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<title><![CDATA[Alan Blinder - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14739.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Alan Blinder]]></description><category domain="14739">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Getting To Know Kevin Warsh]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/getting-to-know-kevin-warsh-ac2b192e?st=xFiceu</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve learned a lot about him since May. The market needs to learn even more.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Kevin Warsh Arrives, Expect Him To Move Slowly]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/as-kevin-warsh-arrives-expect-him-to-move-slowly-a378bcaf?st=1ymUzi</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows the new Federal Reserve chairman plans to make changes, but he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll be careful at first.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tricky Handoff at the Federal Reserve]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-tricky-handoff-at-the-federal-reserve-8cfb272d?st=MQggim</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Divisions at the central bank show through as Kevin Warsh faces a vote on becoming chair.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Right About Eliminating the Debt Ceiling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-right-about-one-thing-eliminate-the-debt-ceiling-government-shutdown-budget-negotiations-1e2d6177?st=L4FNbX</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exceeding it could do irrevocable damage to the U.S. credit rating, interest rates and the dollar.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Pro-Palestinian Group Protesting On Campuses]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/17/inside-the-pro-palestinian-group-protesting-across-college-campuses/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After last month's attack on Israel by Hamas, Students for Justice in Palestine promoted a tool kit for activists that]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Use and Abuse of Inflation History]]></title>
							<link>https://jordantimes.com/opinion/alan-s-blinder/use-and-abuse-inflation-history</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[George Santayana famously observed that, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. But allow me to offer a corollary: Those who misremember the past may be led into error by misreading history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Attack Exposes Limits of Antiterror Efforts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/politics/orlando-shooting-omar-mateen.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=span-ab-top-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a young American man from coastal Florida drove a truck packed with explosives into a hilltop restaurant in Syria in May 2014, F.B.I. agents scoured his online postings and interviewed his contacts in Florida in a scramble to determine who, if anyone, might try to launch a similar...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump, the Economic Wrecking Ball]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For much of the past six months, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve tried to ignore the political ascent of Donald Trump. Too horrible to be true, I assured myself. But the unthinkable has happened, and Mr. Trump is now the likely nominee of the Republican Party. So what might a Trump presidency bring?To be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Obama Era, GOP Bolsters Grip in the States]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/us/politics/obama-legacy-in-state-offices-a-shrinking-democratic-share.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LEXINGTON, Ky. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Young, telegenic and news media savvy, State Auditor Adam Edelen looked like a shoo-in for re-election when Democrats gathered in a horse barn here for a buffet dinner late last month. Most figured he would go on to challenge Senator Rand Paul, whose Republican...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Declining Productivity Growth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Mystery+of+Declining+Productivity+Growth&amp;oq=The+Mystery+of+Declining+Productivity+Growth&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.95j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are you worrying about America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent dismal productivity performance? You should be. Productivity gains are the wellspring of higher living standards, and the well has been running pretty dry lately.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Deficit Problem Is 10 Years Away]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/how-to-worry-about-the-deficit-1-dont-2-wait-a-few-years-3-then-worry-about-healthcare-costs/272521/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alan S. Blinder			
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Implores Colorado Dems to Turn Out on Tuesday]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-implores-colorado-dems-to-turn-out-on-tuesday/article/2512402#.UJPICsWHJT9</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stimulus Isn't a Dirty Word]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304765304577478561041473358.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A debate now rages in Europe over whether fiscal austerity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'that is, higher taxes and less spending'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'helps or hinders growth. That's progress of sorts. Not long ago, European policy makers seemed stuck on the notion that austerity promotes growth. Yes, we were supposed to believe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Cruises Toward a 2013 Fiscal Cliff]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577281233569546496.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At some point, the spectacle America is now calling a presidential campaign will turn away from comedy and start focusing on things that really matter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'such as the "fiscal cliff" our federal government is rapidly approaching.The what? A cliff is something from which you don't want to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Myth of &quot;Job-Killing&quot; Spending]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303635604576392023187860688.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was the British economist John Maynard Keynes who famously wrote  that ideas, "both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more  powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by  little else." Right now, I'm worried about the damage that might be done  by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Greed Is Not Good]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703652104574652242436408008.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Optimism on the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704869304574596121329841680.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy is digging itself out of a deep hole. You have probably heard a lot of doom and gloom lately, including talk of a jobless recovery, an L-shaped recovery (which means no recovery at all), or even a W'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'the feared double-dip recession. The Scrooges have a point: There are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stimulus Is Working, Give It More Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002570.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Apparently not bothered by facts, some congressional Republicans are already claiming that President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package has failed and are even advocating that some of the remaining scheduled steps in the legislation be canceled.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crazy Compensation and the Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346974150760597.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the vast outpouring of commentary and outrage over the financial crisis, one of its most fundamental causes has received surprisingly little attention. I refer to the perverse incentives built into the compensation plans of many financial firms, incentives that encourage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nationalize? Hey, Not So Fast]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/business/08view.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Six Errors on Path to Financial Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/economy/25view.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed Can't Do It Alone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR2008031702152.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alan Blinder</author>
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