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		<title>New CBO report – Lower (not increase) the early retirement age!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Krasting</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one point or another, all the big name politicians have indicated they would support changing the minimum Early Eligibility Age (EEA) rules for Social Security. Obama has said it, so has Boehner. Even guys who love Social Security, like Sen. Harry R...]]></description>
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		<title>Habituating to Contraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Hugh Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Savior State has pulled out all the stops to prop up the Status Quo. Its gargantuan borrowing and spending have fixed nothing. Contraction is replacing expansion as the new normal.





For the past 67 years, Americans have been conditioned to expe...]]></description>
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		<title>Ponzi Planet: The Danger Debt Poses for the Western World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Countries around the world, particularly in the West, are  hopelessly in the red, with debt rising every day. Even worse,  politicians seem paralyzed, unable -- or unwilling -- to do anything  about it. It is a global disaster that threatens the immedi...]]></description>
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		<title>Super Rich vs 99% &#8211; Class War Will Explode</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget politics. The 99%, the Occupy Wall Street  movement, is not about politics. But politicians don’t get it yet. The  Dems sure don’t. And while Bill O’Reilly says the movement is already  dead, insider Frank Luntz thinks OWS is not only very...]]></description>
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		<title>The Debt Walkers Strike Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ilargi: It's very simple, but maybe that's the problem. For all I know it's just too simple for people to see. 

There's  a group of people, and it's tempting to call them the 1%, but they’re  not really, since there’s politicians in there too who ...]]></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>Biggs revises opinion on economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 21, 2011 6:39 pm
Biggs revises opinion on economy
By Dan McCrum in New York
 

Barton Biggs, the veteran strategist and investor, has warned that he was too optimistic on the prospects for economic recovery and that the outlook for the US stoc...]]></description>
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		<title>Iceland Outperforming Euro Area</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iceland did it right - you have to take over your own banks that went out of control, disallow their debts, throw out and then hunt down the crony politicians that were enabling them, and not least shut out the foreign banks that were involved in the s...]]></description>
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		<title>Supercommittee failure &#8216;may trigger US downgrade&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economists are warning of dire consequences if US politicians fail to make progress this weekend in tense talks aimed at reducing America's massive deficit ahead of a Wednesday deadline.


Supercommittee failure 'may trigger US downgrade'
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		<title>The Class War Has Begun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coverage increased and politicians ran for cover. Mayor Bloomberg,  who had initially (and preposterously) portrayed the occupiers as a threat to the financial industry’s lower-income service workers, gingerly observed that some unspecified “people...]]></description>
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