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	<title>The Curious Capitalist &#187; bailouts</title>
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		<title>The Curious Capitalist &#187; bailouts</title>
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		<title>Time to panic again! Or, on second thought ...</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/27/time-to-panic-again-or-on-second-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was too busy smashing potatoes (with shallots, butter and cream), falling asleep in front of the TV with the Giants-Broncos game on, and other such important matters Thursday to pay attention to the global market freakout occasioned by Dubai World's announcement that it was going to stop paying its debt bills for six [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7557&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The small-business recession isn&#039;t over yet</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/12/the-small-business-recession-isnt-over-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs economist Jan Hatzius writes that bad times among small businesses, which are harder for government statisticians to measure than the doings of big businesses, probably means the economy is growing slower than the feds say it is:
We have argued that the weakness of the small business sector may mean that real GDP in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7462&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poor, poor Robert Benmosche</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/11/poor-poor-robert-benmosche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/?p=7453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The news that AIG CEO Robert Benmosche is thinking of leaving (now he says he's staying; see update below) because he's sick of dealing with those mean, mean federal regulators—especially the ones who want to cap his and his employees' pay—raised two conflicting thoughts:
1) The federal government isn't very good at running corporations.
2) Who the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7453&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Fink says we&#039;re already dealing with too-big-to-fail</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/11/10/larry-fink-says-were-already-dealing-with-too-big-to-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BlackRock's Larry Fink, who you'd have to say has emerged as one of the winners from the financial crisis, says we shouldn't worry all too much about too-big-to-fail financial firms staying too big to fail. That's because the feds are already shrinking them. "They are doing that by reducing leverage," he said at a breakfast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7449&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Kiviat</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<title>Are finance professors to blame for the financial crisis?</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/28/are-finance-professors-to-blame-for-the-financial-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I'm supposed to go speak at Columbia Business School tonight on the topic, "Should finance professors take the blame for the financial crisis?" I just realized a little while ago that I'd better start, um, figuring out an answer. Happily, Jeremy Siegel and Martin Wolf have taken to the pages of the WSJ and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7325&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Brian Griffiths of Fforestfach (and Goldman Sachs) says his paychecks make you rich</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/22/lord-brian-griffiths-of-fforestfach-and-goldman-sachs-says-his-paychecks-make-you-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get the feeling that Brian Griffiths' words at a panel discussion in London Tuesday might go down in history as some kind of let-them-eat-cakish landmark. Said the economist, a former Margaret Thatcher adviser who was raised to the peerage in 1991 and has been helping make ends meet since then by toiling away as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7279&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#039;Too Big to Fail&#039; too big to read?</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/21/is-too-big-to-fail-too-big-to-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stole a copy of Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail from his book party last night. I mean, I don't think it was really theft. But there were few enough copies on display that it felt a bit illicit. It also felt heavy. The book is 600 pages long with the index, notes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7250&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Fuld&#039;s fundamental strategic mistake</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/20/dick-fulds-fundamental-strategic-mistake/</link>
		<comments>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/20/dick-fulds-fundamental-strategic-mistake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, been working on my column this morning. Now I can't figure out how to embed this week-old Bird &#38; Fortune video from FT.com. It's long, but highly entertaining, and while it's already been making the rounds for a while I want to make sure nobody misses it. A sample:
There is a rule that property [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7242&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lloyd Blankfein: What&#039;s good for Goldman Sachs is good for America</title>
		<link>http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/16/lloyd-blankfein-whats-good-for-goldman-sachs-is-good-for-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fortune put on a breakfast with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein this morning at Bobby Van's Steakhouse a couple doors down from the Time &#38; Life Building. First came coffee and pastries, and then a conversation between Blankfein and Fortune editor Andy Serwer.
It was pretty entertaining, and Blankfein came across as more of a mensch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com&blog=5320466&post=7219&subd=timecuriouscapitalist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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