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		<title>Flood of People Set To Walk Away From Their Mortgage</title>
		<link>http://smithsense.com/2008/04/18/walk-aways-the-death-knell-of-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panicked by rising foreclosures, banks and the government are willing to do just about anything to stem the tide. More regulations, rules, bailouts (primarily directed to the banks themselves) may slow the reckoning, but ultimately doesn&#8217;t the market need to do what the market does? We&#8217;ve discussed this before here&#8230; The catalyst to the current [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smithsense.com&amp;blog=90451&amp;post=94&amp;subd=votesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation is our friend!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t subscribe to http://dailyreckoning.com/, you should. It&#8217;s free, funny and a much needed bit of financial common sense. Today, Bill Bonner republished a portion of an old SNL skit. Dan Akroyd pretending to be President Jimmy Carter on Saturday Night Live and 30 years ahead of his time: “President Jimmy Carter: Good evening. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smithsense.com&amp;blog=90451&amp;post=88&amp;subd=votesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Candidates Just Don&#8217;t Get It on Iraq</title>
		<link>http://smithsense.com/2007/10/10/81/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t worry inflation isn&#8217;t a problem&#8230;.except</title>
		<link>http://smithsense.com/2007/08/16/dont-worry-inflation-isnt-a-problemexcept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember having a conversation with my portfolio manager nearly two years ago about inflation.    I was telling him that despite the official numbers, it seemed to be common knowledge that inflation was running rampant.    He agreed with me that the exclusion of Food and Fuel (the only two things you need to buy) from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smithsense.com&amp;blog=90451&amp;post=69&amp;subd=votesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul Gaining Momentum</title>
		<link>http://smithsense.com/2007/07/12/ron-paul-gaining-momentum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<title>Today I Met Tommy Thompson at Starbucks</title>
		<link>http://smithsense.com/2007/06/26/today-i-met-tommy-thompson-at-starbucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tommy Thompson, Former Governor of Wisconsin and Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bush was in Davenport, Iowa today and I had the opportunity to briefly speak with him one-on-one. I slept in this morning, still being a little off schedule from our trip to Utah last week, so I was late picking up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smithsense.com&amp;blog=90451&amp;post=61&amp;subd=votesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul Debate highlights</title>
		<link>http://smithsense.com/2007/06/13/ron-paul-debate-highlights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highlights from the New Hampshire Debate<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smithsense.com&amp;blog=90451&amp;post=58&amp;subd=votesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul for President</title>
		<link>http://smithsense.com/2007/06/06/ron-paul-for-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice compilation of responses from Ron Paul during the Presidential debates.    It&#8217;s nice to see a politician exercise Reason.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smithsense.com&amp;blog=90451&amp;post=57&amp;subd=votesmith&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9/11 Truth: FEMA &amp; NIST&#8217;s &#8220;Pancake Theory&#8221; is a Lie</title>
		<link>http://smithsense.com/2007/02/14/911-truth-fema-nists-pancake-theory-is-a-lie/</link>
		<comments>http://smithsense.com/2007/02/14/911-truth-fema-nists-pancake-theory-is-a-lie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>MIT&#8217;s Jeff King: WTC Collapse Was Controlled Demolition</title>
		<link>http://smithsense.com/2007/02/14/mits-jeff-king-wtc-collapse-was-controlled-demolition/</link>
		<comments>http://smithsense.com/2007/02/14/mits-jeff-king-wtc-collapse-was-controlled-demolition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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