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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Class of 2013: You've Been Scammed]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brett Arends</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one else is going to tell you this, so I might as well.You sit here today, $30,000 or $40,000 in debt, as the latest victims of what may well be the biggest conspiracy in U.S. history. It is a conspiracy so big and powerful that Dan Brown won&rsquo;t even touch it. It&rsquo;s a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Forget the Cliff. Is U.S. Already in Recession?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brett Arends</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many people are warning that if the government goes over the &ldquo;fiscal cliff&rdquo; next week, as seems increasingly likely, the U.S. economy could tumble back into recession.But what if we already have?Despite some misleading headlines, and some cheerleading in certain quarters,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[12 Investing Rules for the Next 40 Years]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Brett Arends</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At times like this, I think of my marvelous old friend Dan Bunting, a man who successfully managed money on behalf of private individuals and institutions for nearly 40 years.Along the way, he learned to take most economic prognostications with a grain of salt. If you listened too much...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Putin Stockpiling Gold?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-is-putin-stockpiling-gold-2012-09-05</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brett Arends</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I can&rsquo;t imagine it means anything cheerful that Vladimir Putin, the Russian czar, is stockpiling gold as fast as he can get his hands on it.According to the World Gold Council, Russia has more than doubled its gold reserves in the past five years. Putin has taken advantage of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Really Benefited from Bernanke's QE2]]></title>
							<link>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/who-really-benefited-from-qe2-anyway-2011-06-22</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brett Arends</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The flood of cheap money has helped the big banks rake in profits hand  over fist. (Last quarter, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.                  (NYSE:GS)   made trading profits every single day.) Commodity speculators have  grown rich. And the stock market has boomed, at least when measured...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The QE II Bust: Stock Rally Is Just An Illusion]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brett Arends</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&lsquo;s cost $600 billion of your money. And it was  supposed to rescue the economy. But has Ben Bernanke&rsquo;s huge financial  stimulus package, known as &ldquo;Quantitative Easing 2,&rdquo; actually worked as  planned?QE2 is being wound down in the next few weeks. Fed Chairman Ben...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Grantham: Stock Risk Back to 2007 Levels]]></title>
							<link>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/small-cap-investors-paying-too-much-for-risk-2011-04-15?link=home_carousel</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brett Arends</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That&rsquo;s the latest warning from legendary fund manager Jeremy Grantham,  chairman of fund shop GMO and one of the few people who successfully  called the 2008 crash in advance.His firm&rsquo;s latest calculations predict that investors in U.S. small-cap  stocks will actually lose...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Europe's Debt Crisis Isn't Over]]></title>
							<link>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-europes-debt-crisis-isnt-over-2011-04-12?link=home_carousel</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Brett Arends</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Political leaders in Europe have spent the last few days telling everyone who will listen that the credit crisis here is over.Portugal, they say, will be the last country to need a bail out. And Spain, the next weak link in the chain, will be OK.&ldquo;Spain isn&rsquo;t a problem,&rdquo;...]]></description>
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