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							<title><![CDATA[Duplicity at The Fed]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pollock</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve is losing billions of taxpayer dollars, and concealing this through dubious accounting practices.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For the First Time, the Fed Is Losing Money]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-the-first-time-the-fed-is-losing-money-mortage-backed-securities-treasurys-interest-rate-risk-svb-ad92e96f?mod=opinion_major_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pollock</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks to interest-rate risk exposure, the central bank will soon have negative equity capital.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Denying That August 15, 1971 Was a 'Fateful' Date]]></title>
							<link>https://lawliberty.org/fifty-years-without-gold/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pollock</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On August 15, 1971, President Nixon put the economic and financial world into a new era.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's High Time to &quot;Audit&quot; Federal Reserve]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/#q=It'&#'.ord('â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s+High+Time+to+'&#'.ord('â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Audit'&#'.ord('â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('™').';'+the+Federal+Reserve</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pollock</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The calls in Washington to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'audit'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the Federal Reserve are not for a narrow, bean-counting review of the institution'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s financial statements. The audit'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s goal is more fundamental: to assure that the checks and balances in a democratic government also apply to central...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2007 Bust: How Did They All Miss It?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/09/21/2007_bust_how_could_they_not_have_known.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pollock</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are still living in the wake of the great 21st century bubble. That is the dominant economic and financial fact of 2011, which applies both to the American housing and mortgage debt, and to the European sovereign debt, crises. As the massive losses keep coming, there is a lot of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Housing, There Will Be More Lean Years Ahead]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518704576259191768839006.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pollock</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is nearly five years since the peak of the housing bubble, and that highly leveraged sector, with its $11 trillion in residential mortgage debt, continues to struggle. Home values just posted their biggest quarterly decline since late 2008, largely due to a steady stream of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Economics a Science?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.american.com/archive/2010/november/is-economics-a-science</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Alex Pollock</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Economics aspires to be a science. But in this it does not succeed. Neither does finance. This despite the fact that there is an annual, optimistically named Nobel Prize in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Economic Sciences.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'Financial crises keep happening'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the list is long. Could they be avoided if...]]></description>
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