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							<title><![CDATA[What Donald Trump Is Doing to America]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nightmare continues. I am revolted to hear someone brag about sexually assaulting a woman.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John McLaughlin: Knight of His Political Roundtable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/mortimer-zuckerman-knight-political-roundtable-article-1.2755389</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John McLaughlin, who died Tuesday, was a broadcasting legend. For 34 years he hosted the syndicated public affairs program &ldquo;The McLaughlin Group&rdquo; &mdash; a show that basically reinvented the panel-discussion format on television. I was privileged to be a part of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Jobs Picture Is Far Worse Than It Looks]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We think of the iconic images of the Great Depression as representative of a uniquely miserable period, long vanished from American history. The bread lines and soup kitchens of those abnormal times have gone. So, too, has the sight of thousands of men (there were very few women among...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jobless Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Look]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Don't be fooled by the headline unemployment number of 8.1% announced on Friday. The reason the number dropped to 8.1% from 8.3% in July was not because more jobs were created, but because more people quit looking for work.The number for August reflects only people who have actively...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Business Despairs of Obama]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Take a deep breath. The industrialised world, America included, seems stuck in one of those horror movies, where the monster, thought to be slain, morphs into something even more scary. The fear is that a double-dip, or worse, is now upon us. Those who might help us escape are now being...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jobs Situation Is Worse Than Reported]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Great Recession has now earned the dubious right of being  compared to the Great Depression. In the face of the most stimulative  fiscal and monetary policies in our history, we have experienced the  loss of over 7 million jobs,  wiping out every job gained since the year 2000. From...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fading Exceptionalism: U.S. Needs Leadership]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2011/06/10/americas-fading-exceptionalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our 21st century does not seem to be on course to be described as the  "American century," the title indubitably merited for the 20th century.  For most of the last 100 years, America was fairly characterized by the Economist as "the lord of all it surveyed . . . convinced of its supreme...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Anemic Recovery Continues]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's an acidic remark by Dorothy Parker, the New Yorker wit of the  1920s, that just about sums up our present economic predicament. She  was asked if she'd heard the news that President Calvin Coolidge was  dead and responded: "How can they tell?"How can we tell that our long-awaited...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How We Can Get the US Working Again]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There  is no life in America&#194;&#146;s market. The recession officially ended in June  2009, but the Great Jobs Recession continues apace. Since the government  began to measure the business cycle, no recession has been marked by  such high levels of unemployment and underemployment, or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Is No Life in Our Jobs Market]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2011/02/11/the-great-jobs-recession-goes-on</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no life in our jobs market. The recession officially ended  in June 2009, but the Great Jobs Recession continues apace. Not since  the government began to measure the business cycle has a deep recession  been marked by such high levels of unemployment  and underemployment, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Remembering 'the Great Communicator']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Ronald Reagan brings to mind my first revealing encounter with him. It was the result  of the 1986 seizure by the Soviet KGB of the Moscow bureau chief of U.S.News &amp; World Report, Nick Daniloff.I went to Moscow to try to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[State Governments in a Hole &amp; Still Digging]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[State governments are in a huge hole, and they're still digging.  Thanks to the Great Recession, their tax receipts have suffered the  greatest decline since the Great Depression: now 12 percent below  pre-recession levels (adjusted for inflation). For their 2012 budgets,  states face...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Quality of Teaching Is Critical]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why is it that the education of our children has become such a  national challenge? How could America rank in the bottom third among  developed nations in terms of student performance, yet we spend more per  capita than virtually any other nation? How is it that U.S. fourth  graders rank...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Real Danger of a Global Double Dip Recession]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The modern world has for centuries been dominated economically,  intellectually, and physically by the civilization that arose in Western  Europe in the wake of the Renaissance and Reformation and spread across  the Atlantic.Will that one day be seen as a passing phenomenon doomed to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jobs Machine is Clanging to Halt]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's private-sector jobs  machine has been the marvel of the economic world since 1940. When farm  jobs were eliminated by mechanization, factories hired more. When  factories increased productivity and moved work offshore, jobs opened up  in services such as healthcare  and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dream of Owning Home Becomes Nightmare]]></title>
							<link>http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2010/09/23/the-american-dream-of-home-ownership-has-become-a-nightmare.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why has housing been such a core element in the story of American civilization?Culturally a decent house has been a symbol of middle-class family  life. Practically, it has been a secure shelter for the children, along  with access to a good free education. Financially it has been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Outrageous Public Pay, Pensions &amp; Corruption]]></title>
							<link>http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2010/09/10/public-sector-workers-are-the-new-privileged-elite-class.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We really are two Americas, but not those captured in the stereotypical  populist class warfare speeches that dramatize the gulf between the rich  and the poor. Instead there is a new division in America that affronts a  sense of fairness. That division is between the workers in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tim Geithner's Rose Colored Glasses]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is in the midst of an unprecedented and, therefore, unpredictable economic downturn. We are at an inflection point with pessimists and optimists differing on where we&rsquo;ll go in the near term. The Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, by definition is an optimist as witnessed by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama's Policies Haven't Helped]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The growing divide and tension between the Obama administration and  the business world is a cause for national concern. As Clive Crook wrote  in the Financial Times, Obama is "a president under business  attack." He is certainly under sharp criticism and for good reason: He  has lost...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nation's Hope for Obama Flickers Out]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The hope that fired up the election of Barack Obama has flickered out, leaving a national mood of despair and disappointment. Americans are dispirited over how wrong things are and uncertain they can be made right again. Hope may have been a quick breakfast, but it has proved a poor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Crippling Price of Public Employee Unions]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American public feels it is drowning in red ink. It is dismayed and even outraged at the burgeoning national deficits, unbalanced state and local budgets, and accounting that often masks the extent of indebtedness. There is a mounting sense that taxpayers are being taken for an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Dangerous Game of Politics]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Watching Barack Obama deliver the State of the Union speech brought to mind the verse by George Leybourne celebrating "this daring young man on the flying trapeze" who "flies through the air with the greatest of ease." How graceful and fluent the president was, how marvelous his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obama]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The air is seeping out of the Obama balloon. He has fallen to below 50 percent in the poll approval ratings, a decline punctuated by his party's shocking loss in the Massachusetts special election.Why?Barack Obama was undoubtedly sincere in what he promised, even if his promises were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Done Everything Wrong]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message:																											AP Photo																		Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days. He&#194;&#146;s misjudged the character of the country in his whole...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Get Americans Working Again]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no silver lining to the dark cloud that has enveloped America. A slight decline in the rate of job losses at the end of last year, coupled with a rise in the gross domestic product, gave hope that we were at the beginning of a sustained recovery from the Great Recession. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[US No Longer a Big Job Creating Machine]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mort Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a little candle in the dark in the trend of unemployment just reported. But to give it perspective, General Electric recently posted job openings for 90 $13-an-hour positions assembling washing machines at a plant in Louisville, Ky., and received 10,000 online applications....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America: Drowning in Debt]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Weather in NYC61&#194;&#176;F Forecast   TrafficMort Zuckerman					       					                            				   Updated    				  Friday, October 23rd 2009, 12:19 PM    			   The unprecedented, improbable and indeed almost unimaginable global financial crisis has virtually put an end to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Netanyahu's Speech Was a Big Step Forward]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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								As I watched the speech from Israel&mdash;and talked to Netanyahu afterward&mdash;I saw a poised leader who did what was necessary to move negotiations...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hamas Must Fail and Be Seen to Fail]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Right Way to Save the Economy]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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