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		<title>Eight Dollars and Ninety-nine Cents!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only $8.99. Nope, that&#8217;s not Citigroup&#8217;s new stock price (dream on!), but a suggested contribution to our Beer Fund. Our Beer Fund is kept in a locked box in the back of Sy Sperling&#8217;s roadster, and cannot be opened without a pair of matched keys, one of which is buried in a nest of wigs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blast From the Past: the Paul Leung Memo, 2000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we have a very young recruit to Salomon Smith Barney’s Investment Banking Division, barely 23, telling his bosses how they need to get on the stick and give the SSB kids the same favors and freebies that their ex-classmates at Lehman and Goldman Sachs are getting. Unlimited expense accounts, no responsibility for T&#38;E reports, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citigasp.com/2009/01/20/blast-from-the-past-the-paul-leung-memo-2000/</link>
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		<title>Gallows Humor: Somali Pirates in Discussions to Acquire Citigroup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Viral e-mail going around ex-Citi employees. Current Citi employees too, perhaps&#8212;but someone tried to send it a bunch of citi.com email addresses, and they all bounced. Surely they cannot have all been terminated. And yet&#8230;and yet&#8230;
Subject: FW: Somali Pirates in Discussions to Acquire Citigroup
November 20 (Bloomberg) &#8212; The Somali pirates, renegade Somalis known for hijacking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citigasp.com/2008/11/24/gallows-humor-somali-pirates-in-discussions-to-acquire-citigroup/</link>
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		<title>Yes, It&#8217;s Bailout Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) &#8212; The U.S. government may step in to rescue Citigroup Inc. after a crisis in confidence erased half the bank’s stock-market value in three days, according to investors and analysts. 
This is as good a time as any to remember that a few years ago Citi was the largest bank, not only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.citigasp.com/2008/11/22/yes-its-bailout-time/</link>
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		<title>Citi Readies for the Fire Sale&#8212;Stock Sinks to $3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Citi stock sank below $4 yesterday, then nudged up past the $5 mark this morning, in response to today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal report that Citi&#8217;s board was considering a sell-off of some or all of its segments.
Ooops! Investors just realized it&#8217;s not a seller&#8217;s market for financial companies. Back goes the stock to three-and-change.
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		<link>http://www.citigasp.com/2008/11/21/citi-readies-for-the-fire-salestock-sinks-to-3/</link>
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		<title>Citi Stock Will Never Go Below $20? So They Say.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Stockmasters.com, March 5, 2008:
&#8220;Yesterday Citigroup Inc. (Public, NYSE:C) hit a 52-week low and that may be the last time we see shares under $21.&#8221;
This is about six months after it hit a six-month low of $42.
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		<link>http://www.citigasp.com/2008/03/06/citi-stock-will-never-go-below-20-so-they-say/</link>
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		<title>Feel Daniel Was Trippington, Minor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who long doubted it finally had our values rearranged.
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