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	<description>Investment is an art. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand how to pick stocks. In fact, think of yourself as a fine artist.</description>
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		<title>Depression? Oversold? Just the beginning? Close to the end? You will find zero guidance from quality analysts.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only ones who speak confidently are those who have been saying the same thing for 30 years and now feel vindicated. What is a Trader to think?
We broke 8000. That is bad. The Nasdaq is under 1400, a level less than a third it&#8217;s all time high and close to the level of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/depression-oversold-just-the-beginning-close-to-the-end-you-will-find-zero-guidance-from-quality-analysts/</link>
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		<title>Not many seem to seriously be considering the uphill battle and tremendous odds Yahoo is facing right now.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pinning all hopes on MS buying them is not a very sound strategy. The economic hurdles that lie ahead for Yahoo and their new leader are as treacherous and turbulent as can be at this point. Without Google to save them, and only the extremely weak alternative of an AOL merger present, the future looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/not-many-seem-to-seriously-be-considering-the-uphill-battle-and-tremendous-odds-yahoo-is-facing-right-now/</link>
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		<title>A List of ETFs You Should Know In Stock Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SKF - SHORT FINANCIALS
UYG - LONG FINANCIALS
GUR - EMERGING EUROPE ETF
RSX - RUSSIAN ETF
EWH - CHINA ETF
FXP - SHORTING CHINA
JPP - JAPAN ETF
EWV - SHORTING JAPAN
PIN - INDIA ETF
EWZ - BRAZIL ETF
GML - EMERGING LATIN AMERICAN MARKETS
EUM - SHORTING EMERGING MARKETS
DUG - SHORT OIL &#038; GAS
DIG - LONG OIL &#038; GAS
URE - REAL ESTATE SHARES
SRS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/a-list-of-etfs-you-should-know-in-stock-market/</link>
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		<title>Florida pension fund loses a quarter its value</title>
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Florida&#8217;s public employee pension plan has lost more than a quarter of its peak value, but Gov. Charlie Crist and other officials Monday said the fund is built for the long haul and there&#8217;s no need to panic.
They said Florida has fared no worse than most big investors &#8212; a bit better than some major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/florida-pension-fund-loses-a-quarter-its-value/</link>
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		<title>Good bye to U.S dollar. Say hello to Gold and Amero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Previous related posts: U.S. Ships 800 Billion “AMEROS” to China; prepares to De-Monetize U.S. Dollar  and  I HAVE OBTAINED AN ACTUAL “AMERO” FROM THE SHIPMENT SENT TO CHINA
Physical gold is being bought at hair raising speed.
Investors big and small are buying and many are desperate for they can not get their orders filled.
gold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/good-bye-to-us-dollar-say-hello-to-gold-and-amero/</link>
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		<title>S&#038;P 500 losses nearly $1 trillion more than 2000-02</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (MarketWatch) &#8212; In just one year, stocks in the S&#038;P 500 index, the yardstick most used by professional investors to gauge the U.S. stock market, have lost nearly $1 trillion more than in the entire 2000-2002 bear market, Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s said Wednesday. Since closing at a record high of 1,565 in October [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/sp-500-losses-nearly-1-trillion-more-than-2000-02/</link>
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		<title>The LARGE layoffs have started here, the smaller ones have been going on for a while now.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The previous update of layoffs: Layoff list grows even more from last week (Update 4)
My guess is we should see a whole new &#8220;crop&#8221; of &#8220;for sale&#8221; signs in front of homes pretty soon. I would also guess the only truly &#8220;safe&#8221; folks around here are military, America&#8217;s &#8220;growth industry&#8221;. I hold no ill will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/the-large-layoffs-have-started-here-the-smaller-ones-have-been-going-on-for-a-while-now/</link>
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		<title>Both GM and Ford stocks are headed to $1 per share or lower.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ford almost made it there today. The market capitalization of GM is now $1.6 billion versus a market cap of $46 billion 10 years ago at the end of 1998. Ford&#8217;s market capitalization at the end of 1998 was $71 billion and today is now $2.99 billion. The combined market cap of both GM and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/both-gm-and-ford-stocks-are-headed-to-1-per-share-or-lower/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time for Congress to clean house. You&#8217;ve been paid too long and do nothing. The time has come.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said regulation is the best means of preventing another financial crisis.&#8221;
Wait a minute! &#8220;Free market&#8221; was orchestrated for so long, and robbing the living daylight out of the public, now gloom and doom talks from the &#8220;regulators&#8221; and &#8220;policymakers&#8221; ???
Did they just realize that public trust is not something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/its-time-for-congress-to-clean-house-youve-been-paid-too-long-and-do-nothing-the-time-has-come/</link>
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		<title>Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Falls Most in at Least 23 Years (Update1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Linda Shen
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. fell the most in at least 23 years, dropping for the eighth straight day since reporting a 77 percent decline in third- quarter profit.
The stock plunged $11,550, or 12 percent, to $84,000 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading at 4:01 p.m.
Berkshire has posted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/buffetts-berkshire-falls-most-in-at-least-23-years-update1/</link>
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		<title>Time for the chump or the year award and the winner is?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Citicorp has a $2 trillion balance sheet - twice the size of AIG&#8217;s, or the same size roughly as AIG and Goldman combined. Why do I use the AIG/GS analogy? Because we can assume Citi&#8217;s assets are of kind and quality as both AIG and GS. I took a look at Citi&#8217;s latest quarterly filing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/time-for-the-chump-or-the-year-award-and-the-winner-is/</link>
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		<title>Think about it. GM, Ford, Citi, Yahoo and other big names have the smell of bankruptcy to them.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Govt. cannot possibly bail everyone out. Even if they could where is the revenue going to come from? Who is buying cars? Who is buying houses? Job losses are mounting, not going down. Anyone who is expecting some capitulation event and then a massive rally that covers all the losses is dreaming.
As bad as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/think-about-it-gm-ford-citi-yahoo-and-other-big-names-have-the-smell-of-bankruptcy-to-them/</link>
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		<title>China’s Iron &#038; Steel Industry to Recovery by Q2, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JP Morgan announced in its report yesterday that “The Stimulus Package‿of Chinese government would help iron and steel demand to recover by the second half of year 2009.
It’s also predicted in the report that steel price would rebound from the bottom in the first quarter of next year.
Analysts indicated that present stage should be the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/china%e2%80%99s-iron-steel-industry-to-recovery-by-q2-2009/</link>
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		<title>The only asset deflation that exists are those interests in commodities, stocks, bonds, gold, silver, etc. which can be sold to meet the demands of the credit events, Fannie/Freddie, Lehman Brothers, WaMu, and, now, the Icelandic Banks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has had a flow-through effect on gasoline, food and other prices, because the speculators have been temporarily evicted from the futures markets.
Let&#8217;s take the example of Lehman Brother&#8217;s bankruptcy, through it is only one of many events that has supported the dollar, and caused a worldwide asset selling spree. Although the net amount paid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/the-only-asset-deflation-that-exists-are-those-interests-in-commodities-stocks-bonds-gold-silver-etc-which-can-be-sold-to-meet-the-demands-of-the-credit-events-fanniefreddie-lehman-brothers/</link>
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		<title>Must-read News: Mass. woman&#8217;s 1 cent debt paid in full</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ATTLEBORO, Mass. – A 74-year-old blind woman&#8217;s 1 cent debt to a Massachusetts city has been settled.
People from across the country called Attleboro City Hall on Tuesday offering to pay the 1 cent balance owed by Eileen Wilbur for an overdue water and sewer bill. 
Antonio Viveiros, a former city councilor who does not know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://investment-blog.net/must-read-news-mass-womans-1-cent-debt-paid-in-full/</link>
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