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		<title>Peter Schiff predicts Imminent Doom</title>
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		<title>CREDIT CRISIS &#8211; THE WORST IS YET TO COME</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial System Upside Down
by Alar Tamming, Tavex and Dr. Krassimir Petrov,
Prince Sultan University
December 8, 2008
Mark Twain once said that “if you don’t read the newspaper, you are uniformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed”. It is no surprise then, even to people who don’t follow the news, that a truly serious financial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shobhitmathur.wordpress.com&blog=1387540&post=167&subd=shobhitmathur&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fred Thompson on the Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Divorces &#8212; past and present &#8212; hit by economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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NEW YORK (AP)  &#8212; Bonnie Rabin is fond of saying that divorce lawyers are a bit like liquor stores. They&#8217;re busiest in the really good times, and the really bad.
 




Attorney Bonnie Rabin says she&#8217;s had to renegotiate for clients who have suffered economic losses.




 These, of course, would be the bad times.
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		<title>Poverty, Pension Fears Drive Japan&#8217;s Elderly Citizens to Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stuart Biggs and Sachiko Sakamaki
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) &#8212; More senior citizens are picking pockets and shoplifting in Japan to cope with cuts in government welfare spending and rising health-care costs in a fast-ageing society.
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		<title>Martin Hennecke &#8211; US May Lose Its &#8216;AAA&#8217; Rating</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Global Crisis? This is the real crisis!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.boncherry.com/blog/2008/10/26/global-crisis-this-is-the-real-crisis/
If you think that the current economic crisis is something that has never happened in history before, you may be wrong! After the collapse of the agriculture sector in Zimbabwe in 2000, the inflation in that country skyrocketed to 231 million percent a year! Just think about it &#8211; 231 000 000%! Unemployment went up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shobhitmathur.wordpress.com&blog=1387540&post=140&subd=shobhitmathur&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoon of the Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>U.S. has plundered world wealth with dollar: China paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:14am EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211; The United States has plundered global wealth by exploiting the dollar&#8217;s dominance, and the world urgently needs other currencies to take its place, a leading Chinese state newspaper said on Friday.
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		<title>How we got here</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current financial crisis stems from the decision to divorce our currencies from a reliable standard of value






Reuven Brenner


Financial Post



Wednesday, October 01, 2008






















Gold is hovering again around $900, commodity prices are on the rise, and the U. S. dollar is back to its downward trend of the last few years. This isn&#8217;t a surprise.
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