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<title><![CDATA[William Cohan - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15675.xml</link><description><![CDATA[William Cohan]]></description><category domain="15675">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Commercial Property Shakeout]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ft.com/content/531f2cda-f378-441c-8158-207a1305d7de?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sector shakeout is leading to pain for both equity and debtholders]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cheap Money Era and 'Creditor-on-Creditor Violence']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Investors pay the price for flocking to so-called cov-lite leveraged loans with reckless abandon]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GameStop Mania Trail of Destruction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/gamestop-mania-is-leaving-a-trail-of-destruction-in-its-wake</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week's wild saga is no different from market dramas of the past, except that it happened at turbo speed. When the dust settles there will be a few winners'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and a whole lot of losers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware the Time Bomb in the Trump Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/the-time-bomb-in-the-trump-economy</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Addicted to unnaturally low interest rates, Wall Street has begun experimenting with risky new financial instruments. Sound familiar?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dem Money Guys Like What O'Rourke Is Selling]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/the-democratic-money-guys-like-what-beto-orourke-is-selling#'&#'.ord('~').';'o</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democratic money guys were surprised by Bernie's fund-raising acumen, but even more impressed with Beto. My gut tells me that the grassroots support for this guy is going to be off the charts, says one top donor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Nixonian Roots of Trump's CNN Rage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/the-nixonian-roots-of-trumps-cnn-rage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president is hardly a student of history. (Or, to hear Michael Cohen tell it, much of a student at all.) But he might want to consider how Nixon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attempt to quash a corporate merger led him to face impeachment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tesla's Biggest Problem Isn't Elon Musk]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/opinion/tesla-elon-musk.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The company can survive its chief executive'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strange behavior. But it cannot escape $11 billion in debt.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Big, Dangerous Bubble in Corporate Debt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/opinion/corporate-debt-bubble-next-recession.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The $30 trillion domestic stock market seems to get all the attention. When the stock market sets new highs, we instinctively feel things are good and getting better. When it tanks, as happened in the initial months of the 2008 financial crisis, we think things are going to hell.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Everything About the Trump Crash Is BS]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/why-everything-about-the-trump-crash-is-bs</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There have been a lot of screaming headlines in the past two weeks about how the stock and bond markets have turned volatile, unpredictable, scary, and downright bearish'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'that whatever big party investors have been enjoying is definitely over, and that a new, darker chapter of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump's Stock-Market Honeymoon Headed to Chernobyl?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/is-trumps-stock-market-honeymoon-headed-to-chernobyl</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A favorite meme floating around Twitter after Friday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nearly 666-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average was that the stock market, somehow, is not related to the economy as a whole.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Chris Hayes,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the MSNBC anchor and all-around smart man,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' tweeted: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The stock...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Story of the Mooch and His 10 Days in the Swamp]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/the-mooch-recalls-his-10-days-in-the-swamp</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The day after the election, I was in Trump Tower,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' said'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Anthony Scaramucci.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I was in Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s office. We were celebrating, congratulating him on his victory. He says, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got to come help me. You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got to drop that stupid business of yours. I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republican Tax Plan Is a Recession Waiting to Happen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/the-republican-tax-plan-is-a-recession-waiting-to-happen</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Billionaires Can't Fix Media's Broken Business Model]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/journalisms-broken-business-model-wont-be-solved-by-billionaires</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since Donald Graham, the heir to the Washington Post, decided to sell the family'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s newspaper for two hundred and fifty million dollars, in 2013, to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s richest men, the preferred solution for a financially struggling...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gary Cohn, Trump Agoniste, Contemplates the End]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/gary-cohn-contemplates-the-end</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What the hell is Gary doing down there?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a Wall Street source asked me, referring to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' chief economic adviser,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Gary Cohn.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the same question I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' asked myself'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' last week, when the president turned a press conference about infrastructure into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Jamie Dimon Went Berserk]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/the-real-reason-jamie-dimon-went-berserk-about-america</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/the-real-reason-jamie-dimon-went-berserk-about-america]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nothing quite epitomizes Wall Street'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s profound schizophrenia about Washington these days better than'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Jamie Dimon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' impromptu, Bastille Day, profanity-laced screed directed toward Congress and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' administration. Nearly immediately, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' speechaccrued...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sam Zell Explains Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/sam-zell-explains-donald-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The billionaire investor assails his former Tribune employees and America's urban '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';'lite.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Financial Collapse Steeled Gary Cohn for White House]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/22/gary-cohn-financial-crisis-trump-215059</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/22/gary-cohn-financial-crisis-trump-215059]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has ever worked for a Wall Street investment bank knows what it takes to get to the top of one: cunning, smarts, an ability to produce revenue and Machiavellian political skills. And that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s why it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s really no surprise, if you think about it, that two longtime former...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Hillary Clinton's Plan to Come Out of the Woods]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/inside-hillary-clintons-plan-to-come-out-of-the-woods</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is an active debate inside Clintonworld about bringing Hillary back into the public sphere.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Huma Abedin vs. the &quot;Night Stalkers&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/huma-abedin-life-after-clinton</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Maybe I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m just pissed off, but I really don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t give a shit about what happens to Humato be honest with you,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' one close adviser to Hillary Clinton told me recently. He was irked, in particular, at Abedin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s seemingly superfluous breach of decorum during a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Clintonworld Sees the Latest Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/what-clintonworld-thinks-about-the-latest-abedin-weiner-scandal</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??If Weiner hadn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t taken pictures of his weiner, we wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t be in this thing.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too-Big-to-Fail Comes Back to Haunt Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/too-big-to-fail-hillary-clinton-213650</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/too-big-to-fail-hillary-clinton-213650]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did Hillary Clinton engage in a secret handshake with Wall Street'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and make herself beholden to the big banks'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'by getting paid $225,000 a pop for speaking at three events held for Goldman Sachs clients in 2013? Certainly that is the implication of Bernie Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' rhetoric,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Too Big to Fail' Banks Thriving on Wall Street]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/business/dealbook/too-big-to-fail-banks-thriving-a-few-years-after-financial-crisis.html?_r=2</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly eight years after the onset of the financial crisis, its unintended consequences continue to startle and amaze.For instance, who would have thought that many of the big European banks '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' among them Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and UBS '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' would have new chief...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Wall Street, Nobody's Putting the Big Short on Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/big-short-movie-hillary-clinton-2016-213439</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new movie '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Big Short'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' dredges up a lot of bad memories of how badly the country was screwed by Wall Street. It goes into what went horribly wrong inside the big banks seven years ago and how a small group of clever traders made fortunes betting on the crash of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Show Some Spine, Federal Reserve]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/29/opinion/show-some-spine-federal-reserve.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE financial markets and the Federal Reserve Board have been playing out a tragicomedy in three acts. Here'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s how it works: Initially, a flurry of news stories appear about how, a few months hence, the Fed intends to raise short-term interest rates for the first time in years....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Did Wall Street Bankers Stay Out of Jail?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/how-wall-streets-bankers-stayed-out-of-jail/399368/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On May 27, in her first major prosecutorial act as the new U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch unsealed a 47-count indictment against nine FIFA officials and another five corporate executives. She was passionate about their wrongdoing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Wall Street Killing Its Bankers?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-09/is-wall-street-killing-its-bankers</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s probably just a sad coincidence, but the sudden deaths since December of a group of young men who worked for JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. (or who once did) have conspiracy theorists in a tizzy.For the less conspiracy-minded, the deaths again raise a troubling question: Is the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Please Hold Your Bernanke Applause]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-11/please-hold-your-bernanke-applause.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The plutocrats are heralding Ben S. Bernanke'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s eight years as Federal Reserve chairman. And with good reason.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' After all, Bernanke'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s two signature achievements -- bailing out the bankrupt financial system and serving as the architect of the cheap-money policy known as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good Times Rolling Again for Wall Streeters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-11/good-times-roll-again-in-the-hamptons.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most disappointing fact about how little things have changed on Wall Street five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is not that the Dodd-Frank Act is ineffective. Or that no substantive regulations are in place that might prevent the recurrence of a crisis. Or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wall St. Spin Machine Mobilizes for Corzine]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-07/wall-street-spin-machine-mobilizes-for-corzine.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The highly compensated Wall Street spin machine never ceases to amaze me. Case in point: defending the indefensible Jon S. Corzine. As soon as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued the embattled former chairman and chief executive officer of MF Global Inc., the now liquidated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia's Dwarf-Throwing Billionaire]]></title>
							<link>http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/03/myth-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-saudi</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Cohan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Worth an estimated $27 billion, the enigmatic Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has very public holdings: he is the second-largest voting shareholder in News Corp., he owns Paris'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s George V hotel and part of New York City'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Plaza hotel, he is a stockholder in Apple, and he will soon...]]></description>
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