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		<title><![CDATA[On Dubai's Default, CRE Loans and Frugal U.S. Consumers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  It seems that Dubai World seeking to restructure its $59 billion in debt came as a big surprise, especially to those at Barclays Capital BCS who just a few weeks ago recommended investing long in Dubai sovereign credit. If one were a cynic one might think this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:23:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Government Doesn't Listen to Reason]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  The government does have a handful of people worth listening to.  While not always hitting the nail on the head, Sheila Bair, Chairman of the FDIC, seems to be more right than wrong, in my opinion. Now this may be a bit of Monday morning quarterbacking,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:30:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank Failures: 115 and Counting]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  If my count is right and nothing more happens this evening, the FDIC took down 9 more banks today and I believe that is 115 for the year. Three or four years back we had zero closures for the year. Quite the change. Not S&P crisis levels...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:56:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Eight Reasons the Market Is Going Down]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  He is Sprott On - Dollar Destruction One of the folks I like to follow is Eric Sprott. He does not do a blog or seek a lot of publicity, but he has had some of the best performing funds in Canada for many years running, so...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:21:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Goldman Should Give Back to Taxpayers - One Way or Another]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  Finally, an honest banker among the big boys. Okay, he is retired, but that makes him a tad less biased, and as a former Chairman of Citigroup C, the guy has major street cred and mojo, whatever that means. In any event, he agrees with Volcker -...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:41:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Expect Economic Stagnancy, If Not Worse, for Years to Come]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F164649-expect-economic-stagnancy-if-not-worse-for-years-to-come%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  Obama referred to Friday's jobs data, a loss of 263,000 jobs (roughly 100,000 more than economists expected) as sobering. Well, I agree, but to say it was unexpected is to buy into those that thinks we are in recovery phase. To me we are in the lull...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:45:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Government Stimulus Is Hiding the Recession]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  Yes, the savings rate is up, but if you look at this chart, you will see it has a long way to go to get back to historic norms. With the wealth evaporation of the past two years, mounting job losses, aging baby boomers past their peak...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:57:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Is Paul Volcker Being Ignored?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F162422-why-is-paul-volcker-being-ignored%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  I remember being greatly heartened before the election when I heard that Paul Volcker would be part of the Obama financial team. I was equally disheartened later to learn that he was given second tier status to the likes of Geithner, Summers, Bernanke and others. Well, I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:20:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Where Is This Market Going?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  Obviously I have been wrong on the market direction for some time. Daily I scratch my head and elsewhere and wonder how in the world can people buy stocks and believe we are in a rebound. I will admit we may be at or near the bottom...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:45:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are Consumers Paying Down Their Debt?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:    Click on image for larger graphic.   Karl Denninger provides us with the chart above. It does not include the past few months of consumer debt reduction, but otherwise it tells the story. It is especially telling in terms of debt versus income. Does...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:14:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Underemployment Is the Problem]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F160101-underemployment-is-the-problem%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  It was a crazy week in the market - especially in my portfolio. I was up around 20% in just two days earlier in the week only to lose most of that gain the last two days of the week. My one equity holding fluctuated over 100%...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:57:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Will Replace the Piggy Bank After the Stimulus Is Gone?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F159721-what-will-replace-the-piggy-bank-after-the-stimulus-is-gone%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  Pessimism in the market is on the rise and the S&P is now down four days in a row. Not too shocking if you keep up with things. I am only shocked on how long it took the investment community to catch up to the reality of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:35:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[We Need to Break the Bubble Cycle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F158840-we-need-to-break-the-bubble-cycle%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  Bloomberg reports that U.S. consumers are about to bounce back to their old spending ways. Now you can take this two ways. First, they are right and we start adding again to massive amounts of U.S. debt and further the already extreme debt situation in this country....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:05:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Rich Aren't Getting Richer]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F157781-the-rich-aren-t-getting-richer%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  This would seem obvious, but the rich are by-and-large getting poorer. Apparently nearly everyone else is too, but the rich are facing the great equalizer - the worst recession since the Great Depression. The guy who developed McAfee antivirus software went from over $100 million to $4...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:28:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIG Talks, the Market Walks Away]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  One thing for sure, if AIG says to go left, I say right. If they say up, I go down. If they things are doing well, I sell left and right. This is a company that spent the better part of a century building up $100 billion...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:49:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are Markets Taking a Breather or a Change in Direction?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  People are wondering if yesterday's pronounced global downturn in stocks was a sign of things to come or just a breather from a very, very fast run-up after March 9. Everyone is wondering and no one knows for sure. One thing for sure in my book, in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:31:45 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Anyone Else Skittish About Markets Lately?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  Is anyone out there just a bit skittish?? I ask as I am seeing a lot of press, yes even mainstream press, about how far the market has rebounded so fast and how the P/E on the S&P is at its highest level in half a decade....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:05:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Helloooo Moral Hazard]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  So I am mega-bank and investing in all sorts of toxic assets. All of a sudden the rug is pulled out from under me and everything I have invested in bet upon turns out to be pretty much worthless. Fortunately, my good friend from Goldman Sachs GS...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:22:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Not Buying the Green Shoots]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  I keep seeing supposed green shoots and am not yet buying it. Here are some green shoots from some people that I have quoted in the past. They think the economy may be on the brink of recovery. I beg to differ. Our debt levels are still...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:43:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Expect Microsoft, American Express and Amazon to Hurt]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[FinancialSpiltMilk submits:  Let me start by disclosing that I have put options on Microsoft MSFT and American Express AXP. Not a big deal as I bought them a while ago and they are nearly worthless. They will improve on Friday, but I ain't retiring on them any time soon....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:03:55 -0700</pubDate>
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