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		<title>Important Update</title>
		<link>http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/important-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend we moved the blog to a new server.  We're still a Wordpress blog, but we're running our own server which will let us bring video, podcast and some other planned changes.

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		<title>Don&#8217;t Want No Short-Short . . . Rule</title>
		<link>http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/dont-want-no-short-short-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>talented1</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/?p=325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Um . . . are you f-ing kidding me with this? What, stocks in America can only go up? &#8220;NO SHORTING ALLOWED&#8221;. Ok&#8211;it&#8217;s like putting the whole market on LEXAPRO. Only in America . . . . Posted in Save the Planet, Stocks, The Economy Stupid<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=covertlyobvious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3847548&amp;post=325&amp;subd=covertlyobvious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stock Market Close &#8211; September 18, 2008</title>
		<link>http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/stock-market-close-september-18-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soup</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dow Jones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dow Jones Industrial Average +3.86% Nasdaq +4.78% S&#38;P 500 +4.33% Russel 2000 +6.99% Posted in Stocks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=covertlyobvious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3847548&amp;post=323&amp;subd=covertlyobvious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More negative for the consumer &#8211; the latest Gallup poll</title>
		<link>http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/more-negative-for-the-consumer-the-latest-gallup-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Economy Stupid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[confidence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow! What a shocker to think that over the last few days &#8211; Lehman, Merrill Lynch, WaMu and AIG -  consumer confidence has taken a nose dive. Per Gallup&#8217;s recent poll, conducted September 15-17,  78% of Americans now have a negative view of the economy, up eight percentage points in just two days. I wonder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=covertlyobvious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3847548&amp;post=318&amp;subd=covertlyobvious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O Brother(s) Where Art Thou?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>talented1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Funny]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Economy Stupid]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/?p=316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a former sister of the Lehman Brothers or &#8220;The Bros&#8221; as I like to call them, I am, like a lot of people shocked that this powerhouse has now vanished over night. I have so many memories&#8211;and I&#8217;m sure you do to: memories of Bear, Merrill, Morgan, and so it goes. If I show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=covertlyobvious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3847548&amp;post=316&amp;subd=covertlyobvious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Jobless Claims &#8211; when the trend is not your friend</title>
		<link>http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/us-jobless-claims-when-the-trend-is-not-your-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soup</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Save the Planet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning the U.S. Labor Department released its weekly initial jobless claims data &#8211; as one would expect things are not getting better. What&#8217;s worse however is the data came in weaker than expected. Recent posts here at CO have talked about how the data point to some not so good things down the road [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=covertlyobvious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3847548&amp;post=312&amp;subd=covertlyobvious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>S&amp;P 500 Monthly Close Change from 3 year max</title>
		<link>http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/sp-500-monthly-close-change-from-3-year-max/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>covertlyobvious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, one more for tonight from CalculatedRisk:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=covertlyobvious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3847548&amp;post=306&amp;subd=covertlyobvious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Linkfest &#8211; The Sky is Falling Edition</title>
		<link>http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/linkfest-the-sky-is-falling-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>covertlyobvious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another edition of the linkfest for your reading pleasure:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=covertlyobvious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3847548&amp;post=296&amp;subd=covertlyobvious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stock Market Tanks</title>
		<link>http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/stock-market-tanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Soup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dow Jones Industrial Average  -4.06% Nasdaq -4.94% S&#38;P 500 &#8211; 4.71% Russel 2000 &#8211; 4.82%<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=covertlyobvious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3847548&amp;post=297&amp;subd=covertlyobvious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hell in a hand basket II</title>
		<link>http://covertlyobvious.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/hell-in-a-hand-basket-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>covertlyobvious</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[T-Bill anyone?  No seriously, anyone?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=covertlyobvious.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3847548&amp;post=285&amp;subd=covertlyobvious&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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