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<title><![CDATA[Joseph Stiglitz - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14871.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Joseph Stiglitz]]></description><category domain="14871">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump's New Tariffs a Chance for World To Fight Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/03/donald-trump-tariffs-us-eu-forced-labour</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's pretext of stopping forced labour is only a ruse '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' he is trying to grab a share of global trade for the US]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is on a Collision Course With the Budget]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025/01/08/trump-is-on-a-collision-course-with-the-us-budget.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump cannot repeal the laws of arithmetic when the government hits the federal debt limit, as much as he may try in the weeks ahead.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Models Get the Economy Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/economy/2023-04-03-how-models-get-economy-wrong/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seemingly complex and sophisticated econometric modeling often fails to take into account common sense and observable reality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Canceling Student Debt Will Pay Dividends For All]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/why-canceling-student-debt-will-pay-dividends/ar-AA115iHe</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We want to fight inflation and we want to keep the labor market strong. One of the most important ways to achieve both goals is to forgive a portion of student-loan debt. And yesterday, President Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' announced'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that he was doing just that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'canceling up to $10,000 in student...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Inflation Reduction Act Is a Big Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-inflation-reduction-act-is-a-big-deal-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2022-08</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If it passes, the US Inflation Reduction Act would be a landmark legislative achievement. With provisions to accelerate America's clean-energy transition, control health-care costs, and restore some sanity to the tax code, it will not only curtail inflation but also bolster America's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wrong Way to Respond to Inflation? Panicking]]></title>
							<link>https://inthesetimes.com/article/joseph-stiglitz-inflation-economy-biden</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The data show there's no reason to react rashly with large across-the-board interest-rate hikes. Instead we should pursue policies that tax the rich and benefit working people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Balanced Response to Inflation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/inflation-causes-and-targeted-solutions-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2022-02</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joseph E. Stiglitz shows why targeted supply-side policies, not interest-rate hikes, are the right approach to rising prices.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[COVID-19 and Human Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/covid19-spike-in-us-reflects-misunderstanding-of-liberty-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2021-09</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a pandemic, one person's actions affect the well-being of others. And whenever there are such externalities, the well-being of society requires collective action: regulations to restrict socially harmful behavior and to promote socially beneficial behavior.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why We Support the Biden Economic Plan]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/559772-despite-diverging-economic-views-we-all-support-the-biden-plan</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've come to the same conclusion: President Biden's economic agenda would make long-overdue investments in our nation's future, and the revenue measures that would fund those investments are sound, progressive and efficient.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Failing to Pass Biden's Relief Package Would Be Irresponsible]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/23/perspectives/stimulus-biden-covid-relief-joseph-stiglitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Much of the $1.9 trillion in the Biden plan addresses the pandemic and its economic consequences directly: providing vaccines, opening up schools safely, sending assistance to vulnerable Americans and helping states and localities that have seen their revenues plummet.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-restore-multilateralism-through-executive-orders-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2020-12?a_la=english&amp;a_d=5fedfe0f75feea322ce9df86&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=biden-restore-multilateralism-through-exe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Arizona's largest county is fighting a subpoena from the Legislature seeking election records.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Threat to the Republic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/republican-party-threat-to-american-democracy-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2020-10?a_la=english&amp;a_d=5f77413e8cd46c21a87dac07&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=republican-party-threat-to-american-democracy-by-j</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As US President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans' behavior over the past four years has made abundantly clear, American democracy itself is on the line in this year's election. Without an overwhelming victory for Democrats at all levels, Republican minority rule will be locked in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Don't Need More Unbridled Aid to Corporations]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-wrong-coronavirus-stimulus-20200323-h6erlkfgvjg5vlmrizphmgpdb4-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's clear that the economy is in a deep dive. Even those who normally resist government intervention are calling for action. The question is, what kind of action? Even before the crisis, fiscal conservatives worried about the $1 trillion deficit, the result of the budget-busting 2017...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About the Trump Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/grim-truth-about-trump-economy-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2020-01?a_la=english&amp;a_d=5e21945a5887682b3cbf553e&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=grim-truth-about-trump-economy-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2020-01&amp;a_pa=</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is becoming conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to beat in November, because, whatever reservations about him voters may have, he has been good for the American economy. Nothing could be further from the truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Is World War III, Needs Bold Response]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/04/climate-change-world-war-iii-green-new-deal</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can't afford not to: our civilisation is at stake]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/opinion/sunday/progressive-capitalism.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We can save our broken economic system from itself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[From Yellow Vests to the Green New Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/yellow-vests-green-new-deal-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2019-01?a_la=english&amp;a_d=5c33482a78b6c72d940ecd4c&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=yellow-vests-green-new-deal-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2019-01&amp;a_pa=curate</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The grassroots movement behind the Green New Deal offers a ray of hope to the badly battered establishment: they should embrace it, flesh it out, and make it part of the progressive agenda. We need something positive to save us from the ugly wave of populism, nativism, and proto-fascism...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Is at Risk of Losing a Trade War With China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-loses-trade-war-with-china-by-joseph-e--stiglitz-2018-07</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best outcome of President Donald Trump's narrow focus on the US trade deficit with China would be improvement in the bilateral balance, matched by an increase of an equal amount in the deficit with some other country (or countries). In fact, significantly reducing the bilateral trade...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Globalization: Look at Mistakes to Plot the Future]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/05/globalisation-time-look-at-past-plot-the-future-joseph-stiglitz?</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons From the Anti-Globalists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/macron-fight-against-populism-by-joseph-e--stiglitz-2017-05</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The likely victory of Emmanuel Macron in the French presidential election has elicited a global sigh of relief. But it would be a mistake to conclude that discontent with the global economy has crested.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Most Chilling Economic Lie]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/donald-trump-china-economics-trade</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A so-called trade war with China would be an absolute disaster for the United States and its citizens.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One-Percenters, Pay Your Taxes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/opinions/eight-men-with-as-much-wealth-as-half-the-world-stiglitz/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Oxfam report reveals that eight men have as much wealth as half the world. Corporations must confront this moral failure with some basic steps that will help workers and build prosperity for all in the process, Joseph Stiglitz writes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Democrats Can Fix Themselves: Turn Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/how-the-democrats-can-fix-themselves</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The days of triangulation are toast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Must Save Greece]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3949954/joseph-e-stiglitz-greece-crisis/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://time.com/3949954/joseph-e-stiglitz-greece-crisis/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Greek saga continues, many have marveled at Germany'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chutzpah. It received, in real terms, the largest bailout and debt reduction in history and unconditional aid from the U.S. in the Marshall Plan. And yet it refuses even to discuss debt relief.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe's Last Act?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/greece-creditor-demands-by-joseph-e--stiglitz-2015-06</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/greece-creditor-demands-by-joseph-e--stiglitz-2015-06]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' European Union leaders continue to play a game of brinkmanship with the Greek government. Greece has met its creditors'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' demands far more than halfway. Yet Germany and Greece'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s other creditors continue to demand that the country sign on to a program that has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Trade Away Our Health]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/opinion/dont-trade-away-our-health.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A secretive group met behind closed doors in New York this week. What they decided may lead to higher drug prices for you and hundreds of millions around the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In No One We Trust]]></title>
							<link>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/in-no-one-we-trust/?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In America today, we are sometimes made to feel that it is na'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¯').';'ve to be preoccupied with trust. Our songs advise against it, our TV shows tell stories showing its futility, and incessant reports of financial scandal remind us we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d be fools to give it to our bankers.That last point...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yellen, Not Summers, Should Get Fed Nod]]></title>
							<link>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/why-janet-yellen-not-larry-summers-should-lead-the-fed/?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The controversy over the choice of the next head of the Federal Reserve has become unusually heated. The country is fortunate to have an enormously qualified candidate: the Fed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s current vice chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen. There is concern that the president might turn to another...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Equal Opportunity, Our National Myth]]></title>
							<link>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/equal-opportunity-our-national-myth/?ref=todayspaper</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/equal-opportunity-our-national-myth/?ref=todayspaper]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s second Inaugural Address used soaring language to reaffirm America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s commitment to the dream of equality of opportunity: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Prosperity Requires a Level Playing Field]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stiglitz-inequality-20120722,0,4061042.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Joseph Stiglitz</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite what the debt and deficit hawks would have you believe, we can't cut our way back to prosperity. No large economy has ever recovered from serious recession through austerity. But there is another factor holding our economy back: inequality.Any solution to today's problems...]]></description>
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