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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>Index Funds and IPOs</title>
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A poster on the forum brought up a great question on whether index funds would be forced to buy the upcoming Facebook IPO. The worry is that the index funds will load up on the IPO and take a loss later as the IPO price comes back down to Earth.
No, this isn&#8217;t likely to happen.
IPOs are,  [...]]]></description>
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Doing some research recently I&#8217;ve found that almost 9 out of 10 of the trades on any given day on Wall Street are between professionals, not individuals. Think about that for a second. When you go to make a trade, 9 out of 10 times you are doing it against someone that does it for a living.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent Portfolio 25% Stock Allocation FAQ</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Permanent Portfolio allocation is 25% stocks, 25% bonds, 25% gold and 25% cash. In this series of posts we're going to talk about how to implement each one of these components to take advantage of the economic cycles of Prosperity, Inflation, Recession and Deflation. We begin this series with discussing the 25% stock allocation and Prosperity. ]]></description>
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