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	<title>Failure by design</title>
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		<title>Bank the rest!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so on my disappointing Sunday night I was coaxed into watching Sex and the city (At gun point). Now the most interesting thing about the night was one of the ads by Scotia bank. Yes the bank infamous for their &#8220;Your richer than you think&#8221; commercials.
Well the industry famous for subprime, the housing crisis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 IPO Draft: ERII</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ERI is set to soon IPO under the ticker symbol ERII. It is a filtration company that specializes in desalination. Particularly salt water reverse osmosis (SWRO), an area growing much faster than the desalination industry as a whole. Last year the company made $5.4 million on sales of around $34 million. While in the previous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thiagoavila.com/blog/finance/2008-ipo-draft-erii/</link>
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		<title>Major Economic Trends Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 1 of a x part series in which I will investigate and try to determine major economic trends that will lead the way into the 21st century.
Commodities
we live a world in which commodities and natural resources are limited and demand is ever growing. The following is a list of commodities that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thiagoavila.com/blog/finance/major-economic-trends-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Airlines under fire, what else is new</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With United Airlines ( UAL ) and American Airlines down 25% today, when will the carnage end. In a recent trip to Mexico, I was discussing the airlines industry with a friend and how they will react to higher energy prices. We came up with a few ideas but all involved higher passenger density or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thiagoavila.com/blog/finance/airlines-under-fire-what-else-is-new/</link>
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		<title>Dangers of inverse and leveraged ETFs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have heard a lot of talk about double and short ETFs. There are certain things I think that most people overlook especially people with a math background that shouldn&#8217;t have been overlooked.
These instruments are not meant to be an INVESTMENT. They are there to hedge risk. They do NOT double returns of an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thiagoavila.com/blog/finance/dangers-of-inverse-and-leveraged-etfs/</link>
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		<title>Water for Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok so taking time from my recent development in Market modeling for currency, learning about chaos mathematics and fractals, plus a bunch of consumptions models for commodities I decided to commit one of a common raids on the Jeff Mclarty blog and see what he was up to.   Instead of writing a giant comment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thiagoavila.com/blog/finance/water-for-money/</link>
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		<title>Wii success or failure?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the massive adoption of the Nintendo Wii and huge fan fare did Nintendo hit a home run or set themselves up for a fall?
Current culmulative sales are as follows:
Nintendo Wii - 19 million
Xbox 360 - 16.8 million
Playstation 3 - 8 million
But what is wrong with the availability, I personally know several people who just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thiagoavila.com/blog/electronics/wii-success-or-failure/</link>
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		<title>Global Meltdown&#8230;in 2008&#8230;Really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the slide in February from the China price shock, I have probably been one of the most bearish people on the US and their trading partners. I have gone long in a few instances since then, but not long term by any means or in a fashion that I would have deem highly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thiagoavila.com/blog/finance/global-meltdownin-2008really/</link>
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		<title>No time in time square</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So after a near miss with my luggage almost ending up in Miami. (got it delivered to the hotel, same day &#8230; amazing what first class does) I ended up in what I must say is the most luxurious hotel I have ever been in. Service so far has been excellent and the rooms are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thiagoavila.com/blog/personal/no-time-in-time-square/</link>
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		<title>Money in open source hardware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First they brought you google search, then adsense, now the great guys at Google bring you Android the mobile platform based on Linux.
Why is this so great? Well first it is going to be cheaper to make phones, since they are developing on an open platform with the cooperation of great hardware manufacturers like Arm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thiagoavila.com/blog/electronics/money-in-open-source-hardware/</link>
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