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		<title><![CDATA[Americans' Savings Keep Growing Fatter in Lean Times]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/retirement-planning/blog/real-time-money/americans-savings-keep-growing-fatter-in-lean-times/139/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[After gorging ourselves on enough home-equity, credit-card and auto-loan debt to choke Jabba the Hut, many of us are feeding our savings accounts more in tighter times than reveling in wanton, unbridled consumption.    Americans' personal savings rate rose to 3.3 percent last month from 2.8% in August,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:48:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consumers in the Crosshairs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/feature/consumers-in-the-crosshairs/350828/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans are being nickel and dimed with a barrage of special fees and charges. Here?s why ? and what you can do about it.The fees are insidious, in part because they?re so small. A buck here, $3 there; it barely seems worth breaking a sweat over. But these additional charges...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Would You Want a Casino in Your Backyard?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Hawaii, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Utah, Arkansas, Maryland, Virginia and Tennessee.Â  These are the only American states without a legal gambling outlet.Â  But as all states look for additional revenue sources, Massachusetts and Ohio are both debating whether to join the casino club.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:20:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gen Y: Schooling Isn't Enough, Educate Yourself]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are going to university in greater numbers than ever before, but just because Gen Y is the most educated generation yet, doesn't mean they're the most prepared for the workforce. As Mark Twain famously said, "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education", and this distinction still...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:53:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Innovate Like Apple]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple's formula for success can be distilled into principles of sound management that could in the right culture flourish elsewhere too.       Clear Your Mind    GOAL: Understand what it takes to create truly  remarkable products.    The word &#8220;zen&#8221;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Do Brits Use LinkedIn?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/07/28/how-do-brits-use-linkedin/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    Americans are quite simply better at business networking than Britons -- and just about any other nationality, actually. So it should come as no surprise that they're streets ahead of the UK when it comes to using Web 2.0 for business connections.    In...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:21:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Got Debt? Equifax Launches Debt Wise]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/home-equity/got-debt-equifax-launches-debt-wise/662/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you lose your job and run out of money? You stop paying your mortgage orÂ rent, credit card bills and car payments.    Yesterday's news that credit delinquencies hit a new highÂ Â wasn't surprising. The American Bankers Association ABA released a report showing that delinquencies on consumer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:55:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Free Market Madness? | HBR IdeaCast]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=1956]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A market economy is the result of millions of people making decisions -- sometimes bad decisions, like the ones that sparked the current financial crisis. According to Peter Ubel, this is proof enough that the U.S. economy needs more regulation. Americans are optimists, and the free market allows us to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:40:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Obama's Budget Cuts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/video/obamas-budget-cuts/290375/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The president ordered $100 million in administrative budget cuts to help close what he called a "confidence gap" with Americans. Many Republicans think he needs to do better. Chip Reid reports.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:45:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Great Start-up Opportunity: Banks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's right -- it's a great time to start a bank, claims an article in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal.    Why?    	Not much competition. Bank openings are generally down 50 percent over the last two years; just 78 banks started up in the past year....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:02:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Executive Bonuses Outrage]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/video/aig-executive-bonuses-outrage/281853/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There is growing anger over AIG's payment of bonuses to executives, after receiving a taxpayer bailout. As Chip Reid reports, a new CBS News poll shows only 37% of Americans approve of such bailouts.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:45:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Help Not Wanted]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/video/help-not-wanted/281935/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The "underemployment" rate has now reached nearly 15 percent, as millions of Americans struggle to find work. And, as Anthony Mason reports, experts say that the economic forecast remains bleak.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:15:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Americans Save, Dow Falls]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/video/americans-save-dow-falls/275984/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The personal savings rate has skyrocketed as Americans begin to put more money away. But, as Anthony Mason reports, less spending isn't good for Wall Street.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:22:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lamar: Revenues Will Decline 15% This Quarter]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lamar Advertising canary just gets sicker and sicker. The company predicts its Q1 revenues will decline 15 percent. Lamar released its Q4 earnings today. Here's the news:    Revenues decreased by 8.4 percent to $279 million; the company saw a net loss of $6.8 million compared to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:28:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The New Recession-Proof Industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/video/the-new-recession-proof-industry/276046/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans are spending big bucks on their pets, making jobs as a veterinarian or vet tech recession-proof. Jim Axelrod reports.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:49:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Signs of the Apocalypse: Americans Economize on Toilet Paper; Stock Up on Snuggies and Slankets]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are economizing on toilet paper and stocking up on Snuggies and Slankets, the blankets with sleeves advertised in direct response TV ads. Ad Age reports the two developments separately, but really it's the same story: A look inside the scared mind of the embattled U.S. consumer in a recession....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:07:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_2_43/ai_n31163641]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe. The Oxford History of the United States series. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii, 904 pp. $35.00 US cloth.  Thomas Carlyle's notion that it is great men that make history has not had much traction lately....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Flattening globalism: sovereignty. What a glorious word. A bit hard to spell perhaps, but worth every letter]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know it seems like only yesterday that the world was flat. That was Thomas Friedman's best-selling argument: "Walls" were a thing of the past. Flatness, globalism, the twilight of sovereignty--these were the waves of the future.  Well, maybe Friedman needs to spend more time with the Irish...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Whatever happened to Iraq? How the media lost interest in a long-running war with no end in sight]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation's news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and he had the numbers to prove it.  [ILLUSTRATION...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Frontiers, empires, and the new world: the significance of the frontier in American foreign policy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6908/is_2007_Winter/ai_n28534461]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract  The late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century frontier profoundly shaped American cultural values and political institutions, and continues to influence the way most Americans look at the world. Studies of how Americans dealt with their western frontier may hold important clues as to how American policy makers and the American...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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