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	<title>Thomas M. Anderson</title>
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	<description>Writer, reader, runner</description>
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		<title>Fillmore Silver Spring: The End of the World as We Know It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why the new LiveNation venue may not doom the 9:30 Club, the Black Cat, or other D.C. nightclubs It’s early August and the Fillmore is naked. Only two of the nightclub’s four chandeliers are hanging, and the murals celebrating its namesake’s hippie heritage have yet to be painted on the blank orange walls. That doesn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thomasmanderson.com/fillmore-silver-spring-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</link>
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		<title>Shadow a Manager Before You Invest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mirroring services let you study a manager’s moves before you put your money at risk. Abbas Haider Ali wanted to put $25,000 into the stock market. But instead of transferring the money to a mutual fund, the Washington, D.C., technology executive decided to invest with a money manager whose every move he had been tracking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thomasmanderson.com/shadow-a-manager-before-you-invest/</link>
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		<title>Football Turns To K Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NFL and the NFLPA go inside-the-Beltway in the lockout PR battle. NFL owners and players are still trying to reach an agreement to end a lockout that began in March and threatens to push preseason off schedule; the standoff may end as soon as next week, just in time to avoid disrupting anyone’s fantasy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thomasmanderson.com/football-turns-to-k-street/</link>
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		<title>Mental Wealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forget earnings reports: A new generation of stockpickers assemble their portfolios based on lessons from psychological research. Can behavioural finance make sense in a crazy market? A few years ago, two Israeli professors looked at the World Cup and wondered if somewhere amid the collective angst of fans might lurk an investment opportunity. Guy Kaplanski and Haim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thomasmanderson.com/mental-wealth/</link>
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		<title>Politics and Prose&#8217;s Social Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much is a beloved bookstore really worth? Fifteen minutes should have been enough time to find a good seat. At a lot of bookstores, it would have been—especially when the main attraction was a former labor secretary’s book on income inequality. But Politics and Prose is not a lot of bookstores. So, with every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thomasmanderson.com/politics-and-proses-social-network/</link>
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		<title>Walking Away From a Mortgage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some homeowners who can afford to pay their loans are choosing not to. Jeff Horton did a gut check. The 33-year-old information-technology manager had been dutifully making the monthly mortgage payments on his three-bedroom home and on a condo he rented out for investment income, both in the suburbs of Orlando. But he felt trapped. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get a Break on College Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even if your child is already in school, you can reap big state-tax benefits by feeding a 529 plan. Some people have been stashing money in 529 college-savings plans since their kids were in diapers. But even if you procrastinated and your child is already enrolled in school, contributing to a 529 account could save [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thomasmanderson.com/get-a-break-on-college-costs/</link>
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		<title>What Can Go Wrong With ETFs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not every innovation works as advertised, and exchange-traded funds are no exception. Some ETF defects are minor, but others can damage your investment results if you don&#8217;t take steps to avoid them. ETFs trade like stocks and can behave like them, too. The fact that you can buy and sell ETFs just like stocks is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thomasmanderson.com/what-can-go-wrong-with-etfs/</link>
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		<title>ETFs With Hands-On Managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These exchange-traded funds do more than track indexes. It sounds like a contradiction: exchange-traded funds that buy and sell investments picked by managers instead of tracking an index. But more than two dozen actively managed ETFs are now available, and that&#8217;s just the beginning. Firms large and small are getting on the bandwagon. Well-known ETF [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thomasmanderson.com/etfs-with-hands-on-managers/</link>
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		<title>Top Funds for Ethical Investing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No matter your politics or your beliefs, you can find a socially screened fund that will match your morals &#8212; and make you money. It&#8217;s easy to roll your eyes at socially responsible investing. Maybe it&#8217;s because the term suggests that other types of investing are, well, socially irresponsible. Look past its practitioners&#8217; sense of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thomasmanderson.com/top-funds-for-ethical-investing/</link>
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