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		<title><![CDATA[Unscrambling Organic Eggs: Will Whole Foods Lose Wild Oats?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stalwart submits:  Beware the insurmountable barriers to entry which the retailing of organic tomatoes bestows on its business owner. We mentioned this situation whereby the Whole Foods WFMI/Wild Oats completed M&A was under fire since the "deal would harm consumers who shop at "premium natural and organic supermarkets",...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:21:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will Puget Investors Get Cold Feet? Seeking Insight on the Wide Spread]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stalwart submits:  In regards to the Macqarie/Puget PSD M&A, TheDeal says the timeline has passed for people to respond to the WUTC's approval, and now going forward any questions would only be amendments to the deal. Still, they speculate that the relatively wide spread could be in regards...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:09:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Two Bits of Good News for the Credit Markets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F114437-two-bits-of-good-news-for-the-credit-markets%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Stalwart submits:  I've noticed a few pieces of good news starting to peek through, though still a lot of bad news out there. It makes me think about an interesting book I read, called Anatomy of the Bear. It's published by CLSA and looks at the four worst...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:05:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Puget Energy: An Interesting Spread to Watch]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F113372-puget-energy-an-interesting-spread-to-watch%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Stalwart submits:  Shares of M&A target Puget Energy PSD jumped last week as Washington state regulators finally approved the company's acquisition by Macquarie and a group of pension funds. Still, rather oddly, the shares are well below the $30 take out price (at $27 and change right now)...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:08:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GM Proves There Is an Alternative to Bailouts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stalwart submits:  One of the top U.S. business stories Monday involved a Credit Suisse analyst predicting that [[GM]] could go to zero in its restructuring process. Which would mean that over $2bn of equity value could be wiped out as debt restructuring could lead to current equity holders...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:30:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CEG Parts with Buffet without Shareholder Approval]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stalwart submits:  In what has been an action-packed M&A arbitrage drama, Constellation Energy CEG has entered a definitive agreement with France's EDF group to sell a 50% stake in its nuclear generation and operation business, bidding a hasty au revoir to Buffet's MidAmerican Holdings (MDPWK.PK).  Constellation Energy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:51:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will Adobe Scream 'Anti-Competitive' in the Face of a Microsoft Attack?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stalwart submits:  Predator and prey once again. You've got to love how Microsoft MSFT tends to see a good business, which has already been established and proven successful by another company, and then just moves in and attacks it. Some animals spend inordinate amounts of time scavenging for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:01:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dryships' Questionable Deals Don't Help Investor Confidence]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stalwart submits:  Some might recall that I have written a few posts on DryShips DRYS in regards to the completely narrow-minded P/E valuations used for the company in the past as well as for the entire dry bulk industry.Well the stock has been creamed, now at $11 vs....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:02:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[KKR Seeks to Avoid Apollo's Fate in Private Equity Drama]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stalwart submits:  As the economy weakens and credit markets remain tight, we're seeing examples everywhere of private equity players under pressure as their boom-time buyouts turn sour. I thought some interesting examples include Linens N' Things, purchased by Apollo back in 2006 for $1.3bn. A second-rate player in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:14:30 -0800</pubDate>
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