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							<title><![CDATA[At Long Last, the Fed Faces Reality]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[As was widely anticipated, Federal Reserve officials voted Wednesday to raise short-term interest rates by a quarter percentage point&mdash;only the second increase since the 2008 financial crash.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fed's Uncertain Leap Forward]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald O&apos;Driscoll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As expected, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced that it would raise the target range for the federal-funds rate to between 0.25% and 0.5%. The decision raises more questions than it settles. Most involve uncertainty about future interest-rate changes, and some about technical or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Do We Have a Central Bank?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Gerald O&apos;Driscoll</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Note: This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on December 3, 2010.) 
Why do nations have central banks? Countries have developed without one, and sophisticated financial systems have evolved in their absence. Some countries with a central bank have suffered for having one....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Crony Capitalist Economy?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Free markets depend on truth telling. Prices must reflect the valuations of consumers; interest rates must be reliable guides to entrepreneurs allocating capital across time; and a firm's accounts must reflect the true value of the business. Rather than truth telling, we are becoming an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem With 'Nationalization']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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