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<title><![CDATA[Maureen Tkacik - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/41096.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Maureen Tkacik]]></description><category domain="41096">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Dorothy Day: Saint Radical]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/08/06/aug-2026-dorothy-day-saint-radical/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The incredible life and times of the Catholic who served the poor and gave hell to everyone else]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Private Credit Cartels]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/04/06/private-credit-cartels-crisis-wall-street/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wall Street wants you to believe AI is to blame for the incipient credit crisis. But the crappy software loans spooking investors are the products of old-economy greed and brazen collusion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Roots of the Youth Sports Gold Rush]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2026/02/05/feb-2026-magazine-youth-sports-private-equity/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Steve Griffin got in on the ground floor with the John D. Rockefeller of youth sports. The climb out of the basement taught him that finance and kids' sports are a toxic mix.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lost Dream of Obam-a-Lago]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/2025/10/21/lost-dream-obam-a-lago-chicago-south-shore-ice/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Long before the September 30 ICE raid, Chicago's South Shore neighborhood had been ravaged by a series of sprawling apartment building pump-and-dump schemes, aided and abetted by industrial-scale mortgage fraud, old-fashioned government inaction, and a smattering of Venezuelan gangsters.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Runaway Tren]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/justice/2025-04-24-runaway-tren-de-aragua-colorado-housing-gangs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How a Colorado slumlord's psyop turned into a brand-new 'forever war' on Venezuela]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hospital Empire Closing--But the Stock Is on a Tear]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/health/2025-03-18-hospital-empire-closing-its-doors-stock-on-a-tear-mpt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than a dozen hospitals employing tens of thousands have either shut this year or are on the brink, while two shadowy figures prop up their owners' stock.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fire Sale]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2025-01-17-fire-sale-los-angeles-real-estate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Luxury real estate brokers want Los Angeles to cancel a mansion tax for damaged homes so they can feed off them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The [REDACTED] Case Against Amazon]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/power/2023-09-27-redacted-case-against-amazon/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You go to information war with the clickbait you have.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great American Hospital Shell Game]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/health/2023-08-10-great-american-hospital-shell-game/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stock in Medical Properties Trust tanked 14 percent this week after a couple of eyebrow-raising disclosures.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rich Bank Dumb Bank]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/economy/2023-03-23-rich-bank-dumb-bank-signature/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Maureen Tkacik</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About five years ago, a man I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll call '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Ben'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' took a marketing gig for a startup called Blockchain Terminal (BCT), which claimed to have raised $15 million to become the Bloomberg of cryptocurrency. Properly skeptical of the breathless hyperbole of this generation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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