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<title><![CDATA[Peter Orszag - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15407.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Peter Orszag]]></description><category domain="15407">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Economy Will Need Stimulus Well Beyond July]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-economy-stimulus-well-beyond-093024103.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In the days before GPS was commercially available, I decided to hike Mount Jackson in New Hampshire. The guidebook said Tisdale Spring was close to the summit, so when I passed a small spring after a couple hours, I thought the hard part was almost over.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Better Goal for Trump on Health Care]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-25/a-better-goal-for-trump-on-health-care</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rather than renew their failed effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans should move on to another aspect of health care: the need to contain costs and improve value.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Wrong Way to Lower Health-Insurance Premiums]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-17/the-wrong-way-to-lower-health-insurance-premiums</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For proponents of the American Health Care Act, perhaps the most encouraging nugget in the Congressional Budget Office'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s otherwise critical'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' analysis is that insurance premiums could fall by 10 percent on average by 2026. Even this prediction is more mirage than reality, however,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress's Budget Game Gets Uglier]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-04/congress-s-cynicism-on-the-budget-is-getting-worse</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The budget resolution before the Senate this week is either dishonest or deeply problematic. Consider, as just one example, the way it treats non-defense discretionary spending.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Constraints on discretionary spending are being used, once again, to make the deficit numbers look better...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cost-Cutting Power of Medicare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-26/medicare-s-power-to-keep-health-care-affordable</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health and Human Services' action today to set a timetable for moving Medicare away from fee-for-service payments is commendable and timely. Secretary Sylvia Burwell's goals are nice and specific, too: Thirty percent of Medicare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s payments are to be value-based by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop the Anti-Obamacare Shenanigans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/opinion/stop-the-anti-obamacare-shenanigans.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SO far, opponents of the Affordable Care Act have lost every major battle to repeal or invalidate it. Some of them are now urging the courts to interpret the health reform law in a way that would guarantee its failure. This is a significant threat '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' potentially as grave as the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do-Nothing Congress Is Your Fault]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-15/do-nothing-congress-is-your-fault</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most important problem facing our national government is political polarization, because it makes governing virtually impossible -- unless one party can dominate the House, Senate and White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Genes Demolish Gladwell's &quot;Outlier&quot; Version]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-20/practice-makes-perfect-if-your-genes-play-along.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like many others who read Malcolm Gladwell'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s book '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Outliers'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' when it came out five years ago, I was impressed by the 10,000-hour rule of expertise. I wrote a column (for a different publication) espousing the rule, which holds that to become a world-class competitor at anything from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With So Many Openings, Why So Little Hiring?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-13/with-so-many-job-openings-why-so-little-hiring-.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An odd puzzle is taking shape in the labor market: Over the past three years, the number of job openings has risen almost 50 percent, but actual hiring has gone up by less than 5 percent. Companies are advertising a lot more jobs, in other words, but not filling them.To get some sense of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Critics Wrong About Obamacare's Rate-Setting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-30/critics-are-wrong-about-the-medicare-payment-board.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For Medicare, this has been a summer of good and bad news. On one hand, the program'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s costs continue to rise remarkably slowly. So far this fiscal year, they have gone up by only 2.7 percent in nominal terms, the Congressional Budget Office reports.On the other hand, opposition to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Young Women, Killing Themselves by Tanning]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-09/young-white-women-killing-themselves-by-tanning.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the hoopla over dysfunction in Washington, the government can still do useful things. To prove it, the Food and Drug Administration should move aggressively to implement and then strengthen its proposed cancer warnings about tanning beds.A stunning 20 million to 30 million...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Wise Choice to Delay Insurance Mandate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-03/obama-makes-wise-choice-to-delay-insurance-mandate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Barack Obama administration should be commended for delaying implementation of the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act. The delay won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do much damage -- other than perhaps symbolically -- to the effort to expand insurance coverage, and it allows the administration to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are College Graduates Driving Taxis?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-25/why-are-so-many-college-graduates-driving-taxis-.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a parent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nightmare: shelling out big money for college, then seeing the graduate unable to land a job that requires high-level skills. This situation may be growing more common, unfortunately, because the demand for cognitive skills associated with higher education,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Retirement Will Kill You]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-11/retirement-will-kill-you.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Teddy Roosevelt once said '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Recent research suggests he may have been more right than he knew: Life'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'best prize'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' might actually extend life itself.Our common perception is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As Job Flow Slows, Americans Get Stuck in Place]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/as-job-flow-slows-americans-get-stuck-in-place.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most Americans believe that the job market has grown more turbulent, with people changing employers ever more often. In reality, the opposite is happening.This, in turn, largely explains why fewer Americans than ever are moving across state lines. And as intergenerational income mobility...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's the Perfect Time to Fix Roads &amp; Bridges]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-26/it-s-the-perfect-time-to-fix-our-roads-and-bridges.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Roads, bridges and other infrastructure in the U.S. are steadily growing older and weaker. Given low interest rates and elevated unemployment, this is an ideal moment to invest in fixing them.Our structures are aging as fast as we are. From 2000 to 2010, the median human age in the U.S....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Standard Tests Do Reveal Which Teachers Are Best]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-12/standard-tests-do-reveal-which-teachers-are-best.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Improving the quality of education delivered through our public schools can not only boost economic growth but also help to narrow income inequality in the U.S. And the best way to improve education is to identify and promote the most talented teachers.One way of measuring a teacher's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Too Soon to Celebrate the Economic Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/it-s-too-soon-to-celebrate-a-recovery.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/it-s-too-soon-to-celebrate-a-recovery.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the economy begins to show signs of strength, people naturally want to know, how long will the damage from the financial crisis linger? A new paper from the Bank of England suggests it may be much longer than we would like.If that'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s right, then official economic projections remain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ryan Would Shrink Medicare's Doctor Pool]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-18/ryan-s-proposal-would-shrink-medicare-s-doctor-pool.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The federal budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, extols the benefits of "promoting true choice" for Medicare beneficiaries. In truth, though, the Ryan plan would substantially reduce choice for many people on Medicare -- by cutting them...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Myths About Ryan's Budget]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-paul-ryans-budget/2012/08/23/757b3718-eba0-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve worked closely with Rep. Paul Ryan. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an honest and amiable guy. In part because of his winning personality, Ryan, Mitt Romney'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s running mate in the presidential election, has convinced many in Washington that his budget blueprint is a serious proposal for solving...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Competition Tooth Fairy Can't Cut Health Costs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-20/private-market-tooth-fairy-can-t-cut-medicare-cost.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The vast bulk of health-care costs arise from an extremely small share of patients, whose insurance will inevitably bear a substantial share of their expenses.That'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s why competition in health care doesn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t work as well as in other sectors, and it'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s also why the key to keeping costs to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Keep the Brake on Health-Care Costs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-01/smart-ways-to-keep-the-brake-on-health-care-costs.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-01/smart-ways-to-keep-the-brake-on-health-care-costs.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The rising cost of health care in the U.S. has been slowing over the past few years, driven both by weakness in the general economy and by some changes in the way medical services are provided. The crucial question now is, how can we make sure that progress continues?Surprisingly, for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Can Win the Fiscal Showdown]]></title>
							<link>http://www.democracyjournal.org/25/the-looming-showdown.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s January 2013. The treasury secretary has warned that we'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'ve run out of maneuvering room to avoid hitting the debt limit again, bringing back memories of August 2011. This time, though, the debt-limit drama is happening at exactly the same time as contentious debates over the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cap-and-Punt Is the Wrong Way to Cut Deficits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-29/cap-and-punt-is-the-wrong-way-to-cut-future-deficits.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bracing for more economic shocks from Europe, the U.S. urgently needs a barbell fiscal policy. That is, more immediate stimulus and more deficit reduction that is designed to take effect over time.Unfortunately, policy makers are failing on both sides, mostly ignoring the need for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Can Stimulate Now, Cut Later]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-22/history-shows-u-s-can-stimulate-now-cut-later.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-22/history-shows-u-s-can-stimulate-now-cut-later.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From 2017 to 2022, Social Security'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s normal retirement age is scheduled to gradually increase to 67. And I'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'ll bet that not only happens as planned, but does so with little fanfare -- which is pretty much what happened several years ago when the age rose from 65 to 66.Therein lies an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Surviving Taxmageddon w/out Killing Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-24/surviving-taxmageddon-without-maiming-economy.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-24/surviving-taxmageddon-without-maiming-economy.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The nation is hurtling toward what has been called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'taxmageddon,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the enormous tax increases and spending cuts scheduled for the beginning of 2013. At around the same time, we will also be spending some more quality time with our old friend: the debt limit.No one can yet see a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tie U.S. Recovery Plan to Economic Indicators]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-08/tie-u-s-recovery-program-to-economic-indicators-peter-orszag.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to early forecasts, the U.S. economy should already have recovered from the financial crisis. Despite some recent encouraging news, though, we still don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know when things will be back to normal.What have we learned from this delay? That in devising public policy to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[US Can Rent Its Way Toward a Housing Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-05/u-s-can-rent-its-way-toward-a-housing-recovery-peter-orszag.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After any financial collapse, housing plays a key role in the hard slog that typically follows: a weak housing market feeds into a weak economy, which then feeds back onto a weak housing market. So even if the European banking system somehow avoids a meltdown, economic recovery in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hard Slog: The Real Future of the U.S. Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-13/hard-slog-the-real-future-of-the-u-s-economy-peter-orszag.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The continuing weakness in the labor market and the saga of the debt limit highlight the dual problems we face: low economic growth right now and an unsustainable amount of debt for the future. Unfortunately, both are probably more significant than policy discussions and official...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Must Brace Itself for Turbulence]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Orszag</author>
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