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		<title>Blood Is Boiling</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/12/21/blood-is-boiling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blood started boiling as I read a Dec. 15  article in the New York Times  coming in to work about how executives of three large banks—Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup&#8211;did not show up at the White House for a meeting with President Obama that was to deal with getting these institutions to make more loans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street&#8217;s Marie Antoinette</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/11/23/wall-streets-marie-antoinette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if Goldman Sachs did not already have enough image problems as the biggest pig at the Wall Street trough, it is now the most serious contender for the 2009 Marie Antoinette Award, which recognizes singular achievements in out-of-touch condescension.
Goldman has made no secret of the fact that it has set aside some $16.7 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Big To Fail?</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/10/29/too-big-to-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are in November already, well past the first-year anniversary of the Panic of 2008, and any heat, not to mention action, on financial reform has been reduced to a slow sauté from a flame more suited to stir-fry.  The debate on whether some companies are too big to fail has just kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking The Wolves</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/09/22/asking-the-wolves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit I don’t know any sheep farmers, but even I know that it’s not customary for these folks to ask the wolf for suggestions about protecting the sheep.  Questions about fences and guard dogs are not something about which the farmer would consult with the predator.   This is not horse (or sheep) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fool&#8217;s Gold</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/09/08/fools-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline above describes how I feel about the glimmers of “evidence” being put forth by some economists and commentators that the Great Recession is starting to wind down and could be history by year-end.
All these signs that are noted as signs of hope are on the macroeconomic level, however. And while, literally, it may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quack, Quack</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/08/03/quack-quack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attention span of the American public-never great to begin with unless a story has to do with the death or scandal of a celebrity like Michael Jackson, in which case the appetite is insatiable-is giving public figures a freer and freer ride as time goes by.
One area in which this is becoming increasingly obvious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caveat Emptor</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/07/27/caveat-emptor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hold on to your wallets, folks. 
The stock market has been on a winning streak and Wall Street is starting to feel its oats once again.  Yes, you guessed it, those same people who brought us the biggest mess since the Depression because they convinced us that markets could defy gravity are again banging the drum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ouch!</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/05/ouch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That things are bad is no secret.  But every once in a while, as we slog through this meltdown, a statistic or set of data just pops out and reminds you that no matter how bad you thought things were, they&#8217;re worse.
What did it for me this week was reading through LIMRA International&#8217;s release on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tantalus Redux</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/03/tantalus-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember for a fact, but it seems to me that I&#8217;ve already used the mythic image of Sisyphus to describe the life insurance industry&#8217;s seemingly doomed challenge of getting Congress to approve an optional federal charter.  Just when the king of Corinth gets the stone almost to the top of the hill, down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oliver Tarp</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/05/26/oliver-tarp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 13:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the indelible scenes in literature, and one aided immeasurably by George Cruikshank&#8217;s illustration, is of Charles Dickens&#8217; Oliver Twist in the workhouse going up to the stern man serving the gruel with the unprecedented request, ‘Please, sir, I want some more.&#8217;  
I know it is in another era and seemingly unconnected, but I [...]]]></description>
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