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		<title>Fair Market Value v. True Market Value?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 18:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The issue of how to value &amp;#8220;hard to value&amp;#8221; assets is now of concern to
regulators and those who are currently asked to make these assessments on
behalf of investors.  Discussions are currently going on in the government,
because of the need to protect investors, particularly those who are
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		<title>The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Finance Initiative</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On March 23-24, I participated in the Wall Street Journal sponsored “Future of Finance Initiative” in Washington, D.C. Initially conceived to be a forum of financial experts to develop recommendations to the Obama Administration to help define the future of the financial system in this country (post the financial crisis), participants quickly modified the agenda [...]&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharethis.com/item?&amp;#038;wp=2.6&amp;#38;publisher=0e558fb8-46c2-4cf1-b3b4-4620bad7940b&amp;#38;title=The+Wall+Street+Journal%26%238217%3Bs+Future+of+Finance+Initiative&amp;#38;url=http%3A%2F%2Fselfdirectedira.com%2F%3Fp%3D608"&gt;ShareThis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Self-directedIraInvesting/~4/ZzwEyMbApso" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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		<title>Tom Anderson goes to Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>MBA Entrepreneurial Program Shows Interest In Self-Directed IRAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>New York Symposium on Self-Directed IRAs a Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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