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		<title>How we&#8217;re still stuck in a Berlin Wall mindset</title>
		<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/220848</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[East and West Germany were the ultimate economic science experiments, a government controlled economy next to a free market, the free market emerging victorious. But is this black and white look at economics what got us into this GFC mess?]]></description>
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		<title>RBA lifts growth forecasts as economy on the up and up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/rba-lifts-growth-forecasts-as-economy-on-the-up-and-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/rba-lifts-growth-forecasts-as-economy-on-the-up-and-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Stevens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank has lifted its growth forecasts for the Australian economy and made it clear that interest rates will rise as the economy resumes its expansion.]]></description>
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		<title>Insider trading: 14 more, including Octopussy, arrested on Wall St</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/insider-trading-14-more-including-octopussy-arrested-on-wall-st/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/insider-trading-14-more-including-octopussy-arrested-on-wall-st/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Galleon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insider trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raj Rajaratnam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street's biggest insider trading fiasco is growing, with another 14 arrested overnight in charges involving $US33 million in illegal profits. Will this be the scandal to define the noughties' boom and bust?]]></description>
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		<title>Rupert&#8217;s pay-up model for newspapers on the back-burner</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/ruperts-pay-up-model-for-newspapers-on-the-back-burner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/ruperts-pay-up-model-for-newspapers-on-the-back-burner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid all the throwaway lines and bullish spin, Rupert Murdoch and his executives always bury some truths in their comments about quarterly profits. Yesterday's quarterly profit announcement was no exception.]]></description>
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		<title>Why increased worker productivity is bad for the economy</title>
		<link>http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/nov2009/pi2009115_469402.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/nov2009/pi2009115_469402.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worker productivity in the US has <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&#038;sid=a5NmIOAgsKkc">jumped dramatically by 9.5%</a> in the last quarter. Employees working harder for less hours, just what the boss wants in a recession, right? Except, morale is down, productivity isn't sustainable and workers are simply covering their colleagues who've been fired.]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs named CEO of the Decade</title>
		<link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/steve_jobs/2009/index.html</link>
		<comments>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/steve_jobs/2009/index.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Fortune</em> has named Apple honcho Steve Jobs as its CEO of the Decade, and has gone all-out in its celebration of all-thing-Steve. Here's <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/steve_jobs/2009/timeline.html">the interactive timeline</a>, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/technology/0911/gallery.steve_jobs_testimonials.fortune/index.html">celebrity tributes</a> and the obligatory <a href="http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/fortune/0906/gallery.steve_jobs_career_timeline.fortune/index.html">photo gallery</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger bites Roo with Melbourne-Brisbane flights</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2009/11/05/tiger-bites-roo-adds-melbourne-brisbane-flights/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2009/11/05/tiger-bites-roo-adds-melbourne-brisbane-flights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cityflyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jetstar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Qantas Cityflyer route is being munched on by Tiger, reports <b>Ben Sandilands</b>: this time, it's the Melbourne to Brisbane route, with the low-fare airline offering flights up to three times daily from 28 March.]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re kidding if we think the GFC scars won&#8217;t last</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/were-kidding-if-we-think-the-gfc-scars-wont-last/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/were-kidding-if-we-think-the-gfc-scars-wont-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David McWilliams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Simon Nasht</b> goes on a world tour of economic carnage caused by the global financial crisis, from Wall Street's trading floor to abandoned factories in China. Where does the world go to from here? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>News Corp revenue slumps 4.1%</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/news-corp-revenue-slumps-4-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/news-corp-revenue-slumps-4-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch loves to act positive, so his 2009/2010 first quarter profit report was upbeat, focusing on the 9% rise of the consolidated operating income. Except, it's the cost reductions and cuts that you should pay attention to.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government has lowered expectations on labour market  success</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/government-has-lowered-expectations-on-labour-market-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/government-has-lowered-expectations-on-labour-market-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Stevens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its panic the government has over-stimulated the economy and that fiscal mistake is going to have adverse consequences, writes <b>Sinclair Davidson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the leverage, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/keen-its-the-leverage-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/keen-its-the-leverage-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[house prices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ <b>Steve Keen</b> may have lost his bet with Rory Robertson on house prices, but he's still right on the fundamentals, he argues: the crisis would have occurred long ago and been far less severe if governments and central banks hadn't attempted to rescue the system from its own follies.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Political economy: US Fed says we&#8217;re saved</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/political-economy-us-fed-says-were-saved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/political-economy-us-fed-says-were-saved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Fed says economic activity has picked up... but household spending is sluggish, interest rates will remain the same, and the economy is still shedding jobs. No surprises here, says <b>Henry Thornton</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney/Melbourne by plane or bust: Airbus vision kills the fast train</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/sydneymelbourne-by-plane-or-bust-airbus-vision-kills-the-fast-train/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/sydneymelbourne-by-plane-or-bust-airbus-vision-kills-the-fast-train/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[airbus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion of a Very Fast Train for the Melbourne-Sydney corridor has been shot down by new plans from Airbus to fly Very Large Planes between the two cities, because the entire cost, and risk, is funded by the privately owned airlines and airports.]]></description>
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		<title>Another year, another Telstra rave fest</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/another-year-another-telstra-rave-fest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/another-year-another-telstra-rave-fest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the whole experience was very frustrating for shareholders who wanted to hold the board to account, the AGM was a PR success for Telstra, with minimum scrutiny of the board's performance.]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s &quot;judo diplomacy&quot; on ore still kicking</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/chinas-judo-diplomacy-on-ore-still-kicking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/chinas-judo-diplomacy-on-ore-still-kicking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[China’s Vice-Premier Li Keqiang recent trip down under only serves as a salutary reminder of the increasingly sophisticated yet tough approach by the PRC in its dealings with weaker nation states such as Australia, writes <b>Tony Lamond</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>15 podcasts that will make you richer</title>
		<link>http://www.businesspundit.com/15-podcasts-that-will-make-you-richer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.businesspundit.com/15-podcasts-that-will-make-you-richer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<em>Business Pundit</em> has compiled a list of 15 top podcasts on finance, investing, marketing and more, to help get to know money better and, hopefully, learn how to make a whole lot more of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate blogging: Telstra tries again</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2009/11/04/corporate-blogging-telstra-trys-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2009/11/04/corporate-blogging-telstra-trys-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor Cook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After its <a href="http://mumbrella.com.au/telstra-closes-nowwearetalking-com-au-9274">last disastrous attempt</a>, Telstra is having <a href="http://exchange.telstra.com.au/">another crack</a> at social media. Full marks for effort, says <b>Trevor Cook</b>, but it's still little more than a bit of gloss on a dull, besuited corporate empire. ]]></description>
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		<title>Kohler: How the collapsing US$ will damage Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Climate-talks-hit-the-dollar-doldrums-pd20091105-XGRKZ?OpenDocument&src=sph</link>
		<comments>http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Climate-talks-hit-the-dollar-doldrums-pd20091105-XGRKZ?OpenDocument&src=sph#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For Australia, an international emissions trading scheme in Copenhagen may prove an economic disaster, thanks to a dropping US dollar a and rising Aussie dollar. It's happening around the world and it's making a Copenhagen deal unlikely.]]></description>
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		<title>Crap you don&#8217;t need: the most stupid products ever invented</title>
		<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/the-15-stupidest-products_n_342316.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/the-15-stupidest-products_n_342316.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A definitive <em>HuffPo</em> list of the 15 stupidest products available for sale. Which is the most inane? Tinkles the toilet cat that hides under your toilet seat ready to scare your guests? Or the phallic shaped boob separator?]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Moore’s Capitalism: the cage match</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/11/04/michael-moores-capitalism-the-cage-match/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2009/11/04/michael-moores-capitalism-the-cage-match/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism: a love story]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s bound to be one of the most controversial of the season’s cinematic offerings: Michael Moore’s <em>Capitalism: a love story</em>. But is it a muddied low-brow critique or the seminal turning point in the popular appreciation of a system past decay? You decide!]]></description>
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		<title>Political economy: In Australia&#8217;s recovery, the winner is Rudd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/political-economy-in-australias-recovery-the-winner-is-rudd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/political-economy-in-australias-recovery-the-winner-is-rudd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/political-economy-in-australias-recovery-the-winner-is-rudd/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A strong economy will allow Kevin Rudd again to campaign as a fiscal conservative, as well as the messiah who protected Australia from world depression, correction, severe downturn, writes <b>Henry Thornton</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Interest rate rise small change for mug punters</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-rise-small-change-for-mug-punters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-rise-small-change-for-mug-punters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/interest-rate-rise-small-change-for-mug-punters/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's interest rate rise was, in monetary terms, roughly what we spent yesterday per head losing on the Cup. And if we just offset the cost of all the hats and champagne with the lost working hours spent on office sweeps...
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		<title>Forget mortgage holders, every rate rise hurts business</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/forget-mortgage-holders-every-rate-rise-hurts-business/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/forget-mortgage-holders-every-rate-rise-hurts-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/forget-mortgage-holders-every-rate-rise-hurts-business/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is the media so fixated on mortgage holders? More concerning is how much power the Big Four banks now hold over the economy, and how SMEs are struggling to get finance. ]]></description>
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		<title>All-American hero Buffett has a $26.6b rails bet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/all-american-hero-buffett-has-a-26-6b-rails-bet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/all-american-hero-buffett-has-a-26-6b-rails-bet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/all-american-hero-buffett-has-a-26-6b-rails-bet/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Warren Buffett has revealed a deal that defines his optimism in America's future, spending $26.6b to buy out America's second biggest railroad.]]></description>
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		<title>High fliers at the core of the Telstra shareholder revolt</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/high-fliers-at-the-core-of-the-telstra-shareholder-revolt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/high-fliers-at-the-core-of-the-telstra-shareholder-revolt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/high-fliers-at-the-core-of-the-telstra-shareholder-revolt/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Telstra's "shareholder revolt" has nothing to do with mum and dad investors: the criticism over the Telco's structural separation is all coming from a  clique of some of Australia's wealthiest people and the big banks.]]></description>
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