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	<description>the long and the short of it...</description>
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		<title>Please don&#8217;t call gold an investment, but rather an insurance policy: a look at premium paid vs. coverage received</title>
		<link>http://financialhippie.com/2009/09/please-dont-call-gold-an-investment-but-rather-an-insurance-policy-a-look-at-premium-paid-vs-coverage-received/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Hippie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not an investment... Any time someone is trying to pitch gold to you as an "investment", he is probably trying to sell you commemorative coins for 2x the intrinsic value. Gold doesn't make sense from a fundamental investing point of view.]]></description>
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		<title>Lone Pine Capital&#8217;s Melco Crown (MPEL) position &#8211; a bet on lowering the Macau gaming revenue tax rate?</title>
		<link>http://financialhippie.com/2009/08/lone-pine-and-melco-crown-a-bet-on-lowering-the-macau-tax-rate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Hippie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking about shorting Melco Crown (MPEL) until I saw Lone Pine Capital take a 1% stake in Melco Crown. Why did they sell all of their Las Vegas Sands (LVS) position to swap into Melco Crown (MPEL)?
Ask anybody in the hedge fund industry and he will tell you Stephen Mandel is one of [...]]]></description>
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