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							<title><![CDATA[The Hefty Yoke of Student Loan Debt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/business/economy/the-hefty-yoke-of-student-loan-debt.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than five years after the binge of irresponsible lending led to the credit crisis and Great Recession, the amount of consumer debt in the United States has begun to rise again, but with an important difference. This time the credit standards appear far tougher. Those who should not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DC &amp; Wall Street: Masking Risk With Gibberish]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/business/behind-the-derivatives-gibberish-risks-run-amok.html?pagewanted=all</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Or should we simply conclude that playing in the modern world of derivatives is best left to those whose survival is not critical to the nation&rsquo;s economy, and who do not benefit from government-backed deposit insurance? That question is brought to mind by a reading of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernanke: By Unemployment, Not So Good]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/bernanke-by-unemployment-not-so-good/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Bad Jobs Report Was Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/a-bad-jobs-report-turns-out-to-have-been-wrong/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Little Clarity on the Jobs Front]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/little-clarity-on-the-jobs-front/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good News for the Worst Off]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/good-news-for-the-worst-off/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Local Governments Shedding Jobs]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/city-hall-where-the-jobs-arent/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Employment Will Pick Up in September, October]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/another-seasonally-adjusted-slowdown/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Economic Deluge, a World That Can't Bail Together]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/business/in-economic-deluge-a-world-thats-unable-to-bail-together.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Less than four years ago, with the world&#194;&#146;s financial system in danger of collapsing, major countries managed to come together on a coordinated course that averted a global depression.Central banks pumped vast amounts of cash into economies, and banks were bailed out, with vows that they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Lagging Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/a-lagging-recovery/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Europe, a Marriage Shows Signs of Fraying]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/business/for-germany-austerity-elsewhere-in-europe-is-a-harder-sell.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the European monetary union is something like a bad marriage, what can be done to avoid a messy and disastrous divorce?Broadly speaking, there are now two prescriptions. One calls for sacrifices and compromises from all sides. The other, echoing the law that used to exist in many...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Stocks &amp; GDP Say About Obama's Chances]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/business/economy/election-insight-from-the-stock-market-and-gdp.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AS the presidential election campaign heats up, two measures of the economic success of President Obama&#194;&#146;s administration provide drastically different views of how he has done.        His stock market record is among the best of all the administrations that have held office over the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In a Focus on Gold, History Repeats Itself]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/business/in-rise-of-gold-bugs-history-repeats-itself.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 1980 presidential election was fought by a Democratic incumbent weakened by a poor economy amid worries that the United States had lost its ability to compete in the world. Gold prices had risen to unprecedented levels as the election approached, and the Republican nominee hinted he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Year Governments Lost Their Credibility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/business/economy/the-year-the-governments-lost-their-credibility-off-the-charts.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For most of 2011, it appeared that the year would be decent, if not particularly interesting, for investors.Then Europe announced its second plan to rescue Greece, the first one, reached more than a year earlier, having turned out to be completely inadequate. That&#194;&#146;s when 2011 became...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Trusted Market Predictor Falters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/business/as-a-market-predictor-a-trusty-guide-falters.html?adxnnl=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;adxnnlx=1322917223-qTbIeQLmjMFhsEaz6yB9WQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ONE of the most reliable guides to investing in the American stock market &mdash; to buy during the third year of a presidential term &mdash; is in danger of failing for the first time since the Great Depression.Through November, an investor in the stocks in the Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inevitability of a Default in Greece]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/business/06norris.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A Greek debt restructuring &mdash; a polite term for default &mdash; is unthinkable, according to the Greek finance minister.&ldquo;It would have a tremendous cost, with no benefit,&rdquo; the minister, George Papaconstantinou, said in an interview on Greek television. &ldquo;Greece...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For the Fed, A Narrowing of Options]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/business/economy/29norris.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American economic revival stumbled in early 2011. Could that be more than the &ldquo;transitory&rdquo; phenomenon that Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, called it at his news conference this week?It makes sense to think the pause in growth will be temporary. Part of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Crisis Is Over, But Where's the Fix?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/business/economy/11norris.html?_r=1&amp;ref=global</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the financial system began to crumble more than three years ago,  the world rushed to rescue it. Country after country went deeply into  debt to keep banks afloat and prevent a deep recession from turning into  something worse.It worked. This week was the second anniversary of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chasm Between Consumers and the Fed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/business/05charts.html?_r=1&amp;ref=global</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[INFLATION in the United States is low, and seems to be going down if it is moving at all. The Federal Reserve thinks it will be years before there is any significant inflation.But that is not the way many Americans see it. Gasoline prices are on  the rise as the Libyan fighting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Economic Sweet Spot of Presidential Terms]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/business/economy/11charts.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE American economy, and the American stock market, tend to do much better when a president&rsquo;s term is nearing an end than they do when the term is beginning. If that pattern continues, the news from both Wall Street and Main Street may get better over the next two years.For the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Market Drop Was Crisis, Anxiety and Error]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Combine one part nervous traders, one part Greek crisis and one part  trader error. Stir in one part central bank complacency. Bring to boil.  Panic.That combination produced one of the wildest days ever in financial  markets, with the Dow Jones industrial average, at one point, down ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. is Doing Better Than Rest of the World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/business/economy/20norris.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Credit Markets Showing Signs of Revival]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/business/16norris.html?_r=1&amp;ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Year the Financial System Stopped Working]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/business/19norris.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Crisis, Another Guarantee]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/business/25assess.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Floyd Norris</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anatomy of an Economic Collapse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/books/review/Norris-t.html?ref=books</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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