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							<title><![CDATA[Letter to Geithner: How to Dodge Debt Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/an-open-letter-to-tim-geithner-on-how-to-dodge-the-next-debt-crisis/2012/11/14/2462db7e-2ead-11e2-89d4-040c9330702a_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Allan Sloan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Secretary:I know that even though President Obama has been reelected, you are planning to leave the Treasury Department. So I&rsquo;d like to offer you a goodbye gift. It&rsquo;s not money or a prestigious seven-digit-a-year gig. It&rsquo;s a way to avoid having the government...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taxpayers Are Doomed to Bail Out Big Banks Again]]></title>
							<link>http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/14/are-big-banks-doomed-to-fail/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Allan Sloan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Have you ever watched something unfold, knowing that it hasn't got a prayer of succeeding?Then you understand how I feel about the provision in the Dodd-Frank  financial reform legislation that would supposedly avoid future federal  bailouts by requiring giant financial institutions to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christie, Cuomo Singing Similar Tunes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/03/AR2011030305479.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Allan Sloan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you're an average person whose tax money helped pay for the Wall  Street bailout, what's going on in New York and New Jersey could really  make you angry. Especially if you happen to live there. These states,  home to lots of firms and highly compensated folks who benefited from  the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let the Bush Tax Cuts Expire]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/17/news/economy/bush_tax_cuts_expire.fortune/index.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Allan Sloan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That brings us to today's hot topic in our nation's capital: taxes. Specifically, whether to let the Bush tax cuts lapse on Jan. 1, which would make tax rates higher than now. The issue has produced so much hot air that we'd be well on our way to becoming a green nation if only we could...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Uncle Sam is Killing Your Savings]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/19/news/economy/low_rates_savings.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009102012</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Allan Sloan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Answer: They show yet another way that prudent people, especially those living on fixed incomes, are being screwed by the government's bailout of the imprudent.Here's the deal. The government is spending trillions to keep interest rates down in order to support the economy and prop up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[TARP Has a Few Big Gains, Many Big Losses]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/03/AR2009080302672.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Allan Sloan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the things they teach in Successful Investing 101 is to cut your losses short and let your winnings run. But when it comes to the Troubled Assets Relief Program, the government is stuck doing the opposite -- its gains are being cut short because its most profitable investments are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Obama Balance Taxpayers and Wall Street?]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/13/news/economy/sloan_obamoids.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009021306</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Allan Sloan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Make a Bad Bailout Better]]></title>
							<link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/06/news/economy/betterbailout_sloan.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008100616</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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