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<title><![CDATA[James Pethokoukis - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14569.xml</link><description><![CDATA[James Pethokoukis]]></description><category domain="14569">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What the Latest Viral AI Apocalypse Warning Gets Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/what-the-latest-viral-ai-apocalypse-warning-gets-wrong/ar-AA1WeTio</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a viral essay on X, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Something Big Is Happening,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Matt Shumer writes that the world is living through a moment similar to early Covid for artificial intelligence. The founder and CEO of OthersideAI argues that AI has crossed from useful assistant to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' general cognitive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of Degrowth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/the-myth-of-degrowth</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe you've heard the story of the collapse of Easter Island, a cautionary environmental tale for the modern world. It didn't happen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Smithsonian's 'Futures' Exhibition Stuck in 1970s]]></title>
							<link>https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/-the-smithsonians-dreary-futures</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA["We must vastly widen our conception of possible futures. To the rigorous disciplines of science, we must add the flaming imagination of art." - Alvin Toffler'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What'll Dems Do If Americans Like Trump's Tax Cut?]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/744211/americans-might-really-like-trump-tax-cuts-what-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats seem ill-prepared for the inevitable]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Conservative Case Against Trump's Apocalyptic View]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/9/28/13081298/conservative-trump-apocalyptic-america-optimism</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's long been a pessimistic strain of conservatism. But the doom and gloom are out of hand.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marco Rubio Is a New Kind of Republican. Really.]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/603338/marco-rubio-new-kind-republican-really</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's why the 2016 wunderkind would be a modernizing force]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Right-Wing Hostility to Rubio Tax Plan Unwise]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/549657/rightwing-hostility-marco-rubios-tax-plan-shows-gop-stuck-past</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If voters think the GOP's big economic idea is tax cuts for rich people, the next American president will probably be another Democrat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Economic Plan Shifts Party Further to Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei.org/publication/latest-democratic-economic-plan-shifts-party-hard-left/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s been a big gap between how Democrats have described America'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s economic problems and the scope of the solutions they'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'ve offered. Recall President Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s late 2013 speech where he declared the '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility that has jeopardized...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Are the Jobs? Where's the Wage Growth?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/09/the-august-jobs-report-where-are-the-jobs-where-is-the-wage-growth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This was not a good jobs report. Certainly not one that suggests a shift into a higher growth gear. The Two Percent-ish economy crawls on. The US economy added 142,000 jobs in August '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' much less than 225,000 expected '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' as the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.1%. But the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amity Shlaes Is Dead Wrong on Inflation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/07/why-amity-shlaes-is-dead-wrong-about-inflation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are conservatives forever and always doomed to be obsessed by fear that inflation is perpetually just around the corner? Perhaps, since it was the Great Inflation of the 1970s that helped give rise to Reagan and Thatcher and the conservative revival. Even worse, this inflation obsession...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Job Market Is Dead in the Water]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/09/lets-face-it-the-us-job-market-is-dead-in-the-water/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do you know the August jobs report was pretty bad? When the best thing you can say is that it might have met Wall Street expectations if not for a temporary shutdown in the port industry last month. (The motion picture and sound recording industry'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' lost 22,000 jobs in August,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Tame the Megabanks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/taming-the-megabanks</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was hailed by its champions as the solution to the problem of "too big to fail." The text of the legislation itself claimed the act would "protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts" of big banks, and the law...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Waiter and Waitress Nation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/06/waiter-and-waitress-nation-may-payrolls-reports-shows-us-creating-jobs-just-not-very-many-good-ones/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The headline numbers for the May jobs report are about what you would expect for a New Normal economy stuck in 2% growth mode: 175,000 net new jobs last month, the unemployment rate ticking up to 7.6%. No broad signs of acceleration; just the opposite, in fact. As Barclays bank points...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Evidence the U.S. Economy is Failing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/06/where-are-the-entrepreneurs-more-evidence-the-very-heart-of-the-us-economy-is-failing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America makes a grievous error if it dismisses the weak economic expansion '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' this month marks the fourth anniversary of the end of the Great Recession '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' as nothing more than the expected aftermath of a deep downturn and financial crisis. Sluggish GDP growth and yet another...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beginning of the End of Too Big To Fail?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/343804/too-big-fail-too-good-resist-james-pethokoukis</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate rarely votes unanimously on anything of much importance. The Obama White House, though, managed to bring this about: Last May, a clone of its previous year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s budget proposal failed unanimously, 99'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'0. Way to bring the two parties together, Mr. President.There was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Slow-Growth New Normal Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/03/to-praise-the-february-jobs-report-is-to-embrace-the-new-normal-economy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The headline numbers show a decent month for the US labor market in February. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 236,000 last month (246,000 in the private sector), the Labor Department said, beating economist expectations of 160,000. And the jobless rate fell to 7.7%, the lowest since December...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Rubio Should Have Told Wall Street]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/03/what-should-rubio-have-told-wall-street-im-not-a-crony-capitalist-man/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senator Marco Rubio has been meeting with some Wall Street big shots '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Stephen Schwarzman, Henry Kravis, and top execs at Goldman Sachs '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' in an effort, according to Politico, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'to lock down some of Wall Street's biggest donors ahead of the 2016 presidential race.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Defense Cuts Are Scaring Me Less &amp; Less]]></title>
							<link>http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Why-the-Sequester-s-Defense-Cuts-are-Scaring-Me-Less-and-Less</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Why-the-Sequester-s-Defense-Cuts-are-Scaring-Me-Less-and-Less]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the next decade if the current-law sequester cuts and spending caps hold "'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' US defense spending will fall to EU-like levels. That is certainly too low if the US is to remain a global military superpower as opposed to becoming a "regional hegemon" in the words of my friends at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Obama Bail Out Governors on Medicaid?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/did-the-obama-administration-just-bail-out-a-bunch-of-gop-governors-on-medicaid-expansion/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/did-the-obama-administration-just-bail-out-a-bunch-of-gop-governors-on-medicaid-expansion/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans for Deflation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/republicans-for-deflation/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Is All Wrong About Bernanke]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/2-charts-that-show-the-gop-is-all-wrong-about-bernanke/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Medill DC (Flickr) (CC BY 2.0)During Ben Bernanke'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Senate testimony this morning, Republicans again lambasted the Fed chairman for worrying too little about the inflationary potential of his low interest rate/quantitative easing monetary policy. From the WSJ:A testy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Banks Are Bigger &amp; Riskier Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/why-the-biggest-banks-are-even-bigger-and-riskier-then-you-think/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just how big are the biggest US banks, and how safe are they? When trying to figure all that out, it makes a big difference if you are analyzing them according to US accounting standards or international ones. The latter makes lenders account for a greater portion of risky derivatives on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Sequester Knock A Point From GOP?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/will-the-sequester-really-knock-almost-a-point-from-gdp-and-cost-700000-jobs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Terrible Tax Inside ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/the-terrible-little-tax-inside-obamas-healthcare-reform-law/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ShutterstockPerhaps never has a more harmful and deceptively named tax received so little attention. The 2010 health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, included a whopping 3.8 percentage point tax hike on interest, dividends, capital gains, and passive business income received by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Universal Pre-K Too Much, Too Soon?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/is-obamas-universal-pre-k-plan-too-much-too-soon/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/is-obamas-universal-pre-k-plan-too-much-too-soon/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: ShutterstockProponents of President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s universal prekindergarten proposal make a strong case for the potential benefits of such a plan. Studies of about 100 low-income kids enrolled in two pricey and intensive preschool projects in the 1960s and 1970s found the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Kerry's First Test]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/john-kerrys-first-test/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Does Not Have Genius Glut]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/no-american-does-not-have-a-genius-glut/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does U.S. Really Need Supersized Megabanks?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/does-the-us-economy-really-need-supersized-megabanks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bipartisan movement to break up America'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s biggest banks and end the Too Big To Fail phenomenon has slowly, glacially gained momentum. Financial reform represents a classic public choice issue where the benefits of the status quo are concentrated and current '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' an ongoing federal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If Reagan Spent Like Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/what-if-reagan-spent-like-obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ezra Klein points out that government spending under Barack Obama detracted from official GDP estimates of economic growth in 2011 and 2012 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' after adding to it in 2009 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' while government spending added to GDP growth under Ronald Reagan. He then runs a little...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Doesn't Want to Talk About Jobs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/january-jobs-report-shows-why-obama-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-jobs-anymore/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Pethokoukis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama mentioned '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'jobs'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' only three times in his recent inaugural address, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'workers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' one time, and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'unemployment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' zippo. The January jobs report provides a sober reminder that the US labor market, while recovering, remains extraordinarily weak. The...]]></description>
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