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	<description>Thoughts and ideas to help you move &#34;Onward and Upward&#34;</description>
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		<title>Freddie Mac Releases Positive Outlook for 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freddie Mac’s recently released economic outlook describes a refreshingly brighter view of the year ahead, but the pace of recovery in the forecast is well below the growth that has followed most recessions in the past half-century. As the still-fragile recovery gradually gains more solid footing by the end of the year, Freddie Mac’s economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeowners more cautious on remodeling projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Twas only a few years ago, when the housing boom was in full roar, that homeowners didn&#8217;t have to fret too much over whether the money they invested in remodeling would be paid back at resale time. Indeed, it was practically a no-brainer: Home sale prices were going up so high and so fast that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home-energy savings fix may be blowin&#8217; in the wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular image of wind power is of a windmill-like tower cranking away on the prairie. The wind power at Kathleen O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s North Side home, however, comes from a rooftop device that vaguely resembles a barber pole, without the red-and-white stripes. O&#8217;Donnell has installed an 8-foot-tall wind turbine at her Ravenswood Gardens home, where since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Stock Exchange installs circuit breakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYSE Announces Fourth-Quarter 2008 Circuit-Breaker Levels NEW  YORK , September 30, 2008 &#8212; The New York Stock Exchange will implement new circuit-breaker collar trigger levels for fourth-quarter 2008 effective Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Circuit-breaker points represent the thresholds at which trading is halted marketwide for single-day declines in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).   Circuit-breaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bright spot in a dark economy &#8211; Saving is on the rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (Fortune) &#8212; The economic storm pelting the U.S. economy is going to do plenty more damage to already flattened job and housing markets. But as dark as the next three or four quarters could be, the U.S. economy appears to be undergoing a more lasting, and ultimately uplifting, shift. Americans who for decades [...]]]></description>
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