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		<title>What the Bernanke Confirmation really means</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/what-the-bernanke-confirmation-really-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, everyone knows that the US Senate confirmed Ben Bernanke for a second four-year term by a cloture vote of 77-23 (the &#8220;actual&#8221; vote was a sham, I&#8217;ll talk about later).  The vote really wasn&#8217;t so much about Bernanke as it was a very basic intelligence test of our elected officials.  They failed miserably.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=803&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exactly how Dumb are We? (illustrated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, words fail me.
First, we fell for this:

  
Then this:

  
What&#8217;s next?

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		<title>Throwing the Bullshit flag on Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[….. here’s one thing I know and I just want to make sure that this is off the table. The Senate certainly shouldn’t try to jam anything through until Scott Brown is seated. People in Massachusetts spoke. He’s got to be part of that process.
~President Barack Obama 1/20/2010
Meanwhile&#8230;&#8230;..
On January 28, 2010 (eight days later), without Scott Brown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=783&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke&#8217;s confirmation &#8220;in the bag&#8221;?  and Since when does this Administration Tell the Truth?</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/bernankes-confirmation-in-the-bag-and-since-when-does-this-administration-tell-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Move along, you damn populists.  Nothing to see here.  Everybody loves Bernanke except a couple of cranks.  Go home.  Nice try.  Better luck next time.
Really?
more&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;
By my count, 52 Senators have yet to state their intentions to the voters and if the Obama administration is actually telling the truth, this would be the first time, by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=779&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke Vote:  The Good, the Bad and the Dickless (list &#8211; 38 are AWOL!!!!!)</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/bernanke-vote-the-good-the-bad-and-the-dickless-list-38-are-awol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Thanks to Sonic Ninja Kitty for providing updated, more organized info:  John Coryn (R- TX) is no longer AWOL; He has come out against Bernanke!  Please check out Sonic&#8217;s blog   for a fresh look at everything from Central Banking to Pilates.
The Real Time Economics  blog at the Wall Street Journal, headed by Phil Izzo and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=773&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Senate try to &#8220;Jam&#8221; Bernanke through on Friday?</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/will-the-senate-try-to-jam-bernanke-through-on-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.. here&#8217;s one thing I know and I just want to make sure that this is off the table. The Senate certainly shouldn&#8217;t try to jam anything through until Scott Brown is seated. People in Massachusetts spoke. He&#8217;s got to be part of that process.
~President Barack Obama 1/20/2010
Yet, in other news&#8230;..
US Senate may vote on Bernanke as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=768&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Bernanke Supporters,  Who’s Your Daddy?  (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/hey-bernanke-supporters-who%e2%80%99s-your-daddy-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world.&#8221;      
~ President Barack Obama  12/10/2009      
(You got that right, chief)    
&#8220;Once you get rid of integrity, the rest is a piece of cake”     
~J. R. Ewing     
As you probably know, the Senate Banking Committee approved the nomination of Ben Bernanke to serve a second term as Chairman of the Federal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=734&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Bernanke must be Stopped: A Call for Action</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/ben-bernanke-must-be-stopped-a-call-for-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The pending reappointment of Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve is the non-story of the Century, and I find this terrifying.  Propaganda of his alleged &#8220;success&#8221; has been crammed in every orifice of the American people by the rich and shameless (yet relatively few believe it).   This is truly the time for action, unless you really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=697&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Bernanke &#8211; Patron Saint of Moral Hazard ®</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/ben-bernanke-patron-saint-of-moral-hazard-%c2%ae/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools&#8221;  
~ Herbert Spencer    


 Original artwork by Bleu Turrell of Turrellart.com  (cheesy photoshop by me). 
You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d understand the symbolism behind my own art.  Well, it&#8217;s not actually my art, but still, you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d know what the components (of which there are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=691&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Bunning throws another Perfect Game</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/jim-bunning-throws-another-perfect-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;I will do everything I can to stop your nomination and drag out this process as long as I can.  We must put an end to your and the Fed&#8217;s failure and there is no better time than now.  Your Fed has become the creature from Jekyll Island.&#8221;
~ Senataor Jim Bunning  December 3, 2009
One person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=680&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My apology to Tim Geithner</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/my-apology-to-tim-geithner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner&#8217;s been getting slapped around like a ping-pong ball lately.  Hatin&#8217; on him has become as perennial as turkey and stuffing.  As much as I&#8217;d like to join the dogpile, there&#8217;s something I gotta do first&#8230;..
My old man was 100% purebred, stubborn Irish blockhead. When he made up his mind about something, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=642&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency Broadcast Warnings?</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/emergency-broadcast-warnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d say on average, I catch a test of the Emergency Broadcast once every couple months or so&#8230;so it strikes me as odd that I&#8217;ve caught three (two on TV, one on the radio) in the last twelve hours.  The world&#8217;s not supposed to end for three more years.  I was curious if anyone else [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=655&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 sucks Ass</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/windows-7-sucks-ass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: 12/29/2009  &#8211; Since the original post, I have had many more problems with W7 that I have not had the chance to write about in detail yet (this is not a compu-geek blog).  Security concerns (like responding to a ping&#8230;.WTF?),  networking issues and the failure of system restore and backup features to name a few&#8230;This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=648&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/gold-is-about-to-get-whacked-again/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/tin-foil-hat-america-the-eskimo-test/</link>
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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>
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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>
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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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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>
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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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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong with This Picture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My four year old got this one:Sadly, our regulators won&#8217;t.
From the final minutes of trading today.  Now keep in mind, this is the SPY, not some penny stock.  If the SPY is having liquidity issues, we&#8217;re in for some very interesting days.
And I was trying to be nice&#8230;.
I&#8217;ve got 14 million reasons to be kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com&blog=6054621&post=488&subd=acrossthestreetnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re thinking about buying Gold now &#8211; Think again (please)</title>
		<link>http://acrossthestreetnet.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/if-youre-thinking-about-buying-gold-now-think-again-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 04:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McHugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The answers to life&#8217;s problems aren&#8217;t at the bottom of a bottle, they&#8217;re on TV!”
~Homer Simpson
I guess it was morbid curiosity that made me put on CNBC  for the first time in a couple months (and that&#8217;s all I got to say about that).
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