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		<title>Black Gold Keeps Flowing in the Bakken</title>
		<link>http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/24/black-gold-keeps-flowing-in-the-bakken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BISMARCK, N.D. &#8212; No one seems more out of place at an oil and gas conference than Jim DeSeyn, president of Solargy Lights. &#8220;Thanks for stopping,&#8221; DeSeyn said, jumping &#8212; literally &#8212; out of his seat to chat with an &#8230; <a href="http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/24/black-gold-keeps-flowing-in-the-bakken/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=666&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Dreams Live On in Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS &#8212; There are few signs of austerity here in Paris, where tourists still happily pay the equivalent of $4 for single macaroons from Ladurée on the Champs Elysées, and willingly spend hundreds of dollars on pumps at Christian Louboutin &#8230; <a href="http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/23/american-dreams-live-on-in-paris/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=664&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Score Awareness Climbs, But Gaps Remain</title>
		<link>http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/16/credit-score-awareness-climbs-but-gaps-remain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, the good news: In the past year, consumer knowledge about credit scores improved significantly, including awareness of how scores are calculated, the importance of checking them, what represents a good score, and what service providers use these scores. But &#8230; <a href="http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/16/credit-score-awareness-climbs-but-gaps-remain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=668&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passenger Pain vs. Profit at Spirit Airlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spirit Airlines (Nasdaq: SAVE) &#8212; better known to anyone who has ever flown it as a bus with wings &#8212; doesn&#8217;t go out of its way to impress its customers. The airline has taken the concept of nickel and diming &#8230; <a href="http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/15/passenger-pain-vs-profit-at-spirit-airlines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=670&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Gundlach: Cover Your Ears, People Are Screaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Jeffrey Gundlach hosts a Web presentation, people listen &#8212; at least to make sure the bond trader doesn&#8217;t call them out for contributing to the current economic malaise. Gundlach, a high-profile, fixed-income expert (and a former Morningstar Fund Manager &#8230; <a href="http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/10/jeff-gundlach-cover-your-ears-people-are-screaming/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=672&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weighing the Price of Social Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/09/weighing-the-price-of-social-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the relationship between stock performance and corporate ethics? Based on an analysis of the public companies that made it onto this year&#8217;s list of the World&#8217;s Most Ethical Companies, there&#8217;s very little. One-year stock returns among the companies that &#8230; <a href="http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/09/weighing-the-price-of-social-responsibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=642&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Co-Signers Can Get Out From Student Loans</title>
		<link>http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/01/how-co-signers-can-get-out-from-student-loans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most private student loans require the borrower to have a co-signer &#8212; some credit-worthy adult willing to put his name and money on the line for someone with no income of his own and no repayment history. It&#8217;s always risky &#8230; <a href="http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/05/01/how-co-signers-can-get-out-from-student-loans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=679&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College Loan Debt&#8230; Even After Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took six years and nearly 80,000 signatures on an online petition to persuade KeyBank (NYSE: KEY) to forgive the student loan debt of a deceased student. Christopher Bryski was injured in a recreational accident in 2004 when he was &#8230; <a href="http://noreenseebacher.com/2012/04/30/college-loan-debt-even-after-death/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=682&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Do With Less</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 13:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago I fell into the abyss that would come to be known as the Great Recession. In a matter of weeks, jobs were lost, paychecks vanished, and my lifestyle changed. Read more&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=625&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facing Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Seebacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I created a Facebook page because I realized it was the most annoying thing I could do to my kids. Kids don&#8217;t want their parents on a social network they consider their own, and grow especially uncomfortable when their classmates &#8230; <a href="http://noreenseebacher.com/2009/07/12/facebook/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noreenseebacher.com&#038;blog=2548202&#038;post=261&#038;subd=globestrealtybytes&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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