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	<title>Richard Ellis</title>
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	<description>Campaign for Utah State Treasurer</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Thank You!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you all for your support. It has come in so many ways—talking to neighbors, distributing literature, putting up signs and spreading the word in many different ways. I know many of you volunteered to help and we never got you involved, but hang in there. I will need lots of help for the general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now we’re just a couple days away from the primary election. My opponent continues to make statements that we need to focus on the issues. Having received three of his mailers, I keep waiting for him to discuss the issues of the State Treasurer’s office, but he continues to avoid them. He seems confused thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count down to the Primary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been too long since I’ve blogged. Too many things going on in my personal life and with the campaign, but with the Primary just around the corner, I thought it was a good time to check in again.
My opponent has pointed many of you to this site with his recent mailer. I should thank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the Record</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[earmarks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fiscal conservative]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[spending limit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tax cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a crazy couple of weeks on the campaign trail. That has made it difficult to keep the blog up. Today I would like to let you know my position on certain issues that have come to me in the form of questions from delegates.
The first issue concerns the assertion that I was instrumental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sub-prime mortgages strike the municipal debt market</title>
		<link>http://ellisfortreasurer.com/blog/sub-prime-mortgages-strike-the-municipal-debt-market</link>
		<comments>http://ellisfortreasurer.com/blog/sub-prime-mortgages-strike-the-municipal-debt-market#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ARS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bond insurer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bonding]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[liquidity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ratings]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[variable rate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember last summer when the first concerns about the sub-prime mortgage market were raised. The public was reassured that the damage was “contained” and wouldn’t ripple through to other segments of the capital markets. How wrong that has proven to be.
Now, nearly a year later, issuers of taxable and tax-exempt debt are scrambling to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Scale Credit Rating</title>
		<link>http://ellisfortreasurer.com/blog/global-scale-credit-rating</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[municipal bonds]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[tax-exempt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Treasurer Bill Lockyer of California is pushing the bond rating agencies to eliminate separate rating scales for tax-exempt and corporate bonds. In March, he circulated a letter to all state treasurers asking them to join him in his efforts. His work has not gone unnoticed by the rating agencies (at least Moody’s and Fitch). Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Treasurer&#8217;s Investment Fund</title>
		<link>http://ellisfortreasurer.com/blog/public-treasurers-investment-fund</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Duties]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[interest income]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PTIF]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[public treasurer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Treasurer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
One of the main functions of the State Treasurer’s office is managing the investments of the Public Treasurers’ Investment Fund (PTIF). The PTIF has operated in its present form since the early 1980s. It has become the primary investment vehicle for most public treasurers in the state.
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The PTIF operates similar to a money market fund. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Role of the State Treasurer</title>
		<link>http://ellisfortreasurer.com/blog/role-of-the-state-treasurer</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[experience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I went to dinner with a good friend several weeks ago and he asked me several probing questions about the office of State Treasurer and why I was running. His conclusion was, “You are running for an office for which there is a limited political platform, and in which no one shows much interest.” I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Richard Ellis for Utah State Treasurer blog</title>
		<link>http://ellisfortreasurer.com/blog/welcome-to-the-richard-ellis-for-utah-state-treasurer-blog</link>
		<comments>http://ellisfortreasurer.com/blog/welcome-to-the-richard-ellis-for-utah-state-treasurer-blog#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my blog. I thought this would be a means by which I could discuss current issues that are relevant to the State Treasurers office. On a weekly basis, I will update the blog with my thoughts regarding current events or topics that will aid you in deciding on the best candidate for Utah [...]]]></description>
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