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		<title>Update on EGPT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick update on EGPT &#8211; The Egyptian market has been closed for the past month &#8211; Over this time market officials have set a half dozen or so reopen dates only to push them back each time &#8211; The latest is that we won&#8217;t reopen until the new prime minister is able to meet with market officials &#8211; The real concern is that the market is going to get hammered when it finally does reopen (and it will). This is opposite my original hypothesis that the market was trading at ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/update-on-egpt/</link>
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		<title>Investment Idea &#8211; EGPT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EGPT is an Egypt ETF &#8211; Egypt&#8217;s market is down another 6% today and 18% since Tunisia&#8217;s protests &#8211; This ETF is down 12% since Tunisia and should decline further today if Egypt&#8217;s market remains lower into the close &#8211; Trading is currently suspended in Egypt which is not a positive sign for the direction of the market &#8211; I think this move is overstated &#8211; Even if Mubarak falls (or &#8211; more likely &#8211; crushes the protests), I don&#8217;t see the Egyptian market remaining at such depressed levels &#8211; The situation ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/investment-idea-egpt/</link>
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		<title>Election Recap &amp; Moving Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The projected wave election struck as the GOP picked up six Senate seats and sixty House seats. Turnout spiked to 42% &#8211; far higher than the 37% in 2002 and 2006, and the 39% needed for Republicans to retake the Congress in 1994.
An equally significant story was the Republican’s ability to gain control of 19 state-legislatures. With Congressional redistricting set to begin, Republicans will have a significant advantage to retain or redraw favorable districts. In addition, California’s passage of Proposition 20 will improve competition and could assist in Republican pick-ups. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/election-recap-moving-forward/</link>
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		<title>2010 Election Preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senate: GOP +8 seats (WA, NV, CO, IL, PA, WI, IN, AK)
House: GOP +60 seats
After being written off as a dead party following Obama’s historic 2008 victory, Republicans are poised to make significant gains in today’s election. An inability to bring down the unemployment rate and the overselling of the potential impact of the stimulus package has provided Republicans with plenty of campaign fodder. Further, the Administration’s tone-deaf focus on health care appears to have backfired and placed many Democrats that won election in 2006 and 2008 at-risk. Despite a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/2010-election-preview/</link>
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		<title>Turkish Soccer, Russianstyle</title>
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Turkey is known to have crazy soccer fans so before I left Cairo I checked the schedule and saw that Besiktas had a home game. There are three major teams in Istanbul (Besiktas is one of them) and their opponent was a team from the Kurdish portion of Turkey. The Kurds language and political rights have been suppressed by the state, but they aren&#8217;t very popular in the country partly because of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (known as the PKK). The PKK is a separatist movement seeking unification with Kurds in Northern Iraq to form Kurdistan. The ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/besiktassoccer/</link>
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		<title>The Coffee Shop, Cairostyle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life in Cairo revolves around the cafe where people meet to talk with friends, watch the news and unwind from the day. I learn this early in my stay and often join the scene to get a pulse on local life. The cafe I frequent the most is just off the Sadat metro in Tahrir square, the main square in Cairo. It&#8217;s seemingly men only &#8211; in my half dozen visits I&#8217;ve yet to see a woman &#8211; though those here assure me that there are cafes that women go ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/the-coffee-shop-cairostyle/</link>
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		<title>The Game</title>
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I get to Cairo last Tuesday knowing that Egypt is playing Algeria for a final place in the World Cup and that I want to go. Cairo is already buzzing as Egypt and Algeria have a long history of trouble stemming from Egypt’s perceived lack of support during Algeria&#8217;s Civil War and past matches. Many Egyptians I meet refer to Algerians as dirty, envious, dishonest, and low. In 1989 the two teams met in Cairo in a similar situation with Egypt needing a win to advance to the cup &#8212; and they got it, but the game was marred by violence including ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/cairo-algeria-thegame/</link>
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		<title>The List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Auto Industry
- Michigan and Ohio produce 38% of all cars and trucks in the US in 2007
- 12 foreign auto producers make 54% of cars Americans buy and employ 113,000 Americans compared to 239,000 at US owned car makers
- Take home wages at US Carmakers average $28.42/hr: $26 at Toyota, $24 at Honda, $21 at Hyundai &#8212; w/ benefits hourly labor costs average $44.20 for non-Detroit producers &#38; $73.21 for Detroit
- In 1995 a car took GM 46 hours to make, Chrysler 43, and Toyota 29.4; In 2006 a car ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/the-list/</link>
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		<title>Follow Me&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Click on the below links to visit my pages / follow me on various other social networking and messaging sites.
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		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/follow-me/</link>
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		<title>Garcia Arrives on the Blog Scene &#8230; Albeit a bit late</title>
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Garcia has finally arrived. After years of thinking about writing a blog I&#8217;ve decided to take the big leap and see if I can&#8217;t keep fairly regular updates. I figure beginning a blog, after months of facebook and twitter updates, is the natural progression of the self important narcissitic social networking world in which we live. I&#8217;ll try and keep it entertaining as I offer thoughts on politics, sports, markets, and pretty much anything else that comes up &#8212; in the meantime I&#8217;ll be finishing up the design of this ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rickagarcia.com/hello-world/</link>
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