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		<title>Why Higher Income Taxes are Helpful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Congress begins to turn towards 2010 and the tax issues that accompany it, I have a short opinion piece on why I believe that the highest earning Americans should face higher taxes:
The economy is still in dire straits and 2010 is around the corner marking time for the debate over income taxes to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Consumer&#8217;s Lack of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fiscalfrenzy.com/?p=1013</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The stock market keeps going up.  Its now about to hit 10,500 for the first time since early September 2008.  As we continue the V-shaped recovery, there is one thing thats missing: JOBS.  We&#8217;ve discussed how the only reason people still aren&#8217;t hiring is because they lack any faith in the future of the economy.  Today, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this a Jobless Recovery, and More: 3/09/09-11/09/09</title>
		<link>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/jobless-recovery-30909110909.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fiscalfrenzy.com/?p=984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are exactly 8 months in from the Dow bottom that everyone now refers to as the economic nadir of this recession and things are more convoluted than ever before, due to the worsening job situation. Today, we are building on our last look half a year into the recovery in the month of October, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Recovery Seven Months In: 3/09/09-10/09/09</title>
		<link>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/the-recovery-seven-months-in-30909.html</link>
		<comments>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/the-recovery-seven-months-in-30909.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fiscalfrenzy.com/?p=903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are exactly 7 months in from the Dow Bottom that everyone now refers to as the economic nadir of this recession.  What we hope to make a now monthly feature of this site, now continues, building on our last look half a year into the recovery in the month of September.  The key questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Markets End On Down Note</title>
		<link>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/markets-end-down-note.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joshlev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a five day winning streak the markets finally turned negative to end the week. The Dow fell 20 points and the Nasdaq fell 3 as a steep drop in the price of oil pulled the markets into negative territory. The markets, despite finishing down, closed well above their lows of the session when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Recovery Six Months In: 3/09/09-9/09/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fiscalfrenzy.com/?p=767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are exactly 6 months in from the Dow Bottom that everyone now refers to as the economic nadir of this recession and consequently we are 6 months into an economic recovery.  The key questions are, how is the recovery holding up, will it continue, will it be jobless, and will it be widespread.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsletter: Health Care Reform&#8217;s Prospects</title>
		<link>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/newsletter-health-care-reforms-prospects.html</link>
		<comments>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/newsletter-health-care-reforms-prospects.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama has finally decided to go all in on health care reform with a huge speech to a joint session of congress on Wednesday.  Aides are saying that he lay out what he wants out of health care reform, but beyond that little is known about the speech.  There are several paths that health reform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polling and Economic Fortunes</title>
		<link>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/polling-and-economic-fortunes.html</link>
		<comments>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/polling-and-economic-fortunes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When looking to see where our economic prospects lie, an interesting thing to look at is polling. Gallup.com polls daily on several different economic indicators incluing job prospects, consumer confidence and others. You can check them all out at Gallup but there&#8217;s some things we wanted to make note of. 
The job market has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession: Official</title>
		<link>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/recession-official.html</link>
		<comments>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/recession-official.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ As Fiscal Frenzy has been saying for months now, the economy is in a recession.  Today the NBER(National Bureau of Economic Research) said the US economy has been in a recession since December 2007, a year ago from today.  This news confirmed what many had already believed and the Dow dropped almost 700 points [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low Confidence Low Markets</title>
		<link>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/low-confidence-low-markets.html</link>
		<comments>http://fiscalfrenzy.com/blog/low-confidence-low-markets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dow Jones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A report showing low consumer confidence(the fifth lowest it has ever been) and a drop of more than 15% in home prices in the past year.  The markets did not like this news and within 30 minutes the Dow was down in triple digits and it looked like a long and red day for stocks.  After [...]]]></description>
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