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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Is Looking More &amp; More Like Carter]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Francis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama returned to Washington on Monday from a week&rsquo;s vacation on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard &ndash; and now has his hands full with a litany of challenges while wielding strikingly diminished influence:&bull; Egypt is on the verge of a bloody civil war, while much of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Foreign Policy Begins to Crumble]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, President Obama shook up his foreign policy team, appointing former UN ambassador Susan Rice as national security chief, while naming Samantha Power to replace Rice.Rice and Power are heavyweights in the liberal foreign policy community. Their selection was widely...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does U.S. Face a &quot;Lost Decade&quot;?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Francis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Does America face a "lost decade," such as Japan suffered in the 1990s?After all, Japan in that decade saw a massive real estate price  bubble burst, leading to huge write-downs by commercial banks, deep  recession, and &ndash; since the late 1990s &ndash; sustained stagnation and ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Balanced Budget? Cut State Workers' Pay]]></title>
							<link>http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/2010/0426/Want-a-balanced-federal-budget-Cut-state-workers-pay</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Francis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before the great recession, some people pooh-poohed government  jobs. Who wanted stodgy when the private sector had go-go growth? Why  stick with safe when you could get bonuses and stock options?Today, and one financial crisis later, secure and solid look good. Perhaps too good.On ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Banks Are Too Big--&amp; Unproductive]]></title>
							<link>http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/David-R.-Francis/2010/0208/Big-banks-are-too-big-and-unproductive</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Francis</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Banks Too Big to Fail? Break 'em Up, Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/David-R.-Francis/2009/1216/Banks-too-big-to-fail-Break-em-up-Congress</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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