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	<title>The Wall Street Examiner &#187; Pensions</title>
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		<title>The New York Times’ Ode to Foxconn and Anti-Employee Control Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By William K. BlackI wrote recently about Apple’s release ofinformation from its “audits” of its major suppliers.&#160; Apple constructed the release to deny thepublic information on the identity of the suppliers that defrauded andendangered the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Greece, China, and the USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Krasting</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. On Greece
I spoke with someone from Athens today. It's not a pretty picture. 

Issues related to subsistence have replaced the fervor for demonstrations. This may not last according to this resident. 

The closing of stores and shops is escalating. A...]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler profitable 2011, now bailing out Fiat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NPR link

Sales up 25%, quality survey results up, repaid 8 billion loan, now helping Fiat parent company.

Driven by the pre-ACA US healthcare system into bankruptcy, Chrysler handed off 255K retiree and their pensions to the govt pension board.]]></description>
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		<title>Risk is Necessary for Adaptation, Innovation and Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Hugh Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ironically, perhaps, building a new sustainable future requires being fully exposed to what is considered "the source of our problems": risk, threat and failure.





While I write a lot about financial and systemic unsustainability, the primary driver...]]></description>
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		<title>How will MSM spin a failed Black Friday?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, Black Friday will be a failure. 

Disposable household income is down. House values are down. Stock values are down. Net worth, at least by any honest measurement is down. Savings return no income, and have no prospect of doing so. Governmen...]]></description>
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		<title>A Simple Three-Item Agenda for Occupy Wall Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are really only three ways to cripple Wall Street's democracy-killing concentration of wealth and power: take our money out of Wall Street and the TBTF banks, eliminate private money  from elections and abolish Wall Street's dealer, the Federal R...]]></description>
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		<title>The Daily Show: Corporations Looting Workers&#8217; Pensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Stewart interviews Ellen Schultz, author of 'Retirement Heist.'  Just when you thought you couldn't get more angry about corporate greed......

http://www.thedailys...1/ellen-schultz]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Cuban: Tax the Hell outta Wall St., Give it to Main St.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every CEO tells the same great white lie. It is at the heart of every  communication. It is at the heart of every financial decision. It is,  at it’s very base, the reason why you all are in the 99pct and they are  in the 1pct. The Lie ?

 Great CEO ...]]></description>
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		<title>GM&#8217;s Pension Shortfall could be Bigger than its market cap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Motors is expecting a $35 billion pension shortfall that could delay share buyback or payments to shareholders, according to Bloomberg. The shortfall trumps the automaker's market cap which fell to $33.1 billion last month.

 GM  which emerged ...]]></description>
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		<title>Current UK strike could be biggest since 1926</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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