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<title><![CDATA[Derek Thompson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16253.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Derek Thompson]]></description><category domain="16253">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Everything Is Television]]></title>
							<link>https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A theory of culture and attention]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will AI Cause Us To Stop Using Our Minds?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-18-months</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The real deadline isn't when AI outsmarts us '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it's when we stop using our own minds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If GLP-1 Drugs Are So Good, Should We All Be on Them?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-does-it-seem-like-glp-1-drugs</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Studies show that the obesity and diabetes medication also reduces heart attacks, cancer risk, migraines, and memory loss. How is that even possible? And at what point should we all be on it?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Sign That AI Is Competing With College Grads]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/careers/career-advice/something-alarming-is-happening-to-the-job-market/ar-AA1DUr2p</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Something strange, and potentially alarming, is happening to the job market for young, educated workers.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tragedy of the Modern Dem Party &amp; How To Fix It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/03/16/derek_thompson_the_tragedy_of_the_modern_democratic_party_is_they_associate_success_with_how_much_they_spend_not_what_they_build.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Atlantic" writer Derek Thompson and NY Times columnist Ezra Klein spoke about the "tragedy" of the modern Democratic Party, Sunday morning on CNN with Fareed Zakaria.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Covid Push Young People Against the Left?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-covid-pushed-a-generation-of-young-people-to-the-right/ar-AA1zhfUc?cvid=8fdec210635945e0d82c214a7502b8f8&amp;ei=8</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For decades, America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s young voters have been deeply'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and famously'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'progressive. In 2008, a youthquake sent Barack Obama to the White House. In 2016, voters ages 18 to 29 broke for Hillary Clinton by'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 18 points. In 2020, they voted for Joe Biden by'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 24 points. In 2024,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk&rsquo;s Reign of Terror]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/elon-musk-s-reign-of-terror/ar-AA1znwDl?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By reputation, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are builders. Musk has grown two of the largest hardware-innovation companies in the world, Tesla and SpaceX. As for Trump, he once told'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Golf Digest: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I own buildings. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's 'Marriage Material' Shortage]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/family-and-relationships/marriage/america-s-marriage-material-shortage/ar-AA1yk31z</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve heard: Young people aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t dating anymore. News media and social media are awash in commentary about the decline in youth romance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Anti-Social Century]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/social-issues/the-anti-social-century/ar-AA1xapQs</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A short drive'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' from my home in North Carolina is a small Mexican restaurant, with several tables and four stools at a bar facing the kitchen. On a sweltering afternoon last summer, I walked in with my wife and daughter. The place was empty. But looking closer, I realized that business...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Important Breakthroughs of 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-most-important-breakthroughs-of-2024/ar-AA1wEEgc?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is my third time honoring what I see as the year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most important scientific and technological advances.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rise of the Anti-Elite Elite]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-rise-of-the-anti-elite-elite/ar-AA1vfWYG</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a tangle of biographical ironies. He is an anti-elite renegade bearing the most elite surname in politics. Once feared for his left-wing radicalism when Barack Obama considered him for a Cabinet appointment in 2008, he has now been nominated to lead a major...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Urban Family Exodus Is a Warning for Progressives]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-urban-family-exodus-is-a-warning-for-progressives/ar-AA1ofLOv</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Children'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and the millions of private decisions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to have or not have them'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'are in the news these days, for regrettable reasons. Ohio Senator J. D. Vance, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, has made a habit of excoriating progressives who don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have a record of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Top Export May Be Anxiety]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/america-s-top-export-may-be-anxiety/ar-BB1ovmVY</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The argument that smartphones and social media are contributing to the rise in teen mental distress is strong. A number of observational and experimental studies show that teen anxiety started rising just as smartphones, social media, and front-facing cameras contributed to a wave of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Universities Became a Bureaucratic Blob]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/no-one-knows-what-universities-are-for/ar-BB1m2mbD</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last month, the Pomona College economist Gary N. Smith calculated that the number of tenured and tenure-track professors at his school declined from 1990 to 2022, while the number of administrators nearly sextupled in that period.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everything's a Cult Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/24133960/america-cult-internet-culture-end-monoculture-communication-tribalism</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/24133960/america-cult-internet-culture-end-monoculture-communication-tribalism]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a glib distillation of an interesting idea I recently encountered. The basic thesis was that the internet has shattered the possibility of a monoculture and the result of that is a highly fragmented society that feels increasingly like a loose connection of cults stacked on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Happiness Trinity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-happiness-trinity/ar-AA1nHZus</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After writing about how and why Americans are depressed, I thought I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d turn things around for a change. What matters most for happiness'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'marriage, money, or something else entirely?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Loneliness Epidemic Comes for the Restaurant]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/america-s-loneliness-epidemic-comes-for-the-restaurant/ar-BB1jy2kv</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-americans-suddenly-stopped-hanging-out/ar-BB1ihtdG</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-americans-suddenly-stopped-hanging-out/ar-BB1ihtdG]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In its earliest decades, the United States was celebrated for its citizens'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' extroversion. Americans weren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just setting out to build new churches and new cities. Their associations were, as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'of a thousand different types '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' religious,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/it-sure-looks-like-phones-are-making-students-dumber/ar-AA1lIX7i</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/it-sure-looks-like-phones-are-making-students-dumber/ar-AA1lIX7i]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the past few years, parents, researchers, and the news media have paid closer attention to the relationship between teenagers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' phone use and their mental health. Researchers such as Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge have shown that various measures of student well-being began a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing]]></title>
							<link>https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2023%2F11%2Fopenai-sam-altman-corporate-governance%2F676080%2F</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Corporate governance is playing a starring role in the chaos unfolding inside the world's most famous AI start-up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[AI Is a Waste of Time]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ai-is-a-waste-of-time/ar-AA1atfAj</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ai-is-a-waste-of-time/ar-AA1atfAj]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Internet Loves Bad News. And That's Bad]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-internet-loves-bad-news-and-that-s-bad/ar-AA191sX9</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-internet-loves-bad-news-and-that-s-bad/ar-AA191sX9]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even public-service-minded editors and journalists may feel they need to shape their coverage to match the decisions and emotional dispositions of their audiences.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why All the ChatGPT Predictions Are Bogus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-all-the-chatgpt-predictions-are-bogus/ar-AA18TlgS</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-all-the-chatgpt-predictions-are-bogus/ar-AA18TlgS]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recently I gave myself an assignment: Come up with a framework for explaining generative AI, such as ChatGPT, in a way that illuminates the full potential of the technology and helps me make predictions about its future.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How U.S. Schools Manufacture Anxious Teens]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-american-schools-manufacture-anxious-teens/ar-AA18mqKv</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-american-schools-manufacture-anxious-teens/ar-AA18mqKv]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A culture of obsessive student achievement and long schoolwork hours can make kids depressed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are the Debates About Covid Such a Disaster?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/why-are-we-still-arguing-about-masks/ar-AA18aUMP</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/why-are-we-still-arguing-about-masks/ar-AA18aUMP]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks, the conventional wisdom about COVID seems to have been upended.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seven Anxious Questions About AI]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/seven-anxious-questions-about-ai/ar-AA17Z7Fv</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/seven-anxious-questions-about-ai/ar-AA17Z7Fv]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it right to freak out? Is it wrong? Will AI end the human race? But also: Aren't these tools awe-inspiring?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Teenage Girls Are Not Okay]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/america-s-teenage-girls-are-not-okay/ar-AA17yLLA</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/america-s-teenage-girls-are-not-okay/ar-AA17yLLA]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American teenagers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'especially girls and kids who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'engulfed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in historic rates of anxiety and sadness. And everybody seems to think they know why.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Super Bowl Is an Economic Indicator]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-super-bowl-is-an-economic-indicator/ar-AA17oey3</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-super-bowl-is-an-economic-indicator/ar-AA17oey3]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the best way to understand the economy? I guess you could ask around about it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Hey, you might say to a stranger,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' do you have a job?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' All right, and your weekly income? Thanks, and how much did you last pay for eggs?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' You could also read government reports on employment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Yo-Yo Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-yo-yo-economy/ar-AA174lqC</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's the most important economic lesson of the decade: What goes up must come down (and what's gone down will probably go up, again).]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Tech and Media Layoffs Tell Us About the Economy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-the-tech-and-media-layoffs-are-really-telling-us-about-the-economy/ar-AA16znZP</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Derek Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About 130,000 people have been dismissed from their jobs at large tech and media companies in the past 12 months. Why?]]></description>
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