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		<title>Men have thingies, too</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2012/03/16/men-have-thingies-too-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Rick Santorum, contraception functions as a “license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” I don’t know how “things” are supposed to be where he comes from. But here on planet Earth we at least expect our political candidates to articulate their beliefs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=662&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nightmare on Plutonomy Street</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2010/11/21/nightmare-on-plutonomy-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stillironic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ginny's Op-Ed Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ajay Kapur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citigroup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freddy Krueger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the movie Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger is one POS. An unconvicted killer, he’s burned alive. He takes his revenge by invading the dreams of people enjoying the trite amenities of Elm Street. His MO is killing characters who appear in these dreams. Which turns the dreams into nightmares. Plus—and this seems more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=636&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finance Theory or Outfoxing a Guppy</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2010/11/08/finance-theory-or-outfoxing-a-guppy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stillironic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ginny's Op-Ed Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance history]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re in the mood for a few laughs, I recommend looking into financial history. Actually, investigating the origin of the word “finance” itself is worthy of a smirk or two. You have “fin,” a body part that keeps sharks on target for the kill. And “nance,” a slow-growing shrub, whose branches can be, quote, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=610&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monster Under the Bed (with Apologies to the Financially Literate)</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2010/11/03/monster-under-the-bed-with-apologies-to-the-financially-literate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stillironic</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that monster that lived under the bed when we were little? If we got out of bed he was certain to latch onto our legs and yank us under. Where we’d be tortured, or eaten, or worse. What we didn’t know was we’d still have to deal with the monster as adults. He has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=591&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism? Socialism? Pass the Salt Shaker</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2010/10/26/capitalism-socialism-pass-the-salt-shaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stillironic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could those zany Tea Partiers be any more fixated on socialism? As if it’s a communicable disease like the Ebola virus and a black hole in space. All wrapped into one tidy but lethal package. I’ve been in countries the Tea Party considers socialist. And when I stepped onto the soil I’m almost certain I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=558&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Bankers: Zombies in Disguise</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2010/10/17/beware-of-bankers-zombies-in-disguise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stillironic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it with all the finance geeks, government hacks, and media sluts? Why is it only a few geniuses around here understand who—or what—the true villains of the ongoing financial crisis are. Yes, ongoing. The weather may look sunny and clear. But the middle class continues to shrink. The fabulously rich continue to grow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=543&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure Exposure</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2010/10/05/foreclosure-exposure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stillironic</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[croquet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time to look in on some of our big mortgage lenders, JP Morgan Chase, GMAC, and Bank of America. They’ve temporarily stopped processing home foreclosures. What’s the matter with these guys? Don’t they realize they have the best job in the world? For a dickhead. I mean here’s a case of bankers pretending to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=524&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Income Disparity or Too Many Anchovies on the Pizza (Don’t Blame Pluto)</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2010/09/25/income-disparity-or-too-many-anchovies-on-the-pizza-don%e2%80%99t-blame-pluto/</link>
		<comments>http://stillironic.com/2010/09/25/income-disparity-or-too-many-anchovies-on-the-pizza-don%e2%80%99t-blame-pluto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stillironic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know how you feel about anchovies, but I find one torn up on a slice of pizza to be quite tasty. But I don’t want to eat a whole tin. That would probably make me throw up. Which is kind of how I feel about the super filthy rich. One exceedingly rich person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=499&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Derivatives or the lint in your pants pocket, Part 3 (the last)</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2010/09/17/derivatives-or-the-lint-in-your-pants-pocket-part-3-the-last/</link>
		<comments>http://stillironic.com/2010/09/17/derivatives-or-the-lint-in-your-pants-pocket-part-3-the-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stillironic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ginny's Op-Ed Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney, Bedlam, and Feng Shui We’ve cleared up what lint is derivatives are. Now it’s time to understand why we the taxpayers need to wrestle control of the gazillion-dollar derivatives market from the big investment banking firms. Of particular concern are Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, which in 2008, as we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=488&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Derivatives or the lint in your pants pockets, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://stillironic.com/2010/09/11/derivatives-or-the-lint-in-your-pants-pockets-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://stillironic.com/2010/09/11/derivatives-or-the-lint-in-your-pants-pockets-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stillironic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ginny's Op-Ed Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aquarius Dwarf galaxy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Swaps and Derivatives Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[options]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swaps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Options, Swaps, and Sweet Nothings Options These guys are tricky bastards. They’re contracts giving you the right to buy the asset hiding behind the green door. Except you’ve got three green doors: the exercise your option to buy door, your trading the option out door, and your let the option expire door. If you want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stillironic.com&#038;blog=10642509&#038;post=479&#038;subd=stillironic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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