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	<title>The Curious Capitalist &#187; Barbara Kiviat</title>
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		<title>The Curious Capitalist &#187; Barbara Kiviat</title>
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		<title>The job market: slowly getting less bad</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/12/03/the-jobs-market-slowly-getting-less-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/12/03/the-jobs-market-slowly-getting-less-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobless claims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the fifth week in a row, the number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits has dropped, according to the Labor Department. The number of initial claims came in at 457,000 for the week ending Nov. 28. That's the lowest level since September 2008. (The data are seasonally adjusted, which tries to account for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7588&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another day, another upbeat housing statistic</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/24/another-day-another-upbeat-housing-statistic/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/24/another-day-another-upbeat-housing-statistic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Case-Shiller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home prices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning's happy housing news: homes are now worth what they were in the fall of 2003! Okay, so maybe that's not the cheeriest way to frame the most-recent S&#38;P/Case-Shiller data, though it does, I think, preserve an important piece of context.
If you want to have a glass-half-full sort of day, then a better way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7533&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Home sales surge. Time to party?</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/23/home-sales-surge-time-to-party/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/23/home-sales-surge-time-to-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[existing-home sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAR]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The pace of existing-home sales was 10.1% higher in October than it was in September, according to figures out today from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). That jump puts sales back where they were in February 2007 and is sure to bring renewed optimism about the state of the housing market. In September we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7513&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Goldman Sachs tries to make amends</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/18/goldman-sachs-tries-to-make-ammends/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/18/goldman-sachs-tries-to-make-ammends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lloyd Blankfein]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein is sorry. Speaking yesterday at a conference sponsored by Directorship magazine (which has named him CEO of the Year), Blankfein expressed remorse for the firm's role in helping to bring the country to the brink of financial collapse:
"We participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7474&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>I want my FHA! (My FHA annual actuarial study, that is)</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/04/i-want-my-fha-my-fha-annual-actuarial-study-that-is/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/04/i-want-my-fha-my-fha-annual-actuarial-study-that-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bailouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Housing Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FHA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's been a lot of chatter recently about whether or not  the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is going to need a bailout. The FHA insures—but does not write—home loans, and thanks to the housing bust, the agency has had to dip a little further into its reserves than it probably would have liked to. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7410&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do we need a czar for college tuition?</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/03/do-we-need-a-czar-for-college-tuition/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/03/do-we-need-a-czar-for-college-tuition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cost of college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chronicle of Higher Education reports* that $50,000 is quickly becoming the typical cost for a year at one of the nation's elite colleges:
Fifty-eight private colleges now charge at least that much for tuition, fees, room, and board, a Chronicle analysis of College Board data shows. Last year only five colleges did.
Talk about sticker shock. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7369&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>In which I continue to take a stand against home-buyer tax credits</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/02/in-which-i-continue-to-take-a-stand-against-home-buyer-tax-credits/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/02/in-which-i-continue-to-take-a-stand-against-home-buyer-tax-credits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it looks like we could be getting a fresh home-buyer tax credit any day now. What better way to fix a bubble caused by too much home-ownership than to encourage more home-ownership? 
This time around, you don't even have to be a first-time buyer to take the credit. Nor do you have to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7355&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Members of Congress who want to pass health-care reform should sneeze every time they talk about it</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/02/members-of-congress-who-want-to-pass-health-care-reform-should-sneeze-every-time-they-talk-about-it/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/02/members-of-congress-who-want-to-pass-health-care-reform-should-sneeze-every-time-they-talk-about-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health-care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sneezing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's a little advice for folks pushing health-care reform: sneeze more.
A study due out in the journal Psychological Science finds that when people have just witnessed a sneeze, they're more likely to want to fund federal health initiatives.

Last May, University of Michigan psychologists Spike W. S. Lee and Norbert Schwarz sent an experimenter out to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7347&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>A four-year-old buys a house, and other first-time home-buyer tax credit tricks</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/23/a-four-year-old-buys-a-house-and-other-first-time-home-buyer-tax-credit-tricks/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/23/a-four-year-old-buys-a-house-and-other-first-time-home-buyer-tax-credit-tricks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first-time home buyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax credit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From a Treasury Inspector General's report to Congress:
Through July 25, 2009, we identified more than 580 taxpayers younger than 18 years of age who claimed almost $4 million in First-Time Homebuyer Credits.  The youngest taxpayers receiving the Credit were four years old.  Contract law generally exempts children under the age of 18 from being bound [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7288&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The downside of job interviews over Skype</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/21/the-downside-of-job-interviews-over-skype/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/21/the-downside-of-job-interviews-over-skype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job interview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skype]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm getting a number of e-mails and calls about this story on how companies are using Skype to interview job candidates over the web. All the comments so far have been positive—video chatting is a whole lot cheaper than flying out for an in-person interview, and who doesn't like to save money. The more I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7251&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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