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		<title>Chasing Chase: The Difference Between Bank Robbers and Bank Bunglers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is everyone getting so outraged about JPMorgan Chase losing two billion bucks? It’s a bank. Isn’t losing money what modern banking is all about—you take in deposits from normal folk and then invest those hard earned funds in completely ludicrous schemes: subprime mortgage companies, credit card loans for people who aren’t creditworthy, Greece. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=37859&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bankruptcy at 30,000 Feet: The Battle for the Future of American Airlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you call the combination of US Airways with American Air? US American Airways? It’s redundant, in the same way that airline service is a contradiction in terms. But a merger between the two is slightly more likely than, say, you finding a frequent flier award seat to Europe this summer. American’s union workers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=35175&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is American the Worst-Managed Airline in America?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) were scheduled to vote on a new contract with American Airlines, or AA, this December that would have lowered the airline’s cost and outsourced hundreds of jobs that weren’t directly related to aircraft maintenance. They never got the chance because American instead filed for bankruptcy. On Wednesday AA [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=23604&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vado a Bordo: The Case For Booking A Cruise Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vada a bordo. Get on board. Those now famous words—less the slangy expletive—spoken by Italian Coast Guard captain Gregorio De Falco to captain Francesco Schettino, the rat who left the sinking Costa Concordia, are good advice to everyone contemplating a cruise trip thisyear. Pack your bags and go. Sure, Schettino is a cretino, and perhaps the worst ship [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=21577&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Rajat Gupta Is An Inside Trader Maybe You Are, Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Rajat K. Gupta, the ex boss of McKinsey &#38; Co. and a former Goldman Sachs board member, was arrested today, and charged with being a friend of hedge fund bigshot Raj Rajaratnam. Well, that’s not how the indictment read exactly. Officially, the allegations are conspiracy to commit securities fraud, plus five counts of securities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=17520&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Phantom Pumpkin Shortage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horror. Halloween is under threat this year because of a paucity of pumpkins. There&#8217;ll be nothing to carve by October 31 if you don’t run to the store now to purchase your pumpkin. Your children will curse you. Vampires will stalk you. Yes, a wet summer on the East Coast, topped off by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=17198&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Advice for the Chamber of Commerce: Shut Up and Hire Somebody!</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/09/01/my-advice-for-the-chamber-of-commerce-shut-up-and-hire-somebody/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media advisory advised that U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J. Donohue would be offering ideas to immediately create jobs and spur the economy. And that the Chamber will be bringing these ideas to Congress and the President this month. Excellent, we’re all for jobs. And what ideas might those be? The usual suspects: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=16804&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Sell Japan Our Problems</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/08/25/lets-sell-japan-our-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thermostats in office buildings in Tokyo these days are set to 28° C —or a balmy 82.4°F . You walk into a building and get hit with heat—a little bit unsettling given the blast of cold air I expect in a New York City skyscraper. But in the aftermath of a tragic earthquake, tsunami, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=16679&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help, I&#8217;ve Been Downgraded by S&amp;P</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/08/12/help-ive-been-downgraded-by-sp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got word from Standard &#38; Poors. I’ve been downgraded. So have you. The firm has blamed bickering politicians in Washington for forcing it to lower the rating on U.S. Treasury bonds to AA —U-S-A-A! U-S-A-A!— from the highest, triple A ranking, but in neighborhoods all over America, people are getting along just fine. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=16504&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Congress and S&amp;P Deserve Each Other</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/08/08/why-congress-and-sp-deserve-each-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s downgrade the creditworthiness of the U.S., and warn the country about further downgrades, is a little like having the Catholic Church lecture Scout leaders on the proper behavior toward boys. The moral authority seems to be wanting. S&#38;P, you may recall, is one of the ratings agencies (the others being Moody’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=16318&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News Corp.&#8217;s Tabloid Troubles: The Downside of Competition</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/07/18/news-corp-s-tabloid-troubles-the-downside-of-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.K’s phone hacking story is tailor-made for the New York Post: a high-powered celebrity businessman and his top lieutenants caught up in a major scandal involving Hollywood stars, top pols, and royals, with a murder thrown in for grisly good measure. The newspaper loves cutting powerful figures down to size in 120-point type headlines. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=15870&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Airline Add-on Fee: That’s the Spirit!</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/06/22/a-new-airline-add-on-fee-thats-the-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spirit Air, which has been leading the charge when it comes to airfare add-ons, has one upped itself. Passengers will now have to pay $5 if the airline prints out a boarding pass for them. It’s a cheeky, you-gotta-be -kidding-me move for passengers who last year got hit with a baggage fee—that is, carry on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=15198&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A Spirit Airlines ticketing agent stands at the ticket counter after a Spirit Pilots strike was called, cancelling all Spirit flights, at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus</media:title>
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		<title>Why We&#8217;re All Greeks This Week</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/06/16/why-were-all-greeks-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy doesn’t suck as much today as it did yesterday, apparently. How do we know this? Initial claims for unemployment fell by 16,000 to 414,000, according to the Labor Department. That other weak spot, housing, got some good news in that housing starts rose 3.5% and building permits rose 8.7% in May vs. April. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=15078&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Wendy&#8217;s Can&#8217;t Stomach Any More Arby&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/06/14/why-wendys-cant-stomach-any-more-arbys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy & Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where&#8217;s the beef? It&#8217;s not at Wendy&#8217;s/Arby&#8217;s Group any more. Private equity firm Roark Capital Group is going to buy Arby’s, the poorer performing part of Wendy’s, for $130 million plus debt and other considerations, an aggregate valuation of $430 million. I know what you’re thinking: has the buyer ever actually eaten at Arby’s? Not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=15024&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Wendy&#039;s Sells Major Stake In Arby&#039;s To Private Equity Group</media:title>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Jobs Czar&#8217;s Plan : Will it Lower Unemployment?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/06/13/obamas-jobs-czars-plan-will-it-lower-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do we jump start a jobless economic recovery? According to the President’s Jobs and Competitiveness Council, it’s a combination of the familiar, the difficult and yesbut. In an op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt and American Express CEO Ken Chenault present a 5-part jobs program. The familiar includes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=14942&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Groupon&#8217;s &#8220;Sellout&#8221; CEO Files for $750 Million IPO</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/06/02/groupons-sellout-ceo-files-for-750-million-ipo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2006, Andrew Mason was coaxed out of graduate school at the University of Chicago with an offer of $1 million in funding to convert his idea called The Point, which was designed to network people into social action, into a business.  It went nowhere fast, says Eric Lefkofsky, the entrepreneur who provided the seed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=14751&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bailout Bonus: Chrysler Pays Its Tab to Uncle Sam</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/05/24/bailout-bonus-chrysler-pays-its-tab-to-uncle-sam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 18:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There must be a sweet taste of revenge in Motor City these days, what with Chrysler having successfully raised $7.5 billion by selling bonds to Wall Street. Sure, the Fiat-run American automaker had to pay a stiff interest rate, but it did manage to raise money from the same folks who balked at taking a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=14533&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s  Earthquake Writeoff Brings Net Loss to  $3.2 Billion</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/05/23/sonys-earthquake-writeoff-brings-net-loss-to-3-2-billion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 17:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony seems like a family that suffered the death of  loved ones and then had its house burglarized while attending the funerals. The company announced that it would incur a $3.2 billion loss for the fiscal year that ended last March tied to natural disasters and an Internet break-in. Neither event will improve Sony&#8217;s ability [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=14495&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Crazy is LinkedIn&#8217;s IPO?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/05/19/how-crazy-is-linkedins-ipo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 19:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is Wall Street’s job to throw money at new companies, a Wall Street economist explained to me during the dotcom boom of a decade ago, when the valuations of IPOs were being questioned. We can report today that the Street, despite the dotcom bust and the real estate bust and the financial meltdown, has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=14416&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raj Gets Nailed. The Ratings Agencies Beat the Rap</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2011/05/12/raj-gets-nailed-the-ratings-agencies-beat-the-rap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 18:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Feds got their big fish. The takedown of Raj Rajaratnam for insider trading is going to give U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara plenty of momentum in using an old prosecutorial weapon to go after a new set of miscreants. Rajaratnam was fried by his own words, obtained by the kind of wiretap that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=14193&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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