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		<title>Start here&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Financial Reality posted an article with a quote from Economic Cures Are Like Booze for an Alcoholic: Caroline Baum
The Baum commentary addresses a number of financial and economic issues in a very readable article. She points a finger at several guilty parties. She explains the current mess and how we got here. It sheds some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Economics, 17th Edition by Paul A. Samuelson and William D. Nordhaus is the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; in Economics textbooks to the point where nobody even questions the basic premises. Originally written in 1948, and revised periodically, it is now in its 17th edition. Think about the real sciences &#8211; Physics, Chemistry, and how much has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alamedalearning.com/independence/2009/the-other-economics/</link>
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		<title>Money work &#8211; month end record keeping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday is the end of the month, so I do the record keeping. That means
downloading the transactions from all the accounts &#8211; checking,
savings, visa, brokerage &#8211; into Quicken. All but one can be done
electronically. Some start from the bank site and select download.
Others can be &#8220;Updated&#8221; from Quicken so Quicken logs into the bank as
me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alamedalearning.com/independence/2009/money-work-month-end-record-keeping/</link>
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		<title>cats and deere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don Coxe thinks basics like food and energy are the places to be. For food, he suggests farm-equipment. A friend was telling me that her financial adviser had her back in Caterpillar CAT. She has been in and out of the stock over the years, each time with significant returns. She is sure that this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alamedalearning.com/independence/2008/cats-and-deere/</link>
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