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<title><![CDATA[Jeff Cox - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/22636.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jeff Cox]]></description><category domain="22636">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Bessent Calls for Probe Into 'the Entire Federal Reserve Institution']]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/treasury-secretary-bessent-calls-for-a-review-of-the-entire-federal-reserve.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bessent suggested for a review that would go beyond the current controversy over building renovations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inflation Higher Than Expected as Food, Shelter Costs Jump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/13/inflation-isnt-just-about-fuel-costs-anymore-as-price-increases-broaden-across-the-economy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rather than fuel, it was food, shelter and medical services that drove costs higher in August, slapping a costly tax on those least able to afford it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shutdown Job Losses Could Total 47 Million Americans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-job-losses-could-total-47-million-unemployment-rate-of-32percent-fed-says.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Millions of Americans already have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis and the worst of the damage is yet to come, according to the Federal Reserve.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Set Economic Growth on Fire. Here's How He Did It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/how-trump-has-set-economic-growth-on-fire.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump presides over an administration that has seen an enormous level of controversy that could overshadow a burgeoning economy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump: Fund Investors Price in Chances of Candidate Victory]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/04/fund-investors-spent-the-last-week-pricing-in-a-trump-victory.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There were signs everywhere that fund investors were making adjustments as Donald Trump sharply narrowed the gap with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton: Speech to Deutsche Bank Worried Her Staff]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/17/clinton-speech-to-deutsche-bank-worried-her-staff-wikileaks.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton told Deutsche Bank executives they needed to address the public's perception that financiers had "rigged" the economy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Break Up the Big Banks? Why It Could Actually Happen]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/46939136</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Big banks have helped lead this year's stock market rally, but the institutions themselves are about to undergo an onslaught from politicians and regulators who want the companies broken up.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Job Creation Remains Weak in November]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/45521793</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Job creation remained weak in the U.S. during November, with just 120,000 new positions created, though the unemployment rate slid to 8.6 percent, a government report showed Friday.The rate fell from the previous month's 9.0 percent, a move which in part reflected a drop in those looking...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[European Debt Crisis: You Haven't Seen Anything Yet]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/45288956</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though the daily market gyrations might indicate otherwise, realization is beginning to creep in that the European debt crisis and its effect on the U.S. will not take days, weeks or months to unwind'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'but years.How many years is up for debate, but a common range bandied about among...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Quantitative Easing? What Is the Fed Thinking?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com//id/44991242</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the market barely given enough time to digest the last easing drive, talk already is emerging that the Federal Reserve is getting ready to rev up the engine again.Chairman Ben Bernanke, in his thus-far unsuccessful quest to resuscitate the moribund housing market, is making his case...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is U.S. Economy Flirting With 'Modern-Day Depression'?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/44802751</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While economists have made no secret of their fears that another recession is about to strike, the real danger could be worse.Instead, the country could be headed for a 21st century version of a depression, an economic term that, unlike a recession, defies a standard definition but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind the Selloff: U.S. Is Struggling. Europe? It's Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/44459283</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest turmoil in Europe is overshadowing efforts to revive the US economy, indicating that markets will continue to struggle until the debt crisis in Greece and other EU nations is finally resolved.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Despite an oft-stated belief from economists that the problems in Europe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Mini-Stagflation': The Threat Bernanke Wrestles With]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/44289252</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used the word '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'inflation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' exactly seven times in this Jackson Hole speech Friday.What he didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t mention once was inflation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ugly cousin and its baggage of not only rising prices but also higher unemployment.The prospect of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Didn't Sell in May? It Might Be Perfect Time to Get Away]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/44177294</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A CNBC.com report on April 19 advised that the popular market maxim would be in full gear for a market that was "setting up nicely" for a big sell that soon commenced after the May 2 highs.Back then, Walter Zimmerman, chief market strategist at United-ICAP, cited a "perfect storm" of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Looking for Market Bottom? You Could Have a Long Wait]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A relentless stream of bad news has turned what could have been a short-term market dip into what now looks like a prolonged sell-off'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'with no bottom in sight.While the Standard &amp; Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt was in itself a needle-moving event, it has served also to amplify the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Unpresidential, Petulant, Dividing Us]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/28/nyses_langone_obama_acting_unpresidential_and_petulant.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where's the Recovery? Hopes for Economic Rebound Fade]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/43194727</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A year that was  supposed to mark a turning point both for the US and global economy is  rapidly turning into the recovery that wasn't.At a time when things were supposed to be getting better they are  instead turning worse: Commodity prices are eating into consumer  spending,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Chairman Ben Just Tip His Hand at QE3?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/42784181</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With a subtle wave of his baton, the aspiring  Maestro may have started the music for another round of Federal Reserve  monetary easing.Ben  Bernanke, chairman of the US central bank and keeper of the keys to  stock market money flows, oversaw a tweaking of wording in the Fed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[$6 Gas? Could Happen if Dollar Keeps Getting Weaker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnbc.com/id/42683030</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Cox</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A dollar plumbing three-year lows is hitting Americans squarely in the  gas tank, and one economist thinks it could drive prices as high as $6 a  gallon or more by summertime under the right conditions.With the greenback coming under increased pressure from Federal Reserve and investor...]]></description>
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