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		<title>C-SPAN Interview of Michael Lewis on The Big Short</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Overfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When did Wall Street become the dumb money? Why did traders who lost on their bets still earn millions (sometimes tens of millions) in income? Author Micheal Lewis (Liars Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side) explains the answers to both of these questions in his best-selling book, The Big Short. He writes so that even his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quantitative Easing Explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Overfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever wondered about Quantitative Easing, how it works, and how it affects us, just watch this 7-minute video: Quantitative Easing Explained in under 7 minutes in a way anyone can understand. My favorite quotes: &#8220;Why do they call it quantitative easing, why don&#8217;t they just call it printing money?&#8221; &#8220;Because printing money is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Year in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Overfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is always interesting to go back and read what I wrote last year because often I’ve forgotten! Plus it is humbling to realize how imperfectly we see the future, which looked so clear at the time. My favorite quote for 2010 is: “Prediction is very hard, especially about the future.” &#8211; Yogi Berra Let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foolish Quotes from &#8220;Experts&#8221; Who Should Have Known Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Overfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you an expert if you make mistakes?  Are you an expert if you make BIG mistakes? Are you still an expert if you miss the biggest financial bubble in world history? Let&#8217;s consider these questions while reviewing some quotes from the so-called &#8220;experts&#8221; just prior to the 2008 financial collapse and the start of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Year in Review</title>
		<link>http://www.davidoverfield.com/599/2009-year-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Overfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I share with you my 2010 predictions, we should first take a look back at the prior year’s predictions and the actual results. The main thing I keep in mind is humility. It is extremely difficult to predict the future in regard to specific targets and time ranges. Instead it is much easier to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Bernanke Fooled by The Bubble?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.davidoverfield.com/196/ben-bernanke-fooled-by-the-bubble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Overfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bubble economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[real estate bubble]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible that the great equity bubble of 2007 could fool the person best positioned to detect it? Calculated Risk states in his post &#8220;A Comment on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke&#8221; that Ben Bernanke misread the real estate bubble as Fed Governor, then as Chairman of the Presidential Council of Economic Advisers, and later [...]]]></description>
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