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	<title>Crawling Road &#187; Inflation</title>
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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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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>TIPS Are a Bad Idea: Argentina&#8217;s CPI</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Five Stages of Inflation</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/11/15/five-stages-of-inflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Fighting Inflation by Making Cheaper Coins</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2010/05/18/fighting-inflation-by-making-cheaper-coins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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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  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent Portfolio 25% Gold Allocation FAQ</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/10/13/permanent-portfolio-25-gold-allocation-faq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Permanent Portfolio allocation is 25% stocks, 25% bonds, 25% gold and 25% cash. In this series we talk about the 25% gold allocation and how it protects you from inflation and other currency problems.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gold vs. Collateralized Commodity Futures</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/01/27/gold-vs-collateralized-commodity-futures/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/01/27/gold-vs-collateralized-commodity-futures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Permanent Portfolio uses gold as its primary protection against inflation. Recently there has been a lot of promotion about Collateralized Commodity Futures (CCFs) from companies like Pimco. The claim is CCFs provide better inflation and unexpected event insurance for portfolios than gold. Well this claim just isn't true. ]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent Portfolio Results 2008 &#8211; A Disaster Averted</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/01/01/permanent-portfolio-results-2008-a-disaster-averted/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/01/01/permanent-portfolio-results-2008-a-disaster-averted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[diversification]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look back on 2008 to see how the Permanent Portfolio allocation would have saved you a tremendous amount of money in the stock market crash. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time to Rebalance?</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/29/time-to-rebalance/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/29/time-to-rebalance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is inflation coming in 2009? Deflation? Something else? Well if you haven't rebalanced your portfolio yet to harvest your gains and buy your losers now is the time to do it. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Terry Coxon Discusses the Possibility of High Inflation</title>
		<link>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/21/terry-coxon-discusses-the-possibility-of-high-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2008/12/21/terry-coxon-discusses-the-possibility-of-high-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craigr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[forbes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inflation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Coxon talks with Forbes about the possibility of high inflation. ]]></description>
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