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	<title>Comments on: The Apoplectic Dealmaker</title>
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		<title>by: Ed Kim</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/03/27/11850/the-apoplectic-dealmaker/#comment-16105</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here is an article that writes about the hard working folks at Bear who had lost their retirement funds but in a more insightful and polite way:

http://riskyops.blogspot.com/2008/03/unwitting-victims-of-bear-sterns.html]]></description>
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		<title>by: The Epicurean Dealmaker</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/03/27/11850/the-apoplectic-dealmaker/#comment-16102</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now, Paul, my Nana always said a little schmaltz is what makes the soup taste good.  Besides, my lawyers told me I had to put in something nice in order to avert an obscenity suit from the FCC.  At least the title is truth in advertising, no?

Ta for now.]]></description>
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		<title>by: zz_james</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/03/27/11850/the-apoplectic-dealmaker/#comment-16032</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I'm not an investment adviser either but I don't think you need the IMC to work this one out, your eggs and one basket etc....]]></description>
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		<title>by: Dave Heasman</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/03/27/11850/the-apoplectic-dealmaker/#comment-16031</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It's a particularly American thing to tie your retirement saving into the shares of the company you work for. I think there's an accountng frig which allows the company to pretend it's contributing towards your pension while it doesn't really cost them anything. 
 Folks, I'm not an investment adviser (though I got the IMC last year) and this is not investment advice - this is a *very bad idea* and only a securely rich person should even think about it.]]></description>
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