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							<title><![CDATA[Big Tech Faces a New Set of Foes: Nearly All 50 States]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(AP) --'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Big tech companies have long rebuffed attempts by the U.S. federal government to scrutinize or scale back their market power. Now they face a scrappy new coalition as well: prosecutors from nearly all 50 states.
In a rare show of bipartisan force,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' attorneys general from 48...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Green Card Rules Are Not Anti-Immigrant or Unlawful]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/matt-obrien-theres-nothing-unamerican-anti-immigrant-or-unlawful-about-enforcing-public-charge-laws</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States has always been a land of opportunity for those who are willing to work hard.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Grills Big Tech Over Competition, Money and Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/07/17/congress_grills_big_tech_over_competition_money_and_power_140801.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Big Tech faced tough questions Tuesday as federal lawmakers focused on issues of potentially anticompetitive behavior by technology giants and expressed bipartisan skepticism over Facebook'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s plan for a new digital currency.
Companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Venezuela's Death Spiral Is Getting Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/08/venezuela-is-stuck-in-a-death-spiral-and-its-only-getting-worse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Venezuela is stuck in a doom loop that's become a death spiral.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Its stores are empty, its people are starving, and its government is to blame. It has tried to repeal the law of supply and demand, and, in the process, eliminated any incentive for businesses to actually sell things. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hooray: Obama Finally Has His 'Piketty' Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/17/president-obama-finally-has-his-piketty-moment/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia's Economy Is Doomed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/15/russias-economy-is-doomed-its-that-simple/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A funny thing happened on the way to Vladimir Putin running strategic laps around the West. Russia's economy imploded.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The latest news is that Russia's central bank raised interest rates from 10.5 to 17 percent at an emergency 1 a.m. meeting in an attempt to stop the ruble, which is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Real Median Net Worth Continues to Fall]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/01/the-middle-class-is-poorer-today-than-it-was-in-1989/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fundamentals of the economy are, well, okay.It's been slow and steady, but the recovery has chugged along enough to get us back to something close to normal. The economy has surpassed its pre-crisis peak, unemployment is at a six-year low, and stocks have more than tripled from their...]]></description>
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