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    <title>Slate Magazine - Wall Street Self-Defense</title>
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    <description>How to understand Wall Street.</description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:06:31 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Why U.S. tax policy makes saving a sucker's game.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  For the first time since the Great Depression, the U.S. personal savings rate has "gone negative." In 2005 and 2006, U.S. citizens spent more than they made. Economists disagree about just how ominous this is, but they generally agree on why it's happening. Americans are "overspending."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2164050/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Henry Blodget</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:06:31 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The stupid investment that raises your taxes.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Own a mutual fund? If so, a couple of months ago, you probably got a note like this:<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2139671/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>wall street self-defense</category>
  <author>Henry Blodget</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:56:33 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The greatest Wall Street danger of all: you.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  This self-defense guide would not be complete if I did not address the greatest Wall Street danger of all: you.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2110977/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>wall street self-defense</category>
  <author>Henry Blodget</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:11:26 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The real trouble with mutual funds.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Used properly, mutual funds are powerful tools. They allow investors with little money and time to pool resources and benefit from the same services, information, clout, expertise, and economies of scale as large institutions. They also provide immediate diversification, without the hassle and cost of acquiring and managing a portfolio of individual securities.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2110441/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2759" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2759" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
  <category>wall street self-defense</category>
  <author>Henry Blodget</author>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 1 Dec 2004 06:36:01 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The financial media's undisclosed conflict of interest.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  And now we turn to the biases and hazards of the financial media, the filter through which Wall Street is usually viewed. On this topic, I should begin by saying that I am burdened with even more than the usual conflicts. Having once been a popular "It boy" in the financial press—and now being a part-time member of it—I might be tempted to give this constituency a free pass on its (usually unacknowledged) role in encouraging millions of rookies to drink themselves silly at the market party a few years ago. On the other hand, having also been strafed by more than a few reporters and editors, I also have to be wary of sour grapes.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2109465/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Henry Blodget</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:20:50 EST</pubDate>
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