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	<description>SensiblePortfolios&#60;sup&#62;®&#60;/sup&#62; is a service provided by &#60;a href=&#34;http://armuth.com/&#34;&#62;Armuth Asset Management&#60;/a&#62;, a Registered Investment Advisor firm located in Reno, Nevada, offering fee-only investment advice to individuals, trustees and retirement plans.</description>
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		<title>The Next Big Thing: It&#8217;s Not Alternative Energy, It&#8217;s Traditional Energy Through the Miracle of Fracking</title>
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From the Bloomberg editorial &#8220;Energy Revolution Keeps Carbon on Top,&#8221; by Nathan Myhrvold, former chief strategist and technology officer at Microsoft and the founder/CEO of Intellectual Ventures:
&#8220;A remarkable thing happened in Silicon Valley during the past decade. Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs set their sights on clean energy as the Next Big Thing. They audaciously hoped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/the-next-big-thing-its-not-alternative-energy-its-traditional-energy-through-the-miracle-of-fracking/</link>
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		<title>Don’t Fear Chinese Manufacturing. Embrace It.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people “blame” China for the difficulties Western manufacturing is facing. The dramatic declines in the number of factories and factory jobs in the U.S. and other developed areas are matched by the increasing amount of production taking place in China, India, and the rest of the so-called developing world. The logical conclusion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/don%e2%80%99t-fear-chinese-manufacturing-embrace-it/</link>
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		<title>Dimensional Fund Advisors Best Mutual Fund Family of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) was rated the top mutual fund family for 2010 by Baron&#8217;s magazine. This is great news for clients of SensiblePortfolios as all of its model portfolios invest exclusively in DFA funds.
DFA, is a global asset manager that oversees $206.5 billion in all and owns a mind-boggling 13,000 stocks, or about 70% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/dimensional-fund-advisors-%e2%80%9cbest-mutual-fund-family%e2%80%9d-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>A Bright Future For U.S. Manufacturers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economics of Globalization Are Changing Fast And Are Starting to Favor Moving Back to America
From The Economist:
&#8216;Labor arbitrage &#8211; taking advantage of lower wages abroad, especially in poor countries—has never been the only force pushing multinationals to locate offshore, but it has certainly played a big part. Now, however, as emerging economies boom, wages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/a-bright-future-for-u-s-manufacturers/</link>
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		<title>Tribute to Captain Ed Freeman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the great success of our Navy SEALS’ Team Six, I thought you would enjoy this article about Captain Ed Freeman that I recently received from a client.
You&#8217;re a 19 year old kid.   You&#8217;re critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.  It&#8217;s November 11, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/tribute-to-captain-ed-freeman/</link>
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		<title>Will The Fed&#8217;s QE2 Stoke Inflation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the financial crisis hit in late 2008, the US monetary base has more than doubled, from about $800 billion in mid-2008 to about $2 trillion in November 2010. When the Federal Reserve announced a second round of quantitative easing (QE2), it raised investor concerns that such actions would stoke inflation.
The chart below shows that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/will-the-feds-qe2-stoke-inflation/</link>
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		<title>Deficits, Debt, and Markets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This a recent article written by a staff member at Dimensional Fund Advisors that I thought you would enjoy reading. It points out that many of the fears of today&#8217;s investors are unfounded. DA
As government spending hits record levels around the globe, some politicians, economists, and pundits are warning that rising indebtedness may drag down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/deficits-debt-and-markets/</link>
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		<title>Why You Need a Simple, Well-Designed Portfolio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently working with a middle-aged investor who owns a high-cost, underperforming portfolio. His portfolio’s expense ratio is four times greater than that of SensiblePortfolios. Even though I have pointed this out to him, he still isn’t convinced that the SensiblePortfolios approach to investing is right for him.
So I have decided to share with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/why-you-need-a-simple-well-designed-portfolio/</link>
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		<title>Investing for the Long Term: The Recency Bias</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Psychological studies have confirmed that we hold subconscious biases that greatly impact how we react to events in our lives. The “recency bias” is one that causes considerable harm to many investors. It is a tendency to believe that what has happened recently will continue to happen in the future. The “recency bias” affects our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/investing-for-the-long-term-the-recency-bias/</link>
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		<title>Do Active Money Managers Beat the International Markets?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not uncommon today for a well-diversified investment portfolio to hold 45%-50% in      non-US assets. So now is a good time to ask the question can the US-based active managers through skillful stock picking and market timing outperform international financial markets?
The SPIVA Scorecard published semi-annually by S&#038;P Indices provides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sensibleportfolios.com/blog/news/do-active-money-managers-beat-the-international-markets/</link>
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