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		<title>Countercyclical Investments: Foreign Exchange (FOREX or FX)</title>
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Is a dollar today worth the same as tomorrow when you take inflation out of the picture? It’s value in the US is still a dollar but the power that it has against other currencies may have fluctuated. The trading of currencies is a very interesting method of investing. It is very similar to investing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/04/20/countercyclical-investments-foreign-exchange-forex-or-fx/</link>
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		<title>Countercyclical Investments: Real Estate and  the slump in the housing market ( Part 3)</title>
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A wise man once told me that there are only two ways of making money buy low and sell high, this maybe the simplest concept in business. It is a concept that we should in theory follow, but all too often we get caught up in our own emotions. All too often we let our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/04/17/countercyclical-investments-real-estate-and-the-slump-in-the-housing-market-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Countercyclical Investments: Income Trusts, Master limited Partnerships (MLP), oil, gas, energy, dividends and you. (Part 2)</title>
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I am a personal fan of dividends, whether they come from stock or bonds. They still represent an alternative cash flow that I would normally posses if I invested in a normal stock. The issue with dividends is that they are directly related to two factors that forces theses dividend to be very low at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/04/08/countercyclical-investments-income-trusts-master-limited-partnerships-mlp-oil-gas-energy-dividends-and-you/</link>
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		<title>Work on the business, not in the business.</title>
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This simple thought is perhaps the most important lesson that I have learned in school. If you think about it, it is so clear yet many of us forget about it. When working in your own business it is too often that we forget that we as the owner of the business can not do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/04/07/work-on-the-business-not-in-the-business/</link>
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		<title>Countercyclical Investments: Profiting in Tax Liens and Deeds (Part 1)</title>
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In these troubled times picking the right type of investments can be a headache, if not more. Traditional investment options are either too risky (stocks) or the return is too low (bonds). In order to survive in such a volatile economy we should consider investment opportunities that are more secure and often times overlooked. Ever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/03/28/countercyclical-investments-part-1-profiting-in-tax-liens-and-deeds/</link>
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		<title>Gold and Oil, the Standards for Economy</title>
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One of my friends asked me if the price of both is related to inflation. What I told him can be summed up as the following the reason why that the price of gold and oil is going but is simple. It isn’t because of the supply or the demand. It is because the Value [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/03/19/gold-and-oil-baby%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Stagflation, the economy, interest rates, inflation and You.</title>
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Stagflation, the economy, interest rates, inflation and you.

We can all agree that the United States of America is in a recession. By this point, there have been more then 2 quarters in which there was little to no growth or a decline in the economy. The press is mentioning the word “RECESSION” in every other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/03/17/stagflation-the-economy-interest-rates-inflation-and-you/</link>
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		<title>Great video and game site that you should check out</title>
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I found this site a while back. Idkwtf.com, Honestly I thought it was going to be something else but hey I was pleasantly surprised. This website lives up to there slogan of “Learn the Value of wasting time”. Oh so many days that i have wasted on this site. Many classes that i didn’t listen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/03/16/great-video-and-game-site-that-you-should-check-out/</link>
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		<title>Answers to Questions  in Data Communications</title>
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These are basic questions thats most people should know before going into a meeting on the subject.

Compare guided and unguided mediums with examples.

Guided mediums are used for point-to-point connections between two devices while unguided mediums allow signals to be sent out uniformly across multiple areas reaching a wide variety of systems.
Compare and contrast half-duplex and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/03/16/answers-to-questions-in-data-communications/</link>
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		<title>Should the CEO be at fault? not always  Ethics are very flexable no?</title>
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Al( last name be unsaid), in my personal opinion, performs his duties as CEO ethcially.This is due to him increasing stockholder equity of the company by taking the actions that are necessary for the improvement of the business. The sole purpose of every employee is to improve this equity. Hence, if their removal improves this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romanadvice.com/2008/03/16/should-the-ceo-be-at-fault-not-always-ethics-are-very-flexable-no/</link>
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