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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Reason for Trump's Steel, Aluminum Tariffs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-steel-tariffs-targeting-china-by-martin-feldstein-2018-03</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration's proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports will target China, but not the way most observers believe. For the US, the most important bilateral trade issue has nothing to do with the Chinese authorities' failure to reduce excess steel capacity, as promised,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House Republicans' Good Tax Trade-Off]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+House+GOP%E2%80%99s+Good+Tax+Trade-Off&amp;oq=The+House+GOP%E2%80%99s+Good+Tax+Trade-Off&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64j69i60.95j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exempting exports from corporate income taxes would strengthen the dollar and raise revenue.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Fed Should Raise Rates Now]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unemployment is low, inflation is on the rise and asset prices are through the roof.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where the Fed Will Be When the Next Downturn Comes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Where+the+Fed+Will+Be+When+the+Next+Downturn+Comes&amp;oq=Where+the+Fed+Will+Be+When+the+Next+Downturn+Comes&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.95j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The easy-money policy may bump inflation over 3% in the next few years, setting up interest-rate increases.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ending the Fed's Inflation Fixation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Ending+the+Fed%E2%80%99s+Inflation+Fixation&amp;oq=Ending+the+Fed%E2%80%99s+Inflation+Fixation&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.183j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The primary role of the Federal Reserve and other central banks should be to prevent high rates of inflation. The double-digit inflation rates of the late 1970s and early &rsquo;80s were a destructive and frightening experience that could have been avoided by better monetary policy in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Uncounted Trillions in the Inequality Debate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Uncounted+Trillions+in+the+Inequality+Debate&amp;oq=The+Uncounted+Trillions+in+the+Inequality+Debate&amp;aqs=chrome.0.69i59.1151j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve recently estimated total household net worth in the U.S. to be about $80 trillion, including real estate and financial assets. And data from the Fed&rsquo;s Survey of Consumer Finances imply that the top 10% of households by net worth hold about 75%&mdash;or $60...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed's Stock-Price Correction]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=China%E2%80%99s+Economic+Stress+Test&amp;rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS645US645&amp;oq=China%E2%80%99s+Economic+Stress+Test&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.542j0j1&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=0&amp;ie=UTF-8#tbm=nws&amp;q=The+Fed%E2%80%99s+Stock-Price+Correction+</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The unfolding stock-market collapse&mdash;the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 1,000 points on Monday morning, rebounding later to nearly 600 points down, following several days of decline last week&mdash;is the inevitable result of the Federal Reserve&rsquo;s policies,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Economic Checkup]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy is at a critical juncture. The Federal Reserve&rsquo;s very easy monetary policy during the past few years has been the root of both good and ill: reduced unemployment on the one hand and increased financial risks on the other.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fed Needs to Step Up Its Pace of Rate Increases]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Fed+Needs+to+Step+Up+Its+Pace+of+Rate+Increases&amp;oq=The+Fed+Needs+to+Step+Up+Its+Pace+of+Rate+Increases&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.127j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=The+Fed+Needs+to+Step+Up+Its+Pace+of+Rate+</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve now faces the tough task of unwinding the easy-money policy that has helped bring about the current solid economic upturn. But its projected path for increasing the short-term federal-funds rate over the next few years is dangerously slow. Most members of the Federal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saving the Fed From Itself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/opinion/saving-the-fed-from-itself.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CAMBRIDGE, Mass. &mdash; THE Federal Reserve is pursuing a very risky monetary policy. Its leaders &mdash; the departing chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, and the vice chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen, whom President Obama has nominated to succeed him &mdash; are correct that the American economy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Inflation Returning?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/is-inflation-returning-by-martin-feldstein</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CAMBRIDGE &ndash; Inflation is now low in every industrial country, and the combination of high unemployment and slow GDP growth removes the usual sources of upward pressure on prices. Nevertheless, financial investors are increasingly worried that inflation will eventually begin to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Euro Zone's Double Failure]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203893404577098252697593684.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The recent euro-zone summit was a double failure. It failed to achieve the increased European political integration that was the primary goal of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the other European political leaders. And it failed to improve the outlook for euro-zone sovereign bonds...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tax Reform Evidence From 1986]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204002304576629481571778262.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Congress's Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction is struggling to find $1.5 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years. This is a unique opportunity to use tax reform to reduce future budget deficits while lowering individual tax rates.The Tax Reform Act of 1986, enacted 25 years ago...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Happening to the US Economy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/feldstein37/English</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American economy has recently slowed dramatically, and the  probability of another economic downturn increases with each new round  of data. This is a sharp change from the economic situation at the end  of last year &ndash; and represents a return to the very weak pace of  expansion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Economy Is Worse Than You Think]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363984173620692.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The policies of the Obama administration have led to the weak condition of the American economy. Growth during the coming year will be subpar at best, leaving high or rising levels of unemployment and underemployment.The drop in GDP growth to just 1.8% in the first quarter of 2011, from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Raise Tax Revenues, Not the Tax Rates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/opinion/05feldstein.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[REDUCING the budget deficit and stopping the explosion of our national  debt will require more tax revenue as well as reduced government  spending. But the need for more revenue needn&rsquo;t mean higher tax rates.As the bipartisan fiscal commission appointed by President Obama stressed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Euro's Predictable Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/predictable-crisis</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current crisis of the European single currency was an accident  waiting to happen. The adverse consequences of imposing a single  currency on a disparate group of countries were initially hidden by the  short-run advantages that the weakest countries enjoyed when they  adopted the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Safe Are Your U.S. Dollars?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/feldstein20/English</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fix Health Care Without Rationing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100703048.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American health-care system suffers from three serious problems: Health-care costs are rising much faster than our incomes. More than 15 percent of the population has neither private nor public insurance. And the high cost of health care can lead to personal bankruptcy, even for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Exploding Deficits Will Cripple U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203585004574393110640864526.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the deficits caused by the fiscal stimulus package will end in 2011 and will help to sustain a fragile recovery in 2010, the deficits projected for the longer term are a threat to our economic future. The starting point for controlling those future deficits is for Congress to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Rationing Isn't the Answer]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204683204574358233780260914.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although administration officials are eager to deny it, rationing health care is central to President Barack Obama's health plan. The Obama strategy is to reduce health costs by rationing the services that we and future generations of patients will receive. The White House Council of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cap-and-Trade: All Cost, No Benefit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/31/AR2009053102077.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tax Increases Could Kill Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124217336075913063.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[An $800 Billion Mistake]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012802938.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Detroit Needs Chapter 11]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111702917.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Dollar Hits an Oil Slick]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2008/05/the_us_dollar_hits_an_oil_slic.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Enough with the Interest Rate Cuts]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120822025943314699.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Martin Feldstein</author>
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