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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>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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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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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Misleading Stocks for the Long Run Chart</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/12/18/the-misleading-stocks-for-the-long-run-chart/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/12/18/the-misleading-stocks-for-the-long-run-chart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[diversification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gold]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#160;
I see this chart posted from Jermy Siegel&#8217;s book Stocks for the Long Run from time to time to defend why owning lots of stocks is the way to go and why owning gold is some kind of chump move.
Well I think this chart is misleading for several reasons. Gold is useful in a diversified portfolio  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fake Gold?</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/08/20/fake-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting discussion came up on the forums about spotting fake gold coins:
Verifying Gold Coins are Real?
I talked about this in the Gold FAQ but thought I will go over the points again here.
First of all, understand that as gold prices go up the incentive to make fake gold products goes along  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Portfolio with Firewalls</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/08/18/a-portfolio-with-firewalls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A firewall is something designed to contain severe damage of a house, building or car to only one portion. The idea is if a fire breaks out it can be easily contained and the damage cannot spread to cause severe catastrophe. In a modern townhouse you have firewalls in case your neighbor&#8217;s place  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gold in the Permanent Portfolio&#8230;.Again!</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/08/14/gold-in-the-permanent-portfolio-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever the gold price spikes or is in the news a rash of threads spin up on investment forums about the asset, and an increasing number pop up about the Permanent Portfolio because it holds 25% in gold. And it always seems that the same worn out arguments come up again about it. E.g:
1) Gold is  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>US Credit Downgrade</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/08/08/us-credit-downgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/08/08/us-credit-downgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well most people at this point know the US credit rating was downgraded by S&#38;P from AAA to AA+. The market result was a huge selloff in Treasuries today and the price crashed.
Just kidding! They are up like crazy. Strange world, eh? 
I implore investors to stay out of the market timing, future  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>TIPS are a Bad Idea</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/03/04/tips-are-a-bad-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2011/03/04/tips-are-a-bad-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People sometimes want to know my view on Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) vs. Gold for inflation protection. Well, I have boiled my research on this topic down into two simple rules:
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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