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	<itunes:summary>Michael Fidanza is The Armchair Energist. News and commentary Monday through Friday on RFCRadio.com.</itunes:summary>
	<itunes:author>Michael Fidanza</itunes:author>
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		<title>Goldman Sachs of S**t!</title>
		<link>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/10/13/goldman-sachs-of-st/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but I am tired of hearing the name &#8216;Goldman Sachs&#8217;. Our treasury secretary (Paulson). The new bailout czar (Kashkari). My governor (Corzine). Warren Buffett buying $5 billion in preferred stock to sure-up Goldman. Like &#8216;em, hate &#8216;em &#8211; I really don&#8217;t care. I just think that I am flooded with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crude on Slippery Slope</title>
		<link>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/10/11/crude-on-slippery-slope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official &#8211; crude is down 50% from its all-time high just 3 months ago &#8211; a slide of 10% today alone. Is anyone surprised that the folks at OPEC are wetting their pants? Still, here in Northern NJ, the price of gas has just breached the $3/gallon; I expect that if the price holds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong Angles</title>
		<link>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/10/07/wrong-angles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have pointed out in this blog that the price of gasoline tends to lag behind crude on the way down. Some people said I was too quick to jump on the &#8216;something is up&#8217; bandwagon. I think it may be time to revisit this issue&#8230; With three months of data, here is a chart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Least the Butler is off the Hook</title>
		<link>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/09/11/at-least-the-butler-is-off-the-hook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There had to be a culprit &#8211; and it wasn&#8217;t Jeeves According to today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, it was the speculators who are to blame for this year&#8217;s run up in the oil markets. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission released a report today, &#8220;The Accidental Hunt Brothers&#8221; which details the many liberties taken in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Kudlow&#8217;s Magic Bullet</title>
		<link>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/08/12/larry-kudlows-magic-bullet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNBC&#8217;s Larry Kudlow believes that the fall of crude prices have &#8216;waterfall-down&#8217; effects on all markets. This is a great debate&#8230;give a look see. Plunging Oil&#8217;s Effects &#8211; CNBC.com My only criticism? That CNBC provides embeded source code for their video content!]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I Don&#8217;t Like Mondays&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/07/28/i-dont-like-mondays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite the contrary&#8230;I DO like Mondays. It&#8217;s the start of the week and a challenge to do great things for the week. It may be a little rainy and overcast in Northern NJ right now, but I am anticipating this week. The Boomtown Rats may have sung that Brenda Ann Spencer didn&#8217;t like Mondays &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Dolly, Oh, Goodbye Dolly!</title>
		<link>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/07/22/goodbye-dolly-oh-goodbye-dolly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much to the eternal nay-sayers dismay, Tropical Storm Dolly will not have significant effect on oil derricks in the Gulf of Mexico. The pause in the drop of the price of crude was a momentary lapse and oil continued it&#8217;s decline on Tuesday. As much as the perpetually depressed have tried, cooler heads prevailed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Ever Notice&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/07/21/did-you-ever-notice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(With apologies to Andy Rooney) I left for Rhode Island (7/18) on Friday with crude having dropped about $16/bbl or around 11%. Now why is is that when crude goes up $5 in one day, by the end of that day, my local gas stations jump. When oil drops, the price at the pump seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theoricus Non! (Don&#8217;t Speculate)</title>
		<link>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/07/07/theoricus-non-dont-speculate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.armchairenergist.com/2008/07/07/theoricus-non-dont-speculate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that we&#8217;re onto something big when the Pope chimes in. At his weekly blessing, Pope Benedict XVI called upon the Group of Eight countries to limit oil speculation to end the &#8220;perverse&#8221; effect on oil and food prices. I guess the prices of leather Prada items have gone through the roof. The Pontiff [...]]]></description>
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