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		<title>American Tax Dodgers No Longer Shielded By Swiss Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/18/american-tax-dodgers-no-longer-shielded-by-swiss-banks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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UBS has admitted that it schemed to defraud the U.S. government by helping Americans hide money in secret Swiss accounts
If your secret Swiss bank account was small enough, you can breathe easier: A landmark deal between the United States and Switzerland to expose American tax dodgers does not call for the Swiss to blow your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universities Hiring Management Consultants To Trim Budgets</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/17/universities-hiring-management-consultants-to-trim-budgets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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When Holden Thorp, the chancellor of the University of North Carolina, was looking for ways to cut the university’s budget, he did what many executives in private industry do — hired a management consultant.
 
The consultant, Bain &#38; Company, came up with recommendations that it said could save the university more than $150 million a year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Americans Looking For Jobs In Other Countries</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/17/more-americans-looking-for-jobs-in-other-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s one way to deal with the brutal U.S. job market: Leave the country.  With the nation&#8217;s unemployment rate at a 26-year-high of 10.2%, more Americans are hunting for, and landing, work overseas, according to staffing companies and executive search firms.
 
Jeff Joerres, CEO of Manpower, the No. 1 U.S. staffing company, says about 500 clients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexicans Sending Money To U.S. To Help Relatives</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/16/mexicans-sending-money-to-u-s-to-help-relatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Sirenia Avendano cries as she speaks of sending money to her sons in the U.S.
During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico. But at times like these, with the American economy out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Hold Half of U.S. Jobs in Wake of Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/16/women-hold-half-of-u-s-jobs-in-wake-of-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.impactlab.com/?p=39811</guid>
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Households that could afford to have one spouse stay home find roles upended by layoffs in male-dominated industries
Jeff and Vicki Grenz celebrated their 25th anniversary on Sept. 12, 2007. The date marked another milestone for the California couple: Ms. Grenz went back to work. 
 
After giving birth to the second of four children, Ms. Grenz, now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Industry Raising Prices In Face Of Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/16/drug-industry-raising-prices-in-face-of-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years.
 
In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Reserve Will Limit Overdraft Fees Charged By Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/13/federal-reserve-will-limit-overdraft-fees-charged-by-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/13/federal-reserve-will-limit-overdraft-fees-charged-by-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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The Federal Reserve released a long-awaited rule Thursday requiring banks and credit unions to get consumers&#8217; permission before charging steep fees to pay debit card and ATM overdrafts.The final rule, which comes amid intense congressional scrutiny of bank overdraft practices, will take effect by July 1, 2010, for new customers and Aug. 15, 2010, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China To Loan Africa $10 Billion</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/08/china-to-loan-africa-10-billion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/08/china-to-loan-africa-10-billion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.impactlab.com/?p=39299</guid>
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao offered Africa $10 billion in concessional loans over the next three years on Sunday, saying China was a &#8220;true and trusted friend&#8221; of the continent and its people.
 
The aid offer is double that unveiled by President Hu Jintao at the last summit in Beijing in 2006, as China aims to boost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Large U.S. Corporations Sitting On Piles Of Cash</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/06/some-large-u-s-corporations-sitting-on-piles-of-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/11/06/some-large-u-s-corporations-sitting-on-piles-of-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.impactlab.com/?p=39129</guid>
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In the summer of 2008, steel giant Nucor decided to raise some cash. It issued new shares of stock and floated some corporate bonds. As financial markets crumbled, the company ignored pleas from some investors and analysts that it buy back shares, which are now selling for about half their peak.

 
Today, as a result, Nucor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Growing Threat of &#8220;Money Mules&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/31/the-growing-threat-of-money-mules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/31/the-growing-threat-of-money-mules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.impactlab.com/?p=38854</guid>
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Don&#8217;t you think a lot more people need to be aware of this? 
Kevin Poulsen at Threat Level has a great item up about the growing menace of &#8220;money mules.&#8221; The term refers to bank customers who&#8217;ve been conned into unwittingly laundering cash that hackers have stolen from business bank accounts. The con and the funny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fund Manager Launches Scheme To Invest in Firms With Women on Top</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/27/fund-manager-launches-scheme-to-invest-in-firms-with-women-on-top/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/27/fund-manager-launches-scheme-to-invest-in-firms-with-women-on-top/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.impactlab.com/?p=38574</guid>
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Cherie Blair is backing The Women&#8217;s Leadership Fund to raise the number of women executives.

A fund that aims to invest in companies with a high number of women in senior roles will be launched next week, with backing from Cherie Blair and the former prime ministers of Canada and New Zealand, Kim Campbell and Jenny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich Germans Demand Higher Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/26/rich-germans-demand-higher-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes. The group say they have more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and social programmes to aid Germany&#8217;s economic recovery.
Germany could raise 100bn euros (£91bn) if the richest people paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less Education Means More H1N1 Concern In The U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/23/less-education-means-more-h1n1-concern-in-the-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Low-income Americans with no more than a high school education appear more likely to get vaccinated against H1N1 swine flu than people with more money and better schooling, according to a poll released on Friday.   A telephone survey of 3,003 U.S. adults conducted by Thomson Reuters found that 49.8 percent of people with lower education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 Incredible Homes From Around the World for Under $50K</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/23/11-incredible-homes-from-around-the-world-for-under-50k/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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The worldwide recession has hit a lot of people hard, but it’s not all doom and gloom. Far from it actually, as is the case with property. As the price of real estate has fallen, there are plenty of bargains to be had all around the world! The villa pictured is in Halcyon Hills, Greece.
No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado Inventor Showcase Supports FISH Food Bank</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/22/colorado-inventor-showcase-supports-fish-food-bank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/22/colorado-inventor-showcase-supports-fish-food-bank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Bring non perishable food or toiletries to ALL DaVinci Institute events
Bare shelves at FISH of Broomfield are startling longtime volunteers.   Donations to the food bank are falling short of what is needed, while the demand keeps rising.  Help us support Broomfield&#8217;s FISH Food Bank by bringing non-perishables or toiletries to the Colorado Inventor Showcase on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airfares Soar For The Holiday Traveler</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/19/airfares-soar-for-the-holiday-traveler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Last year, procrastinators were rewarded when they finally got around to booking flights for holiday travel. Back then, airlines were not prepared for the sharp falloff in travel and offered last-minute deals to fill up empty planes.  This year? Dilly-dallying, even waiting just a few days, could carry a steep price. Fares, though still lower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Numbers Of Americans Landing In Shelters Due To Foreclosure</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/19/growing-numbers-of-americans-landing-in-shelters-due-to-foreclosure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Sheri West lost her home in Cleveland last year and had to sleep in her car
The first night after she surrendered her house to foreclosure, Sheri West endured the darkness in her Hyundai sedan. She parked in her old driveway, with her flower-print dresses and hats piled in boxes on the back seat, and three cherished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finland Makes Broadband a Legal Right For Citizens</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/15/finland-makes-broadband-a-legal-right-for-citizens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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Finland&#8217;s Ministry of Transport and Communications has declared that access to 1MB broadband is a legal right. This is significant as it recognizes that much of what we do in today&#8217;s world requires the net, from renewal of government documents like driving licenses to education to access to health services to engagement in the civic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Meets Recruiting Goal &#8211; First Time In 35 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/14/military-meets-recruiting-goal-first-time-in-35-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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For the first time in more than 35 years, the U.S. military has met all of its annual recruiting goals, as hundreds of thousands of young people have enlisted despite the near-certainty that they will go to war.  The Pentagon, which made the announcement Tuesday, said the economic downturn and rising joblessness, as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airlines Charging Fees Lost More Money Than Airlines That Didn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/14/airlines-charging-fees-lost-more-money-than-airlines-that-didnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>asclepius</dc:creator>
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The US airlines that created the largest, most redonkulous and abusive fees this year lost the most money last quarter. Airlines with low or no fees lost the least.
Accountants have rigged the system. They create a stream to track the ancillary revenue from fees and they look like heroes when they can report they earned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Wave Of Consumer Protections To Help The &#8216;Unbanked&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/13/new-wave-of-consumer-protections-to-help-the-unbanked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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For years, the country&#8217;s makeshift network of payday lenders and check cashers has operated with little competition or federal regulation.  But as the financial crisis sparks a new wave of consumer protections, lawmakers and the private sector alike are training their sights on an industry that caters to the most vulnerable of populations: the estimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Future Generations On A Path To Downward Mobility?</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/12/are-future-generations-on-a-path-to-downward-mobility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Health spending could threaten future living standards
Every generation of Americans should live better than its predecessor. That&#8217;s Americans&#8217; core definition of economic &#8220;progress.&#8221;  But for today&#8217;s young, it may be a mirage. Higher health spending, increasing energy prices and stretched governments at all levels may squeeze future disposable incomes &#8212; what people have to spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pension Fund Crisis Looming</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/11/pension-funds-face-long-recovery-due-to-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/11/pension-funds-face-long-recovery-due-to-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Pension funds for police officers and other public employees have been battered and face a long recovery
The financial crisis has blown a hole in the rosy forecasts of pension funds that cover teachers, police officers and other government employees, casting into doubt as never before whether these public systems will be able to keep their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 50 &#8216;Competing&#8217; States of America</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/06/the-50-competing-states-of-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Nevada is trying to get ahead of California with slogans such as this.
It is supposed to be the United States, but the recession has turned America into 50 competing parts.  As the economy bites, states across America are resorting to dirty tactics to steal business from their neighbours.  At stake are business start-ups and well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expansion Plans For Las Vegas Casinos Folds</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/06/expansion-plans-for-las-vegas-casinos-folds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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After a six-year building frenzy that transformed this city, casino companies are shifting strategies dramatically toward slower growth, paying down debt and cutting back on spending.  Many casino executives don&#8217;t expect to break ground on another major building project in Las Vegas for at least 10 years.
 
&#8220;The old model has been thrown out the window,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Is The World&#8217;s Third Largest Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/05/china-worlds-third-largest-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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China contributed 19.2 percent of the world economic growth in 2007, up from 2.3 percent in 1978, a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said.   It said China tops the world in contribution to the global economic growth.
 
The report was the 18th by the NBS. It showcased the improving international status and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMF Gets New Role Helping The G-20</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/05/imf-gets-new-role-helping-the-g-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is using the IMF&#8217;s annual meeting here to campaign for turning the fund into a kind of global central bank with at least $1 trillion for lending developing nations in a crisis.
 
But a very different reality is taking shape: The IMF is essentially being turned into the staff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investors Racing Back Into The Bond Markets</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/05/investors-racing-back-into-the-bond-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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The swift rally in stock markets this year caught everyone’s attention. But with far less fanfare, a frenzy has been taking place in the market for corporate bonds.  When credit markets practically shut down last year, businesses had to pay huge premiums to raise money from investors, offering returns of 10 to 20 percent to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Big Misconceptions Of Inventors</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/03/the-five-big-misconceptions-of-inventors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Colorado Inventor Showcase
Common misconceptions can cause the best ideas to fall flat &#8211; The economic downturn has forced us to rethink our lives. For many, this means a time of stepping into the workshop to give shape to ideas that have been waiting for the right opportunity to emerge.
While Hollywood likes to portray inventors as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nearly 1 Million Homes Are In The Process Of Foreclosure</title>
		<link>http://www.impactlab.com/2009/10/02/nearly-1-million-homes-are-in-the-process-of-foreclosure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeus</dc:creator>
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Nearly 1 million homes nationwide are in the process of foreclosure, according to a report Wednesday from the U.S. Department of the Treasury covering banks and loan servicers that make up 64 percent of all outstanding mortgages.  As of June 30, there were 992,554 homes in the process of foreclosure, up 15.3 percent from March [...]]]></description>
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