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		<title>How the Bubble Destroyed the Middle Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eBrand Media Research Department</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rex Nutting A lot of people say they are deeply puzzled by the slow recovery in the U.S. economy. They look at the 9+% unemployment rate and the mediocre growth in national output, and they scratch their heads and wonder: Where is the boom that inevitably follows a deep bust, such as we experienced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow, But Some, Advancement In Consumer Indices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eBrand Media Research Department</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to The Consumer Reports Index for July, by the Consumer Reports National Research Center, the economy is showing broad improvements in the condition, behavior and expectations of consumers. Though showing improvement, problems remain, including the proportion 16% of Americans that were unable to afford medical bill or medications, or 8.9% who have lost or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April showers didn&#8217;t bring May flowers but it&#8217;s not all bad news for marketing followers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eBrand Media Research Department</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The June Consumer Reports Trouble Tracker Index measuring financial difficulties faced by consumers in the past 30 days, worsened, rising to 63.5 from 53.0 in May. The most troubling increase is in missed mortgage payments, which reached 3.9%, its highest level since tracking began in April 2009. The latest numbers show consumers have taken a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Polanski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ebizine.com/?p=622</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By James Altucher I can live all day inside the Internet. I can talk to my friends, listen to music, watch TV, trade stocks, play games, do work &#8211; all on the Internet. From 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. every day I can spend on the Internet and it would be a day well spent. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eBrand Media Research Brief: How 8 behavioral types cope with the recession</title>
		<link>http://ebizine.com/trendtracker/ebrand-media-research-brief-how-8-behavioral-types-cope-with-the-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Polanski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ebizine.com/?p=577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Polanski, EVP, eBrand Media and eBrand Interactive Richard Storey, chief strategy officer for  M&#38;C Saatchi, London, suggests that recession is discussed as if it were a singular phenomenon, and that consumers have taken for granted the notion that there is one single, inevitable and all enveloping global crisis. News headlines tend to report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why isn&#8217;t Zillow dead?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 13:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Polanski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rafe Needleman Things are very good at Zillow,&#8221; Rich Barton, CEO of the online real estate company, was telling me. We&#8217;re in the thick of the worst economic crisis of a generation and a depressed real estate market, so this means that Barton is either a very clever CEO or an audacious liar. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why banks (still) aren&#8217;t lending</title>
		<link>http://ebizine.com/the-economy/why-banks-still-arent-lending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Polanski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Weidner, MarketWatch Banks need to stop the charade, ignore the political and public pressure and admit they&#8217;re not lending. It&#8217;s not because they don&#8217;t want to, but because it&#8217;s bad business. Don&#8217;t think so? Take this pop quiz. Bank of America (BAC, news, msgs) posted smashing first-quarter profits and its chief executive, Ken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Chapter 11 bankruptcy? Patterns and consequences of clients under protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Polanski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Growing a Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Polanski, EVP, eBrand Media and eBrand Interactive Unfortunately there are an increasing number of companies seeking Chapter 11 protection. If your client is exhibiting some of the symptoms below, be very, very aware. If you think your client fully fits the paradigm below, in my opinion, try to extricate yourself from the relationship as quickly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession F-bombs: Why swearing feels great</title>
		<link>http://ebizine.com/the-economy/recession-f-bombs-why-swearing-feels-great/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Polanski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Diane Mapes It’s hard to escape news about the bombing economy these days. It&#8217;s also getting harder to escape another type of explosion — the verbal kind. “I’ve been dropping the F-bomb every time I look at the Dow or my 401(k) statement,” says April Thomas, a 35-year-old freelance writer from Watkinsville, Ga. “You [...]]]></description>
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