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	<description>The Old Ideas on Saving &#38; Investing Don't Work -- Here's What Does</description>
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		<title>My E-Mail to Kathleen Burns Kinsbury at KBKWealthConnection.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set forth below is the text of an e-mail that I sent to Kathleen BurnsKinsbury, at www.KBKWealthConnection.com, on March 11:
Kathleen:
My name is Rob Bennett. I am the author of the &#8220;A Rich Life&#8221; blog (http:arichlife.passionsaving.com). I saw your comment at the &#8220;Psy-Fi Blog&#8221; (my personal favorite) and followed the link to your site.
My sense is that [...]


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		<link>http://arichlife.passionsaving.com/2010/03/17/my-e-mail-to-kathleen-burns-kinsbury-at-kbkwealthconnection-com/</link>
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		<title>My E-Mail to Andrew Smithers, Co-Author of Valuing Wall Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set forth below is the text of an e-mail that I sent to Andrew Smithers, co-author of Valuing Wall Street, on March 3, 2010.
Andrew:
My name is Rob Bennett. I am the author of the &#8220;A Rich Life&#8221; blog (http://arichlife.passionsaving.com) and have long been a big fan of your work. Your article at the &#8221;Free Exchange&#8221; blog entitled [...]


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		<title>My E-Mail to Greg Howard, Author of the Blog at MondayHope.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sent an e-mail to Greg Howard, author of the blog at www.MondayHope.com, on March 10. The text of the e-mail is set forth below:
Greg:
My name is Rob Bennett. I am the author of the &#8220;A Rich Life&#8221; blog (http://arichlife.passionsaving.com). I found your web site today through Twitter.
I would be grateful if you would take a [...]


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		<title>When Stock Prices Crash, Where Does the Money Go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted a Guest Blog Entry at the Budgets Are Sexy blog entitled When Stock Prices Crash, Where Does the Money Go?
Juicy Excerpt: We can bid stock prices up to any level we want. We can all vote ourselves raises if we like. The only penalty is that, when we bid them up too [...]


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		<link>http://arichlife.passionsaving.com/2010/03/12/when-stock-prices-crash-where-does-the-money-go/</link>
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		<title>Monevator Blog Bans Honest Posting on Flaws of Buy-and-Hold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The owner of the Monevator blog yesterday banned honest posting on the flaws of the Buy-and-Hold Model.
I put a comment to a blog entry there entitled U.S. Historical Asset Class Returns. Here are the words of my comment:
&#8220;Stocks tend to outpace other asset classes over the medium to long-term, but if you buy them at [...]


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		<link>http://arichlife.passionsaving.com/2010/03/11/monevator-blog-bans-honest-posting-on-flaws-of-buy-and-hold/</link>
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		<title>What Is a Bear Market and What Is a Bull Market?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted an article to the &#8220;Safe Investing Now!&#8221; section of the site entitled What Is a Bear Market and What Is a Bull Market?
Juicy Excerpt: Many stock investors who lost money in the stock crash of September 2008 are taking comfort in the fact that prices have traveled upward since then. This is a [...]


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		<title>Safe Investing Now!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve created a new section for the site entitled &#8220;Safe Investing Now!&#8221;
The first article for the new section is entitled &#8220;Safe Investing &#8212; What the &#8220;Experts&#8221; Won&#8217;t Tell You.&#8221;
Juicy Excerpt: The incredible reality is that, at a time when most middle-class investors are desperately seeking to learn about safe investing strategies (this article was posted in [...]


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		<link>http://arichlife.passionsaving.com/2010/03/09/safe-investing-now/</link>
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		<title>Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Are Today&#8217;s Most Underrated Asset Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted an article to the &#8220;Valuation-Informed Indexing&#8221; section of the site entitled Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Are Today&#8217;s Most Underrated Asset Class.
Juicy Excerpt: The conventional investing wisdom is that the money you don’t put into stocks you should put into corporate bonds and the money you don’t put into corporate bonds you should put [...]


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		<link>http://arichlife.passionsaving.com/2010/03/08/treasury-inflation-protected-securities-are-todays-most-underrated-asset-class/</link>
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		<title>My E-Mail to the Author of the Pop Economics Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set forth below is the text of an e-mail that I sent to the author of the Pop Economics Blog on February 25:
Pop:
This is Rob Bennett, author of the &#8220;A Rich Life&#8221; blog.
Rajiv Sethi linked yesterday to your blog entry defending the Buy-and-Hold model from my criticisms of it. In my comment (at the bottom of [...]


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		<title>My E-Mail to Mel Bryant at the Conservatives4Palin.com Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set forth below is the text of an e-mail that I sent to Mel Bryant at the Conservatives4Palin.com web site on July 22, 2009.
Mel:
My name is Rob Bennett. I am the owner of the PassionSaving.com web site and the &#8220;A Rich Life&#8221; blog. I am a big Sarah Palin fan; I recently recorded a podcast about her, [...]


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