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	<title><![CDATA[Merrill Lynch Smokes its Own Belly Button Lint]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-keiser/merrill-lynch-smokes-its_b_104667.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Just before the crash of 1929 huge trusts operated by the largest banks on Wall Street were buying each other's stock to try and delay the inevitable. It's like the passengers of the Titanic trying to drink all the water in the ocean to avoid sinking. Just before the dot-com crash we saw similar banking desperation; banks were lending to zero-revenue and zero business plan start-ups to spend the loans as fast as they could to make it look like...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-06-11T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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