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	<description>An association of professionals and investors with a common interest in promoting sustainable finance and responsible investment.</description>
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		<title>US Trade Deficit Swells to $48.8 Billion on China Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trade deficit widened slightly more than expected in December, and the bilateral trade deficit with China last year soared to a record high $295.5 billion. The monthly trade gap swelled to $48.8 billion as goods imports climbed to the highest level since July 2008, just before the financial crisis caused world trade to plunge, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Deal from Hell</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2012/02/09/mortgage-deal-from-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homeowners who kept up on their payments would lose while those who fell behind would win under an apparent deal between big banks and state governments, banking analyst Dick Bove said. The agreement, expected to be worth at least $26 billion, would compensate both victims of alleged foreclosure fraud and underwater homeowners whose debt exceeds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Welch: How I&#8217;d Fix The Economy</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/10/07/jack-welch-how-id-fix-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/10/07/jack-welch-how-id-fix-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saying President Obama has &#8220;shown no ability to lead,&#8221; former General Electric chairman Jack Welch gave CNBC his own three-part prescription Thursday for improving the U.S. economy. Start with cutting 25 percent of current discretionary spending and 5 percent of military spending, which would save about $1.3 trillion over 10 years, Welch said. Then, freeze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$250,000 Per Job</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/09/13/250000-per-job/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/09/13/250000-per-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama&#8217;s jobs plan may be one of the worst policy proposals I&#8217;ve ever seen. As I pointed out last week, the plan to &#8220;pay for&#8221; the jobs proposal with tax hikes is just lunacy. It eliminates every bit of stimulus effect that could possibly come from additional government spending. Over at Zero Hedge, John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implement VAT, Cut All Income Taxes to Create Jobs: Ross</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/09/12/implement-vat-cut-all-income-taxes-to-create-jobs-ross/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/09/12/implement-vat-cut-all-income-taxes-to-create-jobs-ross/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A value-added tax (VAT) that would come with the elimination of corporate and individual income taxes is the best way to get jobs rolling in the U.S., investor Wilbur Ross said. While the plan that President Obama will present to Congress Monday has some merits, it also contains weaknesses that could make it too costly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Rules &#8216;Anti-US&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/09/12/bank-rules-anti-us/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/09/12/bank-rules-anti-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New international bank capital rules are “anti-American” and the US should consider pulling out of the Basel group of global regulators, Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, has said. In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Dimon said he was supportive of forcing banks to have more capital but argued that moves to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/09/03/jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/09/03/jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jobs creation remains weak, because temporary tax cuts, stimulus spending, large federal deficits, expensive and ineffective business regulations, and increased health care mandates and costs do not address structural problems holding back dynamic growth and jobs creation-the huge trade deficit and dysfunctional energy policies. Oil and trade with China account for nearly the entire $600 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Trying</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/29/stop-trying/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/29/stop-trying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have tried bailouts, drawing applause from Buffett, whose company owns a 6.67 percent stake in Wells Fargo &#38; Co. We have tried federal stimulus spending, which yielded little more than a sugar high. We have tried propping up the stock market and home prices with record-low interest rates from the Federal Reserve, hurting savers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Size of Gold &#8216;Bubble&#8217; Now an &#8216;Absurdity&#8217;: Analyst</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/23/size-of-gold-bubble-now-an-absurdity-analyst/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/23/size-of-gold-bubble-now-an-absurdity-analyst/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The price of gold hit a fresh all time high of $1,900 an ounce on Tuesday as investors continued to fret over the sovereign debt crisis in the euro zone and its impact on the global banking industry. Having risen by a third since the beginning of 2011 and nearly fivefold since 2004, one analyst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors Who Held On Since 2008 Made Right Move</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/20/investors-who-held-on-since-2008-made-right-move/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/20/investors-who-held-on-since-2008-made-right-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Past performance is no guarantee of future results, as the saying goes. But a new Fidelity Investments analysis of what’s happened to retirement investors’ portfolios since the 2008-2009 market crash is worth considering if you’re tempted to pull money off the table during the market’s current volatility. The big message: Investors who held on tight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>QE3 Is Coming, But Won’t Save the Economy: Lance Roberts</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/04/qe3-is-coming-but-won%e2%80%99t-save-the-economy-lance-roberts/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/04/qe3-is-coming-but-won%e2%80%99t-save-the-economy-lance-roberts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the U.S. debt deal has come and gone, the focus has turned back to the American and global economies. The picture does not look pretty, and markets have taken notice. Stock indexes continue to tumble Thursday, with the S&#38;P 500, the Dow and the Nasdaq falling more than 2 percent. After last week&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down to the Wire by Howard Marks</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/02/down-to-the-wire-by-howard-marks/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/02/down-to-the-wire-by-howard-marks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the ingredients in the plot:  A problem everyone’s aware of.  If it isn’t resolved, a shutdown with unspecified but possibly disastrous consequences.  A deadline which seems indispensable, since in its absence it appears nothing would be done.  And despite the presence of the oncoming freight train, movement toward a solution is deterred by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PIMCO&#8217;s Gross Says Deficit Deal Makes No Dent</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/02/pimcos-gross-says-deficit-deal-makes-no-dent/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/02/pimcos-gross-says-deficit-deal-makes-no-dent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PIMCO&#8217;s Bill Gross is underwhelmed by the deal hammered out in Washington to cut government spending and raise the borrowing capacity of the United States, saying it does not make a &#8220;significant dent&#8221; in the deficit. In his monthly investment outlook newsletter, Gross, who runs the world&#8217;s largest bond fund, said: &#8220;Even though the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISM Manufacturing index declines in July</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/01/ism-manufacturing-index-declines-in-july/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/01/ism-manufacturing-index-declines-in-july/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PMI was at 50.9% in July, down from 55.3% in June.  The employment index was at 53.5%, down from 59.9% and new orders decreased to 49.2%, down from 51.6%. From the Institute for Supply Management: July 2011 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® The report was issued today by Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing: The Missing Move-up Buyer</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/01/housing-the-missing-move-up-buyer/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/08/01/housing-the-missing-move-up-buyer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Alejandro Lazo at the LA Times: Homeowners who want to trade up are stuck waiting Although there is no way to precisely to track move-up buyers, such shoppers often are looking in the $300,000-to-$800,000 price range, according to San Diego real estate research firm DataQuick. Home sales fell the most in that category in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Debt Crisis Could Help Your Financial Situation</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/07/27/how-the-debt-crisis-could-help-your-financial-situation/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/07/27/how-the-debt-crisis-could-help-your-financial-situation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is upset about the debt crisis and how the government is  handling it. And we all should be. But at some point, we need to stop  being mad and start looking for the positives that could result from the  deadlock. Here are three reasons we may soon be celebrating: Harsh realities bring clarity. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Companies Sitting On Cash, But, Not Hiring.</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/07/24/companies-sitting-on-cash-but-not-hiring/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/07/24/companies-sitting-on-cash-but-not-hiring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hidden within this Washington Post article is a warning to “Corporate America”: Obama is probably going to be coming after you in short order &#160; Corporate America is hoarding a massive pile of cash. It just doesn’t  want to spend it hiring anyone. &#160; Way to start off on a truly negative note, WP. &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Democrat&#8217;s Advice: Raising Taxes Doesn&#8217;t Add Revenue</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/07/16/one-democrats-advice-raising-taxes-doesnt-add-revenue/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/07/16/one-democrats-advice-raising-taxes-doesnt-add-revenue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Figuring out how to reduce the budget deficit without raising taxes is indeed a tricky feat, since it seems to defy basic economic principles and is doomed to failure. The futility of being able to get Washington’s house in order without additional tax contributions from wealthier Americans was expressed in plain terms by President Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summary for Week Ending June 24th</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/06/25/summary-for-week-ending-june-24th/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/06/25/summary-for-week-ending-june-24th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably the three most talked about stories of the week were 1) the Greek financial situation, 2) the release of oil from the petroleum reserves, and 3) Fed Chairman Bernanke’s press briefing following the FOMC meeting. Oil prices fell sharply after the announcement of oil releases from reserves.   And gasoline prices are expected to continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors Crowd Into New ‘Can’t Miss’ Trade</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/06/01/investors-crowd-into-new-%e2%80%98can%e2%80%99t-miss%e2%80%99-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/06/01/investors-crowd-into-new-%e2%80%98can%e2%80%99t-miss%e2%80%99-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Housing prices never go down. That was the basic belief, magnified by an explosion in derivative instruments, which fueled a broad bull market, made record profits for investment banks and then brought our financial system to the brink. Now some fear the Wall Street lemmings have found their next ‘can’t miss’ maxim: Ben Bernanke won’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market Missing Big Picture On Inflation</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/05/13/market-missing-big-picture-on-inflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pimco Chief Executive Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC Friday he is disturbed by rising commodities prices and how investors are missing the bigger picture of what that increase means. &#8220;There are two realities out there. When economists and market participants look at [the CPI data] they call it &#8216;transitory.&#8217; When Main Street looks at this it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Values See Biggest Drop Since 2008</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/05/09/home-values-see-biggest-drop-since-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/05/09/home-values-see-biggest-drop-since-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 14:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. home values fell in the first quarter at the fastest rate since late 2008, real estate data firm Zillow said on Monday, suggesting that a bottom will not be seen until 2012 at the earliest. Zillow said its home value index fell 3 percent in the first three months of the year from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Should You Be Saving?</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/04/29/how-much-should-you-be-saving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the question, &#8220;How much should I save?&#8221; is asked by clients of mine in budgeting workshops, the easy answer is, &#8220;as much as you can.&#8221; However, leaving savings to chance (or misappropriation) is never a wise choice. When it comes to budgeting and savings, there are a few steadfast rules of thumb to follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philly Fed Survey shows slower expansion in April</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/04/21/philly-fed-survey-shows-slower-expansion-in-april/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/04/21/philly-fed-survey-shows-slower-expansion-in-april/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Philly Fed: April 2011 Business Outlook Survey The survey’s broadest measure of manufacturing conditions, the diffusion index of current activity, decreased from 43.4 in March to 18.5 this month. [any reading above zero is expanion].  The demand for manufactured goods, as measured by the current new orders index, showed a similar slowing: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S&amp;P Cuts US Outlook to Negative</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/04/18/sp-cuts-us-outlook-to-negative/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/04/18/sp-cuts-us-outlook-to-negative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s on Monday downgraded the outlook for the United States to negative, saying it believes there&#8217;s a risk U.S. policymakers may not reach agreement on how to address the country&#8217;s long-term fiscal pressures. &#8220;Because the U.S. has, relative to its &#8216;AAA&#8217; peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMF Warns US on Debts, Wants Austerity</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/04/13/imf-warns-us-on-debts-wants-austerity/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/04/13/imf-warns-us-on-debts-wants-austerity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US lacks a “credible strategy” to stabilize its mounting public debt posing a small but significant risk of a new global economic crisis, says the International Monetary Fund. In an unusually stern rebuke to its largest shareholder, the IMF said the US was the only advanced economy to be increasing its underlying budget deficit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISM Non-Manufacturing Index indicates slower expansion in March</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/04/05/ism-non-manufacturing-index-indicates-slower-expansion-in-march/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/04/05/ism-non-manufacturing-index-indicates-slower-expansion-in-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March ISM Non-manufacturing index was at 57.3%, down from 59.7% in February. The employment index indicated slower expansion in March at 53.7%, down from 55.6% in February. Note: Above 50 indicates expansion, below 50 contraction. Click on graph for larger image in graph gallery. This graph shows the ISM non-manufacturing index (started in January [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims at 388,000</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/31/weekly-initial-unemployment-claims-at-388000/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/31/weekly-initial-unemployment-claims-at-388000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims: In the week ending March 26, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 388,000, a decrease of 6,000 from the previous week&#8217;s revised figure of 394,000. The 4-week moving average was 394,250, a increase of 3,250 from the previous week&#8217;s revised average of 391,000. Click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supply Chain Stress Test</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/20/supply-chain-stress-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to guess the impact of the supply chain disruption. A week or two shutdown will probably have minimal impact on sales, but a delay until May would be significant. From Steve Lohr at the NY Times: Stress Test for the Global Supply Chain [T]he disaster in Japan, experts say, presents a first-of-its-kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New &#8216;G-Zero&#8217; World</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/14/the-new-g-zero-world/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/14/the-new-g-zero-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 21st Century world is fragmenting at an alarming pace—economically and politically—and the old models of understanding global dynamics are struggling to keep up with the breakneck speed of change. Nouriel Roubini, along with political scientist Ian Bremmer, recently developed a new conceptual framework for understanding those changes called The G-Zero World. It&#8217;s a theory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Inflation Hurts the Most</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/06/who-inflation-hurts-the-most/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It ought to be a simple question to answer: Is inflation a problem or not? It&#8217;s anything but simple, however. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says he&#8217;s not terribly concerned about inflation, even hinting that he wouldn&#8217;t mind a bit more of it. The Fed&#8217;s job is to keep the economy healthy, which is why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economy May Reverse Course When Fed Buying Ends: Gross</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/02/economy-may-reverse-course-when-fed-buying-ends-gross/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/02/economy-may-reverse-course-when-fed-buying-ends-gross/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The expected end of the Federal Reserve&#8217;s Treasury-buying in June may not bode well for the US economy, with &#8220;dramatic consequences in the reverse direction&#8221; likely, according to Pimco managing director Bill Gross. The Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, DC. Among the likely outcomes when the Fed walks away from the second leg of quantitative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffett: Government Should Cut Back on Economic Stimulus</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/02/buffett-government-should-cut-back-on-economic-stimulus/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/02/buffett-government-should-cut-back-on-economic-stimulus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warren Buffett tells CNBC he thinks the government should reduce its efforts to stimulate the U.S. economy now that the recovery is gradually picking up steam. On Squawk Box this morning, Buffett said that &#8220;the government really did its job there in the fall of 2008&#8243; at the height of the credit panic, but now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Construction Spending decreases in January</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/01/private-construction-spending-decreases-in-january/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/03/01/private-construction-spending-decreases-in-january/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catching up &#8230; the Census Bureau reported this morning that overall construction spending decreased in January compared to December (seasonally adjusted). [C]onstruction spending during January 2011 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $791.8 billion, 0.7 percent (±1.4%)* below the revised December estimate of $797.6 billion. Private construction spending also decreased in January: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Sentiment increases in February</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/25/consumer-sentiment-increases-in-february/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/25/consumer-sentiment-increases-in-february/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final February Reuters / University of Michigan consumer sentiment index increased to 77.5, the highest level in three years. Click on graph for larger image in graphic gallery. This was above the consensus forecast of 75.4. In general consumer sentiment is a coincident indicator. This is still fairly low, but improving.]]></description>
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		<title>Q4 real GDP growth revised down to 2.8% annualized rate</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/25/q4-real-gdp-growth-revised-down-to-2-8-annualized-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/25/q4-real-gdp-growth-revised-down-to-2-8-annualized-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, 4th quarter 2010 (second estimate) The small downward revision came mostly from PCE, imports, and state and local government expenditures (see table at bottom for changes in contribution to GDP). Click on graph for larger image in graph gallery. This graph shows the quarterly GDP growth (at an annual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More States Target Public Employees to Cut Costs</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/18/more-states-target-public-employees-to-cut-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/18/more-states-target-public-employees-to-cut-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans who swept into power in state capitols this year with promises to cut spending and bolster the business climate now are beginning to usher in a new era of labor relations that could result in the largest reduction of power in decades for public employee unions. But as massive public protests and legislative boycotts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke on Global Imbalances</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/18/bernanke-on-global-imbalances/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/18/bernanke-on-global-imbalances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke argued this morning that the Fed is not to blame for inflation in other countries, and that those countries have tools to fight inflation (&#8220;including exchange rate adjustment, monetary and fiscal policies, and macroprudential measures&#8221;). He also argued the global imbalances are back, and countries &#8220;need to allow exchange rates to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it possible to profit from the US inflation?</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/17/is-it-possible-to-profit-from-the-us-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/17/is-it-possible-to-profit-from-the-us-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author-bio: Jack Reed is a financial writer with Oak View Law Group, a trustworthy bankruptcy law firm. He gives advice on debt management plan and writes on a wide range of financial topics with a special focus on debt and bankruptcy issues. Inflation, deflation and stagflation! Didn’t economics teach you that every nation will, at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Eliminate the Mortgage Interest Subsidy Without Raising Taxes</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/14/how-to-eliminate-the-mortgage-interest-subsidy-without-raising-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/14/how-to-eliminate-the-mortgage-interest-subsidy-without-raising-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama unveiled his $3.73 trillion spending blueprint today. It promises $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade through spending cuts and tax hikes, including slashing the mortgage interest deduction for Americans already paying the top tax rates. It’s good that Obama has put the mortgage interest deduction on the table. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Crash Is Hitting Cities Once Thought to Be Stable</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/14/housing-crash-is-hitting-cities-once-thought-to-be-stable/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/14/housing-crash-is-hitting-cities-once-thought-to-be-stable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few believed the housing market here would ever collapse. Now they wonder if it will ever stop slumping. The rolling real estate crash that ravaged Florida and the Southwest is delivering a new wave of distress to communities once thought to be immune — economically diversified cities where the boom was relatively restrained. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summary for Week ending February 12th</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/13/summary-for-week-ending-february-12th/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/13/summary-for-week-ending-february-12th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[• Egpyt From the NY Times: Military Offers Assurances to Egypt and Neighbors From the WSJ: Egypt&#8217;s Military Moves to Clear Tahrir Square From the Financial Times: Egyptian youth groups seek army talks Below is a summary of the previous week, mostly in graphs. • Trade Deficit increased in December Click on graphs for larger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Force Participation Plunges To Fresh 26 Year Low</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/04/labor-force-participation-plunges-to-fresh-26-year-low/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/02/04/labor-force-participation-plunges-to-fresh-26-year-low/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 64.2%, the labor force participation rate (as a percentage of the total civilian noninstitutional population) is now at a fresh 26 year low, the lowest since March 1984, and is the only reason why the unemployment rate dropped to 9% (labor force declined from 153,690 to 153,186). Those not in the Labor Force has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation in China</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/31/inflation-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/31/inflation-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On inflation in China &#8230; • From Keith Bradsher at the NY Times: Inflation in China May Limit U.S. Trade Deficit Inflation is starting to slow China’s mighty export machine, as buyers from Western multinational companies balk at higher prices and have cut back their planned spring shipments across the Pacific. • And from Paul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways to Invest Defensively Today</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/22/ways-to-invest-defensively-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the worst may be behind us, economists predict slow growth, high unemployment and shaky consumer confidence on the road ahead. What strategies might you consider now to help you make the most of your assets? Many investors have already heard the good-news, bad-news story of the “growth recession.” Some economists have implied that things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the next fiscal crisis start in Washington?</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/16/will-the-next-fiscal-crisis-start-in-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I choose to analyze an article that appeared on November 26th 2010 in Washington Post with a very suggestive title:  “Will the next fiscal crisis start in Washington?” The article is written by Sheila Colleen Bair, the Chairman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and is a very serious warning about the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fed&#8217;s Bipolar Mandate</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/16/the-feds-bipolar-mandate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I choose to analyze an article that appeared on November 20th 2010 in Wall Street Journal with a very interesting title:  “The Fed&#8217;s Bipolar Mandate”. The article refers to two of the ultimate goals of central banking monetary policy: full employment of resources and reasonable price stability. The issue that is addressed in this article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed Fires $600 Billion Stimulus Shot</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/16/fed-fires-600-billion-stimulus-shot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I choose to analyze an article that appeared on November 4th 2010 in Wall Street Journal with a very suggestive   title:  “Fed Fires $600 Billion Stimulus Shot”.  The main reason for choosing this article is that the FED’s decision to go forward with a second round of quantitative easing is a very controversial issue that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distinctions between future and forward</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/16/distinctions-between-future-and-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forward is a contract between two parties &#8211; buyer (long position) and seller (short position). At time 0 Seller agrees to deliver X units of asset to Buyer at price Fo per unit at time T. Fo is called Forward price. T is called delivery date or contract maturity date. At T money and assets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe: More &#8220;Successful&#8221; Auctions, Trichet comments on inflation</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/14/europe-more-successful-auctions-trichet-comments-on-inflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few more &#8220;successful&#8221; auctions. Time will tell. Also Jean-Claude Trichet made some cautious statements about inflation in Europe &#8230; and a history and analysis of the euro from Paul Krugman. • From the WSJ: Strong Demand at European Debt Auctions Both Spain and Italy sold the maximum intended amounts they had planned, with Spain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors Act Like Crisis Never Happened</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/11/investors-act-like-crisis-never-happened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investors have very short memories and the major economies of the world are not as strong as the markets would have us believe, Pedro Noronha, fund manager at Noster Capital, said Monday. “Investors are acting as if 2000-2003 and 2007-2009 never happened, and the hot topic &#8216;du jour&#8217; is, once again, emerging markets,&#8221; Noronha wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe Again &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/10/europe-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bloomberg: Germany May Soften Objections to Fund Increase as Bonds Drop Germany may soften its opposition to expanding the region’s 750 billion-euro ($966 billion) rescue facility as Belgium’s political deadlock sent borrowing costs surging and the European Central Bank bought Portuguese bonds. • From AP: Greece borrowing rates hit new record • From Reuters: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It will take years for jobs to come back</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2011/01/07/it-will-take-years-for-jobs-to-come-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sketched a more optimistic outlook for the economy, but said a $600 billion bond-buying program is needed because it will take up to five more years to bring unemployment back to healthy levels. Bernanke told the Senate Budget Committee that there&#8217;s increasing evidence that a &#8220;self-sustaining&#8221; recovery is taking hold. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions for 2011: Year of the Market Timer</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2010/12/31/predictions-for-2011-year-of-the-market-timer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Scott Redler and John Darsie With light trading volume and muted action taking us into the end of the year, it&#8217;s time to start looking forward to 2011. 2010 was certainly an eventful year, one full of natural disasters and oil spills, growing distrust of Wall Street and distaste for government, fervent political and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roubini: &#8216;Housing Prices Can Only Move Down&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://ro-usa.com/2010/12/28/roubini-housing-prices-can-only-move-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to economist Nouriel Roubini, the housing market is in a double dip. And negative Case-Shiller Home Price numbers out today only confirm that unpleasant truth. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty clear the housing market has already double dipped,&#8221; says Roubini. &#8220;And the rate of decline is stronger than in previous months,&#8221; he said of the new housing [...]]]></description>
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