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							<title><![CDATA[After SVB, How Will Government Refuse Other Bailouts?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/the-silicon-valleymake%20call%20on%20li%20nbebank-rescue-just-changed-capitalism/ar-AA18EpNG</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Lowenstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a career of writing about bank failures, I wound up in the middle of one when my bank, Silicon Valley Bank, was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. On Saturday, when I tried to pay a bill online, I was greeted by this not very reassuring missive:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Ben Bernanke Saved the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/the-villain/8901/?single_page=true</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Lowenstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Federal Reserve was founded 99 years ago, as a bulwark to the banking system and an antidote to its frequent runs and panics. Strictly speaking, it was America's third attempt at a central bank. The first, organized by Congress in 1791, was allowed to expire after 20 years,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Any CEO Worth $189,000 Per Hour?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/is-any-ceo-worth-189000-per-hour-02152012.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Lowenstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chief executive officers are not the only highly paid people in America. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just their misfortune that, thanks to disclosure rules, they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re among the most visible. This proxy season coincides with an electoral cycle in which income inequality has become a populist issue for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Economic Illiteracy of Politicians]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/book/review/peddling-protectionism-smoot-hawley-depression-douglas-irwin</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Lowenstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you think Congress is worse than ever, you weren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t around in 1930. It was then Congress passed the Smooth-Hawley Tariff'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a piece of protectionist folly that raised the levies on nearly nine hundred categories of imports. Britain, Canada, and various nations in Europe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Wall Street in for a Long Funk?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29fob-wwln-t.html?ref=magazine</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Lowenstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It has been three decades since Business Week proclaimed '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Death of Equities'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' on its cover. That 1979 obituary for the stock market, published when the Dow Jones industrial average languished at a mere 875, became a symbol of an age of doubt. So shattered were ordinary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wrong Emergency]]></title>
							<link>http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=0a253ad4-7e1a-4d8e-b50a-ecb61ec70855</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Lowenstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Extravagant Pensions Are Killing GM]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/opinion/10lowenstein.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Roger Lowenstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Triple-A Failure of Ratings Agencies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27Credit-t.html?_r=2&amp;hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;adxnnlx=1208880517-JldvdFOR3lSI0k5hcY67Ew</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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