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		<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Mistake Investors Make]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for that can?t-miss money manager who will make all your financial worries disappear? That person doesn?t exist. And perhaps the single most expensive mistake that investors make is to chase after that dream, year after year, dragging down their returns in the process. Here?s the deceptively simple alternative. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's Like Old Times for IPOs and Insurers Are Piling In]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the go-go â€˜90's, when fast money wasÂ made in virtually every initial public offering? Shares of a fresh face would double on the initial day of trading, investment banks like Morgan Stanley that were managing the offering would grab their seven percent and no one would mind except for the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:29:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[My Weakness for Warren (Buffett) Is Waning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/financial-decoder/sick-of-buffet/153/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Common Sense Conservative is down on Warren Buffett. He's fed up with CNBC's sycophantic coverage of Saturday's Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting but more to the point, he thinks it's time for someone to challenge the "Oracle of Omaha" (erroneously referenced as the "Sage of Omaha" in Saturday's FT)....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 16:41:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Expert Predictions: Finding Value in Knife's Edge Markets]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prieur du Plessis submits:  The list of well-known names identifying value on the U.S. stock market at current levels is growing by the day and includes the likes of Jeremy Grantham (GMO &#8211; &#8220;Careful buying is justified&#8221;), Warren Buffett (&#8220;Buy America. I am&#8221;), John Hussman (Hussman Funds &#8211; &#8220;Why...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:04:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Buffett and the Limits to 'Awaiting Better Times']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F100515-buffett-and-the-limits-to-awaiting-better-times%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin S. Price submits:  With the publication of Warren Buffett's opinion piece in the New York Times, we'd like to revisit the question of selling equities into the maw of this growling bear. As we've written recently (here and here, for example), the big problem with selling at these...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:55:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sure, Buffett is Shrewd -- He Wants the Bailout, Too]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout this ongoing economic crisis, the hardcore anti-bailout crowd crows that everything can be fixed if we just act more like multi-billionaire Warren Buffett.    Apparently, Buffett sees gold where others envision only muck. So the "Oracle of Omaha" is digging deep--but not too deep, mind you--to acquire...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:50:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[With Bailout In Sight, Big Private Investors Back Banks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WhileÂ the proposed $700 billion, taxpayer-backed rescue of theÂ economy is grabbingÂ the nation's undivided attention,Â  private investors areÂ pouring billions into the U.S. financial systemÂ andÂ backingÂ banking groups poised toÂ survive the current crisis.    Right now, an estimated $40 billion in outsideÂ money is being pumped into some of the country's biggest banking concerns....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:15:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[With $5B Goldman Play, Buffett Banks on Fed's Bailout]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With hisÂ $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs,Â super-investor Warren Buffett is betting theÂ proposed $700 billion economic bailout package, now being hotly debated before Congress, will soon pass without any major changes or restrictions.    OnceÂ the proposed bailout legislation is law, the U.S. government becomes the ultimate buyer of bad...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:40:47 -0700</pubDate>
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