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		<title>Goldman Sachs Settlement `Victory&#8217; Ushers Change to Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/07/goldman-sachs-settlement-victory-ushers-change-to-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s $550 million settlement with U.S. regulators yesterday will benefit the firm by ending three months of uncertainty at an affordable price. Now the rest of Wall Street begins calculating the cost. Investors welcomed the deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying the company won key points: The cost was below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Poverty Inc., Rich Get Richer by Lending to the Poor: Books</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/07/at-poverty-inc-rich-get-richer-by-lending-to-the-poor-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a hill high above Cleveland, Tennessee, stands a manor modeled after George Vanderbilt’s Biltmore. A stone-and-stucco pile topped by a copper dome, the house is perched on a 650-acre (263-hectare) estate that features two artificial lakes, a regulation-sized football field and a three- story tree house, plus stables, a greenhouse and an aviary. If this sounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Approves New Rules for Wall Street in 237-192 Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives approved the financial-overhaul bill, moving a step closer to enacting the broadest rewrite of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression. The House voted 237-192 in favor of the bill. It also will have to be approved by the Senate, which delayed action until after the weeklong July 4 recess, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Discovers Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/us-discovers-vast-riches-of-minerals-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke Says Fed Prepared to Counter Effects of Europe Crisis</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/bernanke-says-fed-prepared-to-counter-effects-of-europe-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/bernanke-says-fed-prepared-to-counter-effects-of-europe-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. recovery, while being sustained by private demand, isn’t as strong as he prefers and faces risks from Europe’s debt crisis that may require further Fed action. U.S. growth is “not as fast as we would like,” Bernanke told the House Budget Committee in testimony today just hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors Pick U.S. Over BRICs in Bloomberg User Poll</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/investors-pick-u-s-over-brics-in-bloomberg-user-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/investors-pick-u-s-over-brics-in-bloomberg-user-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. has supplanted China and Brazil as the most attractive market for investors as confidence in the global economic recovery wanes in the wake of the Greek debt crisis. Investors are putting their money on President Barack Obama’s stewardship of the U.S. economy even as his job-approval rating has declined, according to a global quarterly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP: Chart of Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/u-s-%e2%80%99s-13-trillion-debt-poised-to-overtake-gdp-chart-of-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/u-s-%e2%80%99s-13-trillion-debt-poised-to-overtake-gdp-chart-of-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.” The CHART OF THE DAY tracks U.S. gross domestic product and the government’s total debt, which rose past $13 trillion for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Brutal Job Market, More Than a Million Quit Looking</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/in-brutal-job-market-more-than-a-million-quit-looking/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/in-brutal-job-market-more-than-a-million-quit-looking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think the jobs situation has become pretty hopeless, you&#8217;re not alone. Roughly 1.1 million workers have given up hope of finding employment. The staggering level of &#8220;discouraged workers&#8221; as the government calls them has swelled to historic proportions in 2010, past the million barrier for the first time since the Bureau of Labor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman Suit Makes Wall Street Question Derivatives Sales</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/06/goldman-suit-makes-wall-street-question-derivatives-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street’s biggest firms are considering the suitability of selling opaque financial products to governments, endowments and not-for-profit institutions after the contracts magnified credit-market losses that plunged the U.S. into a recession. “There is no distinction among very different groups of investors, and this is where things might change,” said Dino Kos, a managing director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clients Worried About Goldman’s Dueling Goals</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/05/clients-worried-about-goldman%e2%80%99s-dueling-goals/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartincubator.com/2010/05/clients-worried-about-goldman%e2%80%99s-dueling-goals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 00:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elgintan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Questions have been raised that go to the heart of this institution’s most fundamental value: how we treat our clients.” — Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman Sachs’s C.E.O., at the firm’s annual meeting in May As the housing crisis mounted in early 2007, Goldman Sachs was busy selling risky, mortgage-related securities issued by its longtime client, [...]]]></description>
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