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		<title>The Underground Investor™ Database Archives</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/07/the-underground-investor-database-archives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A New Investment Paradigm for the 21st Century]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve moved the archives to the bottom of the page but they are still here. Of course you may always access the archives by clicking on the listed categories in the left hand column of this page as well. Learn the best ways to invest money during the developing dollar crisis, possible stock market crash, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds of Millions May Face Starvation in the Next 5-10 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/05/hundreds-of-millions-may-face-starvation-in-the-next-5-10-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 09:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis, Dollar Crisis, & Recession Proof]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 2-½ years ago when I predicted a global stock market crash on my investment blog, even foreshadowing the duration and the severity of the impending crisis by naming it the Peak Investment Crisis, many called my predictions ludicrous and far-fetched. In that article, I specifically stated that the declines in global stock market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Financial Elites Enronized America</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/05/how-the-financial-elites-enronized-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 12:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, when almost every major US bank manufactured profits out of thin air by changing their regular reporting periods to exclude months in which huge losses occurred, by changing their definitions of bad debt, and by revaluing their assets at fantasy land valuations that they will never receive in the open market courtesy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Lack of Transparency in World Gold Markets Translates into Poor Analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/04/how-the-lack-of-transparency-in-world-gold-markets-leads-to-poor-gold-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis, Dollar Crisis, & Recession Proof]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every precious metals trader that has analyzed gold prices over the past several decades knows that a common ploy the IMF and leading global Central Banks utilize to suppress gold prices in the COMEX futures markets is to announce plans to sell gold despite their total lack of commitment to executing their announced plans. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gaping Hole in the Deflation Argument, Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/04/the-gaping-hole-in-the-deflation-argument-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/04/the-gaping-hole-in-the-deflation-argument-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part I of “The Gaping Hole”, I stated that “the valid argument against massive future inflation is the fact that this bailout money must eventually end up not just in the monetary base but in the monetary supply.”  When money in the monetary base is converted to monetary supply then this indeed causes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How We Can Save Our Country &amp; Prevent Big Banks From Ruining America Forever</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/04/how-we-can-save-our-country-prevent-big-banks-from-ruining-america-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent comments of many on our nation’s top banking executives have been so consistently disingenuous that the subject of this article has been long overdue for some time now. On March 20, 2009, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit issued a memo to all Citigroup employees in which he stated, “Our industry has recently seen a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Surprises This Earning Seasons Will Create Very Bad Future Surprises</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/04/any-good-surprises-this-earning-seasons-will-lead-to-very-bad-future-surprises/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/04/any-good-surprises-this-earning-seasons-will-lead-to-very-bad-future-surprises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With FASB demonstrating no backbone this Thursday and voting to change mark-to-market rules with not a single dissenting vote (demonstrating that not a single FASB board member has the guts to stand up for what is right), the Big Deception is now in play for earnings season which starts tomorrow on April 7th.  Despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Investment Crisis Has Simplified the Search for Solid Investment Advice</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/03/why-the-investment-crisis-has-simplified-the-search-for-solid-investment-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/03/why-the-investment-crisis-has-simplified-the-search-for-solid-investment-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is a silver lining to this crisis, it is that most of the investment scams for the past two decades have now been exposed and the search to find solid investment guidance has genuinely become easier.  The dirty secret of Wall Street and many commercial investment firms was that their hiring processes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Reasons Why the Obama Administration Will Not Solve this Crisis by the End of 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/03/8-reasons-why-the-obama-administration-will-not-solve-this-crisis-by-the-end-of-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[17 March, 2009
In response to US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s assertion that this global crisis will bottom before year-end, here are 8 reasons why the Obama administration will not pull America and the world with it, out of its current economic throes.  For one, every major response of the Obama administration to counter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Executive Order 12631 Effectively Ended the Era of Free Markets?</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2008/05/has-executive-order-12631-effectively-ended-the-era-of-free-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2008/05/has-executive-order-12631-effectively-ended-the-era-of-free-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 01:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 11, 2008
There has been a lot of speculation for many years now that during extreme financial crises, the U.S. Federal Reserve and other entities intervene in free markets from behind the scenes and do not allow free market forces to operate.  There are usually two schools of thought that dominate this hotly contested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Anomalies in U.S. Stock Markets &#8211;  Proof of Free Market Intervention?</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2008/05/recent-anomalies-in-us-stock-markets-proof-of-free-market-intervention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2008/05/recent-anomalies-in-us-stock-markets-proof-of-free-market-intervention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 03:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 11, 2008
In Part I of this two-part article, “Has Executive Order 12631 Effectively Ended the Era of Free Markets?” I discussed publicly made statements by various officials of the U.S. Federal Reserve that indicated they would resort to free market intervention and manipulation “if necessary”.  Since many of those statements have been made, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the Turbulence that Lies Beneath the Surface, Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2007/10/beware-the-turbulence-that-lies-beneath-the-surface-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2007/10/beware-the-turbulence-that-lies-beneath-the-surface-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 9, 2007 &#8211; Those of you that have been reading my blog and newsletters for a while know that I view the vast majority of government released economic reports as nothing but manufactured, cooked reports designed to generate whatever confidence governments need from their citizens to keep the economy and stock markets stable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Federal Reserve Decision on Interest Rate Cut on September 18th Will Have Little Long-Term Positive Effect on Stock Markets</title>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2007/09/us-federal-reserve-decision-on-interest-rate-cut-on-september-18th-will-have-little-long-term-effect-on-stock-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2007/09/us-federal-reserve-decision-on-interest-rate-cut-on-september-18th-will-have-little-long-term-effect-on-stock-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.S.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 15, 2007 -
Everybody is waiting now for this Tuesday’s decision by the Feds to finally learn how much the Feds slash interest rates. This decision is truly not that important for a number of reasons. (1) The Feds have already slashed interest rates in a couple of manners.  One, by already injecting billions [...]]]></description>
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