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	<itunes:summary>The Crawling Road Money Show focuses on investing, finance and economics. We discuss the Permanent Portfolio and other topics to make investing simple and successful.</itunes:summary>
	<itunes:author>Craig Rowland</itunes:author>
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		<title>Governments Like Inflation</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/01/25/governments-like-inflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[




Let&#8217;s talk about Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) again. It&#8217;s no secret that I dislike them vs. gold in the Permanent Portfolio. But will they ever &#8220;default&#8221; as some say? No, they won&#8217;t. But this doesn&#8217;t mean they don&#8217;t have other serious problems.
I don&#8217;t believe the US will  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Browne in 1970 Discussing the Coming Devaluation of the Dollar</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/01/24/harry-browne-in-1970-discussing-the-coming-devaluation-of-the-dollar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[




Harry Browne in September 1970 on the TV show &#8220;Firing Line&#8221; with William Buckley, Jr. He is discussing how the US government is going to break the gold standard and the kinds of repercussions it may have. The gentleman in the middle, Eliot Janeway, was proven completely wrong when Nixon did  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIPS Are a Bad Idea: Argentina&#8217;s CPI</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/03/29/tips-are-a-bad-idea-argentinas-cpi/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/03/29/tips-are-a-bad-idea-argentinas-cpi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[s a follow up to another post, I am blogging to mention this article I read today about Argentina. Yes, we're not Argentina. But it is very constructive to look at other countries handling high inflation to see what lessons can be gleaned. ]]></description>
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		<title>Control Freaks (Heart) Central Planning</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/03/19/control-freaks-heart-central-planning/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/03/19/control-freaks-heart-central-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The plans differ; the planners are all alike.&#8220;
– Frederic Bastiat




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		<title>Analysis of the Icelandic Economic Collapse of 2008</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/02/28/analysis-of-the-icelandic-economic-collapse-of-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/02/28/analysis-of-the-icelandic-economic-collapse-of-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mises institute just released an e-book analyzing the root causes of the economic collapse in Iceland in 2008. I have just started reading it, but the authors are building a case of the usual suspects (Central Banks, fiat currency and economic planners) behind the debacle:]]></description>
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		<title>Your Money and Your Brain &#8211; Interview with Jason Zweig</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/12/02/your-money-and-your-brain-interview-with-jason-zweig/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/12/02/your-money-and-your-brain-interview-with-jason-zweig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=5467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[H/T to Tao6 for sending in this video link on human behavior as it relates to investing:

Behavioral economics is a very interesting field. It explores how humans make decisions about money and how their decision making (and emotions) can affect their investing performance. Since I&#8217;ve been talking  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Stages of Inflation</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/11/15/five-stages-of-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/11/15/five-stages-of-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With talk of inflation in the air, I thought I'd mention what I call: The Five Stages of Inflation]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quantitative Easing Explained</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/11/13/quantitative-easing-explained/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/11/13/quantitative-easing-explained/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal reserve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=5361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quantitative Easing Explained]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting Inflation by Making Cheaper Coins</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/05/18/fighting-inflation-by-making-cheaper-coins/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/05/18/fighting-inflation-by-making-cheaper-coins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gold]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the not-as-witty-as-he-thinks department:
Will Nickel-Free Nickel Make a Dime&#8217;s Worth of Difference?
&#8220;Making coins from more cost-effective materials could save more than $100 million a year, which isn&#8217;t just pocket change,&#8221; said Dan Tangherlini, the Treasury Department&#8217;s chief financial  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Bonds Banner Ads</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/03/10/california-bonds-banner-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/03/10/california-bonds-banner-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, my site features some banner ads from Google. These ads bring in enough revenue to cover the costs of the web hosting (if that). Well lately I&#8217;ve been seeing ads encouraging people to buy California Bonds at this site:
Buy California Bonds
I&#8217;ve never seen a state so aggressively  [...]]]></description>
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