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            <title><![CDATA[How Pot Helped Destroy Bear Stearns]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his new book, House of Cards, William D. Cohan gets inside the company's spectacular collapse-and details how a shocking newspaper story about the CEO's pot smoking triggered chaos.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bernanke Rails Against Huge Firms]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sharply criticized the existence of financial firms that are "too big to fail" and said policy should perhaps be changed to tackle the problem. Bernanke, speaking at the Independent Community Bankers of America...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dodd Delivers Reform Bill Monday]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Facing opposition from both sides, Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd will unveil his financial-reform bill Monday. And with Republicans asking for more time to consider it, Dodd is making a case for immediacy-he estimates there are only about 60...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Howell Raines Takes on Fox News]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a new op-ed for the Washington Post, Howell Raines, the former executive editor of The New York Times, demands that honest journalists call out Fox News for their "overturned standards of fairness and objectivity." Raines says Fox News chief Roger...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Union Pension Sues Goldman Sachs]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A large union pension fund has figured out a way to do more than just criticize investment banks for overpaying its executives. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers pension fund filed a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Monday, trying to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside the World of Tim Geithner]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Normally not one to court media attention, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is the subject of a major new profile in The Atlantic, chronicling his rapid ascendance through bureaucratic ranks to become the architect of much of President Obama's economic...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[LaRouche Believer Wins Dem Primary]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Guess some American politicians are still holding grudges from the Revolutionary War. After winning the Democratic primary in Texas's 22nd Congressional District, Kesha Rogers said, "I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bank Bonuses Boom by 17 Percent]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party's brief romance with Wall Street is over: The securities and investments industry gave 2 to 1 to Democrats at the start of 2009, but now it's giving almost half its money to Republicans, says The Washington Post. Also, after...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lehman's Collapse Still Costs California]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Although Wall Street appears to be recovering nicely from the financial crisis, local governments are still hurting, particularly thanks to the spectacular bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. San Mateo, California, saw $155 million vanish, compounding the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs Hid Greece's Debt]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Greece's overwhelming national debt has set off yet another global economic crisis-and just like the last one, American banks are at the center of the story. According to the New York Times, Goldman Sachs and other U.S. banks played a key role in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Low-Profile Finance Kings]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While everyone was watching to see what kind of money Goldman Sach's Lloyd Blankfein would make this year-it turned about to be $9.7 million-other not so famous names in finance were taking home the bacon. The biggest earner this year was John Stumpf,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Record-Breaking Winter Wonderland]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From Washington to New York, the East Coast was shut down by a second huge snowstorm within a week. Total snowfall in Washington hit 54.9 inches, breaking a 110-year-old record, just days after being blanketed with 32 inches of the white stuff. Federal...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[$9M Stock Bonus for Blankfein]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Contradicting rumors that his bonus would be six figures, Goldman Sachs' CEO Lloyd Blankfein has announced his $9 million, no-cash bonus, the smallest payout in the company's history in a record year for profits. Goldman's board voted on the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Global Stocks Tumble]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Stock prices fell across Europe and Asia on Friday morning, extending a stock-market slide that sent the Dow down 268 points, or 2.6 percent, on Wall Street Thursday. Recent stock-market woes have more to do with Europe's limping economy than America's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stocks Dive as Global Fears Rise]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Concerns about the global economy caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall 268.37 points Thursday, its worst one-day drop since April 2009. Other markets dropped as well, as investors worried about the ability of Europe's governments to finance...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Boehner Begs for Wall Street Dough]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[House Minority Leader John Boehner met with J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon last week to tell him that congressional Republicans are fighting President Obama's efforts to curb pay and create new regulations-and, of course, to rattle the tin cup. It was...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[$100M Bonus for Goldman CEO?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs could pay its chief executive Lloyd Blankfein a bonus of up to $100 million, in defiance of President Obama's insistence that banks limit such huge payouts, according to bankers at Davos for the World Economic Forum. "This is Lloyd...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[30 Voted Against Bernanke]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite early talk that Ben Bernanke's reconfirmation was in peril, the Fed chairman squeezed through the Senate vote Thursday. The 30 senators in opposition included Republican Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky, who said, "A vote for Ben Bernanke is a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stocks Plummet for Third Day]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Markets were down 2 percent Friday-culminating in a more than 5 percent drop in the third consecutive day of slumping stocks-with the Dow Industrials now at its lowest point since early November. Concerns over President Obama's promise to restrict...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geithner Dislikes Obama's Bank Plan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Need further proof that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is on the outs with the administration? According to Reuters, Geithner opposes President Obama's plan to limit the size and activities of banks, saying that the rules will limit American...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Wants to Shrink Banks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is to call Thursday for limits on the size and complexity of large financial institutions. He will make his pitch standing between former Fed chair Paul Volcker and the Bush-appointed former SEC chair William Donaldson. Obama...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street to Fight Bank Tax]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama may have trouble recouping those bailout funds: Wall Street's main lobbying arm has hired Carter G. Phillips of Sidley Austin, a lawyer who has argued before the Supreme Court dozens of times, to investigate whether Obama's proposed...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bull's Eye on Blankfein]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, was the target of investigators' ire in Washington Wednesday as the chairman of a Washington commission told reporters, "Mr. Blankfein himself never admitted that there was any responsibility" for his firm...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bernanke: Interest Rates Must Rise]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that the U.S. must be willing to raise interest rates if it wants to prevent a repeat financial crisis. Bernanke stressed that the first and best solution was to ensure that there is strong regulation...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street's Best Year Since 2003]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bust out the Champagne: The three major stock indexes are set to post their best year since 2003. Despite the yearly gains, however, the close of the Aughties also mark the first-ever negative decade on a total-return basis for Wall Street. Economic...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stocks Headed for High 2009 End]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With less than a week left until the end of the year, the U.S. stock market looks well-positioned to close on a high. Compared with last year's global financial fallout, the S&P 500 is "poised for what could be the best year since 2003." The S&P is up...]]></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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            <title><![CDATA[Citigroup to Repay $20B of Bailout]]></title>
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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[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[How Buffett Survived the Recession]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It may have seemed like Warren Buffett was going soft, but the legendary investor said his reluctance toward big deals during "the economy's big belly flop" gave him the gusto to strike his biggest deal yet: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s $26.3 billion...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Puts Wall Street on Notice]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama took on "reckless... fat cat bankers" this week, blasting Wall Street and its GOP allies in a 60 Minutes interview and on his weekly video address. Taking aim at Republicans, who failed to support the financial regulatory reform that...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Dodd Wall Street Charade]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Senator Dodd unveiled his financial reform bill today that has satisfied neither Democrats or Republicans. Below, Frank Partnoy on the key paragraph Dodd's proposal is missing and why, without it, the idea that banks will be kept honest is just a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Frank Partnoy]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:47:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Paterson Got Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[David Paterson may have used horrendous judgment in a domestic-violence case, but he's been the best governor New York has had in ages.
There is no denying that David Paterson, the soon-to-be ex-governor of New York, has proved an embarrassment to his...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reihan Salam]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:01:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Will We Get Our Money Back?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The markets cheered as AIG touted a $35 billion dent on its taxpayer IOU. But was anyone watching when they recently borrowed billions more? Nomi Prins on a classic Wall Street shell game.
AIG's $35 billion sale of its Asian division yesterday was...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:12:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Middle-Class Meltdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By cozying up to Wall Street and pushing climate change, the president is playing to the coasts-and losing Middle America. Joel Kotkin on the Dems' disconnect-and the GOP's problems exploiting it. 
The rapid decline in public support for Democrats and...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:51:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Obama Screwed Volcker]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president needed the gravitas of the former Fed chairman to sell his bank reform to Wall Street. But when the big banks didn't buy it, Obama sold him out.
Barack Obama owes Paul Volcker a lot, but he apparently owes the fat  cats on Wall Street...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:38:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tea Partiers' Phony Populism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At their convention this weekend, Sarah Palin and her fans bashed big banks-and the idea of regulating them. Peter Beinart on how Team Tea is giving populism a bad name.
If there's one thing the media knows about the Tea Partiers, it is that they are...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:08:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Undercover Boss' Creepy Politics]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The new touchy-feely CBS reality show, on which top corporate managers experience the lowest rungs of their companies, is paternalistic and Orwellian-a fantasy for the Obama age.
At first glance, CBS' fully hyped new reality show, Undercover Boss,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Thaddeus Russell]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:59:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Needs a Killer App]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  If only passing legislation were as easy as introducing new products from Apple. Lee Siegel on how Steve Jobs is ruining politics.
It may be just a coincidence that Wednesday, the day of President Obama's first State of the Union address, was also...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lee Siegel]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:51:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Democrats, Don't Despair]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Things look bad now, and the party will lose seats this fall. But the economy will bounce back, Democrats will be united-and faith in government can be restored. 
Democrats win elections by convincing Americans that government can work. Republicans...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Real Wall Street Scheme]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The president's shot across the banks' bow is about much more than reining in excess. Roger Martin on the latest phase in a century-long war over who gets the goodies. 
The simplest way to look at President Obama's counterstrike at the banks-and the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Roger Martin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:12:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Half-Baked Bank Reform]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-21/obamas-half-baked-bank-reform/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Wall Street has already figured out how to game the president's proposal to reform the banking system. Former Goldman executive Nomi Prins on how to stop the trickery.
Seeing Paul Volcker, former Fed Chair and chairman of the Economic Recovery...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:40:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Betrayal of Promises]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's campaign pledges have gone out the window-as his administration has been held hostage by big banks and the military-industrial complex.
Over the past year, it has become more than apparent that our government is being held hostage by a small...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Larry Flynt]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:09:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Wall Street Really Fears]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The hearings into the roots of the recession aren't scaring Wall Street. What's really frightening is public anger at the industry shows no signs of abating, and Lloyd Blankfein, the man leading the charge to turn that around, is only making matters...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:49:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street's Dirty Little Secret]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The biggest problem with 2009's megabonuses is economic, not moral. Tunku Varadarajan on how Wall Street made money soaking savers and taxpayers, rather than adding value.
Bankers do not deserve bonuses this year, at least not in the Western world....]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tunku Varadarajan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:38:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop Coddling Wall Street!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Obama's call for a new tax on big banks amounts to a fraction of Goldman's bonuses. Joel Kotkin on how the Democrats have failed to exploit populist outrage.
By all historical logic and tradition, Wall Street's outrageous bonuses-almost $20 billion...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:07:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street's Rigged Bonuses]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Paying executives in stock, a likely proposed remedy at today's hearings on the financial meltdown, is just another way for Wall Street to fix the results.
The show begins today, folks. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission begins its hearings,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Roger Martin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:35:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bonus Boomerang]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wall Street's record haul may come back to haunt it. The commission investigating the meltdown now has fresh moral ammunition to propose real change. 
Tomorrow, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission begins, on the face of it, a hopeless task.  Ten...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Simon Johnson]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:10:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Economic Predictions to Bank On]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-03/5-economic-predictions-to-bank-on/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[  Geithner will be out. Dimon will be in. And Glass-Steagall will make a comeback. Charlie Gasparino on the people and issues that will shape 2010's financial future.
I don't think it does anyone any good to read another Top 10 list that puts Goldman...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:35:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Secret Power Base]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As his first year in the White House ends, both liberals and conservatives are angry with Obama. But he's got a completely different group of people to answer to.
Looking back at President Obama's first year in office, this much is clear: Obama first...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:55:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[December 27: Top 8 Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-27/december-27-top-8-moments-from-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Janet Napolitano is defensive about Northwest 253, Joe Lieberman thinks Yemen is the new Iraq, and is Katie Couric owed an apology? That and more in our weekly roundup.
Janet Napolitano: 'The System Worked'
Robert Gibbs wasn't the only administration...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:15:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bring Back That Wall!]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-16/rebuilding-the-wall/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Would a new bill bringing back Glass-Steagall prevent another banking meltdown? Nomi Prins on why change is urgently needed.
The Obama administration is talking tough but acting tame with respect to Wall Street. But a pair of senators is coming out...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:22:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Are Blacks Abandoning Obama?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-15/has-obama-abandoned-blacks/]]></link>
            <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[Life After Wasserstein]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-14/life-after-wasserstein/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[  As friends gather to mourn financier Bruce Wasserstein, Ralph Gardner Jr. reports on the future of Lazard Fr&egrave;res, New York magazine, and his sister Wendy's famous daughter.
The sadness among his fellow billionaires at Bruce Wasserstein's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Ralph Gardner, Jr.]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:17:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[December 13: 7 Top Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-13/december-13-7-top-moments-from-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Obama's advisers can't agree about the recession, Bob Schieffer goes after Tiger's mistresses, and Liz Cheney slams the president's Nobel speech. That and more in our weekly roundup.
Summers Wallops Wall Street: They Just Don't 'Get' It
White House...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:19:28 -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[Leave BofA Alone]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-08/leave-bofa-alone/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ As Bank of America prepares to name a new CEO, Charlie Gasparino says it's time for New York's attorney general to stop investigating the banking giant-or hurry up and charge someone.
Inside Bank of America, senior officials tell me that the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:14:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman's PR Chief in the Hot Seat]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-06/goldmans-20-billion-bonus-dilemma/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Meet the man with the hardest job on Wall Street: trying to change Goldman Sachs' image as an evil empire-as the firm's $20 billion bonus pool gets distributed.
The person responsible for protecting the image of Goldman Sachs, once the most venerated...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:56:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside Dick Fuld's Bunker]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-03/inside-dick-fulds-bunker/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Home transfers, apartment sales, art liquidations, dragged-out tax payments. William Cohan on life in exile for the disgraced former CEO of Lehman Brothers.
In the months following the collapse of his firm, Dick Fuld, the longtime chairman and CEO of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[William D. Cohan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:52:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Worse Than Enron?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-01/worse-than-enron/]]></link>
            <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 Goldman Slipping?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-29/is-goldman-slipping/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Despite a hugely profitable year, Goldman Sachs has lost its Midas touch as the premier investment bank. Charlie Gasparino on how the competition caught up and what its future holds.
The PR spin out of Goldman Sachs these days-just as the firm is...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:40:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Dodd Wall Street Charade]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Senator Dodd unveiled his financial reform bill today that has satisfied neither Democrats or Republicans. Below, Frank Partnoy on the key paragraph Dodd's proposal is missing and why, without it, the idea that banks will be kept honest is just a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Frank Partnoy]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Paterson Got Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[David Paterson may have used horrendous judgment in a domestic-violence case, but he's been the best governor New York has had in ages.
There is no denying that David Paterson, the soon-to-be ex-governor of New York, has proved an embarrassment to his...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Reihan Salam]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:01:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Will We Get Our Money Back?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The markets cheered as AIG touted a $35 billion dent on its taxpayer IOU. But was anyone watching when they recently borrowed billions more? Nomi Prins on a classic Wall Street shell game.
AIG's $35 billion sale of its Asian division yesterday was...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:12:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Middle-Class Meltdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By cozying up to Wall Street and pushing climate change, the president is playing to the coasts-and losing Middle America. Joel Kotkin on the Dems' disconnect-and the GOP's problems exploiting it. 
The rapid decline in public support for Democrats and...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:51:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Obama Screwed Volcker]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president needed the gravitas of the former Fed chairman to sell his bank reform to Wall Street. But when the big banks didn't buy it, Obama sold him out.
Barack Obama owes Paul Volcker a lot, but he apparently owes the fat  cats on Wall Street...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:38:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tea Partiers' Phony Populism]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At their convention this weekend, Sarah Palin and her fans bashed big banks-and the idea of regulating them. Peter Beinart on how Team Tea is giving populism a bad name.
If there's one thing the media knows about the Tea Partiers, it is that they are...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:08:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Undercover Boss' Creepy Politics]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The new touchy-feely CBS reality show, on which top corporate managers experience the lowest rungs of their companies, is paternalistic and Orwellian-a fantasy for the Obama age.
At first glance, CBS' fully hyped new reality show, Undercover Boss,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Thaddeus Russell]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:59:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Needs a Killer App]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  If only passing legislation were as easy as introducing new products from Apple. Lee Siegel on how Steve Jobs is ruining politics.
It may be just a coincidence that Wednesday, the day of President Obama's first State of the Union address, was also...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Lee Siegel]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:51:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Democrats, Don't Despair]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Things look bad now, and the party will lose seats this fall. But the economy will bounce back, Democrats will be united-and faith in government can be restored. 
Democrats win elections by convincing Americans that government can work. Republicans...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Real Wall Street Scheme]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  The president's shot across the banks' bow is about much more than reining in excess. Roger Martin on the latest phase in a century-long war over who gets the goodies. 
The simplest way to look at President Obama's counterstrike at the banks-and the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Roger Martin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:12:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Half-Baked Bank Reform]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-21/obamas-half-baked-bank-reform/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Wall Street has already figured out how to game the president's proposal to reform the banking system. Former Goldman executive Nomi Prins on how to stop the trickery.
Seeing Paul Volcker, former Fed Chair and chairman of the Economic Recovery...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:40:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Betrayal of Promises]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's campaign pledges have gone out the window-as his administration has been held hostage by big banks and the military-industrial complex.
Over the past year, it has become more than apparent that our government is being held hostage by a small...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Larry Flynt]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:09:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Wall Street Really Fears]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The hearings into the roots of the recession aren't scaring Wall Street. What's really frightening is public anger at the industry shows no signs of abating, and Lloyd Blankfein, the man leading the charge to turn that around, is only making matters...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:49:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street's Dirty Little Secret]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The biggest problem with 2009's megabonuses is economic, not moral. Tunku Varadarajan on how Wall Street made money soaking savers and taxpayers, rather than adding value.
Bankers do not deserve bonuses this year, at least not in the Western world....]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tunku Varadarajan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:38:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop Coddling Wall Street!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Obama's call for a new tax on big banks amounts to a fraction of Goldman's bonuses. Joel Kotkin on how the Democrats have failed to exploit populist outrage.
By all historical logic and tradition, Wall Street's outrageous bonuses-almost $20 billion...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:07:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street's Rigged Bonuses]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Paying executives in stock, a likely proposed remedy at today's hearings on the financial meltdown, is just another way for Wall Street to fix the results.
The show begins today, folks. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission begins its hearings,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Roger Martin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:35:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bonus Boomerang]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wall Street's record haul may come back to haunt it. The commission investigating the meltdown now has fresh moral ammunition to propose real change. 
Tomorrow, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission begins, on the face of it, a hopeless task.  Ten...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Simon Johnson]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:10:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[5 Economic Predictions to Bank On]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-03/5-economic-predictions-to-bank-on/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[  Geithner will be out. Dimon will be in. And Glass-Steagall will make a comeback. Charlie Gasparino on the people and issues that will shape 2010's financial future.
I don't think it does anyone any good to read another Top 10 list that puts Goldman...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:35:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Secret Power Base]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As his first year in the White House ends, both liberals and conservatives are angry with Obama. But he's got a completely different group of people to answer to.
Looking back at President Obama's first year in office, this much is clear: Obama first...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:55:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[December 27: Top 8 Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-27/december-27-top-8-moments-from-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Janet Napolitano is defensive about Northwest 253, Joe Lieberman thinks Yemen is the new Iraq, and is Katie Couric owed an apology? That and more in our weekly roundup.
Janet Napolitano: 'The System Worked'
Robert Gibbs wasn't the only administration...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:15:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bring Back That Wall!]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-16/rebuilding-the-wall/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Would a new bill bringing back Glass-Steagall prevent another banking meltdown? Nomi Prins on why change is urgently needed.
The Obama administration is talking tough but acting tame with respect to Wall Street. But a pair of senators is coming out...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Nomi Prins]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:22:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Are Blacks Abandoning Obama?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-15/has-obama-abandoned-blacks/]]></link>
            <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[Life After Wasserstein]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-14/life-after-wasserstein/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[  As friends gather to mourn financier Bruce Wasserstein, Ralph Gardner Jr. reports on the future of Lazard Fr&egrave;res, New York magazine, and his sister Wendy's famous daughter.
The sadness among his fellow billionaires at Bruce Wasserstein's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Ralph Gardner, Jr.]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:17:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[December 13: 7 Top Moments from Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-13/december-13-7-top-moments-from-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Obama's advisers can't agree about the recession, Bob Schieffer goes after Tiger's mistresses, and Liz Cheney slams the president's Nobel speech. That and more in our weekly roundup.
Summers Wallops Wall Street: They Just Don't 'Get' It
White House...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:19:28 -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[Leave BofA Alone]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-08/leave-bofa-alone/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ As Bank of America prepares to name a new CEO, Charlie Gasparino says it's time for New York's attorney general to stop investigating the banking giant-or hurry up and charge someone.
Inside Bank of America, senior officials tell me that the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:14:34 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman's PR Chief in the Hot Seat]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-06/goldmans-20-billion-bonus-dilemma/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Meet the man with the hardest job on Wall Street: trying to change Goldman Sachs' image as an evil empire-as the firm's $20 billion bonus pool gets distributed.
The person responsible for protecting the image of Goldman Sachs, once the most venerated...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:56:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inside Dick Fuld's Bunker]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-03/inside-dick-fulds-bunker/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Home transfers, apartment sales, art liquidations, dragged-out tax payments. William Cohan on life in exile for the disgraced former CEO of Lehman Brothers.
In the months following the collapse of his firm, Dick Fuld, the longtime chairman and CEO of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[William D. Cohan]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:52:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Worse Than Enron?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-01/worse-than-enron/]]></link>
            <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 Goldman Slipping?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-29/is-goldman-slipping/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Despite a hugely profitable year, Goldman Sachs has lost its Midas touch as the premier investment bank. Charlie Gasparino on how the competition caught up and what its future holds.
The PR spin out of Goldman Sachs these days-just as the firm is...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charlie Gasparino]]></author>
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            <description><![CDATA[This Fox News guest has a job but saves by forgoing Tums and birthday cards. We think forcing her kids to make cards is causing heartburn. Two birds, one stone.  ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Want Details on Bank Plan? Forget It]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On the CBS Early Show, FDIC Chair Shelia Bair says there will be stress tests for banks, but what those tests are and what the remedy may be other than stock purchases is unclear. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Behind Wall Street's Bonus Boom]]></title>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:42:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:51:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:20:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:32:29 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Let The Questioning Begin]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With two big fish, Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder, facing confirmation hearings this week, the Obama administration is preparing for its first major confrontation with the new Congress. Can the nominees hold up to scrutiny?]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:19:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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