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		<title>A Long Break</title>
		<link>http://snuffs.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/a-long-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello again. I apologize for a long drought in writing. I&#8217;d like to be able to say &#8220;I was busy.&#8221; as a reasonable excuse and while i was, i was no more busy than before when i wrote consistently so don&#8217;t let me get off that easy. Instead i found myself trying to figure out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snuffs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5638168&#038;post=170&#038;subd=snuffs&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buying Low</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking around in the current economic landscape there are many opinions on what to do with your money, if you happen to have any. There are many actual examples as well. There are lots of mergers, acquisitions and smash-and-grabs in the corporate world of course, and the more basic if unconventional example of Morgan Stanley [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snuffs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5638168&#038;post=168&#038;subd=snuffs&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Slogan, Same Junk</title>
		<link>http://snuffs.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/new-slogan-same-junk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trahan-The-Man</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a new year, president, and economic stimulus plan on the horizon, it&#8217;s easy to be lulled into believing that the fall of 2008 was simply a bad dream and are now delivered from disaster by the swift and wise of Washington. If we briefly look at what has been done so far, not much has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snuffs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5638168&#038;post=165&#038;subd=snuffs&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deflation: Not That Bad, Gold Standard: Excellent</title>
		<link>http://snuffs.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/deflation-not-that-bad-gold-standard-excellent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responsibility, frugality, restraint... these would be words used to describe the financial nature of a government whose currency is backed by a commodity.
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		<title>A Christmas Bubble</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With retail numbers so low, unemployment growing and recession well underway, even in the light of the holiday (see: shopping) season, where do we go from here? What happens once the craze of gift giving falls off and winter sets in? Isn&#8217;t every holiday season an annual retail bubble? Any business that projected it&#8217;s sales [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snuffs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5638168&#038;post=159&#038;subd=snuffs&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Feeling of Doubt</title>
		<link>http://snuffs.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/a-feeling-of-doubt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trahan-The-Man</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mainstream media, which generally follows the status quo without question, is beginning to question the moves made recently. Even if a bit misguided, a la Jubak, at least it will draw people to spend a little bit more time wondering who is manipulating our economy. This excellent Wall Street Journal article and this Bloomberg article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snuffs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5638168&#038;post=157&#038;subd=snuffs&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;5 reasons the Fed is obsolete&#8221; &#8211; Jim Jubak</title>
		<link>http://snuffs.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/5-reasons-the-fed-is-obsolete-jim-jubak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[according to my arithmetic, Jim isn't exactly a spring of new ideas himself. Just the same old  interventionist policy in the face of catastrophes that were caused by the same interventionist policy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snuffs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5638168&#038;post=154&#038;subd=snuffs&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strength In Emerging Markets</title>
		<link>http://snuffs.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/strength-in-emerging-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a main-stream adoption of Peter Schiff&#8217;s assessment of the strength of emerging markets, this article points out a growing belief that emerging markets will outperform developed ones as we move through the recession. Despite, and without, the macro-economic analysis, it is logically not that hard to figure out why this is so. Emerging markets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snuffs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5638168&#038;post=151&#038;subd=snuffs&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Economics Isn&#8217;t a Science</title>
		<link>http://snuffs.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/why-economics-isnt-a-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trahan-The-Man</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economics is the study of how humans behave, the consequences of those actions, and thus the best guess on what to do from there. It would seem as though it were simple enough. In any other science, like physics for example, certain truths are held by all physicists or at least most. There is an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snuffs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5638168&#038;post=146&#038;subd=snuffs&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dollar Falls on Rate News</title>
		<link>http://snuffs.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/dollar-falls-on-rate-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trahan-The-Man</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article depicts the current state of the dollar in light of the rate cuts by the Fed. Several times from several contributors it is said that &#8220;quantitative easing&#8221; has undermined the value of the dollar. In other words, the Fed printing money has made our money a little more worthless. Thanks guys. Not to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snuffs.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5638168&#038;post=143&#038;subd=snuffs&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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