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		<title>Efficient Markets are Dead</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article by the Financial Times states how the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) seems to be dead among many people in finance these days.  Because of the all the turmoil in recent months, people believe that the markets cannot be trusted, and they start having more faith in other theories, such as behavioral economics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Marketing of Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The German Finance Minister, Peer Steinbrück, recently had an interview with the BBC during which he said that Germany &#8220;must decrease its dependence on foreign trade&#8221;. 
He goes on to say: &#8220;We have to strengthen our internal, our domestic demand in Germany&#8230; to reduce this dependency on foreign trade,&#8221; 
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		<title>The Wisdom of Chinese Crowds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dumbagent.com/?p=1077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.&#8221; 
It seems as though the Chinese leaders are interpreting this Confucian quote according to their needs, but the Chinese people are showing they understand much more than given credit for. 
The Economist reports on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are what we Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gloss at any Economics or Business best-seller list these days, and you will see a sign of the times.  While the year 2000 brought us The Millionaire Mind, by Thomas J. Stanley, The Millionaire Next Door, by William Danko and Thomas Stanley (Stanley kept busy) and Jack, by Jack Welch, 2006 brought us Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Great Recession&#8221; has generated a great deal of uncertainty.  Markets are in turmoil, so are many countries&#8217; economies.  People are trying to make it through this turmoil, knowing that once the dust settles the landscape could be very different from how it was before.  Could the United States, and possibly Europe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Possible Silver Linings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After receiving approval from the SEC, Prosper.com is running again.  We have already sung its praise, and we are happy to read that more people are using it now.  
As a reminder Prosper.com is a peer-to-peer lending network.  People can post what they need and for what endeavor.  They will also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America Votes Swine Flu &amp; You in Financial Tsunami</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been turned off by a headline on a news website due to style, not substance? Has the morning news resembled a sensationalist tabloid rather than a daily update on the world&#8217;s events? Have you ever wondered what others thought about news in your country?
Many people have complained about the media since time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Buy Global Campaign</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or at least the T-shirts thereof.
Dumbagent.com is proud to announce its new T-shirts here and here.
Wear one with pride, then buy one for your significant other!

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		<title>The Wisdom of Crowdsurfing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve traveled recently, chances are you&#8217;ve booked something online. If you booked something online, chances are you visited kayak.com, travelocity, expedia, orbitz, or some variation thereof.  If you&#8217;ve used these sites more than once, chances are you&#8217;ve noticed they tend to have more or less the same prices.
Airfarewatchdog.com is a slightly different variation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing is Profitable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you need a good drill for one job but don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s worth buying one? Would you like to show up at a dinner driving a motorcycle? Do you have season passes you won&#8217;t be using for a couple months? 
Zilok.com is a website with the elementary but ingenious idea of letting users rent [...]]]></description>
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