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		<title>Talking Markets: Jim Rogers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global investor Jim Rogers thinks that the world is heading for an economic depression unless political leaders finally grasp the nettle of the debt burden they have accumulated over the past decade. He is not optimistic about the outcome. Bankrupt countries such as Greece need to default &#8211; and soooner rather than later. The longer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=1054&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Mobius on the Eurozone Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does Mark Mobius see the outlook for investors in the light of the ongoing crisis in the Eurozone? You can find out by listening in to my latest podcast interview, which can now be downloaded from the Independent Investor website (link). Dr Mobius, who next year celebrates 25 years running the Templeton emerging markets funds business, with $40 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=1035&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are Company Profits So High?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting note today from Andrew Smithers, the always stimulating independent economic strategist in London. He tackles the question: why are corporate profits as strong as they are at the moment &#8211; and can they be sustained? His analysis suggests that profits in the United States are three times the level they would be if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=1029&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forecasts Be Damned</title>
		<link>http://iidaily.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/forecasts-be-damned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If someone told you that the end of the world was coming tomorrow, and the day passed without incident, would you be inclined to believe the same person the next time they came out with a piece of radical advice? I doubt it.  Yet one of the wonders of markets and economics is how quickly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=995&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good News, Bad News For Equities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why have I mentioned more than once the possibility of a strong stock market rally coming soon? There are several factors at work here. The normal end of year experience of markets finishing strongly is one of them. The oversold technical position in many markets, allied to very low trading volumes, negative headlines in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=988&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Eurozone Crisis: Not Insoluble</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equity Markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Eurozone crisis is a political mess that can only be solved by a political solution, which you don&#8217;t need a degree in politics to see is not proving easy, given the variety of interested parties involved &#8211; 17 eurozone member countries, 10 other EU member states and the governments of every other major economy on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=984&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Views on Europe</title>
		<link>http://iidaily.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/views-on-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles Dumas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back from a two-day trip to Paris, it is no surprise to find that the markets are still obsessing about Europe. In the absence of elections political change is rarely a straightforward business, as this week&#8217;s tortuous attempts to form new governments in Italy and Greece are demonstrating. The markets remain volatile, but as yet nothing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=821&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bye Bye, Berlusconi</title>
		<link>http://iidaily.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/bye-bye-berlusconi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word now is that Berlusconi is on his way out in Italy, as I predicted on this blog a week ago. Assuming that happens, as I am sure it will, it means that we have lost two credibility-shorn prime ministers in the troubled countries of the Eurozone in just 24 hours. In this long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=816&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those Damned Voters&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://iidaily.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/those-damned-voters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I say there was a need to take these markets one step at a time yesterday? Make that one day at a time. The unexpected decision yesterday by the Greek Prime Minister to call for a referendum on the eurozone package clearly introduces a whole new element of uncertainty into the outlook for financial assets. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=806&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nose Out Of Book</title>
		<link>http://iidaily.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/nose-out-of-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Davis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several weeks immersed in completing the book I have been writing on the investment methods of Sir John Templeton, to be pubished in the spring next year, this week sees the return of this blog to active duty. The past three months in the financial markets have been amongst the strangest and most volatile I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iidaily.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10221882&amp;post=790&amp;subd=iidaily&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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