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							<title><![CDATA[Who Unraveled the New World Order? It Wasn't Trump.]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It wasn&rsquo;t Trump. The global economic consensus began falling apart years before he entered politics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs Federal 'Baby Bonds']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaker Paul Ryan has announced his retirement, but he still has time to pass legacy-defining legislation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Tax Plan Better Be Audacious]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the GOP proposal isn&rsquo;t aimed at helping workers, Trump will ask Democrats for a counteroffer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Syria Success Creates a Chance for Bipartisan Tax Reform]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump should reach out to Democrats and put a plan with four elements on the table.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Plenty of Hope for Tax Reform]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David M. Smick and John D. Mueller write that when it comes to a tax plan, elbows are flying, and the situation seems 'ominous.' It's beginning to look a lot like 1986.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Needs a Strong-Dollar Policy--and Fast]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-23/trump-needs-a-strong-dollar-policy-and-fast</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of February, President Donald Trump reportedly called his national security adviser Michael Flynn at 3:00 a.m. to ask whether a strong dollar was good or bad for the economy. He was right to ask: The Trump dollar could strengthen significantly and become a global...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Elites in Washington Have Run Out of Excuses]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-donald-trump-embrace-main-street-capitalism-18998</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WHEN DONALD Trump assumes office in January 2017, he will confront both a troubled world economy and a domestic economy incapable of achieving historic levels of GDP growth on a sustainable basis. Trump campaigned successfully on the theme that America needs better trade deals and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What to Expect on Obamacare, Taxes &amp; Spending Under Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/opinions/washington-under-trump-smick/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After several decades of policy stalemate in Washington, cynics might conclude that the Trump era will be more of the same. Think again. Significant change is coming if only because the GOP controls both Houses of Congress, along with the White House. True, some analysts argue that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Smartest Guys in the Room]]></title>
							<link>http://www.international-economy.com/TIE_Sp15_FromtheFounder.pdf</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I remember the moment as if it happened yesterday. The scene: the Dolder Grand Hotel, high in the hills above Z&#195;&#188;rich, Switzerland. It was 1986. I was the co-organizer of an important international monetary conference there dubbed &ldquo;The U.S. Congressional Summit.&rdquo; On the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Would Anyone Want to Be Fed Chair?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2013/TIE_Su13_Smick.pdf</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alot of commentary hasfocused on personalities, qualifications, and personal finances. Yet the question thatshould be asked isthis:Which candidate is best qualified as a global crisis manager? For all practical purposes, the Fed chairman is central banker to the world, and the world...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed Can't Save the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.international-economy.com/TIE_Su12_FoundersPage.pdf</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lately it seems the industrialized world&rsquo;s central bankers are like the actors in themovie Mission Impossible. Officials are being unfairly asked to do the miraculousin covering up for governments&rsquo; lack of fiscal and regulatory common sense. Central bank balance sheets,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Easy Answers for Europe's Vicious Cycle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/euro-zone-economies-in-vicious-cycle/2012/04/19/gIQAT4jeTT_print.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The euro zone crisis is back. Policymakers in those nations worry that they have entered a vicious cycle. Efforts at reform to demonstrate fiscal rectitude are leading to a weaker economy. The austerity medicine appears to be killing the patient.For euro-zone policymakers in particular,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How We Can Avoid Becoming Like Japan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/how-we-can-avoid-becoming-like-japan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These days, it is said, the industrialized world economy is like a beauty pageant for the unattractive in which the victor will be the contestant deemed the least ugly. And so, as disappointingly as the U.S. economy has performed over the past four years, America could still end up a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Global Debt Apocalypse Approaches]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/losing-economic-battle_598447.html?</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the issue of public debt, Washington is experiencing what psychologists call &#194;&#147;learned helplessness.&#194;&#148; The financial news is so relentlessly terrible that people have become numb to it and assume nothing can be done to regain control over our fate.Today the world&#194;&#146;s public and private...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernanke's Right Hand]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2011/TIE_Warsh.pdf</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Small Is Beautiful]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/small-beautiful_571631.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In late 1979, during an economic strategy meeting, Ronald Reagan was  talking about his upcoming presidential campaign. At one point, somebody  expressed concern that John Connally, the former governor of Texas and  another presidential candidate, was gaining support among corporate ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Biggest Economic Problem? Confidence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110406663.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How could several trillion dollars of fiscal and monetary stimulus  barely move the needle of gross domestic product growth? That's the  question President Obama needs to answer in the wake of the midterm elections. Why was his policy so ineffective at multiplying its stimulative effects...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Great Credit Crisis Began]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Memo To Banks: Start Lending Or Else]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/11/AR2009011101893.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Smick</author>
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