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		<title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Political Capital Ratio Is Inadequate]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: The stock market suddenly turned bullish on Monday after Meredith Whitney upped Goldman Sachs GS from &#8220;Neutral&#8221; to &#8220;Buy&#8221; with a twelve month price target of $186.  Appearing on CNBC&#8217;s Squawk Box, the normally bearish financial analyst said the recommendation was &#8220;a bearish call but...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:22:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jamie Dimon Should Know: Protecting the Consumer Is Key]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: As JPMorgan Chase JPM Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon recently wrote in The Wall Street Journal (&#8220;A Unified Bank Regulator Is a Good Start&#8221;), the gulf that grew between Wall Street and Main Street has hurt everyone. by Wall Street Weather]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:11:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More on 'Big Pharma Maintains Illusion of Innovation' (Response to Ken Johnson)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: This is my response to a SA comment posted by Ken Johnson, Senior Vice President, Communications of PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, in response to my SA article, &#8220;Big Pharma Maintains Illusion of Innovation.&#8221;   While I am proactive about maintaining good...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 01:37:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big Pharma Maintains Illusion of Innovation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: Eli Lilly LLY Chairman and CEO John Lechleiter&#8217;s op-ed piece on &#8220;Health-Care Reform and the &#8216;Innovation Test&#8217;&#8221; in yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal is yet another anti-consumer big pharma industry rant. Mr. Lechleiter does not want Americans to have the ability to choose between a public or...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 04:45:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Bernanke Fed's Bogus Transparency]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: &#8220;The Federal Reserve remains committed to transparency and openness and, in particular, to keeping the Congress and the public informed about its lending programs and balance sheet.&#8221; &#8211;Ben Bernanke&#8217;s testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, May 5, 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke talks a lot...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:13:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bernanke's 'Transparency' Efforts: Actions Speak Louder Than Words]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: Who forced Bank of America BAC to complete the merger with Merrill Lynch when Merrill&#8217;s fourth quarter earnings looked like a disaster? All fingers point to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.  New York Attorney General Cuomo deposed chief executive Ken Lewis and former Treasury Secretary...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:53:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How the Government Forced BofA to Marry Merrill Lynch]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: Bank of America BAC chief executive Ken Lewis had coveted Merrill Lynch for quite some time.  So when Merrill CEO John Thain contacted Lewis to ask if his bank was interested in buying Merrill, Lewis jumped at the chance.   John Thain sensed that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:09:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fed Creates Bank Margin Squeeze]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: This could turn into the mother of all interest rate margin squeezes for the banks now that the Federal Reserve has announced that for the first time in its history, it has a established a &#8220;target range&#8221; for the fed funds rate of &#8220;0 to 0.25%.&#8221;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:56:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Kept Estimated $60 Million in Sales Taxes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: A new study by Good Jobs First, a Washington DC nonprofit research group, estimates* Wal-Mart WMT kept about $60 million in retail sales tax last year from state vendor compensation programs that allow Wal-Mart and other retailers to keep a portion of the sales tax revenue...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:30:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Treasury Uses TARP for PNC to Acquire National City]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: Pittsburgh based regional bank PNC PNC announced Friday morning it is acquiring Cleveland based regional National City Bank NCC for $5.5 billion.  For each share of NatCity common stock, NatCity shareholders will receive 0.0392 per share (about $2.23 a share) of PNC common stock. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:56:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pfizer Phasing Out Cholesterol]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Weather submits: A September 25, 2008 memo by Martin Mackay, Pfizer&#8217;s PFE president for Global Research and Development, confirms that Pfizer will not develop any more drugs that target cholesterol as the culprit in causing heart disease.  In fact, Pfizer will exit drug development for cardiovascular disease...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:50:13 -0700</pubDate>
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