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  Wealth Rises for Top Earners, Declines for the Lower 93%: Pew

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 26, 2013

  Occupy Wall Street might have to widen its target; from now on, call them “the 93%.”

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  Who Pays the Bill for Terrorism?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  April 26, 2013

  Beyond the unfathomable evil perpetrated on April 15 in Boston—human losses that can never be measured—come the more mundane, quantifiable aspects of the mayhem of which the Tsarnaev brothers are suspected.

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  Investors Are Optimistic, but More Conservative, Franklin Templeton Finds

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 26, 2013

  Despite an overall positive outlook, avoiding loss, rather than achieving higher returns, is still a top priority.

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  Too-Big-to-Fail Bill DOA: Commentators

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  April 24, 2013

  Washington Analysis says the “headlines, hearings and speeches” around the measure will amount to “mere noise,” while SIFMA says the bill would dampen business lending.

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  Conservative Economist: Deficit Cutting Has Gone ‘Far Enough’

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  April 24, 2013

  American Enterprise Institute budget expert John Makin argues that the U.S. is now—thanks to the sequester—on a sustainable fiscal path.

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  Hussman: When Barron’s Poll Shows Exuberance, Run Away

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  April 22, 2013

  “When the cover of a major financial magazine features a cartoon of a bull leaping through the air on a pogo stick, it’s probably about time to cash in the chips,” John Hussman writes.

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  High Growth Prospects Create Investor Opportunities in Central Asia

  By Savita Iyer-Ahrestani, AdvisorOne  |  April 22, 2013

  The IMF predicts 5.5% growth for Central Asia in 2013, but “we’ve only scratched the surface of the great potential there,” says Global X Funds CEO Bruno del Ama.

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  After Boston Bombing, Understanding Chechnya’s Bloody History

  By Alexei Bayer  |  April 19, 2013

  With Russia and the United States facing the same threat, is there suddenly a community of interests that will bring the two countries together?

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  Are Diamonds the New Gold?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  April 19, 2013

  Tight supply, growing demand, a coming ETF and a new exchange for investment-grade diamonds may add sparkle to a gem that has resisted commoditization.

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  Simpson, Bowles Reduce New Deficit Plan to Prod Congress

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 19, 2013

  Like Jackie Gleason’s Buford T. Justice in 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are not giving up.