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		<title>Central banking for Dummies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full story here. I love the power of simplicity. The below narrative should be read to children in school so that they may see these dolts for the social parasites that they are.
&#8220;Imagine a large building full of about 50 people in a remote area, not accessible to other human beings.
Each person would need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/central-banking-for-dummies/371</link>
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		<title>Weekly Commentary November 17 thru 21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The grinch has really stolen Christmas this year. The October retail sales report could not have been worse, -2.8% overall, with automobiles at -5.5%. October is the last retail report before Christmas, and this is not a good start. This is the 4th straight month that U.S. retail sales have plunged. &#8220;Consumer spending will almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/weekly-commentary-november-17-thru-21/370</link>
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		<title>Paulson panics as UK, Germany find own solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full story here. From William Engdahl.
 




America’s de facto Finance Czar, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has reached for the panic button and made a dramatic 180-degree reversal of his financial bailout plan passed only days before. On September 23 in testimony before the US Congress, Paulson, former CEO of the politically influential Wall Street investment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/paulson-panics-as-uk-germany-find-own-solutions/369</link>
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		<title>$2 trillion black hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full story here. It&#8217;s probably closer to $5 trillion total. Roubini says it might be $7 trillion by the time it&#8217;s done.
&#8220;Purge your mind for a moment about everything you&#8217;ve heard and read in the last decade about investing on Wall Street and think about the following business model:
You take your hard earned retirement savings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/2-trillion-black-hole/368</link>
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		<title>Unpacking the 401(k) confiscation rumor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full story here.
&#8220;DR readers might have been alarmed to read Dan Amoss&#8217; warning in yesterday&#8217;s edition that, &#8220;Some in Congress are floating a proposal to steal your 401(k), sell the proceeds, and invest in &#8216;government-guaranteed&#8217; retirement accounts.&#8221;  Alarming especially to folks reading about it for the first time.  So let&#8217;s go into a little more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/unpacking-the-401k-confiscation-rumor/367</link>
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		<title>These ARE unprecedented times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full story here.
&#8220;Here is a great blog entry by Chuck from Rebel Traders:
(emphasis mine)It is getting very difficult to find new words to describe what has been unfolding in our nations economy over the past year. Each day brings more news about declining corporate earnings, economic conditions deteriorating, and a falling consumer confidence of record [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/these-are-unprecedented-times/366</link>
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		<title>GM is worthless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full story here. Man, if you thought you had a bad day&#8230;
&#8220;GM is worthless according to Deutsche Bank analyst Rod Lache, who has just slashed his target price on what is still the world’s biggest car maker to $0 and advised clients to get out.
He thinks GM will not be able to fund its operations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/gm-is-worthless/365</link>
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		<title>Fed&#8217;s new-found &#8220;transparency&#8221; fades fast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full story here. The new &#8220;Inconvenient Truth&#8221;. 
&#8220;The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. 
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		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/feds-new-found-transparency-fades-fast/364</link>
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		<title>Nuclear winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full story here. Wow, we all played &#8220;spin the bottle&#8221; with loose money and now we&#8217;re all coming down with something.
&#8220;The global financial crisis is far from over, and now a global economic crisis seems to be unfolding. Recent economic data suggests that the global economy is decelerating rapidly. Even though the US Congress reluctantly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/nuclear-winter/363</link>
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		<title>The central bank is broke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From FT Alphaville. Yech. Hardly stuff to read during Sunday breakfast, but since I&#8217;ve gotten this far, you might as well see it too.
&#8220;Or perhaps better, the entire banking system is broken.
For it appears that the US Federal Reserve has given up on the idea of easing stress on interbank and wholesale lending and is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shadowtraders.com/futuresblog/the-central-bank-is-broke/362</link>
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