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  Bull Kiesel, Bear Shilling Clash Over Housing

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  May 23, 2012

  "If housing goes down 20%, I will back up the truck and likely PIMCO will, too," Kiesel says. Shilling predicts "recessionary kinds of things" in the next three to four years.

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  Krugman, Paul Clash on Policy, Inflation, Role of Fed

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  April 30, 2012

  Sparks flew when Paul Krugman and Rep. Ron Paul faced off on Bloomberg TV's "Street Smart" Monday afternoon.

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  Bachus, McCarthy Introduce SRO Redraft

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  April 25, 2012

  House Financial Services Chairman Spencer Bachus reintroduced on Wednesday his draft bill calling for an SRO for advisors—one week after industry sources told AdvisorOne that an SRO bill was imminent.

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  Finding the Culprits of the Crisis

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  April 25, 2012

  Derivatives expert Janet Tavakoli takes a hard look at what — and who — caused the financial crisis.

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  A Strategy for Affording College

  By Kent Smetters  |  April 25, 2012

  Faced with massive budget deficits, state legislators across the country are looking to chop college education funding to fill the gaps.

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  SEC’s Money Fund Proposals: More Confusion for Investors

  By Dale Brown, Financial Services Institute  |  March 27, 2012

  A proposed freeze for account holders and creating ‘floating’ value money market funds would only sow more confusion among Main Street Americans. Is that a good idea?

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  SMA Managers of the Year; Building a Business With Talent: April Investment Advisor—Slideshow

  By Editorial Staff  |  March 26, 2012

  The dividend story has been retold many times, but just because we’ve heard it before doesn’t make it a bad tale.

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  Reconsidering Reverse Mortgages

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  March 26, 2012

  Times were tough for Dorothy Ariail back in 1977 when she became a young widow with three children.

• Digging for Bargains

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  March 26, 2012

  As 2012 develops, one unchanged investment trend is the continued expansion of the ETF universe.

• Industry Crossroads

  By Barry Russell  |  March 26, 2012

  The American oil and natural gas industry finds itself once again at a dramatic political crossroads in 2012.