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	<title>Big Jim Donovan! &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>CitiGroup Downsizes to VillageGroup?</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/11/17/citigroup-downsizes-to-villagegroup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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CitigroupW told a group of employees today that the company will be cutting 53,000 jobs worldwide in the coming quarters as it continues to right itself in the wake of staggering losses from a massive amount of ever-worsening debt.&#160; So the government bails out the company, and the company bails on their people&#8230;
This weekend&#8217;s G20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody&#8217;s Buying Into Buying</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/11/14/nobodys-buying-into-buying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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Consumer spending was down sharply in October, which in turn forced retail sales down by a record level.&#160; Of course, they could all be saving up for a big holiday buying frenzy&#8211;at least that&#8217;s what those retail executives believe, along with how their trophy wives will still love them even without all the money&#8230;
President-elect Barack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banking On Borrowing Bailout Bucks?</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/11/12/banking-on-borrowing-bailout-bucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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Federal bank regulators are issuing new guidelines to banks designed to encourage them to continue lending practices to creditworthy customers&#8211;an effort to make them aware that the billions in bailout money provided to them is there to help struggling borrowers and improve the overall economy.&#160; In other words, they ought to rethink the week-long Carribean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brit&#8217;s Boy Thinks Cajun Cookin&#8217; Is Sick</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/11/11/brits-boy-thinks-cajun-cookin-is-sick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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Britney Spears had a bit of a scare when her son Jayden was admitted to a Mississippi hospital Sunday during a weekend family reunion in her Louisiana hometown, after he reportedly had a nasty allergic reaction to something he ate&#8211;the good news is he&#8217;s fine and was discharged last night.&#160; Poor kid probably ate something&#160;his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Makes More WH History</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/11/10/obama-makes-more-wh-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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President-elect Barack Obama will make his first-ever visit to the White House today when he meets privately with President Bush for the traditional first visit between America&#8217;s leader and his predecessor.&#160; Security will be particularly tight for the visit, as unconfirmed reports suggest Bush may try to escape and leave Obama in charge&#8230;
One of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Yucky All-Time High</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/11/07/another-yucky-all-time-high/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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While much of the nation basks in the afterglow of Barack Obama&#8217;s election as president, the economy continues to dominate the news with a report today that the nation&#8217;s unemployment rate jumped to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent in October as another 240,000 jobs were lost.&#160; If you&#8217;ve ever been on a 10-meter diving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trend Is Very Obama-Mous</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/10/29/the-trend-is-very-obama-mous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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The Associated PressW reports that Barack ObamaW is leading in Ohio, Nevada, Colorado and Virginia&#8211;all states won by President Bush in 2004&#8211;and would assure him of victory if the trend continues.&#160; The John McCainW&#160;campaign continues to stress that victory is within reach&#8211;although they don&#8217;t really say by whom&#8230;
Another day, another see-saw ride on Wall Street, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe The Plumber Springs A Leak</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/10/17/joe-the-plumber-springs-a-leak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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&#160;A highlight of John McCain and Barack Obama&#8217;s Wednesday debate was McCain invoking a recent exchange between Obama&#160;and&#160; &#34;Joe the plumber&#34;,&#160;the Ohio man who&#160;told Obama he wanted to buy the plumbing business where he was employed but worried he couldn&#8217;t because Obama would raise his taxes.&#160;&#160;McCain later said &#34;Joe&#34; was the real debate winner&#8211;and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will The Bank Buy-In Buy Us A Recession Bye?</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/10/15/will-the-bank-buy-in-buy-us-a-recession-bye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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The federal government&#8217;s quarter-trillion-dollar bank buy-in plan is being embraced by the industry as a means to get them back to the business of lending again, but many experts believe it won&#8217;t provide a quick fix to the nation&#8217;s economic problems.&#160; In my experience, depending on a bank to really help me with my problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOB Elects To Delay CD Release After Vote</title>
		<link>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/10/14/fob-elects-to-delay-cd-release-after-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://bigjimdonovan.com/2008/10/14/fob-elects-to-delay-cd-release-after-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Jim</dc:creator>
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Fall Out Boy has decided to postpone release of its new CD so it won&#8217;t coincide with Election Day, as the band explains in a website posting: &#34;Six months ago, we thought it would be fun to release our album on election day but this is not the election to be cute. This is the [...]]]></description>
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