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		<title>Property appraiser: Market values hitting bottom (Palm Beach Post)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our August 2010 luncheon featuring Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits was featured in this report by the Palm Beach Post: Property appraiser: Market values hitting bottom By Jeff Ostrowski WEST PALM BEACH — The plunge in Palm Beach County real estate values has slowed from free-fall to gradual downturn, Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits said Wednesday. Next year&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2010/08/27/property-appraiser-market-values-hitting-bottom-palm-beach-post/</link>
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		<title>Oil Spill Dissipates, But Perceptions Linger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Protecting the Beaches and Warding Off “Economic Topkill” By David F. Carr, webmaster The worst environmental impact of the oil spill on Florida may be over, but the economic impact on the state will remain until perceptions of the problem change, emissaries from Northwest Florida told the Economic Forum of Palm Beach County at its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2010/08/19/oil-spill-dissipates-but-perceptions-linger/</link>
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		<title>Palm Beach Post: Bank sues Abacoa for $14 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Post quoted Rebel Cook on the concept that Abacoa Town Center would be a pedestrian friendly place for people to live, work, and play, following a concept called New Urbanism. “It was based on a concept that if you put all the shopping in the middle of a residential community, everybody would walk to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2010/06/02/palm-beach-post-bank-sues-abacoa-for-14-million/</link>
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		<title>Wells Fargo Economist Mark Vitner (Video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Highlights from a talk by Wells Fargo Economist Mark Vitner, May 20, 2010]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2010/05/20/wells-fargo-economist-mark-vitner-video/</link>
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		<title>Concord Coalition Warns of Sobering Milestones on the Federal Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, deficit hawks have complained that the federal government was papering over the difference between revenues and spending by dipping into the Social Security “trust fund” – the difference between retirement taxes collected and money paid out. According to Phil Smith, National Political Director of the Concord Coalition, that cash cushion is in any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2010/04/22/concord-coalition/</link>
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		<title>Palm Beach Post: NYU professor tells Palm Beach County forum that the commercial real estate market scare is overblown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While many experts predict a pending commercial real estate crash that could devastate the tax base and further threaten bank stability, economist Hugh Kelly said reports of an apocalypse are overrated. Kelly, a New York University real estate professor who spoke to members of the Economic Forum of Palm Beach County today, said he knows he&#8217;s bucking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2010/03/25/palm-beach-post-nyu-professor-tells-palm-beach-county-forum-that-the-commercial-real-estate-market-scare-is-overblown/</link>
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		<title>Daily Business Review: New task force to target corruption in S. Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Gillies, the head of the FBI office in Miami, retells one particular tale of public corruption repeatedly these days. He said it shows how public corruption is often right out in the open for everyone to see. Speaking to the Economic Forum of Palm Beach County on Wednesday, Gillies said he worked a case in California [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2010/02/18/daily-business-review-new-task-force-to-target-corruption-in-s-florida/</link>
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		<title>John Browne on &#8220;The Illusion of Sound Finance&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Politicians and the media tell us our economy has tiptoed back from the brink of catastrophe and that a recovery is under way. They haven&#8217;t convinced John Browne, a former Conservative Member of Parliament under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who now writes and lectures on political, economic, financial and defense issues. A Palm Beach County [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2009/12/29/john-browne-on-the-illusion-of-sound-finance/</link>
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		<title>Photos from the November 2009 Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photos by Lee Hershfield lee.hershfield@me.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2009/12/29/photos-from-the-november-2009-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Palm Beach Post: Businesses capitalize on economic downturn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One year ago, the business world was in crisis. Now, 12 months later, entrepreneurs such as Michael Cabot are finding that crisis can be great for business. Cabot&#8217;s company, Mariner Asset Management Services of West Palm Beach, is scooping up foreclosed, distressed properties and renovating them to conform to new &#8220;green&#8221; standards for energy efficiency. Aging homes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.economicforumpbc.com/2009/12/21/palm-beach-post-businesses-capitalize-on-economic-downturn/</link>
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