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The Dow industrials closed yesterday at 11718.45, "their second-highest close on record and short of a closing level investors haven't seen since Jan. 14, 2000, when the blue-chip average closed at 11722.98 at the height of the dot-com bubble."&amp;nbsp;</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>It's the Economy ...</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/09/29/5076.aspx#5120</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:56:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:5120</guid><dc:creator>Brandon Makoroff, Los Angeles, Ca</dc:creator><description>Again this DO NOTHING CONGRESS has left the Middle Class with the stick up the you know what.  The extended the tax breaks for Corporations and their rich friends but for the rest of us it is business as usuall.  We alway get the short shift.</description></item></channel></rss>