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							<title><![CDATA[Financial Crisis Reforms Missed the Mark]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The events of September 2008, including the government rescue of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG, along with the failure of Lehman Brothers, will go down as some of the most important in American economic history. Unfortunately, the five years since have been a wasted window of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fannie Mae Employees Keep Fat Paychecks]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next: Jindal: Get the Government out of Birth ControlPrevious: Obama, Barbara Walters, and Marijuana Users
			Posted by Mark A. Calabria        Earlier this week the Inspector General (IG) of the Federal Housing Finance Agency released a report documenting the current pay levels of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Filibuster 'Reform' Is Really About]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Previous: Susan Rice and the Interventionist Caucus
			Posted by Mark A. Calabria        As the current Congress wraps up, and in the after-glo of the election, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is proposing to limit the ability of senators to filibuster in the next Congress. Of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the SEC Contributed to the Financial Crisis]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next: I Heard It Through the Grapevine That the Government Was Violating Property RightsPrevious: &#8216;The President&#8217;s Utility&#8217;
			Posted by Mark A. Calabria        I was recently reminded that in its infinite wisdom, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) actually...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Geithner Favors Debtholders Over Taxpayers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/geithner-favors-fannie-mae-debtholders-over-taxpayers-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Previous: An Update on Different Pentagon Spending Plans
			Posted by Mark A. Calabria        You have to give Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner some credit for spin: today the Treasury announced &#8220;Further Steps to Expedite Wind Down of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.&#8221; The only...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Break Up Government, Not the Banks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/break-up-the-banks-be-careful-of-what-you-ask-for/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Previous: A Success Story
			Posted by Mark A. Calabria        One of the architects of today&#8217;s big banks, Sandy Weill, who helped build Citibank into the behemoth it is today, has come out and called for breaking up the largest banks &#8220;so that the taxpayer will never be at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Poised to Reform Flood Insurance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/senate-poised-to-reform-flood-insurance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next: &#8216;Essential&#8217; Air Subsidies Survive in the HousePrevious: Stopping the EPA: the Long Game
			Posted by Mark A. Calabria        As I&#8217;ve written elsewhere, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has to rank as one of the most misguided and destructive federal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dodd-Frank Does Nothing to Change Wall Street]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been a year since President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street bill, yet little has changed for the better in our financial markets &mdash; and much has changed for the worse.Dodd-Frank  promised the American public an end to the notion of &ldquo;too big to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senator Dodd's Do-Nothing Finance Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/dodd_do_nothing_financial_reform_WBRtF8mqGDdVdjxv33iyBL</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wall Street is heaving a quiet sigh of relief: All Washington is  going to give us for "financial reform" in the wake of the collape of  2008 is a law based on Sen. Chris Dodd's bill.That thin  semblance of reform will let Congress and the Obama administration claim they brought Wall...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tim Geithner's Lifelong Love of Bailouts]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Calabria</author>
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