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		<title>Sometimes You&#8217;re The Windshield &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rcrawford.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/sometimes-youre-the-windshield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 02:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Well, I&#8217;ve been true to my word on the investing front.  It has been some time since my last posting, and, at that time, I wrote that I planned to wait for the market to regain some measure of sanity, as measured by a VIX below 30.  Prior to that, I reassessed my portfolio, insuring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rcrawford.wordpress.com&blog=2350829&post=925&subd=rcrawford&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three SHLD Charts</title>
		<link>http://rcrawford.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/three-shld-charts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three charts for Gurufocus.com concerning Sears Holdings:

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		<title>Danniyal is witnessing history</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This title appeared as the Facebook status of my friend Danniyal &#8212; a first generation arrival from Pakistan.  In grammar school, he became my son&#8217;s best friend, and, through that introduction, our families became exceedingly close.  Today, he is a senior in high school, possessing a stratospheric GPA and a mind that amazes and delights [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rcrawford.wordpress.com&blog=2350829&post=909&subd=rcrawford&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sears (SHLD) Real Estate Value Update &#8212; 1/14/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, CS estimated the real estate value of SHLD at $4+ billion (4x listed book for these assets).  This struck me as unlikely (and I&#8217;m long the stock).  Besides than the name and credibility of Credit Swisse, there was little to support the assertion in the reporting of that figure by the Wall Street [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rcrawford.wordpress.com&blog=2350829&post=902&subd=rcrawford&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Investing and Healthcare &#8212; The Quality and Learning Link</title>
		<link>http://rcrawford.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/investing-and-healthcare-the-quality-and-learning-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rcrawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A couple of years ago, my colleague Jim Porto at UNC Chapel Hill asked me to teach a two-day seminar on performance psychology, and I loved it. My students, on the other hand, initially evidenced a normal distribution, with agnosticism as the mean. In other words, a small number loved it, a small number [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rcrawford.wordpress.com&blog=2350829&post=898&subd=rcrawford&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Market Projections</title>
		<link>http://rcrawford.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/housing-market-projections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rcrawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, my friend Dave posted a link to as full an analysis of the current housing market as I&#8217;ve seen.  It isn&#8217;t pretty and may require anti-emetics to read.  Here is the link:
http://www.designs.valueinvestorinsight.com/bonus/pdf/T2_Housing_Analysis.pdf
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		<title>S&amp;P 500 Trend Chart</title>
		<link>http://rcrawford.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/sp-500-trend-chart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note on the S&#38;P500 levels on this first day of 2009.  The best fit regression trend line, using the data from 1950 through January 1 of 1995 (before the run up to the high tech bubble) provides a feel for the degree to which the market is over or undervalued.

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		<title>Healthcare Camouflage</title>
		<link>http://rcrawford.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/healthcare-camouflage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open the New York Times last weekend and there were two articles concerning healthcare quality in the United States.  The first recounts the efforts by New York State government to close or consolidate hospitals with high patient-harm rates.  The first indication that such closures are exceedingly difficult is the necessity of creating a special, independent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rcrawford.wordpress.com&blog=2350829&post=851&subd=rcrawford&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clinical Pathways and The Story of O</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rcrawford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newton wrote the Principia (the most influential, non-religious text in human history) in 1684.  His three laws of physics and theory of gravitation are contained within it.  Almost immediately there was controversy, when Leibnitz published his text creating calculus, and Newton off-handedly claimed he had invented calculus in order to perform his research for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rcrawford.wordpress.com&blog=2350829&post=845&subd=rcrawford&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Google Model of Healthcare Quality and Advertising</title>
		<link>http://rcrawford.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/the-google-model-of-healthcare-quality-and-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rcrawford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Google model &#8212; trading advertising for quality:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/business/media/24carr.html?em
The article notes that Google rarely advertises its new functionality, but, having built a better mouse trap, users seek and adopt it &#8212; because, by reputation and past exposure, it consistently delivers on three fronts &#8230; simplicity, utility, and price &#8230; the constituent attributes of its character and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rcrawford.wordpress.com&blog=2350829&post=840&subd=rcrawford&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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