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	<title>Comments on: The Troubled American</title>
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 		<title>Comment on The Troubled American by: Poogue Master</title>
		<link>http://blog.xiesland.net/?p=240#comment-3326</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>I honestly don't pay much attention to economics so I don't have a specific viewpoint. That being said, I still have that feeling in the back of my mind that there &lt;b&gt;will&lt;/b&gt; a depression, unless something remarkable happens. :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>I honestly don&#8217;t pay much attention to economics so I don&#8217;t have a specific viewpoint. That being said, I still have that feeling in the back of my mind that there <b>will</b> a depression, unless something remarkable happens. <img src='http://blog.xiesland.net/wp-images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />
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 		<title>Comment on The Troubled American by: David</title>
		<link>http://blog.xiesland.net/?p=240#comment-3325</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Well, the stocks are going crazy, with rapid ups and downs, and the economy, in such a way that there actually might be the Depression of the 21st Century, or whatever they may want to call it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Well, the stocks are going crazy, with rapid ups and downs, and the economy, in such a way that there actually might be the Depression of the 21st Century, or whatever they may want to call it.
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 		<title>Comment on The Troubled American by: Poogue Master</title>
		<link>http://blog.xiesland.net/?p=240#comment-3323</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>...Well, it may seem grim, but I don't think it will lead us into a depression. We've already had at least two: Long and Great Depression. Our economy is stable (for a lack of a better word) for now.?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>&#8230;Well, it may seem grim, but I don&#8217;t think it will lead us into a depression. We&#8217;ve already had at least two: Long and Great Depression. Our economy is stable (for a lack of a better word) for now.?
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 		<title>Comment on The Troubled American by: David</title>
		<link>http://blog.xiesland.net/?p=240#comment-3322</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>By FDIC report, there were 117 American banks failed so far this year. - 2008.10.09</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>By FDIC report, there were 117 American banks failed so far this year. - 2008.10.09
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 		<title>Comment on The Troubled American by: Poogue Master</title>
		<link>http://blog.xiesland.net/?p=240#comment-3321</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>...That's never good.

But I suppose the economy has to turn the other way at some point? :twisted:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>&#8230;That&#8217;s never good.</p>
	<p>But I suppose the economy has to turn the other way at some point?  <img src='http://blog.xiesland.net/wp-images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif' alt=':twisted:' class='wp-smiley' />
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 		<title>Comment on The Troubled American by: David</title>
		<link>http://blog.xiesland.net/?p=240#comment-3320</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Another failing bank - Wachovia (4th largest bank in US) will disappear. To be brought out by either Citibank or Wells Fargo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Another failing bank - Wachovia (4th largest bank in US) will disappear. To be brought out by either Citibank or Wells Fargo.
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