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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago Is Not Detroit, But Illinois Is]]></title>
							<link>http://pointsandfigures.com/2013/07/19/why-chicago-is-not-detroit-but-illinois-is/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Detroit declared bankruptcy yesterday.  Depending on which news source you follow, it&rsquo;s big news, or it&rsquo;s not.Many are calling on the federal government to bail out Detroit.  After all, the Feds bailed out GM and Chrysler.   Why not bail out a city in our fair country?Because...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Illinois: The Troubled State of the State]]></title>
							<link>http://pointsandfigures.com/2013/02/07/the-state-of-the-state-in-illinois/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Went on the Chicago Tribune website this morning and searched for an analysis of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn&rsquo;s State of the State message.  It&rsquo;s no where to be found.  The headline on the News website was about an argument over which weekend to stage the Gay Pride Parade.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Worse Off. Unless You Are a Crony]]></title>
							<link>http://pointsandfigures.com/2012/09/05/obama-and-hard-choices/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last night, the Democratic convention kicked off. They talked a lot about the choices that Obama made. I thought about those choices. Obama always takes the easy way out, makes the easy choice.First ChoiceEasy choice: Stimulus to put us far deeper in debt (Salt Water Economics) vs Hard...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Corzine Will Not Be Prosecuted]]></title>
							<link>http://pointsandfigures.com/2012/08/16/corzine-will-not-be-prosecuted/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are a few ways that one can look at the headline today in the NY Times.First, you could say this is great for the futures industry. There was simply a misunderstanding of where money went and there was no harm no foul. Billions in equity value at ICE ($ICE) and CME ($CME) should...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Jon Corzine Not on Trial?]]></title>
							<link>http://pointsandfigures.com/2012/05/31/the-corzine-rule/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Came across this article on May 29 that talks about the continuing saga of MF Global and Jon Corzine. It&rsquo;s amazing that this epic financial scandal gets no consistent main stream media coverage. Over a billion was stolen. Corzine is in Madoff territory.Here is the proposed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Crony Capitalism Economy Sputters]]></title>
							<link>http://pointsandfigures.com/2011/06/03/anemic-jobs-report/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Carter</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wow, jobs grew by less than estimated in April, and were really  anemic in May.  How can anyone be optimistic after this?  Unemployment  is rising again.  U-6 finally dropped a little, but all the rest of the  stats are pretty dismal.The people that believe in Keynesian economics, QE2 et...]]></description>
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