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		<title><![CDATA[Jacked Up Interest Rates]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/video/jacked-up-interest-rates/291373/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The banking industry collects more than $15 billion a year in credit card penalty fees, a tenth of its revenue. President Obama wants new legislation to protect consumers. Anthony Mason reports.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:45:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dos and Don'ts of Using Credit Cards in the Downturn]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MoneyWatch's Eric Schurenberg fills us in on some of the tricky ways credit card issuers are putting the squeeze on customers and what you can do to fight back.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:13:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Value In Toxic Assets?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/investing/video/value-in-toxic-assets/281779/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite record foreclosures, and falling home prices, 85 % of homeowners pay their mortgages. As Wyatt Andrews reports, those "toxic assets" might actually mean good news for banks and consumers.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:00:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Saving the World at Work by Tim Sanders |Book Brief]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Tim Sanders wants to recruit you to become a "Saver Soldier" in what he calls the "Responsibility Revolution."  Translated to plain English: Sanders believes that we're in an era of corporate sustainability and that we all have the power to make a positive difference within our company and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:44:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Buy.ology by Martin Lindstrom |Book Brief]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to understand the effects of branding on the mind, branding expert and author Martin Lindstorm conducted the world's largest neuromarketing study.  In this video he shares his discoveries about why we seem to be immune to cigarette health warnings, why we squeeze a lime into a bottle...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:53:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Burlington Northern: I Think I Can]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[They move the things we buy. So if freight stock is going up when everything else is going down, that could mean good things for the economy. Warren Buffet is on board, are you?]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fitch: After-Tax Impairment Unlikely to Affect Ratings for CMS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings anticipates no change in CMS Energy Corp.'s CMS ratings based on the recent announcement that CMS has recorded an approximate $385 million after-tax impairment charge related to the company's ownership interest in Midland Cogeneration Venture MCV in the third quarter of 2005.  Fitch rates CMS...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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