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		<title><![CDATA[BofA, Wells Fargo: No Equity After Accounting for Bad Loans]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always had the suspicion that Wells Fargo's WFC loan values were inflated and wrote as much in January.  Wells sits at ground zero of the housing implosion and the fact that their numbers held up so well was a mystery...unless they were very slow to take write...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:39:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[If You're Bullish: Time for a 70's Party]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F121512-if-you-re-bullish-time-for-a-70-s-party%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Many traders have been following the 1974 analogy to the current market.  The Dow Industrials have traded in a remarkably similar pattern to the Dow in the 1973 - 1974 time period.   According to the analogy, the market is now due for a major advance of 50%...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:08:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[If You're Bearish: Time Has Run Out for a Rally]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F121510-if-you-re-bearish-time-has-run-out-for-a-rally%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The time has run out for a rally on the S&P 500, according to James Flanagan, head of Gann Global Financial.  Flanagan uses a historical database of stock and commodity prices to analyze current moves in prices.  His knowledge of market history is unsurpassed and he has been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:05:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Credit Thaw Foreshadows an Equity Rally]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F119159-credit-thaw-foreshadows-an-equity-rally%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[So the bottom line is we're making loans. We want everybody to know it. I mean, we even have banners hanging on the outside of our branches, saying we're making loans. And so if you see somebody that says, they can't get a loan, give them my number. -- Kelly...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:10:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The GDP Deflator Actually Deflates]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F117849-the-gdp-deflator-actually-deflates%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[After a brief bout of enthusiasm Friday morning, when GDP came in at -3.8% vs estimates of -5.5%, investors quickly realized that the majority of the "beat" came because of an inventory adjustment.  Inventories grew $6 bil vs. a decline of $28 bil last quarter.  That artificially "lifted"...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:30:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Devil Is in the Bad Bank's Details]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F117248-the-devil-is-in-the-bad-bank-s-details%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Bank stocks rallied sharply yesterday morning on the news that the administration and Treasury are developing a "good bank/bad bank" concept.  However, whether this rally is justified is all in the details of the plan, which no one knows yet.  For many banks, the concept of a good...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:26:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Eight Mistakes That Caused the Financial Crisis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F116932-eight-mistakes-that-caused-the-financial-crisis%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder notes that six major human errors, all of which were highlighted and criticized at the time, caused the financial crisis. Blinder makes an important point and one that I hope the new administration takes to heart. The problems the US is experiencing right...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:08:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TCF Financial: Take That, Greenspan]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an obvious reference to Alan Greenspan's loose monetary policy in 2002 and the mis-management of the money center banks and brokers, TCF Financial's TCB ("Takin' Care of Business") Chairman wrote this pointed paragraph in his earnings release yesterday see conference call transcript:    "TCF did not engage...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:17:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Premium Multiples Being Drained from Wells Fargo]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The premium earnings and book value multiples that Wells Fargo WFC has enjoyed for the past decade are being drained from Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo's stock has always traded at approximately a 20% premium to the banking group because of its higher than average earnings growth, higher returns on equity,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:49:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BofA This Time? Bailouts Have Reached a Level Beyond Absurdity]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA["Anyone else have their hand out? - Lewis Black by ContraHour]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:42:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Government's Pouring Money Into a Bottomless Citi Pit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult, more frustrating and more expensive than to keep a corpse from sinking" Peter Drucker   In bailing out Citigroup C a second time (as you recall, Citigroup just received $25 billion from the TARP in October), the government has started the process of creating...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:11:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How AIG Took Down Europe]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to understand why the typically conservative European banks such as ING have been in dire need of capital.  The real estate bubbles in Europe were significantly smaller than the ones in the US and many of the European banks never bought much of the toxic mortgage paper churned out by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:46:50 -0700</pubDate>
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