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		<title> Annual Review: The Big List</title>
		<link>http://stockgumshoe.com/2012/02/annual-review-the-big-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Picture / Asset Allocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idea of the Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acadian Timber (ADN.TO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Activision Blizzard (ATVI)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akamai (AKAM)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AltaGas (ALA.TO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazil Fast Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canyon Services Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cielo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CoreSite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorchester Minerals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Epsilon Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ferrovial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flowserve]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NagaCorp]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Northern Property REIT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Otter Tail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pembina Pipeline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petrolia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reckitt Benckiser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandstorm Metals and Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seadrill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sprott Resource Corp.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[StoneMor Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superior Plus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swiss Helvetia Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veraz Petroleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westport Innovations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weyerhauser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimmer Holdings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the past couple weeks going over my updated opinions on all of the past &#8220;Idea of the Month&#8221; stocks (or at least, those that haven&#8217;t already been dropped from coverage over the years), and I promised to put them all in one big list in order of likingness (yes, I know it&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Annual Review &#8212; Insurance, tech, and all the rest</title>
		<link>http://stockgumshoe.com/2012/02/annual-review-insurance-tech-and-all-the-rest/</link>
		<comments>http://stockgumshoe.com/2012/02/annual-review-insurance-tech-and-all-the-rest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friday File]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idea of the Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Activision Blizzard (ATVI)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flowserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FTI Consulting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swiss Helvetia Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westport Innovations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimmer Holdings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m filling in the updated thoughts on all the other stocks that are still in our semi-active universe of &#8220;Idea of the Month&#8221; picks from past years (ie, we haven&#8217;t dropped them for reaching a price target, or being dumb mistakes that have been crushed). These are, as with the rest of the updates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;10 Best Stocks to Hold Forever&#8221; (part one)</title>
		<link>http://stockgumshoe.com/reviews/streetauthoritys-top-ten-stocks/10-best-stocks-to-hold-forever-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://stockgumshoe.com/reviews/streetauthoritys-top-ten-stocks/10-best-stocks-to-hold-forever-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Income Investing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALPS Alerian MLP (AMLP)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brookfield Infrastructure Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JP Morgan Alerian MLP Index ETN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mastercard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Tracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Morris International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[StreetAuthority]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Tracy of StreetAuthority has been touting a special report he&#8217;s selling called &#8220;10 Best Stocks to Hold Forever&#8221; &#8212; he uses the example of the March 2009 market bottom as a great time to buy dominant, dividend-paying multinational companies &#8230; &#8230; and says that the recent market weakness again points at the opportunity provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Catchup, part two: Buys, sells, holds and &#8220;I dunno&#8217;s&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://stockgumshoe.com/2011/01/catchup-part-two-buys-sells-holds-and-i-dunnos/</link>
		<comments>http://stockgumshoe.com/2011/01/catchup-part-two-buys-sells-holds-and-i-dunnos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Picture / Asset Allocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friday File]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akamai (AKAM)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AltaGas (ALA.TO, ATGFF)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil Fast Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China North East Petroleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cielo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deer Consumer Products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Husky Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lonrho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NagaCorp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Fuel Gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Flyer Industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pembina Pipeline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharps Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viterra]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stockgumshoe.com/premium/irregulars/?p=517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I started my annual navel-gazing exercise of looking back at past &#8220;idea of the month&#8221; stock (and other investment) suggestions &#8211; that first look covered the first year or so of these more formalized ideas for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars, from 2008 to mid-2009, and now we&#8217;ll try to catch up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title> November Idea of the Month: Worried?  Look at Markel for a Rare Low Valuation and Growing Book Value</title>
		<link>http://stockgumshoe.com/2009/11/november-idea-of-the-month-worried-look-at-markel-for-a-rare-low-valuation-and-growing-book-value/</link>
		<comments>http://stockgumshoe.com/2009/11/november-idea-of-the-month-worried-look-at-markel-for-a-rare-low-valuation-and-growing-book-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Idea of the Month]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stockgumshoe.com/premium/irregulars/?p=169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This month I actually did a lot of pondering about which idea rattling around in my head would be most useful to share with my favorite folks, the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars (yes, that&#8217;s you!).  For a while I was considering an obscure closed end fund that owns a big chunk of a private insurer, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Buying on Bad Earnings: Markel</title>
		<link>http://stockgumshoe.com/2008/11/buying-on-bad-earnings-markel/</link>
		<comments>http://stockgumshoe.com/2008/11/buying-on-bad-earnings-markel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Portfolio Comments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a few more shares of Markel (MKL) today. The specialty insurer had an awful quarter, announced this morning &#8212; big losses, and terrible investment performance. Probably not terribly shocking, since we&#8217;re coming off of a couple big storms and the company&#8217;s portfolio focus in strongly on value investing, and we all know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ten Minute Work Week:  The Greatest Business in America&#8221; Ferris Extreme Value</title>
		<link>http://stockgumshoe.com/reviews/extreme-value/ten-minute-work-week-the-greatest-business-in-america-ferris-extreme-value/</link>
		<comments>http://stockgumshoe.com/reviews/extreme-value/ten-minute-work-week-the-greatest-business-in-america-ferris-extreme-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allstate (ALL)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extreme value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ferris]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Markel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WR Berkley]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stockgumshoe.com/?p=542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now this one sounds exciting, eh? I don&#8217;t want to say that the mighty, mighty Gumshoe is a lazy man, but I must admit that the idea of a work week that lasts only ten minutes has some appeal &#8230; what the heck are they talking about? It&#8217;ll take me longer than ten minutes, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title> Markel Almost Looking Cheap?  Barron&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://stockgumshoe.com/2008/05/markel-almost-looking-cheap-barrons/</link>
		<comments>http://stockgumshoe.com/2008/05/markel-almost-looking-cheap-barrons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 12:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Portfolio Comments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barron&#8217;s had a feature article today on Markel Corp., essentially saying what the Motley Fool teaser emails have been saying for years: that this is a potential successor to Berkshire Hathaway as the next great insurance stock. We&#8217;ve seen dozens of stocks touted as the &#8220;next Berkshire Hathaway,&#8221; of course, but this one has been [...]]]></description>
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