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							<title><![CDATA[Geithner's Goof Undermines Dollar]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Meister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner hit a new low this week in denouncing Standard &amp; Poor's for downgrading its outlook on US government debt.In dropping the outlook from "stable" to "negative," S&amp;P on Monday said there's a one-in-three chance it will feel obliged to downgrade Treasury's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Housing Hell: The End Is Years Away]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Meister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest home-sales data paint a bleak picture: The housing market  is in a double dip and still years away from a true recovery. The Obama  administration's policies have only prolonged the agony.Sales  of existing homes dropped 9.6 percent in February to their lowest level  since...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Housing Menace]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Meister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How unwilling is President Obama to truly rein in the growth of government? Consider his refusal to do anything about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.Oh, Obama last week -- more than two years after the two mortgage  giants were seized and placed into a federal conservatorship -- issued ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Roll Back Obama Spending Hikes]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Meister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The commission's plan claims to balance the budget (by 2035) by relying far more on spending cuts than tax increases -- but it does so by assuming a phony "baseline": That is, it takes as its starting point a fantasy world where the Bush tax cuts lapse, but Washington still spends...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Worker Prescription for Disaster]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Stephen Meister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Out of work? Behind on your bills? Defaulting on your mortgage, maybe? If so, you no doubt did not hold a government job before getting canned.Some 2&#194;&#189; years after the start of the recession, the evidence is now  clear: The private-sector economy took a severe blow -- but  public-sector...]]></description>
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