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		<title>Trading Tax? You Bet!!!!</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/trading-tax-you-bet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just know these idiots are going to manage to fuck this up too&#8230;.
A trading tax is by far the best idea proposed for the financial markets in the last twenty years.  If implemented properly, it will reduce our deficits, restore confidence in our capital markets, all but eliminate stock price  manipulation, neutralize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=634&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gold is about to get Whacked Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s about 1 PM Friday September 18, and you&#8217;ve got about three hours left to take your profits on gold, or short it.  By the time you pick out your eye boogies Monday morning gold will be down significantly.  If it&#8217;s not, I&#8217;m swearing off writing about the shiny yellow metal.
Not to brag, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=624&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google decides to be Evil After All</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/google-decides-to-be-evil-afterall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the overwhelming success of &#8220;Click-fraud&#8220;, the wunderkinds at Google have decided to start dabbling in censorship, obstruction of justice and treason, as youtube user Cspanjunkie recently found out.   So much for &#8220;do no harm&#8221;&#8230;.

I would rather drink paint than watch C-SPAN.  But I thank God that other people are watching for things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=588&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tin-Foil Hat America (the Eskimo Test)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Bail posted a video today of &#8220;911 Truthers&#8221; disrupting Bill Maher&#8217;s show. I&#8217;m a big fan of the Daily Bail (DB) because I see it&#8217;s primary focus as, &#8220;Seek Justice First&#8220;.  Everyday DB sifts through mountains of material to bring the best (and funniest) examples of  how our great nation has completely lost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=580&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giant Leaps</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/giant-leaps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apollo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bretton Woods]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hundred years from now, someone may ask why America was allowed to run up astronomical deficits.  I think a large part of the answer may lay in a small step…As putting a man on the moon became a reality; the US dollar became a nebulous concept, backed primarily by the implied threat of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=559&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Anniversary!!! &#8211; Market Manipulation</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/happy-anniversary-market-manipulation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well not really,  but it was one year ago today that manipulation got taken to a whole new level.
Before the Oil traders got the rug pulled out from under them&#8230;.
Before the dollar began an uptrend&#8230;.
When Lehman Brothers was still more than $20&#8230;..
This happened to the KOL ETF:
And no one noticed&#8230;..
Fourth of July week is typically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=545&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the Fuckin&#8217; Conspiracy Theorist Now?</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/whos-the-fuckin-conspiracy-theorist-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wowee!
You could actually smell the urine eminating from the CNBC set today when California representative Darrell Issa accussed the Federal Reserve of a &#8220;coverup&#8221; regarding it&#8217;s roll in last fall&#8217;s Merrill/BoA merger.
Jack-hole Steve Liesman asked, &#8220;Do you mean an illegal cover-up?&#8221;Detective Erin noticed that this was an attack on Bernanke&#8217;s credibility.
The Federal Reserve has a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=533&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was THAT supposed to make us Feel Better?</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/was-that-supposed-to-make-us-feel-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Thread]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a disturbing display of bipartisan head-up-your-assery,  Tim Giethner laid out his &#8220;plan&#8221; for regulatory reform before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday.  Before explaining what is so terrifying about all this, some history:
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never been a regulator, for better or worse. And I think you&#8217;re right to say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=524&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Report &#8211; Bailout Nation</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/book-report-bailout-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Dammit!
This weekend I finally got the chance to settle down with Barry Ritholtz&#8217;s new book Bailout Nation. It&#8217;s no secret that I am a huge fan of his blog, The Big Picture.  No voice resonates with both Wall St. and Main St. more powerfully.  Before I tell you what the book is, I&#8217;ll tell you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=515&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Hankenstein?</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/saint-hankenstein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[stocks finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sucks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know that TV appearances by uber-boob Steve Moore have proven to most of us  that the only thing the Wall Street Journal represents is the senseless slaughter of trees.  But from time to time, the shit gets so deep, real journalists take exception (no, not me stupid).
Comedy ensued when Matt Taibbi, author of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=507&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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