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		<title>Independence Day</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/independence-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ilene9</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 4th!  This is a great commentary from Phil, posted on the main site but presenting important ideas to share with everyone. 

Independence Day

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs Decline</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/jobs-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comment on the Jobs data, courtesy of Mish.  The numbers reported underestimate the actual job losses, and Mish explains why.
Jobs Decline 6th Consecutive Months
 

Before taking a look at the monthly jobs data, let&#8217;s take a look at weekly claims. The US Department of Labor is reporting Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims continue to rise.
Seasonally Adjusted
In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Still All About Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update, courtesy of Bespoke Investment Group:
It&#8217;s Still All About Oil


Earlier in the week we highlighted a chart of the intraday performance of oil and the S&#38;P 500 last week, which showed how each up (or down) move in oil was met with an opposite move in the S&#38;P 500.&#160; Looking at the relationship between oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons for Optimism</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/note-from-scott-grannis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Grannis is an investment advisor and writes for 13D Research.&#160; This is his response to an email discussion among friends on the state of the economy &#8211;&#160;an optimistic view and I think we could use a little of that.
Reasons for Optimism - note from Scott Grannis
No, and this isn&#8217;t even close to a depression. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade Idea: DUG</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a trading idea, courtesy of my friend,&#160;stock-trader&#160;Allan, who posts various ideas&#160;almost daily on his blog.
DUG
&#160;

The table above represents the top ten (by weight) holdings of the Dow Jones US Oil &#38; Gas Index. As a group, they collectively sport some very weak Daily and Weekly charts. Can&#8217;t short all ten of these big cap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Oil Companies Don&#8217;t Drill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m excited to be posting this article because it&#8217;s probably both the first article courtesy of Mark Thoma, Economist&#8217;s View, (Thank you, Mark!), and he&#8217;s quoting my tax law professor, Prof. Theodore Seto from about 15 years ago at Loyola.  How fun - first time for everything!  And no, Prof. Seto won&#8217;t remember me, but I used to hang out after class to ask him my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financials Near a Bottom?</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/3309/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;This article is courtesy of Bill Luby, of Vix and More.&#160;&#160;
Getting Tougher to Push Financials Lower from Here? 

Halfway through today&#8217;s session, my screen is once again filled with red, as the indices look as if they are poised to take a run at yesterday&#8217;s lows.

From a sector perspective, the picture is considerably muddier, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Downward Spiral In Jobs&#160;
Courtesy of Mish. 
The New Your Times is reporting Deepening Cycle of Job Loss Seen Lasting Into &#8217;09.
Plummeting home prices have in recent months eliminated jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, from bankers and real estate agents to construction workers and furniture manufacturers.



&#8220;The labor market is clearly deteriorating, and it&#8217;s highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Farm Payrolls Preview</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/non-farm-payrolls-preview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Lien,&#160;Chief Currency Strategist of DailyFX.com, discusses the Non-Farm Payrolls for June being released tomorrow.&#160; She&#8217;s predicting&#160;the negative number expected will worse than currently anticipated.
Non-Farm Payrolls Preview: Job Losses Could Top 100k
Non-farm payrolls for the month of June are due for release this Thursday, but with the Federal Reserve no longer looking to cut interest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Stocks - Cash Crunch?</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/solar-stocks-cash-crunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This article was provided to subscribers of Envoy Global Research on June 12, 2008, and posted on Seeking Alpha today.&#160;&#160; If anyone here has any special knowledge in this industry, and can add any comments/discussion, please email me (ilene@philstockworld.com) and I&#8217;ll post&#160;your thoughts&#160;here.&#160;&#160;I don&#8217;t think&#160;we can post comments through the&#160;Phil&#8217;s Favorites section yet.&#160;&#160;- Ilene&#160;&#160;
Will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notable Calls on SNDK</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/couple-notable-calls-on-sndk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple quick notes on SNDK from Notable Calls.
Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK): More colour from Amtech
Amtech on Sandisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) (Focus List BUY): SSD Adoption is Being Constrained by Cost/Benefit Equation. Based on our checks during the recent AmTech Asia Bus Tour, we believe that SSD demand and adoption rates are being temporarily delayed by price, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Stocks Feeling Heat</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/solar-stocks-feeling-heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was written by Eric Savitz, Tech Trader Daily at Barron&#8217;s Online, on Solar Stocks and how badly they are doing lately.&#160;
Solar Stks Feel The Heat: Report Spain Plans Subdidy Cut
Excerpt:&#160; Solar stocks are again feeling the heat from a report that Spain plans sharp reductions in subsidies for solar power. On Friday, a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing with the Bear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dancing with the Bear
Courtesy of Ockham Reseach.
Since hitting an all time high of 14279.96 on October 11th of last year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) will close the second quarter of 2008 officially having entered bear market territory&#8211;enduring a 20% decline. The broader market index&#8211;the Standard &#38; Poors 500&#8211;is off 18.4% from its high on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Down Bear Stearns</title>
		<link>http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/3302/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an&#160;excerpt of a compelling, detailed account of &#34;The Collapse&#34; of Bear Stearns, published in August&#8217;s Vanity Fair, written by Bryan Burrough.&#160; It starts off reading like a murder mystery. &#160;(Click here for the full article.)&#160;&#160;

Bringing Down Bear Stearns
&#34;On Monday, March 10, the rumor started: Bear Stearns was having liquidity problems. In fact, the maverick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Brain Lies to You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from a NY Times article,
Your Brain Lies to You 
By SAM WANG and SANDRA AAMODT 
&#8220;FALSE beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do not despair</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone despairing?&#160; Okay, don&#8217;t.&#160; Here&#8217;s some marginally good news for those with long positions not sufficiently hedged recently.&#160; Courtesy of Minyanville, question by Prof. Sedacca, and answered by Prof. Jason Goepfert.&#160; - Ilene
Minyan Mailbag: The Ruins of June
Prof. Goepfert, 
What has happened historically after months this lousy, particularly during secular bears? 
Thank you, 
Prof. Sedacca [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trading Idea: VLO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a trading idea, courtesy of Daniel Jones of Option Notions, along with a summary of his recent trades. Today&#8217;s pick is a call spread on VLO.
UPDATE:  GM LONG, SPREAD
Last week we mentioned that the market was almost past the technical &#8220;Panic point&#8221; that we saw at the 11,800 Dow Industrials point.  The &#8220;left field&#8221; loop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Morning Tidbits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Notable Calls,
Early Morning Tidbits:

&#160;
- Citigroup adds Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to Top Picks Live list based on what presents itself as a highly favorable Risk-Reward outlook. Based on extensive channel checks, they believe that GOOG&#8217;s Q2 results are well on track to meet their estimates ($3.82B revenue/$4.73 EPS), despite recessionary headwinds.
- JP Morgan reits Overweight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Chip Losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some more interesting information from Bespoke Investment Group:
Investors Losing All Their Blue Chips


Excerpt:&#160; &#34;So called blue-chip stocks have struggled mightily over the last year.&#160; The total loss in market cap from their 52-week highs for stocks in the S&#38;P 100 (largest 100 S&#38;P stocks by market cap) is now $2.5 trillion.&#160; Below we highlight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All About Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the chart that&#8217;s part of this brief note, courtesy of&#160;Bespoke Investment Group&#8217;s
It&#8217;s All About Oil
If any one tries to tell you differently, all you need to do is show them the chart below.&#160; As last week&#8217;s trading illustrates, every time oil went up, stocks went down, and every time oil pulled back, the [...]]]></description>
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