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		<title>REGULATORY IMMUNITY?</title>
		<link>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2012/01/19/regulatory-immunity/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Supreme Court decision might mean for you The recent ruling by the Supreme Court not to hear the appeal of the Standard Chartered is not a shocking surprise to many due to the sheer mass of appeals the Supreme Court is inundated with each year.  Our guess is that about ten minutes of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WARREN BUFFOONERY AND GOLDMAN</title>
		<link>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2012/01/18/warren-buffoonery-and-goldman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Follow the money Recently the acclaimed “Oracle of Omaha” Warren Buffet continued his calls for Americans to pay more to the federal government by way of taxes.  Warren has been telling everyone who will listen that he should pay more in taxes and so should other Americans.  The rhetoric by this buffoon is being hailed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons learned in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2012/01/09/lessons-learned-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[euro debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FINRA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[occupy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year from all of us at the SIPA.   Before we start pondering the future for the Securities Industry we thought we would take a look back on 2011 and review the lessons we learned in the past year. Lesson #1:  The more things change the more they stay the same. Whether it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to a broker’s world</title>
		<link>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2011/11/15/welcome-to-a-broker%e2%80%99s-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2011/11/15/welcome-to-a-broker%e2%80%99s-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regulatory Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage crisis hits home As the country’s mortgage crisis spirals out of control and thousands upon thousands of homeowners walk away from their under water home, I can’t help but wonder if secretly the 600,000 stockbrokers are quietly smiling inside as the rest of America gets a taste of what its like to be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SIPA Files Supreme Court  Brief of  Amicus on Flawed NASD Merger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SIPA has been fighting for year to try and get owners of Broker Dealers what was rightfully theirs from the merger of NASD and NYSE regulation into the newly formed FINRA.  Despite many obstacles and setbacks the case has now been sent to the Supreme Court of the United States to basically decide once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Secret NAC Agenda in Black and White</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[FINRA Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently members of the board of the IBDA questioned whether certain individuals had a secret agenda in supporting a candidate that was not one of their own handpicked nominees. Karen Fisher now lists hereself along with Dumb and Dumber (Davidson and Kohn) as on the Board of IBDA and questioned other peoples agenda all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dumb and Dumber</title>
		<link>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2011/10/25/dumb-and-dumber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jbusacca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could be time for certain NAC members to step down &#160; Last week the SIPA shocked some in the industry by supporting David Sobel for the open position on the National Adjudicatory Council.  The fact that he was nominated by the FINRA nominating committee did not dissuade us and many members have indicated they think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The China Riddle Solved</title>
		<link>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2011/10/19/the-china-riddle-solved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2011/10/19/the-china-riddle-solved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jbusacca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brokers may soon hit Beijing As we watch randomly organized protestershit the street complaining about corporate greed, pollution and student loans, I can only picture the leaders of China smiling and thinking about how much money they will make. For the last two decades China has reaped the rewards of increasing its manufacturing capacity and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kimmel: We need more people like Howard Schultz</title>
		<link>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2011/10/13/kimmel-we-need-more-people-like-howard-schultz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2011/10/13/kimmel-we-need-more-people-like-howard-schultz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Trust Across America!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Justin Sullivan &#124; Getty Images Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the Commonwelth Club of California on April 4, 2011 in San Francisco, California.  Schultz discussed his tenure as Starbucks CEO and promoted his new book &#8220;Onward. &#8211; How Starbucks Fought For Its Life Without Losing its Soul&#8221; I recently asked a colleague about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building the Case for Building Trust</title>
		<link>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2011/10/13/building-the-case-for-building-trust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesipa.com/blog/2011/10/13/building-the-case-for-building-trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jbusacca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Trust Across America!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I recently came across a powerful blog post written by Jason Tapp called Building the case for Building Trust. With Jason’s permission, the article is reposted below, followed by some further research performed by Trust Across America that supports Jason’s case. – Barbara Kimmel Trust is thought of as a form of social capital, [...]]]></description>
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