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		<title>Death by a Thousand Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’ originates in Imperial China as a form of torture and execution. When skillfully applied the method keeps the victim on the edge of death. As atrocious as it may seem the theme was later adapted to the business climate. In business it is used as the strategy of making [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=712&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tinkerbell Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tinkerbell effect explains that events only exist because people believe in them. The theory is named after Tinker Bell, the fairy, in Peter Pan who is revived from new death by the belief of the audience. There are many cases in the investment domain that could easily be defined to meet the Tinkerbell effect.. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=718&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creeping Normalcy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ‘creeping normalcy’ refers to the way a major change can be accepted as normalcy if the change occurs in slow, unnoticed, increments. The same change would be regarded as objectionable if it took place as a single step or during a short period. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=708&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We have moved!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charts &#38; Numbers has moved to a new location. Please update your bookmarks to www.chartsandnumbers.com THANKS<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=884&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Money Supply (M&#8217;s)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mylastresort</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The modern government&#8217;s of today regulate the economy by monetary policy. Monetary policy is the process the Federal Reserve (Fed), or central bank of Kuwait (CBK), control the following: Supply of Money Availability of Money Cost of money (interest rate) The supply of money is broken down into different types of &#8216;money&#8217; based on its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=696&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charts &#38; Numbers will be down for maintenance starting tonight. We will be back in 24 to 48 hours.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=873&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boiling Frog Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is said that a frog can be boiled alive if the water is heated in protracted increments. If a frog is placed in boiling water it will quickly jump out but if it is placed in cold water and gradually heated, it will not move rather, it will boil to death.  The story of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=705&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>December Confessions #3</title>
		<link>http://mylastresort.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/december-confessions-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During December the market confessed three important facts. The first is that the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) will not provide the optimism needed to restore confidence in the market. The second is that investment banks will fail in succession amid the greatest government intervention since souk almanakh. Finally that oil prices will no longer be controlled by the oil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=799&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>12 Stupidest Moments in Business 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dhari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me first thank the guys here for inviting me to join the blog.  I&#8217;ve been a fan for sometime only to discover just yesterday that some are actually my friends. Now to the post. I read this fun feature 2 days ago on CNN Money about the &#8220;21 Dumbest Moments in Business 2008.&#8221;  So [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=820&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>December Confessions #2</title>
		<link>http://mylastresort.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/december-confessions-2-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During December the market confessed three important facts. The first is that the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) will not provide the optimism needed to restore confidence in the market. The second is that investment banks will fail in succession amid the greatest government intervention since souk almanakh. Finally that oil prices will no longer be controlled by the oil cartel, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mylastresort.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3049469&amp;post=797&amp;subd=mylastresort&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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