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							<title><![CDATA[Can the U.S. Dollar Become Almighty Once Again?]]></title>
							<link>http://business.time.com/2013/03/20/can-the-u-s-dollar-become-almighty-once-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Sivy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Financial turmoil in Cyprus, where the parliament rejected a plan an eurozone bailout deal that would have taxed bank deposits, is prompting investors to shift cash from the euro zone to the U.S. That&rsquo;s boosting the value of the dollar &mdash; and it&rsquo;s just the latest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If There's No Inflation, Why Are Prices Up So Much?]]></title>
							<link>http://business.time.com/2013/03/12/if-theres-no-inflation-why-are-prices-up-so-much/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Sivy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, I ran out of ink for my printer and ordered some more online. My computer automatically pulled up the previous order, and I was shocked to see that the price of the ink cartridges I was buying had gone up 25%. To my mind, ink always seems overpriced. Manufacturers sell...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Feel Like They're Getting Poorer]]></title>
							<link>http://business.time.com/2013/03/05/why-many-americans-feel-like-theyre-getting-poorer/#ixzz2MgSaBfl9</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Data released by the Commerce Department last week showed that personal income fell 3.6% in January, the biggest decline in 20 years. The drop was even bigger when taxes and inflation are taken into account. Real personal disposable income fell by 4%, the biggest monthly drop in half a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Can't This Economy Really Get Going?]]></title>
							<link>http://business.time.com/2013/02/12/why-cant-this-economy-get-going/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Sivy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s no secret that the U.S. economy isn&rsquo;t doing especially well. But there&rsquo;s a clich&#195;&#169; &ndash; one that I&rsquo;ve repeated myself &ndash; that conditions are improving, even if progress is disappointingly slow. That notion was exploded two weeks ago when the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the European Debt Crisis Is Nowhere Near Over]]></title>
							<link>http://business.time.com/2012/10/01/why-the-euro-crisis-is-nowhere-near-being-over/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Sivy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&#194;&#146;s astonishing, but everyone is behaving as though the euro crisis were over. Long-term bond yields are bellwethers of investor confidence. And over the past few months, yields on 10-year Spanish bonds have fallen from 7.5% to 6%, while those on similar Italian issues have dropped to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe's Debt Crisis Can't Be Avoided Much Longer]]></title>
							<link>http://business.time.com/2012/07/30/why-a-euro-zone-crisis-cant-be-avoided-very-much-longer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Sivy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stocks rallied powerfully late last week after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi declared that the ECB stands ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. That was mighty tough talk, but analysts remain skeptical about the outlook for the common European currency. No...]]></description>
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