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							<title><![CDATA[Why Uber Must Be Stopped]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2014/08/31/why_uber_must_be_stopped/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Computers Kill Gun Control?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2013/01/25/will_computers_kill_gun_control/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA["How&rsquo;s that national conversation going?&rdquo; sneers Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, an organization dedicated to making it easy for anyone to 3-D print their own gun. It&rsquo;s the opening line of a video showcasing Defense Distributed&rsquo;s successful employment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jobs Report: Not That Bad!]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/jobs_report_not_so_bad/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bleeding stopped &mdash; at least temporarily. The U.S. economy added 163,000 jobs in July, a significant jump from June&rsquo;s revised 64,000 gain, and its best performance in five months. The unemployment rate rose one notch to 8.3 percent.In a healthy economy, 163,000 would not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Jamie Dimon Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/05/11/romneys_jamie_dimon_problem/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here is the most important sentence in Jamie Dimon&rsquo;s Thursday afternoon conference call discussing JPMorgan&rsquo;s colossal trading screw-up: &ldquo;Just because we&rsquo;re stupid doesn&rsquo;t mean everybody else was.&rdquo;If you&rsquo;re looking for the most easy-to-understand...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President's Race to Save the Rust Belt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/04/20/obamas_race_to_save_the_rust_belt/singleton</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that the primary season is functionally over and Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have cleared their decks for battle, the silly season of American politics has truly arrived. The spin cycle has infinitely more attention to bestow on dogs-as-food versus dogs-strapped-on-top-of-cars, or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How &quot;Uncertainty&quot; Didn't Kill the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/02/22/how_uncertainty_didnt_kill_the_economy/singleton</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whatever happened to the dread horror of job-killing uncertainty? Just last year, the talking point was all the rage, unanimously chorused by GOP pundits, politicians and economists looking to hammer President Obama for a stalled-out economy.The argument was simple: Employers were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bill Clinton's Alternate, Unbelievable Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://politics.salon.com/2011/11/10/bill_clintons_alternate_unbelievable_reality/singleton/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Democrats survey the political wreckage of the last three years, the temptation to imagine more pleasant alternate realities is irresistible. What if Hillary Clinton had been elected president instead of Obama? Would events have played out any differently? Or, even more tantalizingly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bleak Face of American Poverty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/2011/11/08/the_bleak_face_of_u_s_poverty/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Bleak Portrait of Poverty Is Off the Mark, Experts Say,&rdquo; blared the Friday headline in the New York Times. The traditional strategy for measuring poverty, we were told, did not include the benefits of federal programs like food stamps and tax credits that were helping to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jennifer Granholm's Plan to Fix America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/jennifer_granholm/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/09/19/jennifer_granholm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, has a story she likes to tell about the Chinese. Granholm visited China in March. At one meet-and-greet, a Chinese official buttonholed her and asked when the U.S. was going to implement a national energy policy. By her own account,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lessons for Obama From the New Deal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/us_economy/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/09/12/the_new_deal</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the current crop of Republican presidential candidates tours the United States denouncing Big Government in language virulent enough to make Barry Goldwater quail, it seems almost impossible to recall that once upon a time American voters endorsed the principle of strong government...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Does Not Know How to Say Yes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/budget_showdown/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/07/22/boehner_bails_on_debt_deal_obama_gets_mad</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Friday afternoon that will live in infamy? Just hours after the markets closed in the United States, Speaker of the House John Boehner released a statement announcing that he was abandoning negotiations on a debt ceiling deal with President Obama. The White House, he wrote, "is simply...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New GOP Hostage Demand: Kill ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/budget_showdown/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/07/22/health_care_reform_and_the_debt_ceiling</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I had a dream last night -- well, a nightmare, actually -- in which the debt ceiling ruckus insidiously morphed into a replay of the battle over healthcare reform. There was John Boehner, declaiming on the House floor, channeling Winston Churchill to express his party's opposition to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gambling Mogul Steve Wynn Needs to Chill Out]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/barack_obama/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/07/20/steve_wynn_anti_obama_rant</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, in the middle of an otherwise routine conference call discussing the second quarter earnings of casino operator Wynn Resorts, CEO Steve Wynn launched into an impassioned diatribe against Barack Obama. Wynn, who more than any other man is responsible for the modern...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Midwestern Backlash]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/the_republican_takeover/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/03/18/the_great_midwestern_political_seesaw</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2008, Barack Obama carried Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, three crucial Midwestern states in which he had campaigned unceasingly. Two years later, the midterm tidal wave handed monolithic control of the state legislature and governor's mansion in each state over to Republicans. The new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP's Spending Plan Will Kill Jobs]]></title>
							<link>http://salon.com/a/s5yofAA</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are House Republicans attempting to wound the U.S. economy on purpose? On Monday, economic forecaster Mark Zandi released a report for Moody's Analytics detailing the likely negative economic consequences of proposed GOP budget cuts.The House Republicans' proposal would reduce 2011 real...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stupid Republican Budget Tricks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/global_warming/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/02/10/gop_budget_cuts_global_warming_and_peak_oil</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[House Republicans will release a slate of proposed budget cuts on Thursday. High on their list of priorities, reports the New York Times, is the goal of crippling Obama's energy and environment initiatives. Republicans want to cut $900 million from energy conservation and efficiency...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Last Gasp on Health Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/healthcare_reform/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/01/19/the_gop_last_gasp_on_healthcare_reform</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As we prepare to count the votes on the House Republican-orchestrated  motion to repeal healthcare reform, the flurry of claims and  counterclaims about what the Affordable Care Act will or will not  achieve seem to prove only thing: We don't really have a clue what is  going to happen....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Angelo Mozilo's Slap on the Wrist]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/mortgage_crisis/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2010/10/15/angelo_mozilo_s_slap_on_the_wrist</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Angelo Mozilo will pay a fine of $67.5 million to settle SEC charges of insider trading and fraud. Most people would consider that a pretty penny, but maybe not Mozilo. Let's not forget, he raked in around $140 million in 2007, while laying off 12,000 Countrywide workers. He can afford...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unbearable Sorrow of Being Tony Hayward]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/news/louisiana_oil_spill/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2010/07/28/tony_hayward_life_is_not_fair</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're going to miss having Tony Hayward around to mock. Most top corporate executives have refined the art of saying absolutely nothing that could possibly be considered offensive into a fine art. But Hayward, the outgoing BP CEO, has a mouth that just doesn't know when to stop. It's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP's Losing Hand on Bank Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/04/14/banking_reform_gets_hot/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While discussing J.P. Morgan Chase's blow-out first quarter profits in an earnings call Wednesday morning, CEO Jamie Dimon put a price tag on the derivatives regulation currently being considered by Congress. His bank, reported the New York Times' Cyrus Sanati, stood to lose as much as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After 2 Months, Despair is a Premature Reaction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/03/23/krugman_and_geithner/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House Proposes the Mother of All Budgets]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/02/26/the_mother_of_all_budgets/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Smart, Ambitious New Housing Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/02/18/obamas_shiny_new_housing_plan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not Perfect, but the Stimulus Bill Will Help]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/02/12/confidence_and_the_stimulus/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Republican Credo: "No, We Can't"]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/28/the_party_that_only_says_no/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[What to Make of Obama's Tax Cuts?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/05/the_tax_cut_recovery/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Krugman's Depression Economics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/feature/2008/12/08/paul_krugman/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Andrew Leonard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reuters/Tim ShafferPaul Krugman at a news conference Oct. 13 at Princeton University, during his introduction as the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in economics.On his way to Stockholm, the Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist takes time to explain the "awful" economy that looms...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drilling Recklessly, Exhausting Our Resources]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/?last_story=/tech/htww/2008/06/18/offshore_drilling/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Depression: The Sequel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/04/02/depression/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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