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	<title>Guzzo the Contrarian &#187; Financial</title>
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	<description>One Man's Quest to Conquer the Markets</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Fiscal Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/11/10/fiscal-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/11/10/fiscal-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben, over at The Consumerist, related to his readers a recent conversation he had with a Goldman Sachs trader. According to an excerpt from his post:

If you don&#8217;t shop around for your investments or learn to how to make sure you&#8217;re getting the best deal, you do set yourself up to be taken advantage of. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Stimulus Plan</title>
		<link>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/11/09/chinese-stimulus-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/11/09/chinese-stimulus-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent article posted on Yahoo! Finance:

BEIJING (AP) &#8212; China announced a $586 billion stimulus package Sunday in its biggest move to stop the global financial crisis from hitting the world&#8217;s fourth-largest economy.

IMO, this may play out to be a bad move on their part. Because about an hour later they may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween on Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/10/28/halloween-on-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/10/28/halloween-on-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stock Market]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Haunting Wall Street: The Halloween Terminology Of Investing
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		<title>Blog for Poverty</title>
		<link>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/10/15/blog-for-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/10/15/blog-for-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bond Market]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sectors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Blog Action Day]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[October 15, 2008 is Blog Action Day - Poverty.
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and video-casters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Today&#8217;s issue is poverty.
Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple, clear answer. By asking thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Market Funds</title>
		<link>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/09/17/money-market-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/09/17/money-market-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vanguard]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VMMXX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If there is something about this market meltdown that investors should be really concerned about, it would be the safety of money market funds. With recent news of Reserve Primary Fund breaking the buck, the often-perceived safety of money markets funds has come under intense scrutiny. Folks are starting to get worried.
As many of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lehman Brothers Sale?</title>
		<link>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/09/11/lehman-brothers-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/09/11/lehman-brothers-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LEH]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As soon as I watched the markets soar within the last few minutes of trading today, I knew something was up. I smell indirect Fed intervention. According to the WSJ:

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH) is actively shopping itself to potential suitors, including Bank of America Corp., people familiar with the matter said Thursday.. Bank of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Flag Rules</title>
		<link>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/09/04/red-flag-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://guzzothecontrarian.com/2008/09/04/red-flag-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ID Theft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Out of curiosity, I conducted a little further investigation into identity theft after my previous post about Arizona&#8217;s Identity Theft Law, and I found something that piqued my interest.
Have you heard of the new &#8220;Reg Flag Rules&#8221; that were implemented at the beginning of this year? I know that I haven&#8217;t. It&#8217;s all new to [...]]]></description>
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