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	<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>[Vancouver Dispatch] The Travis Bickle Effect</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FT’s “The Short View” columnist John Authers is blogging for FT Alphaville from Vancouver at the annual gathering of the CFA Institute:

What was the greatest wealth-creating film of all time? Titanic might be a popular guess, but the answer, according to Columbia University's Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>[Vancouver Dispatch] So if Taleb is so clever&#8230;.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FT’s “The Short View” columnist John Authers is blogging for FT Alphaville from Vancouver at the annual gathering of the CFA Institute:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb ended his speech by predicting that he already knew what the questions would be. And he indeed had a slide ready for the most popular question which was:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>[Vancouver Dispatch] Seeing the Black Swans coming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FT’s “The Short View” columnist John Authers is blogging for FT Alphaville from Vancouver at the annual gathering of the CFA Institute:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is about to address the massed ranks of the CFA Institute, but it seems plenty of them already know that the market is not totally efficient....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>[Vancouver Dispatch] The smart money has spoken</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FT's "The Short View" columnist John Authers is blogging for FT Alphaville from Vancouver at the annual gathering of the CFA Institute:  

The smart money has spoken, and it believes that the UK and the US economies will be negatively affected by the global credit squeeze for more than a year before they can start to recover....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Monday,

- Welcome to Helldorado

- "With food riots in dozens of countries, isn't it time to admit that the whole idea was a giant, if well-intentioned, mistake?"

- Warren Buffett's Vega games.

- "Seeking a new source of revenue, the government has begun thinking of ways to squeeze its golden goose."...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pink Picks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comment and analysis from Monday's FT:

Lina Saigol: M&A can't get no satisfaction
Are the rock stars of M&A banking an endangered species? It's certainly starting to look that way. Ask any chief executive of a large global company to name Wall Street's top dealmakers and they will start to stutter....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cablevision near deal to buy Newsday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Corp has dropped out of the running for Newsday, the Long Island tabloid being sold by Tribune Compay, making Cablevision and the Dolan family the most likely candidates to acquire the paper. News Corp originally submitted a $580m bid for the paper, while Cablevision submitted an offer of $650m....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 04:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Conran, HBOS, to sell restaurant stakes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Terence Conran’s restaurant group, which includes London’s Le Pont de La Tour, could be merged with another high-end restaurant chain, such as Nobu, after the entrepreneur decided to sell his controlling stake. D&D London, the group formerly known as Conran Restaurants, has appointed Goldman Sachs to sell Sir Terence’s 51% stake as well as HBOS’s 20% stake,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 04:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mr T turns to Whitbread</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Robert Tchenguiz up to? One minute everyone is muttering about his solvency and he's been kicked out of the Sunday Times' Guess Rich List. The next he turns up on the register of Whitbread (through contracts for difference) with a stake of 3 per cent - encouraging everyone to believe there is somehow a break-up bid in the offering....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Darling to save British housing market</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This should do the trick. (HT A Slade)

HM TREASURY
PN 44/08                                                             9 May 2008
Strengthening support for home owners in current market conditions

A new £10 million package of measures to support home owners who may be facing difficulties with their mortgage,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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