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							<title><![CDATA[A Bad Deal Off to a Worse Start]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2016-01-21/obamas-iran-nuclear-deal-is-a-bad-deal-off-to-a-worse-start</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama never submitted his Iranian nuclear deal for ratification by the Congress because he knew it would have no chance of passing. That does not make the United States unique: The Iranian parliament has never approved it either (that body passed a heavily amended...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Get the Dreary Economy Going?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American economy remains weak, with growth at the lowest level in more than three decades. In April and May, 54,000 fewer jobs were created than originally estimated, and the 215,000 jobs added in July didn&rsquo;t change the picture of a faltering employment market.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President Daydreams on Iran]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who looks at the nuclear deal and sees success is living in a world of rainbows and unicorns.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why They Hate Israel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/hate-israel-article-1.1905354</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you don't know history, you don't know anything. Too much of the commentary on the relations between the Palestinians and the Israelis testifies to the validity of the late author Michael Crichton's dictum.The ignoramus is a leaf who doesn't know he is part of a tree, and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Jobless Recovery Is a Phony Recovery]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The jobless nature of the recovery is particularly unsettling. In June, the government's Household Survey reported that since the start of the year, the number of people with jobs increased by 753,000&mdash;but there are jobs and then there are "jobs." No fewer than 557,000 of these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has America Lost Its Mojo?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2013/04/04/the-economy-is-not-advancing-its-going-backward</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Which way are we going? The stock market has revived, though it still is off a high in real terms. There's suddenly good news about housing demand, which is showing signs of life after six years of stagnation. Yet Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warns that the package of fiscal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How We Can End Our Modern-Day Depression]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2013/02/01/mort-zuckerman-how-we-can-end-our-modern-day-depression</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you went out this morning and saw hundreds of people lining up at soup kitchens, you'd think you were in a time machine, transported back to the Great Depression of the '30s, or the victim of a hallucination incubated by powerful images of those times. In fact, it is the absence of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brace for an Avalanche of Unfunded Debt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/12/28/mort-zuckerman-brace-for-an-avalanche-of-unfunded-debt</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All eyes have been on the clear and present danger of the fiscal cliff&mdash;understandably&mdash;but there's a sound in the mountain range that's even scarier than the cliff. It's the sound made by an avalanche, the trillions of dollars of debt that's heading our way, gathering speed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Truce Doesn't Solve Fundamental Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/11/21/gaza-ceasefire-doesnt-solve-the-fundamental-problem</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gaza is a tragedy in three dimensions. Innocent people die. The stalemate on a West Bank agreement hardens. World attention is diverted from the crimes of the Assad regime in Syria and Iran&#194;&#146;s progress toward a nuclear weapon. Any prospect of reversing these setbacks depends crucially on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Country Is Unhappy Under Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/10/05/mort-zuckerman-why-the-country-is-unhappy-under-obama</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you accumulate some of the adjectives from the pundits, the media, and other appraisals that were not from the right but from baffled sympathizers and centrists, there is no doubt that President Barack Obama clearly lost the debate this week, as a matter of both substance and tone....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Dishonest, Divisive Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/09/21/romney-can-still-overcome-obamas-dishonest-divisive-campaign</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The problem for Mitt Romney right now is that he has put his entire candidacy at risk to the point where he may not even qualify for the dismissive equation of Barack Obama that Marco Rubio formulated for the Republican faithful: "Our problem is not that he's a bad person. Our problem is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need to Recover From the Obama Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/09/19/mort-zuckerman-welcome-to-the-modern-day-depression</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do you recover from a recovery? Just how bust the nation's "recovery" has been is painfully documented in the latest news, just two months before the election. The Census Bureau validated what middle-class Americans know all too well from their week to week, month to month struggle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Under Obama, New American Dream Is a Job]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/07/30/mort-zuckerman-under-obama-the-new-american-dream-is-a-job</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's not much to cheer in our scrappy election campaign. We hear that more than 4.4 million private sector jobs have been added in 28 straight months of job growth, and that the president is taking "aggressive steps to put Americans back to work." The happy talk invites a slogan from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For U.S. Economy the News Is Bad and Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/07/18/for-the-us-economy-the-news-is-bad-and-worse</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time to adjust the gambit that people in all situations commonly use when reporting results to a supervisor: What do you want first, the good news or the bad? The formula that more aptly applies to the latest indicator of America's economic predicament is: What do you want first,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Middle-Class Vulnerability]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/06/27/obamas-middle-class-vulnerability</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American public has had lots of experience living through recessions. We have endured 11 over the past 60 years, but none since the end of World War II has been as deep or as long as this one. It has severely tested the optimism, confidence, and animal spirits that typify the temper...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin's Message: Voters Want Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/06/18/why-we-need-a-new-approach-to-public-unions</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's hard to dodge downpours in a wet season, and it is proving remarkably wet for the Democrats and public sector unions. Since losing the big effort to recall the Republican governor of Wisconsin, they have been trying hard to explain away the 1,334,450 raindrops Wisconsin voters...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Economy: Less Work, Less Reward]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/05/17/obamas-less-economy-americans-facing-less-work-less-reward</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The political season has begun in earnest, with each side putting forth facts and figures hoping that the persuasive power of statistics will bolster the weaker argument. It was Mark Twain who popularized the comment attributed to Disraeli, to wit, that there are three kinds of lies:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Economic Programs Have Failed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/04/20/mort-zuckerman-president-obamas-economic-programs-have-failed</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America has long been a country where almost everyone, including the poor and unskilled, could get a job. Given the will to do a reasonable day's work, a job was a passport to economic and social well-being; it was the fount of self-esteem and the foundation of family life. Indeed, work...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cost of Obama's Keystone XL Dithering]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2012/02/17/the-cost-of-president-obamas-keystone-xl-dithering</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not right to compare the Obama administration's performance in the matter of the Keystone XL pipeline to the Keystone Kops. Yes, the bunglers of the Charlie Chaplin silent movies are so busy blowing whistles that they arrest the victim while the bad guy makes off with the swag. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Obama Fails to Lead, Faith in U.S. Declines]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2011/12/22/as-obama-fails-to-lead-american-dream-is-called-into-question</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Great Recession we have endured was unprecedented and therefore unpredictable. The evidence lies in how completely we underestimated the headwinds inherent in a post-bubble, debt-deleveraging era. We saw a dismal decade of lost growth from 2001 to 2010. The annualized growth of real...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and the &quot;Competency Crisis&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903327904576526611297517664.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rising impatience with the leadership of President Obama was epitomized on Aug. 8 in the middle of one of the now-habitual Wall Street roller coasters. His speech on the economy was 53 minutes late. What showed on TV screens was an empty White House podium, an image suggestive of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why U.S. Confidence Has Become a Malaise]]></title>
							<link>http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2010/10/18/mort-zuckerman-americas-supreme-confidence-has-become-a-malaise.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Both parties are reeling from the shock of an enraged electorate venting in the primaries. There are eccentric results but there is no doubt the votes reflect dismay at what has been happening to America. The supreme confidence, national pride, and sense of achievement that marked the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Most Fiscally Irresponsible Govt in US History]]></title>
							<link>http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2010/08/26/the-most-fiscally-irresponsible-government-in-us-history.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is an instinctive conclusion among the American public that  President Obama's stimulus package has failed to create a sustained  recovery. Unemployment has increased, not declined; consumers have  retrenched; housing starts have crashed along with mortgage  applications; and there...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Jobless Picture is Alarmingly Bleak]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32229d12-7195-11df-8eec-00144feabdc0.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are drifting. We take  comfort in bits of good news, but we are in dangerous waters; the Great  Recession is being starkly revealed as a global crisis with the US, the  traditional engine of recovery,  sputtering on every cylinder. The US government responded with dramatic  financial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Finding the Right Fix for 'Too Big to Fail']]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704888404574550570805868530.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mortimer Zuckerman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the grip of our Great Recession, with more job losses to come, we have yet to fix the broken financial system that is an underlying cause of this whole mess. The long history of financial panics wrecking American lives had led to what we thought was a tight regulatory system. But the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Drowning in Debt]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jobs Data Paint a Discouraging Picture]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2009/07/13/nine-reasons-the-economy-is-not-getting-better.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[3 Quick Steps For the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2008/11/21/3-quick-steps-for-the-economy.html?PageNr=3</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Avoiding a Deep Recession]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2008/10/20/avoiding-a-deep-recession.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop the Energy Insanity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2008/07/10/stop-the-energy-insanity.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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