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							<title><![CDATA[Gas Prices Could Decide the Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/opinions/gas-prices-presidential-election-biden-trump-zandi/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The outcome of the presidential election isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t likely to hinge on abortion, immigration or even climate change. It is likely to depend, instead, on the price of gasoline in the leadup to the vote.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation Is Painfully High, But Should Ease Soon]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/perspectives/economy-inflation-pandemic-russia-ukraine/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm confident that inflation will be meaningfully lower by this time next year and back to something we will feel comfortable with not too long thereafter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Economic Picks Show We're in Good Hands]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/perspectives/biden-economic-nominees/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This team is well-suited to do the same now as the devastated economy struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Risks for a 2020 Recession Have Receded, but Not for Long]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/26/perspectives/recession-2020-economy/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While recession in 2020 has become less likely, recession early in the next decade remains a serious threat, writes Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Wild Ride Has Fed Scrambling to Keep Economy on Track]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/447257-trumps-wild-ride-has-powell-scrambling-to-keep-economy-on-track</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jay Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, should have a cushy job. How hard could it be to manage an economy that will soon enjoy the longest expansion in history, with unemployment at a 50-year low and inflation low and stable?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Stimulus Was the Right Move]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20120923_Yes__stimulus_was_the_right_move.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Question: Did the federal fiscal stimulus succeed or fail as an antidote to the Great Recession?Answer: It succeeded. The temporary tax cuts and government spending increases launched in 2008 and 2009 were aimed at ending the recession and jump-starting an economic recovery. They did...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hiking Taxes on High Earners Is Sound Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20120729_Raising_taxes_on_high_earners_is_sound_policy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unless Washington acts, we all will pay more in taxes next year. Few think that's a good idea, but there is little consensus on how to change it. President Obama has proposed freezing tax rates for everyone making less than $250,000 a year. His GOP opponent, Mitt Romney, wants not only...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Obama's Blueprint for Jobs Will Do the Job&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/intelligence_squared/2011/10/the_oct_25_slate_intelligence_squared_u_s_debate_economist_mark_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mark Zandi has never had any formal debate training. But the chief economist of Moody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Analytics is confident that he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll win the Oct 25. Slate/ Intelligence Squared U.S. debate with his formidable informal arguing skills. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I have four siblings, so my whole life was a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Must Address the Deficit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/02/19/2011-02-19_it_wont_be_easy_but_president_obama_must_address_the_federal_deficit_sooner_not_.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As economists like to say, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Policymakers had no choice but to respond to the financial panic and the Great Recession with the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a massive fiscal stimulus and easy money. If they hadn't, the economy would be in a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Look for Economy to Gain Traction in 2011]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20110102_Look_for_economy_to_gain_traction_in_new_year.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm optimistic about 2011. The U.S. economy will gain traction as the  year progresses, and by summer businesses will be hiring rapidly enough  to bring down the unemployment rate measurably. Stock prices should hold  their own, and while more declines in housing prices are likely, that ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Tax Cut We Can Afford]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/opinion/15zandi.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[UNLESS Congress and President Obama act soon, Americans'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' taxes will increase in 2011, when the cuts enacted under President George W. Bush are due to expire. Almost everyone agrees that this makes little sense given the economy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fragility. But consensus ends there. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mistake to Believe the Stimulus Failed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100725_Serious_mistake_to_believe_the_stimulus_failed.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one is happy with the economy's current performance. Granted,  conditions are much better than they were not long ago: Remember the  dark days of 2008, when major financial institutions were evaporating,  layoffs were surging, and house and stock prices were plummeting? But  with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Imperfect Stimulus is Still Best Answer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20090215_Imperfect_stimulus_plan_is_still_the_best_answer.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Zandi</author>
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