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	<title>Experiments in Finance</title>
	<link>http://www.experiglot.com</link>
	<description>Because you shouldn't need an MBA to be savvy about finance and business</description>
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		<title>I signed up to be a sponsor through Women for Women International</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For quite some time now, I&#8217;ve felt I should be doing more for the world than just shuttling back and forth to and from work, so I made improving in this area one of my resolutions for this year. After all, part of having a healthy financial situation is not only to have the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/03/24/sponsoring-through-women-for-women-international/</link>
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		<title>Who reads this blog?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often wondered about the profile of readers and visitors to Experiments in Finance. I&#8217;ve noticed that my traffic has grown steadily over time (currently hovering around 1K visits a day on weekdays) and that over 90% come from search engines, which isn&#8217;t surprising given what I write about. Unlike most personal finance bloggers, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/02/26/who-reads-this-blog/</link>
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		<title>An automated version of my Portfolio vs. S&#038;P 500 tracking spreadsheet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before my site went down last week, I received an email from Jae Jun at Old School Value (a fellow value investing blogger) who took it upon himself to make an automated version of my portfolio tracker spreadsheet that I created when this site first launched (the original version&#8217;s here).
Using the SMF add-in from Randy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/02/18/an-automated-version-of-my-portfolio-vs-sp-500-tracking-spreadsheet/</link>
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		<title>And&#8230;we&#8217;re back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems my site was hacked into a couple of days ago. Thanks to the fine fellow personal finance bloggers at the MoneyBlogNetwork Forum, I was able to restore my site with a few hours of work and a database backup from my host. Yay! 
Sorry to everyone for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/02/15/andwere-back/</link>
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		<title>Interview with creator of Uncommon Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve enjoyed being a regular reader of a blog called Uncommon Business (tagline &#8220;Unusual Business Ideas That Work&#8221;) for about a year now. Recently, the blog&#8217;s author, Dmitry Davydov, offered to provide an interview to bloggers who were interested in learning more about him and his commercial blogging business. He&#8217;s been able to pay off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/01/18/interview-with-creator-of-uncommon-business/</link>
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		<title>How to use VLOOKUP in Excel (part II) - some tips and advanced Excel tricks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I wrote a short and simple example of how to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel and promised to follow up with a second part. 
In this post, we&#8217;ll look at a slightly more complicated example and show a couple of tips and tricks for making VLOOKUP work correctly. 
By the way, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/12/27/how-to-use-vlookup-in-excel-part-ii-some-tips-and-advanced-excel-tricks/</link>
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		<title>How to use VLOOKUP in Excel - a simple tutorial (part I)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use Excel much at your job, sooner or later, you&#8217;re bound to need to look up values in a table. One of the most useful functions in Excel, called vlookup, does exactly that. The &#8220;V&#8221; in vlookup stands for &#8220;vertical&#8221; and &#8220;lookup&#8221; is pretty self explanatory. This function allows you to look up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/11/19/how-to-use-vlookup-in-excel-a-simple-tutorial-part-i/</link>
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		<title>One way to get guaranteed lottery winnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see every day. The IRS is auctioning some guaranteed California lottery payments tomorrow (gotta act fast for this one) in a seized property auction. Details below:

Description of Property: 	Guaranteed California Lottery Payments
Payable as follows:
$ 19,999.98 net on or around 12/05/2014
$ 19,999.98 net on or around 12/05/2015
$ 19,999.98 net on or around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/10/01/one-way-to-get-guaranteed-lottery-winnings/</link>
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		<title>Resurrecting Dell&#8217;s 3-year warranty from the dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our 2001FP LCD screen started dying earlier this week when a 1.5&#8243; blue band of vertical stripes started appearing on the right side of the screen after the monitor had been on for a while. I hadn&#8217;t noticed this happening before, but after refreshing the desktop, closing applications, and restarting the computer all to no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/09/28/resurrecting-dells-3-year-warranty-from-the-dead/</link>
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		<title>Got money? Want a $730K pen?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While listening to the Economist on the way to work today, I came across an article that referenced the existence of some luxury goods I had no idea existed: A $730K Montblanc pen called the &#8220;Mystery Masterpiece&#8221;  which you can put in a Louis Vuitton purse that costs $140K. Actually, in perusing the internet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/08/24/got-money-want-a-730k-pen/</link>
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		<title>This week&#8217;s T-bill auction results - I got schooled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my post of a few days ago, in which I wrote that I&#8217;d decided not to invest in the 4- and 13-week T-bill auctions this week, I present the results of yesterday&#8217;s and today&#8217;s auctions:

13-week T-bill (auction date: 8/20/2007): APY = 2.95%
4-week T-bill (auction date: 8/21/2007): APY = 4.96%


What&#8217;s perplexing is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/08/21/this-weeks-t-bill-auction-results-i-got-schooled/</link>
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		<title>Review: The Economist&#8217;s weekly audio edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A month or two ago, I received an email from The Economist informing me that they&#8217;d started to offer a weekly audio version of their magazine to subscribers. I signed up, forgot about it for a while, then began receiving email from them telling me that this week&#8217;s audio edition was available for download. 

Last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/08/20/review-the-economists-weekly-audio-edition/</link>
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		<title>You have $500 to spend on anything and then get reimbursed for it. What would you buy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My manager surprised me this week with a team recognition award that comes with a $500 &#8220;cash&#8221; award. 

The catch is that the mechanics of the award are a bit unusual: rather than getting $500 as part of my next paycheck or receiving some sort of gift certificate, what I have to do is buy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/08/18/you-have-500-to-spend-on-anything-and-then-get-reimbursed-for-it-what-would-you-buy/</link>
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		<title>Suspending my investment in 4- and 13-week T-bills next week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[T-bill yields have taken a big hit in the last couple of days. On Thursday, the 13-week bill took its largest one-day drop since 1987. 
Below is a table I pulled from the US Treasury&#8217;s Daily Treasury Yield Curve site showing daily yield curve rates for 4-week through 30-year Treasuries:

I&#8217;ve been continuing my laddering and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/08/17/suspending-my-investment-in-4-and-13-week-t-bills-next-week/</link>
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		<title>Solving a typical business school NPV problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received the following email from a reader:

I&#8217;ve been trying to solve this problem for sometime with no success. I have also attempted using your information (How to calculate NPV) on the website, got close but still didnt get the solution.
Can you please help? Here is the question.
A fashion clothing company is considering investing in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/08/01/solving-a-typical-business-school-npv-problem/</link>
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