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            <title><![CDATA[Who's Going Down?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-13/bear-stearns-worst-nightmare/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Only two minor Wall Street executives have been charged with fraud so far, but The Daily Beast's Charlie Gasparino reports the pair may implicate the leaders of their old firm, Bear Stearns.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Era of High Profits Is Over]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino says the crisis for Wall Street-and the states that depend on it-is just beginning.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Toyota Chief: We'll Rebound...by 2014!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Even the company that sells the most cars in the U.S. sees a rocky road ahead. In an exclusive, Toyota President Jim Lentz shares his plan to avoid Detroit's fate.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the Economics Profession Failed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At the annual meeting of American Economists, most everyone refused to admit their failures to prepare or warn about the second worst crisis of the century.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is There a Plan B?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-29/does-obama-have-a-plan-b/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[As the president heads to the G-20 summit, one of America's most respected international economists warns that Geithner's plan repeats errors Japan made in the 1990s. By Adam Posen.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rebuilding America: A Man With A Plan]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-18/felix-rohatyn-to-the-rescue/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[From the Louisiana Purchase to the Panama Canal to the G.I. Bill, legendary banker Felix Rohatyn chronicles how a nation that's falling apart was once built-and can rebuild.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Geithner Too Timid?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Critics are blasting the Treasury secretary as "timid Timmy" for his weak bailout plan and his staffing woes. Is he moving too slowly? Or will his measured approach stave off future disasters?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[6 Meltdown Winners]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ 
Position: U.S. Treasury Secretary
A 
Win:   Got the job despite tax problems and housekeeper work status issues that should have tanked his prospects.
A 
As president of the New York Federal Reserve when the meltdown occurred, Geithner was there...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meltdown Losers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Position: Federal Reserve chairman (1987-2006)
Sin: Sowed the seeds of market excess.


The well-burnished legacy of Greenspan, the oracle of the free market and most important financial figure of the last two decades, was irreparably tarnished by...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will Thain's CIT Gamble Pay Off?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[He may be taking a massive pay cut from a $43 million salary to $5.5 million, but taking over as the head of CIT Group might be John Thain's smartest move yet, writes The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. The smaller salary may be good public...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Big Tax Break]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After a State of the Union address that heavily emphasized job creation, President Obama is set to reveal a plan with $33 billion in tax breaks in an attempt to "give a little extra incentive" for hiring and pay raises among small-business owners. The...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Probe into AIG]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[More heat on Timothy Geithner: Neil Barofsky, the inspector general of the TARP program, is set to tell a House panel on Wednesday that he is going to investigate the government's rescue of AIG. Barofsky will look for "misconduct relating to the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman's Record Profits]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs put the "gold" back in their name during the last quarter of 2009. The company logged a whopping net income of $4.95 billion during the quarter that ended Dec. 31, compared to a $2.12 billion loss over the same period in 2008, Bloomberg...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fed Profits From AIG Deal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve has taken some knocks for giving banks 100 cents on the dollar for credit insurance bought from AIG, but that may have been a sound investment. According to the Financial Times, the Fed is sitting on billions in paper profits from...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: Banks Will Pay]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's hard to find a less popular foil for the White House than bailed-out banks, and the administration is doing its best to show off its new plan to make financial firms pay for the unpopular bailout. President Obama talked up the proposal in his...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Speeds Up Bank Repayment]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama will announce Thursday the new plan to recoup losses from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, by imposing a fee on the country's largest financial firms. An official said that the proposal has been on the table since as early as August,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Subpoenas for New York Fed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Could Timothy Geithner be next? Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) has announced he will subpoena the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for documents related to the bailout of AIG. The demand comes as part of the House Financial Services Committee's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fed Protects Bailed-Out Firms]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan to block an unprecedented ruling that would compel the central bank to reveal the financial firms that would have likely failed without the largest government bailout in U.S. history....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Banks Ready for Bonus Backlash]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While most Americans are grappling with record unemployment and other effects of the Great Recession, banks are gearing up for bonus season, and payoffs this year are likely to be unchanged from pre-recession numbers, ranging from six to eight figures...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Putin Bails Out Tycoons]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska is back from the brink of financial ruin due in large part to bailouts from the Kremlin and a deal postponing repayment of $7 billion in foreign loans. Deripaska also took his aluminum business UC Rusal public-and a bank...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Americans Saving More]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Faced with a weak economy, Americans are saving much more than they did just a few years ago, despite dismal unemployment numbers. The savings rate in October reached 4.4 percent, up from 0.8 percent in April 2008; some economists say the rate could...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mortgage Giants Get Unlimited Govt Backing]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a move that allows the White House to provide emergency aid without going through Congress, the Obama administration said Thursday that it would provide unlimited financial assistance to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The companies were taken over by...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[AIG Fails to Pay Back Bonuses]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo struck a deal with American International Group: Cuomo would not publicize the names of employees who received $165 million in bonuses from the Financial Products division-which handled the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lobbyists' Best Year Ever?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The economy may still be struggling but it's a great time to be a lobbyist, thanks in large part to the political efforts of the Obama administration. Amid huge debates over legislation for climate change, health care, and financial reform, lobbyists...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will Census Spark Economy?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Looking for a job? Try the Census office. The 2010 Census will create about 1.2 million temporary but well-paid jobs, putting about $2.3 billion into the economy and providing a small, but possibly vital, stimulus. "It's a form of stimulus," said Mark...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[TARP Exits Spoiled by Disagreements]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The transition of Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co. out of the federal bailout program this week has been anything but smooth, with bank officials blaming the Treasury Department for a series of difficulties in the process and a decline in share value....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[TARP Exits Cause Friction]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite the supposed good news that Citigroup and Wells Fargo planned to leave the shelter of TARP this week, the two banking giants' stock sales led to infighting and finger-pointing between bank executives, regulators, and federal officials over the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[BofA Finally Settles on New CEO]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Well, at least one person in America was able to find a new job this month. Brian Moynihan, head of Bank of America's consumer and small-business banking operations, was named new CEO of the banking giant, succeeding Ken Lewis, who announced his...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Case for Economic Optimism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Alan Blinder, a Princeton economics professor and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, says the economy is on its way out of the recession. First, he writes in The Wall Street Journal, the GDP is showing some evidence of a "slingshot...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Time Picks Bernanke]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ben Shalom Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve, is Time's Person of the Year for 2009 because "he is the most important player guiding the world's most important economy." Much of Time's profile focuses on how Bernanke's roots as an academic have...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Did Missed Meeting Hurt Bankers?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The bank execs who missed Monday's meeting with the White House--claiming "inclement weather" would delay their flights-would do well to remember the old Wall Street adage "you can't fax a handshake," writes Andrew Ross Sorkin in his DealBook column....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wells Fargo Paying Back TARP]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Following the trend of Citigroup and Bank of America, Wells Fargo received the Treasury Department's authorization to leave TARP after agreeing to repay the entire $25 billion the bank was given in bailout funds last year. The bank's president and...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Citigroup, the last large bank left with the Treasury designation of "exceptional assistance," has reached an agreement with the Treasury Department and regulators on how it will repay $20 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds. The bank will...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi Bails Out Dubai for $10B]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a surprise bailout, Abu Dhabi gave $10 billion to its debt-ridden neighbor Dubai to keep its flagship company, Dubai World, afloat through the end of April. As a condition of the loan, Dubai World, which rocked global markets when it asked creditors...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Citigroup Close to Paying Back Billions]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Citigroup may soon become the last big Wall Street bank to return bailout funds to the government. The bank's executives plan to announce their program to pay back billions in TARP funds as early as Monday, after negotiating with senior government...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Bailout for Main Street?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The White House is eyeing the possibility of using bailout money for loans to small businesses in the hopes that they will hire and lower unemployment. The proposal, the details of which are still up in the air, would create a new entity under the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[BofA Repays TARP Loan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Call off the repo men: Bank of America reported today that it has now repaid its TARP loans in full, having cut a check to the government for the full $45 billion owed. The bank, which is the United States' biggest lender, said that it funded the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Watchdog: Bailout Worked]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After all the flack he's taken, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner must be happy after the bailout watchdog said the government's $700 billion bailout helped avert economic disaster. However, it wasn't all roses for Geithner, as the watchdog panel...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Homeowner Bailout Gains Momentum]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's been joked about, and now it could become a reality: Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) has unveiled legislation to send $3 billion of the $700 billion financial bailout to homeowners in the form of emergency mortgage aid. Frank's amendment is attached to a...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:44:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Desperate Gay Pander]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The president should be focusing on jobs and reaching out to the GOP. So this seems like an especially crazy time to revisit "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"-and reinflame the culture wars.
How has "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" suddenly become one of Obama's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lee Siegel]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:39:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Geithner Toast?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The Treasury secretary testified Wednesday that he had no role in disclosures about AIG's payments to banks. Charlie Gasparino on his slim chance to save his job.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's job is on the line. That seems to be the consensus...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:51:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bernanke in Denial]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Time's Man of the Year helped start 2010 with a roaring stock market rally. But his recent statements should strike fear: Nomi Prins on how the Fed boss failed to learn from 2009. 
Now Ben Bernanke wants better regulation?
The Fed chairman's speech...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:26:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Are Blacks Abandoning Obama?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Danny Glover, Jesse Jackson, and other activists talk to Lloyd Grove about disappointment in the African-American community with the president's first year.
Danny Glover heaved a sigh when I asked him recently what he thought of President Obama's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lloyd Grove]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:20:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman's Bogus Bonus Ploy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Former Goldman managing director Nomi Prins says the Wall Street giant wants the public to believe it slashed executive bonuses-but behind the spin, compensation is higher, taxes are deferred, and risk is way up. 
It's so damn tough to be Goldman...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:23:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's 7 Wacky Global-Warming Fixes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on experimental global-warming fixes, from algae fuel to drills that find natural heat miles under the Earth's surface. Are the new technologies boondoggles, or game-changers? 
The...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Bradford Plumer]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Worse Than Enron?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wall Street's big banks are playing dangerous new accounting games-and this time taxpayers are on the hook for hundreds of billions. Nomi Prins uncovers a scandal in the making.
Enron was the financial scandal that kicked off the decade: a giant...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:17:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is This Another Bubble?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The markets are rallying as home purchases are up 10 percent-to a 6.1 million annual rate, the highest level since February 2007-and gold rose to a new high on the back of a weaker dollar. But Charlie Gasparino says it may be just another case of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:37:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street Will Walk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After two former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers were acquitted of fraud charges last week, Charlie Gasparino says prosecutors are afraid to bring new cases. And that's a good thing.
It usually doesn't get much easier for the prosecution: a  pair of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:51:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush's Rose-Colored Glasses]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his first major domestic speech since leaving office, George W. Bush sounded many of the themes he campaigned on in 2000. Richard Wolffe on the things he didn't say. 
The man standing on stage in a Dallas auditorium Thursday was a lot grayer than...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Richard Wolffe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:38:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Just Another Politician]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Once perceived as transformative, Obama now looks more and more like a regular politician, ensnared by petty squabbles, obsessed with politics instead of leadership, and often paralyzed by decision-making.
A year ago, Barack Obama was elected in a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Monica Crowley]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:15:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Big Banks Fleece You]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While the government bails out big banks, the big banks squeeze the little guy. The Daily Beast's Nomi Prins calculates how individual banking fees fund their risky activity.
Too big to fail means big enough to screw taxpayers twice.
That's my...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:43:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why the Democrats Should Lose]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Tuesday's elections are a referendum on Obama's first year, right? But The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart argues if the Democrats don't take a hit, the White House isn't doing its job.
Here's a secret: Most of the people you see yapping on cable TV...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:39:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pay Cut Backfire]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By putting compensation caps on some bailed-out firms, pay czar Kenneth Feinberg sent a message, writes Nomi Prins. But he also strengthened the hands of the rest, including Goldman Sachs.
Kenneth Feinberg, the so-called pay czar who President Obama...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:57:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Keynes Is King]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Keynes biographer Robert Skidelsky explains why, after decades of being ignored, the economist is back-and why we ought to keep his warnings in mind, even as the economy restarts.
"I guess everyone's a Keynesian in the foxhole," ruminated Robert...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Robert Skidelsky]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:24:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Paulson's Revealing Phone Records]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While the economy was crashing last year, exclusively analyzed telephone records reveal the ex-Treasury secretary was talking far more to Obama and Geithner than Bush and McCain.
Timothy Geithner's just-released phone records caused quite a stir last...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:45:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Michael Moore's Muse]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[She's a plain-spoken pol from Toledo who wants to put Wall Street bankers behind bars. Meet Marcy Kaptur, in theaters now as the scourge of greed in Capitalism: A Love Story.
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur steals the show in Michael Moore's new movie...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Liz Goodwin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:28:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Coming Bank Bust]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This weekend is the one-year anniversary of the bailout. But The Daily Beast's Nomi Prins says the too-big-to-fail banks have only gotten bigger-and much worse could be on its way. 
Any 5 year old who plays with Legos or blocks could address the issue...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:54:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Things to Watch for at the G-20]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-23/5-things-to-watch-for-at-the-g-20/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[  As the world's leaders discuss the world's problems in Pittsburgh tomorrow, Steven R. Weisman breaks down what's at stake-climate change, economic recovery, banking reform.
A century ago Pittsburgh was home to one of the greatest concentrations of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Steven R. Weisman]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:18:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Pittsburgh Checklist]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Avoiding another meltdown will consume tomorrow's G-20 meetings. The Daily Beast's Nomi Prins on the enormous stakes-and how it will play out.
The third installment of the G-20 post-crisis trilogy begins tomorrow in Pittsburgh. In the original...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:46:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Which Bank Could Implode Next?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-21/which-bank-will-implode-next/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ The G-20 leaders will meet in Pittsburgh Thursday to discuss slashing banker bonuses, but they're focusing on the wrong threat. Nomi Prins handicaps who will prompt the next meltdown.
The G-20 leaders will descend on Pittsburgh Thursday for a two-day...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:56:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop The Bailouts]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-15/the-birth-of-bailout-nation/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[A year ago today, the government rescued AIG, beginning a process that has given Wall Street every reason to double down on bad bets. We deserve to know when it's going to end.
Financial bailouts of seem like yesterday's news these days. They happen...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:44:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Meltdown's 10 Biggest Losers]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-15/the-meltdowns-10-biggest-losers/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[  The whole country lost out when the U.S. economy fell off a cliff a year ago, but who are the 10 with the most egg on their faces or blood on their hands? VIEW OUR ROGUES GALLERY.
Click Image To View Our Gallery

Allan Dodds Frank is a business...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:51:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Next Meltdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Obama came to Wall Street today to chide it for ignoring lessons, but it's Washington that's embracing the current system, reinflating the bubble-with taxpayer dollars,&nbsp;writes Nomi Prins.
President Barack Obama was right today to remind us how...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Unnecessary Meltdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A year ago today, Wall Street imploded. But as William Cohan reports, a little-known meeting two years earlier started the runaway snowball-and also could have prevented the catastrophe.
As we parse through the rubble of the one-year anniversary of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[William D. Cohan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:21:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meltdown: The Movie]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One year ago this week, Wall Street imploded. Who would portray the key players in a Hollywood disaster movie? The Daily Beast crashes on the casting couch.
Click Image to View Our Gallery

Xtra Insight: View more galleries of dream casting inspired...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:35:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Robert Rubin's Agony]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ What keeps the former Clinton economic star up at night? Friends blame him for the Citigroup fiasco. And Rubin can't figure out how he didn't see it coming.
People who know Robert Rubin say he never thought that it would end this way. In a span of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:02:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Cartoons]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  With beleaguered congressmen facing down angry mobs at Obamacare town halls, August has proven neither slow nor lazy for editorial cartoonists. VIEW OUR GALLERY of this week's best satire.
 Click Image to View Our Gallery 
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:00:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[August 2: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner flubs a question about taxes, Michelle Malkin slams the unemployed, and John McCain still stands by his woman. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Read My Lips: There May Be Taxes. Or Not.
The big news coming out of Sunday talk...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:46:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grow a Pair, Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a Daily Beast exclusive, Larry Flynt, the notorious publisher of Hustler magazine, tells the president to toughen up, keep his campaign promises, and start whacking the Republicans.
President Obama:
You have proven to be a great campaigner. You...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Larry Flynt]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:51:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Desperate Gay Pander]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The president should be focusing on jobs and reaching out to the GOP. So this seems like an especially crazy time to revisit "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"-and reinflame the culture wars.
How has "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" suddenly become one of Obama's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lee Siegel]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:39:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Geithner Toast?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The Treasury secretary testified Wednesday that he had no role in disclosures about AIG's payments to banks. Charlie Gasparino on his slim chance to save his job.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's job is on the line. That seems to be the consensus...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:51:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bernanke in Denial]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Time's Man of the Year helped start 2010 with a roaring stock market rally. But his recent statements should strike fear: Nomi Prins on how the Fed boss failed to learn from 2009. 
Now Ben Bernanke wants better regulation?
The Fed chairman's speech...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:26:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Are Blacks Abandoning Obama?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Danny Glover, Jesse Jackson, and other activists talk to Lloyd Grove about disappointment in the African-American community with the president's first year.
Danny Glover heaved a sigh when I asked him recently what he thought of President Obama's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lloyd Grove]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:20:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman's Bogus Bonus Ploy]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-11/goldmans-bogus-bonus-ploy/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Former Goldman managing director Nomi Prins says the Wall Street giant wants the public to believe it slashed executive bonuses-but behind the spin, compensation is higher, taxes are deferred, and risk is way up. 
It's so damn tough to be Goldman...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:23:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's 7 Wacky Global-Warming Fixes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on experimental global-warming fixes, from algae fuel to drills that find natural heat miles under the Earth's surface. Are the new technologies boondoggles, or game-changers? 
The...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Bradford Plumer]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:31:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Worse Than Enron?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wall Street's big banks are playing dangerous new accounting games-and this time taxpayers are on the hook for hundreds of billions. Nomi Prins uncovers a scandal in the making.
Enron was the financial scandal that kicked off the decade: a giant...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:17:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is This Another Bubble?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The markets are rallying as home purchases are up 10 percent-to a 6.1 million annual rate, the highest level since February 2007-and gold rose to a new high on the back of a weaker dollar. But Charlie Gasparino says it may be just another case of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:37:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street Will Walk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After two former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers were acquitted of fraud charges last week, Charlie Gasparino says prosecutors are afraid to bring new cases. And that's a good thing.
It usually doesn't get much easier for the prosecution: a  pair of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:51:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush's Rose-Colored Glasses]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his first major domestic speech since leaving office, George W. Bush sounded many of the themes he campaigned on in 2000. Richard Wolffe on the things he didn't say. 
The man standing on stage in a Dallas auditorium Thursday was a lot grayer than...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Richard Wolffe]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:38:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Just Another Politician]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Once perceived as transformative, Obama now looks more and more like a regular politician, ensnared by petty squabbles, obsessed with politics instead of leadership, and often paralyzed by decision-making.
A year ago, Barack Obama was elected in a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Monica Crowley]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:15:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Big Banks Fleece You]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While the government bails out big banks, the big banks squeeze the little guy. The Daily Beast's Nomi Prins calculates how individual banking fees fund their risky activity.
Too big to fail means big enough to screw taxpayers twice.
That's my...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:43:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why the Democrats Should Lose]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Tuesday's elections are a referendum on Obama's first year, right? But The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart argues if the Democrats don't take a hit, the White House isn't doing its job.
Here's a secret: Most of the people you see yapping on cable TV...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:39:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pay Cut Backfire]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By putting compensation caps on some bailed-out firms, pay czar Kenneth Feinberg sent a message, writes Nomi Prins. But he also strengthened the hands of the rest, including Goldman Sachs.
Kenneth Feinberg, the so-called pay czar who President Obama...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:57:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Keynes Is King]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-13/why-keynes-is-king/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Keynes biographer Robert Skidelsky explains why, after decades of being ignored, the economist is back-and why we ought to keep his warnings in mind, even as the economy restarts.
"I guess everyone's a Keynesian in the foxhole," ruminated Robert...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Robert Skidelsky]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:24:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Paulson's Revealing Phone Records]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-12/paulsons-revealing-phone-records/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[While the economy was crashing last year, exclusively analyzed telephone records reveal the ex-Treasury secretary was talking far more to Obama and Geithner than Bush and McCain.
Timothy Geithner's just-released phone records caused quite a stir last...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:45:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Michael Moore's Muse]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-06/michael-moores-muse/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[She's a plain-spoken pol from Toledo who wants to put Wall Street bankers behind bars. Meet Marcy Kaptur, in theaters now as the scourge of greed in Capitalism: A Love Story.
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur steals the show in Michael Moore's new movie...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Liz Goodwin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:28:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Coming Bank Bust]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This weekend is the one-year anniversary of the bailout. But The Daily Beast's Nomi Prins says the too-big-to-fail banks have only gotten bigger-and much worse could be on its way. 
Any 5 year old who plays with Legos or blocks could address the issue...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:54:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Things to Watch for at the G-20]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  As the world's leaders discuss the world's problems in Pittsburgh tomorrow, Steven R. Weisman breaks down what's at stake-climate change, economic recovery, banking reform.
A century ago Pittsburgh was home to one of the greatest concentrations of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Steven R. Weisman]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:18:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Pittsburgh Checklist]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Avoiding another meltdown will consume tomorrow's G-20 meetings. The Daily Beast's Nomi Prins on the enormous stakes-and how it will play out.
The third installment of the G-20 post-crisis trilogy begins tomorrow in Pittsburgh. In the original...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:46:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Which Bank Could Implode Next?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The G-20 leaders will meet in Pittsburgh Thursday to discuss slashing banker bonuses, but they're focusing on the wrong threat. Nomi Prins handicaps who will prompt the next meltdown.
The G-20 leaders will descend on Pittsburgh Thursday for a two-day...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:56:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop The Bailouts]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-15/the-birth-of-bailout-nation/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[A year ago today, the government rescued AIG, beginning a process that has given Wall Street every reason to double down on bad bets. We deserve to know when it's going to end.
Financial bailouts of seem like yesterday's news these days. They happen...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:44:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Meltdown's 10 Biggest Losers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The whole country lost out when the U.S. economy fell off a cliff a year ago, but who are the 10 with the most egg on their faces or blood on their hands? VIEW OUR ROGUES GALLERY.
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            <title><![CDATA[The Next Meltdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Obama came to Wall Street today to chide it for ignoring lessons, but it's Washington that's embracing the current system, reinflating the bubble-with taxpayer dollars,&nbsp;writes Nomi Prins.
President Barack Obama was right today to remind us how...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:41:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Unnecessary Meltdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A year ago today, Wall Street imploded. But as William Cohan reports, a little-known meeting two years earlier started the runaway snowball-and also could have prevented the catastrophe.
As we parse through the rubble of the one-year anniversary of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[William D. Cohan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:21:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meltdown: The Movie]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One year ago this week, Wall Street imploded. Who would portray the key players in a Hollywood disaster movie? The Daily Beast crashes on the casting couch.
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Xtra Insight: View more galleries of dream casting inspired...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:35:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Robert Rubin's Agony]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ What keeps the former Clinton economic star up at night? Friends blame him for the Citigroup fiasco. And Rubin can't figure out how he didn't see it coming.
People who know Robert Rubin say he never thought that it would end this way. In a span of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:02:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Week in Cartoons]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  With beleaguered congressmen facing down angry mobs at Obamacare town halls, August has proven neither slow nor lazy for editorial cartoonists. VIEW OUR GALLERY of this week's best satire.
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:00:28 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[August 2: 7 Best Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner flubs a question about taxes, Michelle Malkin slams the unemployed, and John McCain still stands by his woman. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Read My Lips: There May Be Taxes. Or Not.
The big news coming out of Sunday talk...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:46:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grow a Pair, Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a Daily Beast exclusive, Larry Flynt, the notorious publisher of Hustler magazine, tells the president to toughen up, keep his campaign promises, and start whacking the Republicans.
President Obama:
You have proven to be a great campaigner. You...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Larry Flynt]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:51:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Onion: AK-47s for Everyone?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/the-onion-parody-economic-stimulus-in-congo/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Here's one economic stimulus package the Obama administration has probably never considered. (We hope.) Perhaps only the visionaries at The Onion can see the brilliance of it?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:54:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush Opposes Bush-Era Bailout?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Remember the $700 billion Wall Street bailout former President George W. Bush authorized? Bush does, and he's still expressing misgivings about it. Here's an excerpt from his speech at SMU Thursday.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:54:27 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Steve Forbes: Don't Blame the CEO]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Steve Forbes defends bonuses in cases where the CEO "performed." The government created this mess anyhow. In other words, don't hate the player. Source: GMA]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:59:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Frank Talks Dirty About Economy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Apparently the "message people" in D.C. don't talk to Barney Frank much. It couldn't be because he mocks their advice, could it? Clip above; full video here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:23:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buffett: Stimulus is like Viagra]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Do we need a second stimulus package? Here's Warren Buffett's odd take on GMA, where he says the first was like taking half a pill of Viagra with candy mixed in. Yikes. Full interview here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:25:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Michael Moore's New Documentary]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/untitled-michael-moore-doc-trailer/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[CEOs beware: Michael Moore is coming after you (again). Check out this teaser, just released, for Moore's new documentary. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:37:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: You're Called to Sacrifice ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama spoke directly to the families hit by GM's bankruptcy and told them they were being called to sacrifice. Will that really soften the blow?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:50:17 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sheila Bair: We Don't Go Broke]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/shelia-bair-we-are-the-government-/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The FDIC chair claims they won't go broke as they're backed by the government's 'full faith and credit.' What's the exchange rate now for faith to Euros? Clip above; full video here.  ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:23:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama on Credit Card Abuses]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama, speaking in Albuquerque, NM, addresses the myriad issues credit cards and credit card debt present to families. Source: Fox Business ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 May 2009 13:21:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney: Obama's 'Devastating' Move]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney again comes out swinging against Obama on part two of his interview with  Sean Hannity, this time going after the president's economic policies. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:23:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Professor Obama Defends TARP]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an extensive speech on the economy at Georgetown University Tuesday, President Obama dons his old professor's hat and defended the 'broader principle' behind TARP.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:32:41 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Billy Bob Thornton, Real Musician]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/billy-bobs-meltdown/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Billy Bob Thornton was on Canadian public CBC radio and flipped out after the host introduced him as-gasp-an actor. Clip above; full video here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:58:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geithner Talks Tough]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Watch out, Wall Street. On Face the Nation, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says bailed-out bank CEOs may soon face the same fate as GM's Rick Wagoner.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:14:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Fate Of GM]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama spoke on Monday about the adjustments facing GM and the more extreme changes to take place at Chrysler. Source: Fox News]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:22:22 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Hate the Player]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On The View Thursday, Barbara Walters defended rich people who donate wings to buildings and cure caner. Yeah, what did the hoi polloi ever do for society?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:08:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's 'Gallows Humor']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What's a president to do when facing two wars and a worldwide economic collapse? Laugh occasionally, Obama tells 60 Minutes. Clip above; full video here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:59:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Palin Rejects Stimulus]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Thursday Governor Sarah Palin announced Alaska will reject millions in federal stimulus dollars and called for public debate on the issue.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:14:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shh! I'm Passing the Buck.]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/barney-on-cbs-early-show/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[A cranky Barney Frank appeared on The Early Show Wednesday to let everyone know the Fed ruined the economy, not Congress. So please, let him finish. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:02:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gibbs Compares Briefing to Torture]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/gibbs-compares-wh-press-briefing-to-torture/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[After being thoroughly grilled on AIG bonuses at Tuesday's press briefing, Robert Gibbs describes his treatment from the press corps as 'torture.' Source: CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:05:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Friedman: Bernanke's Drugged]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/thomas-friedman-econ-junkie/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[On GMA Tuesday, the usually hopeful Tom Friedman jokes Ben Bernanke must be on drugs to think the economy is healing. He is joking, right?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:51:23 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bring Hank Back?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/fromer-aig-ceo-reacts-to-bonuses/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg doesn't understand why the execs are getting bonuses and says the company needs a new leader. Is he the man for the job? Source: Fox News  ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:39:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bair: The End of Big Banks?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Should there be a permanent ban on banks the size of, say, Citigroup? That's what FDIC chair Sheila Bair hinted at on 60 Minutes last night. Clip above; full segment here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:04:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buffett Slams Democrats]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Warren Buffett makes no secret of having voted for President Obama, but that doesn't mean he's thrilled about the earmarks in his stimulus bill. Clip above; full interview here.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[SNL Spoofs Geithner]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The economic crisis is no laughing matter, except in the hands of Saturday Night Live, which spoofed the treasury secretary last night.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: We Will Endure]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his weekly address, President Obama assures Americans that 'at this defining moment, we will prove ourselves worthy of the sacrifice of those who came before us.']]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Defends Economic Plan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Speaking at a police academy graduation in Ohio, Obama details some of the jobs the stimulus plan has already saved, including those of the graduating cadets. Source: CNN]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amid talk of bailouts and Senate hearings, employees of General Motors-a company whose shares plunged to a 75-year low this week-are seriously worried about their futures.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hard Times Hit Dubai]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Only months ago the world watched the lavish opening of the Palm Hotel in Dubai.  Now the government is forced to protect Emerati citizens from losing their jobs to foreigners.  ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stewart Takes Down CNBC]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This is what The Daily Show does best: highlighting shoddy reporting at its worst. Clip above; full video here.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Teflon Timmy's Latest Scandal]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's is on the defensive again over new allegations about AIG's bailout money. The Daily Beast on why the critics can't bring him down.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will the Bubble Pop Again in 2010?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The stock market made a historic recovery in the past six months, but can it keep it up for the new year? Some analysts say it's unsustainable, as low interest rates can only do so much, and there are signs that another bubble may be right around the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Have We Turned the Corner?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bank profits are up, job numbers are down, and the market is erratic-is the economy any closer to a rebound? Six smart takes from business leaders and Nobel laureates.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[IS THE BANKING CRISIS OVER?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wall Street flexed its earnings muscles this week: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup reported surprising billion-dollar profits. So is the worst finally behind us? A breakdown of the latest reasons to be skeptical or go dance in the streets.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Money Men Analyze Geithner's Plan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Will the new White House bank plan work? The Daily Beast asked financier Ace Greenberg, real-estate mogul Mort Zuckerman, the man who saved Sweden, and others to weigh in on the strategy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Do We Get Our Money Back?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating Merrill Lynch for allegedly cooking the books in order to justify $3.6 billion in bonuses as the company tanked. Is there any way to get that money back? The Daily Beast talked to five experts,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Timmy Too Timid?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Critics are already blasting Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for his vague bank-bailout plan, his staffing woes, and his failure to act on bank-nationalization--with some  even calling for his resignation. CNBC's Jim Cramer has nicknamed him "Timid...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Six New Stimulus Woes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama doesn't even sign the stimulus until tomorrow, but critics are already saying it's doomed. Even senior White House adviser David Axelrod downplayed the bill's effectiveness on several TV appearances this weekend, saying the economy...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:44:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is the Honeymoon Over Yet?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As his second week in office begins, President Obama faces confirmation battles and economic negotiations at home, conflict abroad with Afghanistan and Iraq, and even issues in the press corps. While there's still plenty of goodwill for the new...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:17:16 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Inbox]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The wait is over. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America.  Now comes the hard part: confronting the many crises at home and abroad that Obama laid out in Tuesday's inaugural address. What are the top items in President...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Obama's Stimulus Big Enough?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A starting figure of $775 billion is nothing to sneeze at, but some experts are pushing President-elect Obama to expand his recovery package even further in order to keep the worsening economy from diving off a cliff. Is Obama's plan big enough to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Crash Suicides]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As in 1929, when bankers and businessmen start losing billions, they start taking their own lives. And money troubles can encourage deep, dark depression in everyone. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What's $250 Billion Among Friends?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This weekend the Obama team more than doubled what it wants to spend to goose the economy and add jobs. Money well spent or scattered to the winds? There are many reasons to worry it may not work as planned.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chrysler's move to shutter plants is the latest blow in an onslaught of economic crises that began with the imploding credit markets. When will the grim news stop? And what's the next shoe to drop?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Big Three Bosses Come Cap in Hand]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Today the bosses of the Big Three automakers stand before Congress with their begging bowls out. General Motors could file for bankruptcy before Christmas unless the taxpayer steps in. But why should such a badly managed industry be saved? Isn't this...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[OMG, I'm losing my job]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[First the housing market sinks, and your 401K wilts along with the stock market. Now comes the next phase of the anxiety matrix: pink slips. Here's just how bad it is going to get in the job market and how you can best survive.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is the Press Spooking the Market?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Investors are a jittery bunch at the best of times, and the market mayhem has made them more prone to panic than ever. Does the press have a responsibility to hold off commenting in these sensitive times? 
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            <description><![CDATA[With bad news pouring out of Wall Street by the day, few have taken time to peer through the gloom to see what the world will look like after the bailout. Will $700 billion be enough to avert disaster? Has a recession been averted? Will falling house...]]></description>
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