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<title><![CDATA[Jeff Spross - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29442.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jeff Spross]]></description><category domain="29442">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Literally Want to Work Americans to Death]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/911623/republicans-literally-want-work-americans-death</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They're not doing anything to make jobs safer, but they're forcing workers to return anyway]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Key to a Good, Old-Fashioned 'V-Shaped' Recovery]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/907855/how-make-sure-recovery-quicker-than-last</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We're only a few weeks into the national coronavirus lockdown, and it's pretty clear the country is already in a deeper economic hole than in 2008.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 2010s Were an Economic Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/886343/2010s-economic-disaster</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Policymakers from both parties completely blew it in the aftermath of the financial crisis and the Great Recession]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the NBA Can Win a Standoff Against China]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/872717/nba-win-standoff-china</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A lot of Americans are not happy with how the National Basketball Association has handled its recent conflict with China.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NBA Surrender Shows China Threatens More Than Jobs]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/870076/nbas-surrender-china-shows-free-trade-threatens-more-than-jobs</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When capitalism meets cowardice]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Dems Can Raise Taxes Without Technically Raising Taxes]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/864769/how-democrats-raise-taxes-without-technically-raising-taxes</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the Trump administration scuttled an ill-fated proposal to index capital gains taxes to inflation. Income tax brackets have been indexed to inflation since the 1980s (meaning that as incomes gradually rise due to inflation, taxpayers aren't pushed into paying higher...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Just Showed Why Trump Can't Win With Tariffs]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/856994/china-just-showed-why-trump-cant-win-tariffs</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An escalating tariff war is a losing strategy, but there's another way]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump May Have the Upper Hand in China Trade Talks]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/839873/why-trump-may-have-upper-hand-trade-negotiations-china</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country's odd economic vulnerabilities are keeping them at the negotiating table]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Health-Care Revenge]]></title>
							<link>https://theweek.com/articles/806009/democrats-healthcare-revenge</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Affordable health care, more than any other issue, powered the Democrats' majority win in the House of Representatives]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Art of the NAFTA Deal: To Trump's Credit, His Tariffs Worked]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/799409/trump-art-nafta-deal</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To the president's credit, his tariffs worked]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Bets on the Blue Wave]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/796536/china-bets-blue-wave</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why Beijing is hoping Trump comes to his senses after the midterms]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Trump Economy Will Go Bust]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/787336/why-trump-economy-bust</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neither Trump nor his team should count their GDP numbers before they hatch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the G-7 Obsolete?]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/777599/g7-obsolete</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The G7 no longer comprises the world's most powerful economies. So what does it do?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Killing the AT&amp;T-Time Warner Deal Would Be Radical. Good.]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/738888/killing-atttime-warner-deal-radical-good-lets</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's time for Uncle Sam to bust some trusts]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[4 Ideas in Republican Tax Plan That Dems Should Support]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/727579/4-ideas-gop-tax-plan-that-democrats-should-support</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Similar to how you can deduct job expenses from your individual income taxes, a corporation can deduct spending on new capital investments from the federal tax on their profits. But those deductions are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' complex: The rules change from industry to industry, and the deductions often have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem With the Restaurant Boom]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/717584/problem-restaurant-boom</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American economy has reconfigured to serve the rich]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is ObamaCare Unkillable?]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/684977/obamacare-unkillable</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the health care law might just survive after all]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Middling Economic Legacy]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/671495/obamas-middling-economic-legacy</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past Friday, we got the last jobs report we'll ever see under Barack Obama's presidency. In December, 156,000 jobs were created, which is serviceable but not great. The unemployment rate was 4.7 percent, which isn't high. But it's above the 4 percent we reached in the late '90s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Donald Trump &amp; the Fed Go to War?]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/667312/how-donald-trump-fed-might-war</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump has promised a jobs boom. A terrific jobs boom. The best jobs boom ever. But right now, the Fed doesn't actually want a jobs boom.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Bloody History of Labor Day]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/646621/bloody-history-labor-day</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why this holiday commemorates struggle and death]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare Is Not Doomed]]></title>
							<link>http://theweek.com/articles/643204/obamacare-not-doomed</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Spross</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You probably heard that ObamaCare was whalloped with another bit of bad news. Late Monday, health insurer Aetnaannounced that in 2017 it will pull out of almost 70 percent of the counties where it offers health plans through the ObamaCare exchanges.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' This makes Aetna the third major...]]></description>
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