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<title><![CDATA[James Surowiecki - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14950.xml</link><description><![CDATA[James Surowiecki]]></description><category domain="14950">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Welfare Fraud Is a Problem for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/welfare-fraud-is-a-problem-for-democrats/ar-AA1UvMWi</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The massive scandal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' around welfare fraud in Minnesota became a big story the same way the character Mike Campbell in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Sun Also Rises'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' describes going bankrupt: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'gradually and then suddenly.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Federal prosecutors first filed criminal charges in 2022 against the fraudsters...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Gone Wrong at Boeing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/what-s-gone-wrong-at-boeing/ar-AA1mZHkz</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When, last week, a panel called a door plug blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane in mid-flight, leaving a gaping hole in the plane'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fuselage, air travelers everywhere no doubt felt a shudder of horror'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'even though the aircraft was able to turn around and land safely. But in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Gas Prices Get in Our Heads]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-gas-prices-get-in-our-heads/ar-AA1lAXd7</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the defining characteristics of the second half of 2023 has been the gloominess of American consumers. Even as the economy remained unexpectedly robust'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'growing at a 5.2 percent clip in the third quarter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and inflation cooled, consumer sentiment as measured by the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Big Three's Inevitable Collision With the UAW]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-big-three-s-inevitable-collision-with-the-uaw/ar-AA1h90g3</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United Auto Workers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' strike against the Big Three U.S. carmakers has given rise to a lot of talk about the future of the auto industry, and the fate of autoworkers in a world of electric vehicles. Republican politicians have tried to pin the autoworkers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' grievances on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bad-Vibes Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-bad-vibes-economy/ar-AA1dRan6</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the 2024 presidential campaign beginning to rev up, Joe Biden has taken to the stump, giving speeches selling '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Bidenomics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and touting the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s economic performance since he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s been president. In normal times, it would be a good moment for him to make that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bitter Truth About the Bud Light Boycott]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/why-some-boycotts-work'&#'.ord('â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and-others-fizzle/ar-AA1cJYTL</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The right-wing backlash against a promotion involving a trans influencer has cost Bud Light millions. What made America's best-selling beer so vulnerable?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[TikTok Is Too Popular To Ban]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-sg/money/markets/tiktok-is-too-popular-to-ban/ar-AA19Sdwa</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-sg/money/markets/tiktok-is-too-popular-to-ban/ar-AA19Sdwa]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And outlawing the app would be un-American.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Really Broke the Banks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/what-really-broke-the-banks/ar-AA18YMpX</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Fed, among others, is blameworthy. But the ultimate culprit is COVID-19.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Demonizing Stock Buybacks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/stop-demonizing-stock-buybacks/ar-AA17ZrTM</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If progressives think they've found a good stick to beat corporate America with, they're wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Method in the Markets' Madness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-method-in-the-markets-madness/ar-AA15P8cW</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Predicting stock-price moves is usually a mug's game'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but beneath this year's wild gyrations is an underlying logic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everyone Has a Job But Still Thinks Economy Is Horrible]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/if-everyone-has-a-job-why-do-they-think-the-economy-e2-80-99s-horrible/ar-AAZRhIt?fromMaestro=true</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Americans used to worry about unemployment as much as they did inflation. Not anymore.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What a Gas-Tax Holiday Wouldn't Do]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-a-gas-tax-holiday-wont-do/ar-AAYNuXA</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gas prices in the U.S. are close to $5 a gallon, President Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s approval rating is 36 percent, and the first phenomenon has a lot to do with the second. But the factors that have driven gas prices higher are largely out of Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s control, at least in the near term. So...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Did Democrats Get Inflation So Wrong?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-did-they-get-inflation-so-wrong/ar-AAYiYZJ</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-did-they-get-inflation-so-wrong/ar-AAYiYZJ]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yes, the stimulus was too big. But that's not the main reason prices are through the roof.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Crypto Disappeared Into Thin Air]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-crypto-disappeared-into-thin-air/ar-AAXvAQU</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-crypto-disappeared-into-thin-air/ar-AAXvAQU]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When a currency's value is based on belief alone, it's liable to evaporate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yes, Inflation Is Bad Now. No, You Shouldn't Be Scared]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/how-covid-became-unlikely-hero-our-inflation-crisis-n1283443</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/how-covid-became-unlikely-hero-our-inflation-crisis-n1283443]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The case for not painting the inflation we're seeing as some mysterious disastrous affliction that's descended on the economy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Widening Racial Wealth Divide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/the-widening-racial-wealth-divide</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Race still determines too much,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Hillary Clinton said, in last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s debate with Donald Trump. It '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can get, and, yes, it determines how they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re treated in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Aetna's Withdrawal Means for Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/05/obamacare-and-aetnas-withdrawal</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Few companies are as unpopular as insurance companies, and no tears were shed for the insurance giant Aetna when, a couple of weeks ago, it announced that it had lost more than four hundred million dollars on Obamacare policies since the Obamacare exchanges were set up, in 2014, and was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Perils of Executive Actions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/08/the-perils-of-executive-action</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In January of 2014, Barack Obama, speaking to the press before a Cabinet meeting, said something that has come to define his Presidency: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We are not just going to be waiting for legislation. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got a pen and I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Sanders, and the American Worker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/trump-sanders-and-the-american-worker</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/trump-sanders-and-the-american-worker]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A week ago Sunday, one of the two eventual winners of the New Hampshire primaries assailed the power of corporate lobbyists over the U.S. government, labelling them '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'bloodsuckers.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' He attacked defense contractors for forcing the government to buy missiles it didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t need....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Martin Shkreli &amp; the Temptations of Self-Dealing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/martin-shkreli-and-the-temptations-of-self-dealing</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/martin-shkreli-and-the-temptations-of-self-dealing]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During the Daraprim uproar, Shkreli was often represented as a kind of evil genius.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Zuckerberg's Critics Are Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/in-defense-of-philanthrocapitalism</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/in-defense-of-philanthrocapitalism]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, announced that he would be donating ninety-nine per cent of his Facebook stock to a new nonprofit organization, he got his share of positive headlines. But the move was also dismissed as a tax-avoidance scheme, a public-relations gambit, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taking On the NRA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/taking-on-the-n-r-a</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/taking-on-the-n-r-a]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the massacre at Umpqua Community College, in Oregon, Hillary Clinton promised that if she is elected President she will use executive power to make it harder for people to buy guns without background checks. Meanwhile, Ben Carson, one of the Republican Presidential...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Puerto Rico Should Declare Bankruptcy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-congress-should-let-puerto-rico-declare-bankruptcy?intcid=mod-latest</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-congress-should-let-puerto-rico-declare-bankruptcy?intcid=mod-latest]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It hasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t exactly been a quiet week in the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s debt markets. Not only has Greece defaulted on a loan from the International Monetary Fund but on Monday Puerto Rico'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s governor, Alejandro Padilla, announced that the island'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s seventy-two-billion-dollar debt load was,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Uber Drivers Employees?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/06/gigs-with-benefits</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Low Can Oil Go?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/low-can-oil-go</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just in time for Christmas, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a surprise present for consumers: plummeting oil prices. They have fallen forty per cent since July'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'gasoline now costs well below three dollars a gallon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'saving Americans hundreds of millions of dollars a day. This has been a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's Inertia Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/08/obamacares-inertia-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obamacare has had a rough month: it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s being challenged in a Supreme Court case; House Republicans are trying to undermine it with a lawsuit; and its poll numbers are terrible. But on the ground the Affordable Care Act'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which is starting its second open-enrollment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Lays Trap for Itself on Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/obamacare-g-o-p-lays-trap?int-cid=mod-latest</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/obamacare-g-o-p-lays-trap?int-cid=mod-latest]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few days after the midterm elections, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear King v. Burwell, a challenge to the Affordable Care Act in which the plaintiffs are arguing that people who live in states which have not set up their own health-insurance exchanges'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Real Mystery Is Why Mozilla Hired Eich]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Brendan Eich stepped down as the C.E.O. of Mozilla, on Thursday, after a mere two weeks on the job, it was perhaps the least surprising C.E.O. departure ever. Eich was one of the co-founders of Mozilla'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which makes open-source software, including the Firefox browser'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin's Power Play]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/03/24/140324ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin, in his campaign to restore Russian dominance over post-Soviet states, has an unconventional weapon in his arsenal: vast supplies of natural gas. In 2006 and 2009, Gazprom, the Russian gas company, cut off supplies to Ukraine (the second time, this created shortages in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mobility Myth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2014/03/03/140303ta_talk_surowiecki</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Surowiecki</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since at least the days of Horatio Alger, a cornerstone of American thinking has been the hope of social mobility'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the idea that, as Lawrence Samuel put it in a history of the American dream, anyone can, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'through dedication and with a can-do spirit, climb the ladder of...]]></description>
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