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<title><![CDATA[Binyamin Appelbaum - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17018.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Binyamin Appelbaum]]></description><category domain="17018">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Morning in America]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden has reinvigorated the government's role as the nation's most important investor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Everyone So Grumpy About the Economy?]]></title>
							<link>https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/23/why-is-everyone-so-grumpy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Coy: So, Binya, Americans seem very grumpy about the economy lately, despite what looks like some pretty good news.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Most Profitable Export: Money]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opinion/sunday/money-dollar-100.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world has a growing appetite for small green pieces of paper with Benjamin Franklin on the front.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Wave of Optimism Prompts Businesses to Invest]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/us/politics/trump-businesses-regulation-economic-growth.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The administration's campaign to reduce regulation has improved the mood of business executives. They may be spending more money as a result.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Jobs Americans Do]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/magazine/the-new-working-class.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=magazine&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=sectionfront</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget the images of men in hard hats standing before factory gates, of men with coal-blackened faces, of men perched high above New York City on steel beams. The emerging face of the American working class is a Hispanic woman who has never set foot on a factory floor. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: Vows to Rip Up Trade Deals and Confront China]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/donald-trump-trade-speech.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Saving on Healthcare Hurt the Economy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/sunday-review/will-saving-on-health-care-hurt-the-economy.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Employment Rate's New Normal]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/the-employment-rates-new-normal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the end of 2006, 63.4 percent of American adults had jobs. By the end of 2009, this employment rate fell to 58.3 percent, and it has recovered only very slightly.2009: 58.3 percent2010: 58.3 percent2011: 58.5 percent2012: 58.6 percent2013: 58.6 percent]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yellen's Road: Liberal Theorist to Fed Chair]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/business/economy/for-yellen-a-focus-on-reducing-unemployment.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BERKELEY, Calif. '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' When the economists Janet L. Yellen and George A. Akerlof hired a baby sitter for their son in the early 1980s, they decided to pay more than the going wage. They reasoned that a happier baby sitter would provide better care.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernanke Reaffirms Fervor for Stimulus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/business/economy/fed-chairman-points-finger-at-congress.html?ref=todayspaper&amp;_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Federal Reserve'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, emphasized on Wednesday that the central bank remains committed to bolstering the economy, insisting that any deceleration in the Fed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s stimulus campaign will happen because it is achieving its goals, not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed Stands By Its Stimulus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/business/economy/federal-reserve-to-continue-stimulus-efforts.html?adxnnl=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;adxnnlx=1367489117-IC9L/z8JwTvm+HHapZHzgw</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that its economic stimulus campaign would press forward at the same pace it has maintained since December, putting to rest for now any suggestion that it was leaning toward doing less.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Fed Dissenter Hopes He's Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/business/a-bold-dissenter-at-the-fed-hoping-his-doubts-are-wrong.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[RICHMOND, Va. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Jeffrey M. Lacker, the Federal Reserve'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most persistent internal critic, does not much resemble a firebrand. He is personally cheerful, professionally inclined to see both sides of an issue and quick to acknowledge he may not be right. He says he would rather...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fed Likely to Sustain Stimulus Program]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/business/economy/fed-likely-to-sustain-bond-buying-program-to-stimulate-growth.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce on Wednesday that it will continue buying Treasury securities to stimulate growth in the new year.The Fed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s public declaration in September that it would buy bonds until the outlook for the labor market...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Housing Prices and Income Inequality]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/housing-prices-and-income-inequality/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fed Vows Action Until Economy Shows Gains]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/business/economy/fed-announces-new-round-of-bond-buying-to-spur-growth.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Federal Reserve opened a new chapter on Thursday in its efforts to stimulate the economy, announcing simply that it plans to buy mortgage bonds, and potentially other assets, until unemployment declines substantially.Ben C. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, briefed the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Texas Is the Future]]></title>
							<link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/texas-is-the-future/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Business DayWorldU.S.N.Y. / RegionBusinessTechnologyScienceHealthSportsOpinionArtsStyleTravelJobsReal EstateAutosmodifyNavigationDisplay();/'&#'.ord('*').';''&#'.ord('*').';'//'&#'.ord('*').';''&#'.ord('*').';'//'&#'.ord('*').';''&#'.ord('*').';'/// 
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							<title><![CDATA[Fed: Full Recovery Is Years Away]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/economy/fed-to-maintain-rates-near-zero-through-late-2014.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve, declaring that the economy would need help for years to come, said Wednesday it would extend by 18 months the period that it plans to hold down interest rates in an effort to spur growth.The Fed said that it now planned to keep short-term interest rates near zero...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, &amp; Banter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/business/transcripts-show-an-unfazed-fed-in-2006.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the housing bubble entered its waning hours in 2006, top Federal Reserve officials marveled at the desperate antics of home builders seeking to lure buyers.The officials laughed about the cars that builders were offering as signing bonuses, and about efforts to make empty homes look...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[6 Central Banks Act to Buy Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/business/central-banks-move-together-to-ease-debt-crisis.html?_r=1&amp;ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve and other major central banks moved on Wednesday to help foreign banks more easily borrow and lend money, seeking to forestall a breakdown of global financial markets and giving Europe more time to wrestle with its debts. The latest round of interventions by central...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fed &amp; Central Banks Act to Boost Liquidity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/business/central-banks-move-together-to-ease-debt-crisis.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve moved Wednesday with other major central banks to buttress the financial system by increasing the availability of dollars outside the United States, reflecting growing concern about the fallout of the European debt crisis.The banks announced that they would reduce by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fed Moves Ahead with Plan Despite Criticism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/business/fed-to-shift-400-billion-in-holdings-to-spur-growth.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve announced an unconventional plan on Wednesday to reduce borrowing costs for businesses and consumers, trying once more to spur economic growth despite urgings from Republicans that it refrain from any expansion of its stimulus program.The Fed said that it would invest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House Debates Fight on Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/us/politics/14econ.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' As the economy worsens, President Obama and his senior aides are considering whether to adopt a more combative approach on economic issues, seeking to highlight substantive differences with Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail rather than continuing to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fed Pledges Low Rates Through 2013]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/business/economy/fed-to-hold-rates-exceptionally-low-through-mid-2013.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it would hold short-term interest rates near zero through mid-2013 to support the faltering economy, but it announced no new measures to further reduce long-term interest rates or otherwise stimulate renewed growth.The Fed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s policy-making board...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernanke: Fed Would Consider New Stimulus]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/business/economy/fed-mulls-options-in-face-of-moderate-outlook-bernanke-says.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke,  gave a subdued account of the economy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s health Wednesday and said that  the Fed was prepared to expand its economic aid campaign once again, if  necessary, though such a step was not imminent.Less than a month has passed since Mr....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economy Key to Obama's Reelect]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/business/economy/02jobs.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent. Seventeen months before the next election, it is increasingly clear that President Obama must defy that trend to keep his job.Roughly 9...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fed's Stimulus Effort Is Disappointing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/business/economy/24fed.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' The Federal Reserve'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s experimental effort to spur a recovery by purchasing vast quantities of federal debt has pumped up the stock market, reduced the cost of American exports and allowed companies to borrow money at lower interest rates.But most Americans are not...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fannie, Freddie May Need Infusion]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/business/22fannie.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON  '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'  The federal bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may be winding down with relatively little additional cost to taxpayers so long as the economy continues to recover. But if the economy tips back into recession, the bailout could nearly double in  size, according to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cost of Fannie, Freddie Surges for Taxpayers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/business/20foreclose.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CASA GRANDE, Ariz. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took over a foreclosed home roughly every 90 seconds during the first three months of the year. They owned 163,828 houses at the end of March, a virtual city with more houses than Seattle. The mortgage finance companies, created by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rules Grow, Banks Stay Same Size]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/business/24strategy.html?ref=politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, there were two ways for the federal government to respond to the financial crisis: supersize regulation or downsize the financial industry.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Housing Policy: Grim Proving Ground]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Binyamin Appelbaum</author>
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