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		<title><![CDATA[Haas Prof: Predicting Global Economic Crises Won't Be Easy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A question that kept coming up in the wake of last year's global economic meltdown was "why didn't we see it coming?" New research from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley suggests that the answer is a complicated one by Stacy Blackman]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:00:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blame Feds for Meltdown?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his new book, The Sellout, Charles Gasparino details 30 years of missteps by Wall Street and government agencies. He tells us why we should close the SEC.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:17:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[One Year Later: How the Fall of Lehman Bros. Changed Your World]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the storied investment bank went down, it took some of our old assumptions down with it. Here's what the world looks like, one year later.One year ago this week, as the gallows humor of the moment had it, there were only two investment positions: cash and fetal.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[One Year Later: Remembering the Meltdown]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was almost a year ago that Lehman Bros. failed and the U.S. economy plunged into crisis mode. Have we learned anything? Russ Mitchell reports.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:53:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Made Money as the Market Tanked?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably got a bit poorer last year amid the market meltdown. So did most of us. But one group thrived, making an average of $215,000 as their industry collapsed. Any guesses?]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:15:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will Recession Change America?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's economic meltdown will alter countless lives in countless ways for decades to come. As Jeff Greenfield reports, some think that change could be for the better.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:49:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does Bale-Style Bullying Go On Anywhere Else?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Nothing's private in the workplace anymore. Carol Thatcher, the daughter  of former PM Maggie and a presenter on the One Show on the BBC, was fired for making an after-show comment in the Green Room about a tennis player's hair being like that of a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:07:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ex-AIG Chief Foregoes Stock Awards]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One more CEO tarnished with the financial meltdown is losing more of his compensation. Robert Willumstad, who served for three months as head of American International Group, will forego stock awards he was granted when he joined AIG in June.    This is the second time Williamstad's pay...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:06:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: Bailout Failure and Global Meltdown, Lower Rates Don't Stimulate, Better Bailout PR, and More]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/financial-services/1000234/financial-roundup-will-new-global-meltdown-follow-auto-bailout-failure-people-arent-biting-at-lower-mortgage-rates-bailout-bucks-require-better-pr-skills-commercial-lending-loosening-russias/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Will the defeat of the auto bailout trigger a new global meltdown? --Â  Stormy stock futures and dramatically lower global markets seem to say it will. Veteran economics writer Steven R. Weisman offers comparisons with the global impact of New York City's financial crisis 33 years ago. [Source: thedailybeast.com] ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:40:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Pinkerton is a political analyst who served on the White House staff of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush before becoming a senior advisor to the Mike Huckabee campaign. He shares his thoughts on the financial crisis.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Anatomy Of A Meltdown]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=949923]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The object of this paper is to identify some of the broad themes driving the current financial meltdown and the housing bubble that preceded it. Section 1 focuses on leverage, with special attention to three sources of trouble: no-money-down mortgages, over-leveraged investment banks, and the selling of credit default swaps....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thank God for the Meltdown!]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's Thanksgiving Day here in the good ol' U.S. of A., which is when we with a surprising lack of irony celebrate our national culture by stuffing ourselves full of food.    As I prepare to bloat myself to the size of a hippo, I thought this might...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:30:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Use the Meltdown to Create Success]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/5208-13076-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=3980&messageID=19193&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Use the Meltdown to Create SuccessRE: Use the Meltdown to Create SuccessSeveral years ago, I attended a Microsoft-sponsored sales training class that they now refer to as the "3-day MBA" class.  These sessions are conducted by former CxOs, and are intended to help a salesperson understand how to get...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Could the Meltdown be a Hoax?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could the Meltdown be a Hoax?RE: Could the Meltdown be a Hoax?Geoffrey I couldn't agree more and I think you have nailed the situation with this post.Yes there is a problem sub prime loans and yes it is serious but it is something we can manage, control and cut our...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:02:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Could the Meltdown be a Hoax?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/salesmachine/?p=563]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm wondering whether the meltdown might be more a product of fear than of reality.    Obviously, sub-prime loans are really defaulting.Â  And there were a lot of packaged securities that used those loans.Â  However, it appears to me that a great deal of the meltdown has to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:00:54 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Meltdown an Opportunity for Marketing, Says Andersen's Dominique Hanssens]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meltdown an Opportunity for Marketing, Says Andersen's Dominique HanssensRE: Meltdown an Opportunity for Marketing, Says Andersen's Dominique HanssensInvesting more in the marketing group during a downturn is insane, unless that marketing group is spending 100 percent of its time generating qualified sales leads and reducing sales costs.A better way to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:37:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The 2 Trillion Dollar Meltdown Man]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=322]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The meltdown has only started, according to one observer. Granted, that observer is Charles Morris,Â  whose January book, "The Trillion Dollar Meltdown," is now out in paperback (updated to "The 2 Trillion Dollar Meltdown"), so he could benefit from book sales to panicked people.    To wit, this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:23:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Sell MORE During the Meltdown]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How To Sell MORE During the MeltdownRE: How To Sell MORE During the MeltdownExcellent articleâ€¦again! Clearly time to reassess whom you are, prioritize activities & then execute - with your internal value system firmly in place.Absolutely loved Keith Rosen's video from last week as well. This guy gets itâ€¦ ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Meltdown: What Happened and Where We Go From Here]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meltdown: What Happened and Where We Go From HereBoth parties are to blameAnd a few homeowners that knew they could not make the payments...At the same time that Phil Gramm was helping the US catch up to European deregulation by allowing all sorts of financial companies to merge, President Clinton...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:46:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Meltdown Monday 2.0: A Roundup]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=1873]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening to both the media and the person on the street, it seems that the financial meltdown not only has us royally screwed, but maybe even biblically so. Take, for example, my barber, who works on the busiest street in one of the busiest financial districts in one of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:44:51 -0700</pubDate>
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