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<title><![CDATA[Tom Petruno - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20728.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tom Petruno]]></description><category domain="20728">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Prospect of Recession No Longer a Fringe View]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0820-petruno-column-20110820,0,5314163.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy has officially been out of recession for two years, but fear of falling back into the abyss has dogged the recovery every step of the way.  Now, the prospect of recession no longer is a fringe view.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Fear Around World, US Treasuries Remain Low]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0716-petruno-debt-20110716,0,1614179.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly three years after the financial system crash, the concept of investment risk continues to be turned on its head.  Things have happened in the markets and the economy that have far  exceeded most people's worst-case scenarios. What many Americans thought  they knew about investing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Subpar Growth May Be Our Best Scenario]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-petruno-markets-20110702,0,6504218.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is getting good at muddling through.That was the  economy's disheartening growth story in the first half of 2011. Things  may not look much different in the second half.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Fed Stimulus? Don't Count on It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-petruno-20110618,0,5811817.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This isn't where Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke hoped to be in mid-2011.  Just as the Fed is wrapping up its $600-billion bond-buying program  aimed at boosting the economy, the recovery is weakening again, stock  prices are slumping and Greece's fiscal meltdown is threatening...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Good Signs Amid Weak Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-economy-20110530,0,971329.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Signs of slower growth in the United States, coupled with rising fears over the European debt crisis and other unsettling developments, are fueling concern  about whether the sputtering U.S. recovery could stall or even enter a  new downturn.But beneath the surface, some key factors...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are Bond Yields, Commodities Telling Us?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-petruno-markets-20110507,0,6438685.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stock prices are supposed to do a decent job of foreshadowing economic turning points, both good and bad.In  March 2009, just when it looked as if the U.S. economy was facing a  final meltdown, the equity market rebounded from 12-year lows &mdash;  correctly assessing that the end wasn't...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With No Alternative, Dollar Collapse Is Unlikely]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-petruno-20110423,0,5221987.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Housing crisis, 2007. Banking crisis, 2008. Unemployment crisis, 2009. European debt crisis, 2010.For 2011: a dollar crisis?You  will probably hear more warnings to that effect soon if the U.S.  currency continues on its current path. Although the dollar has mostly  been falling against...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernanke Policy Fuels Rush To Risk]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0416-petruno-20110416,0,2348751.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The annual visit to the tax man this year may be all that some people  need to induce a new round of financial anguish &#194;&#151; not over taxes, but  over the price of playing it safe with their money.With short-term interest rates still near rock-bottom, traditional cash  hideouts such as bank...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unhappiest Bull Market Ever Known]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The symbol of Wall Street's late-1990s bull market was the giddy dot-com start-up.The housing bull market of the last decade will be remembered for the "no income, no job, no problem" mortgage. Good times!For the current U.S. stock bull market, the defining image may be of a grimacing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Back to Worrying About the Worst-Case]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0814-petruno-20100814,0,5560018.column</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tom Petruno</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Epic financial collapses are supposed to be rare events. Once in a lifetime, we all hope.  And after you live through one, your investment decisions are forever  colored by the experience. That explains many investors' extreme risk  aversion since the markets' crash of late 2008.]]></description>
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