWatch at beating up on the 401(k), it&#8217;s only fair to ask what the country...]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Eric Schurenberg</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:34:04 PDT</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Now Time Magazine Blasts the 401(k)]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[October 13, 2009 -- This week&#8217;s Time Magazine cover story looks at the nation&#8217;s de facto retirement program, the ubiquitous 401(k), and pronounces it...]]></description>
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	<dc:creator>Eric Schurenberg</dc:creator>
	<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:13:13 PDT</pubDate>
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