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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Am Buying Private Credit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/04/30/why_i_am_buying_private_credit_154075.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As public SEC filings show, I have been buying shares of New Mountain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s private credit arm for my own account, even as the recent press and political commentary about private credit as an asset class has been exceptionally negative. Without commenting on any specific private credit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Kill Economic Growth With Tax Increases]]></title>
							<link>https://dcjournal.com/dont-kill-economic-growth-with-tax-increases/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has promised to usher in a new economic '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Golden Age'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'. But this laudable goal will prove impossible if tax hikes force America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most entrepreneurial business builders to forgo long-term investments that support small businesses and create well-paying jobs.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Soaring Tuition Is Making College Unaffordable]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2025-01-06/college-tuition-and-student-debt-are-out-of-control-there-is-a-way-to-fix-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a model that can save billions in college loans and debt. We need to scale'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Is No Private Equity Loophole]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/02/there_is_no_private_equity_loophole_147979.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new version of the Biden administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Build Back Better'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' bill now backed by Joe Manchin has targeted so-called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'carried interest'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' for private equity firms. Although routinely portrayed in the press, and by Democrats, as a preferential tax...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Private Equity: A Political Target, Not a 'Loophole']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/01/private_equity_a_political_target_not_a_loophole_146502.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It appears to be common wisdom, among many political leaders and opinion writers,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  that private equity "carried interest" is a tax loophole begging to be closed.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Trump administration raised taxes specially on PE professionals, and the Biden reconciliation bill would raise them...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Tax Collectors Should Love Private Equity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/07/14/why_tax_collectors_should_love_private_equity_146074.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Any government leader, or writer at ProPublica, seeking more federal tax revenues should love the private equity industry.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Private equity is the ultimate "tax event" machine.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Last month, ProPublica published an expose of the taxes paid by Warren Buffett and others.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The key...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Civil Rights Legend Who Opposed Critical Race Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/12/the_civil_rights_legend_who_opposed_critical_race_theory_144423.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Critical race theory, or CRT, is in the news these days but many people still may not know what it really means.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' They think CRT is part of the Rev. Martin Luther King's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' civil rights efforts.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In truth, it is directly opposed to the central concept and vision he most stood for.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' One...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Study Supports Private Equity as Growth Engine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/24/new_study_supports_private_equity_as_growth_engine.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Private equity is a political lightning rod, but a major new study shows that PE is also one of the most important engines of U.S. economic growth: for wages, employment, taxes paid, and for over a trillion dollars of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'value added.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
The study just published from Ernst &amp; Young...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As New York Charters Turn 20, Let Good Schools Flourish]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/08/as_new_york_charters_turn_20_let_good_schools_flourish_141194.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago this summer, I was a founder of the first charter school in New York state: the Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem.
Ten years ago, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised charter schools as key to education success. But this summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Just Voted AGAINST Free College]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/06/democrats_just_voted_against_free_college_139660.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here is a man-bites-dog story for you.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  The Democrats just voted against free college for all.
On Feb. 27, Democrats in New Hampshire defeated House Bill 673, which would have allocated $100,000 to cover the cost of students taking exams for free college credit. The bill was defeated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Governors Can Give Students Freshman Year for Free]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2018/06/04/how_governors_can_give_all_students_freshman_year_for_free_110656.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the rising costs of tuition and fees outpace increases in financial aid and student debt skyrockets, there has never been a more critical time to bring innovation to our higher education system.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MLK Jr. Remembered by Civil Rights Icon Wyatt Tee Walker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearlife.com/history/martin-luther-king-jr-legacy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the untold story of the landmark Letter From a Birmingham Jail to how King's death still reverberates in race relations today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Students Can Now Earn a Year of College for Free]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearlife.com/education/modern-states-freshman-year-for-free/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Modern States'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Freshman Year for Free'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is one highly practical, low-cost, real-world way toward this goal. We hope students will use it. We hope allies will join with us to build it. We hope that Modern States '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Freshman Year for Free'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' may stand as a model for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Really Make College Free]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/11/18/how_to_really_make_college_free_132384.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Steve Klinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As President-elect Trump reviews policy ideas to help poor and working class citizens and to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'make America great again'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';', there is one education idea that is both exceptionally simple to implement and exceptionally valuable.
Namely, create a national digital public library of...]]></description>
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