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		<title>How the SEC Can End the Deceitful Practice of &#8220;Window Dressing&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are certain widespread practices that have existed in the financial industry for many years that seem to have no purpose but to defraud the retail investor that I’ve often wondered how they can still be legal. Window dressing is one such practice and as we approach the end of the second quarter 2009, now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/06/a-proposal-to-the-sec-to-end-the-deceitful-practice-of-end-of-the-quarter-window-dressing/</link>
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		<title>From Free Markets to Absolute Power: The Warped Views of “Bank Speak”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most valuable lesson I learned in grad school a long time ago was about how media filters prevent truth from reaching the mass population regarding a large and varied number of topics. 
During research for my Public Policy graduate thesis, I discovered that politicians often granted legislation misleading names or purposefully released misleading sound [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/06/from-free-markets-to-absolute-power-the-warped-views-of-%e2%80%9cbank-speak%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>The Strange Inconsistencies Behind the $134.5 Billion Bearer Bond Mystery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s yet another huge financial story that has been virtually blacked out by the US financial media. Although on the surface, this story appears to be a non-event, if we consider some of the released facts about this case, you will understand why I consider it to be a huge story.  On June 8th, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/06/the-strange-inconsistencies-behind-the-134-5-billion-bearer-bond-mystery/</link>
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		<title>Is MartketWatch the CNBC of the Online World?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of months ago, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show made numerous headlines when he ran a spoof of the terrible financial journalism displayed by major financial network CNBC.  In his spoof, basically Mr. Stewart pointed out prediction after prediction after prediction by CNBC financial experts and global financial executives that carried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/06/is-martketwatch-the-cnbc-of-the-online-world/</link>
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		<title>Can Rising Stock Markets Serve as Confirmation of a Crashing Economy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though I still believe a significant global stock market correction, led by US markets, is on the horizon, what if, against all odds, the US stock market continues to rise? Massive intervention into capital markets today by every major world government has created an bizarre situation in which investors in the major global stock market [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/06/can-rising-stock-markets-serve-as-confirmation-of-a-crashing-economy/</link>
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		<title>Telltale Signs a Significant US Market Correction Won&#8217;t Happen in the Immediate Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As has been the case for a while now, in regard to financial stories reported in the media, a breaking story is reported that is often followed by a completely contradictory story just several weeks later. The latest example of this is the following. On May 6, Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group analyst Paul Miller stated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/06/telltale-signs-a-significant-us-market-correction-wont-happen-in-the-immediate-future/</link>
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		<title>The Real US Federal Debt Has Ballooned to More than $100 Trillion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Currently, the US federal debt stands at more than $100 trillion.  According to the recent US stock market rally, the fact that the US government is not only bankrupt but has put every four-person family in America on the hook for more than $1.45 million does not merit concern. Of course, in reality, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/05/us-federal-debt-has-ballooned-to-more-than-100-trillion/</link>
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		<title>Why the Current US Dollar Chart Tells a Drastically Different Story than the World’s Financial Pundits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that I’ve been able to accurately predict the significant stages of this ongoing crisis for over 3 years has nothing to do with intelligence or my ownership of a crystal ball.  It merely has to do with the fact that I have understood from the very beginning of this crisis that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/05/why-the-current-us-dollar-chart-tells-a-drastically-different-story-than-the-world%e2%80%99s-financial-pundits/</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Comparing Today&#8217;s Markets to Markets From October 15, 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I am analyzing how a conscious effort to track history can serve as an  intelligent guideline for future investment behavior. More than 18 months ago, I wrote an article on my investment blog, the Underground Investor, called “The Coming Investment Crisis: Beware the Turbulence that Lies Beneath the Surface”. Since my commentary in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/05/lessons-learned-from-comparing-todays-markets-to-markets-from-october-15-2007/</link>
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		<title>The Underground Investor™ Database Archives</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/05/the-underground-investor-database-archives/</link>
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		<title>FBI Investigates SEC Employees for Insider Trading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a story that originated out of London today. In any event, it ties in nicely with my How the Financial Elites Enronized America story, so I’m just reposting it below for a quick review. It should be a self-evident truth that an honor system among regulators that have consistently failed to regulate is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/05/fbi-investigates-sec-employees-for-insider-trading/</link>
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		<title>Warnings From the President. This is a Bear Market Rally.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, well not the current President, but If you listen to our President from three decades ago, he would tell you that we are in a bear market rally that is going to come to an end very soon.  It’s irrelevant to me even should US markets rally for several more days or several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/05/lessons-from-the-president-this-is-a-bear-market-rally/</link>
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		<title>US Bank Shares &#8211; The Pump is Almost Over, Get Ready for the Dump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple of weeks, bank shares have grown in share price faster than a steroid-induced bicep. There has not been much reported by the media in terms of negative news about the US financial industry from Ben Bernanke, bank CEOs, or even the Federal Reserve, even though the bank stress tests resembled a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theundergroundinvestor.com/2009/05/us-bank-shares-the-pump-is-over-get-ready-for-the-dump/</link>
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