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<title><![CDATA[Mike Konczal - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/24043.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mike Konczal]]></description><category domain="24043">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Abundance Doctrine]]></title>
							<link>https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/76/the-abundance-doctrine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How modern liberalism became too obsessed with saying no'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and can learn to say yes again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why U.S. Is Better Situated To Confront Economic Turbulence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-us-europe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Europe directed more of its Covid aid to businesses, while the US supported workers. If a recession hits now, Europeans could be in even worse trouble.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Lose Sight of the Economy's Bright Spots]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-economy-labor-market/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As policy-makers move to drive inflation down, it is essential that they don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t lose sight of the economy's bright spots.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-jobs-recovery/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Critics of the American Rescue Plan made two dire predictions. Both proved wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Green New Deal Is Good for the Planet and Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-green-new-deal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats can no longer get away with offering milquetoast solutions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Actually, Guns Do Kill People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thenation.com/article/actually-guns-do-kill-people/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The research is now clear: Right-to-carry laws increase the rate of violent crime.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Democrats Helping Trump Dismantle Dodd-Frank?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/opinion/democrats-trump-dodd-frank.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A bill in the Senate would relax key banking regulations and oversight.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Stock Market's Rise Under Trump Should Teach Dems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/7/15930996/stock-market-democrats-wilderness-strategy-economics</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A lot of predictions were upended when Donald Trump won the presidency. But one of the most interesting was the idea that a President Trump would cause a stock market collapse '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' or at least a sharp decline. As the liberal economist Justin Wolfers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' argued'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' at the end of September,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of a Social Safety Net Built on Charity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/the-conservative-myth-of-a-social-safety-net-built-on-charity/284552/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ideology is as much about understanding the past as shaping the future. And conservatives tell themselves a story, a fairy tale really, about the past, about the way the world was and can be again under Republican policies. This story is about the way people were able to insure...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Don't Get Our Public Problems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/17/conservatives-dont-get-that-some-problems-are-public-and-its-hurting-them/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t really get that some things are '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'public,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hurting their ability to handle the challenges of the early 21st'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' century.Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t believe me? The economics blogs were shocked last week at the idea that libertarian economist Milton...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives' Ownership-Society Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-27/conservatives-hindered-by-ownership-society-ideal.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. conservatives continue a healthy debate over how they can reconnect with voters and channel their ideals and goals into policies relevant for the 21st century. But a specter haunts these conversations -- a ghost called the ownership society.This ghost subtly frames and guides all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve Gets Down to Business]]></title>
							<link>prospect.org/article/federal-reserve-gets-down-business</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Next for the Welfare State?]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/great-societys-next-frontier</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that Obamacare -- the largest expansion of the social-safety net in the last 60 years -- is safe, what's next for the liberal economic project?As The Washington Post's Ezra Klein declared shortly after voters re-elected President Barack Obama, one of the major winners last week was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unemployment Ticks Up -- And That's Good]]></title>
							<link>http://prospect.org/article/unemployment-ticks-up%E2%80%94and-thats-good-thing</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mike Konczal</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Login or RegisterDonate        Mike Konczal  November 2, 2012More people were looking for jobs in October than the previous month, but that's because those who'd given up on finding a job are back in the game.The economy gained 171,000 jobs in October, according to the Bureau of Labor...]]></description>
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