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<title><![CDATA[Eric Salzman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/52517.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Eric Salzman]]></description><category domain="52517">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Fire Departments' New Emergency: Affording Trucks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/fire-departments-new-emergency-affording</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three companies have come to dominate the fire apparatus industry, putting the screws to our towns and cities.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Life in the Fast Lane With Robinhood Markets]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/life-in-the-fast-lane-with-robinhood</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At least in a real casino you get some free drinks and maybe a free suite if you lose enough]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time To Pump the Brakes on AI Finance?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/time-to-pump-the-brakes-on-artificial</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Big Tech needs trillions to fund their AI dream, much of it from insurance companies and pension funds. What could possibly go wrong?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gain-of-Function Monetary Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/gain-of-function-monetary-policy</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2008, power over our financial markets and economy was ceded to the Federal Reserve and it's extraordinary monetary policy. Perhaps its time to scale it back.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to the American Dream Museum]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/milken-and-friends-build-a-500-million</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I almost fell off my chair a couple of weeks ago when I saw a Bloomberg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' article'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Junk Bond King Opens a Shrine to Capitalism Near the White House.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' My thoughts instantly turned to an episode of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Sopranos'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' in which Tony and the crew discuss building...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Following Up on Lisa Cook's Mortgage Adventure]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/following-up-on-federal-reserve-governor</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Contrary to news reports, recent disclosures produced by Lisa Cook don't aid in her defense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Private Equity Managers Set To Pounce on Your 401(k)]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/private-equity-managers-are-primed</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump "democratizing" private equity fee income, one retail investor at a time.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Final Chapter Closes on Archegos Scandal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/final-chapter-closes-on-archegos</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Goldman, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Settle Archegos-Fueled ViacomCBS Lawsuit For $120 million]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One More Wafer Thin Mint?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/one-more-wafer-thin-mint</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Private Market business is bloated with expensive debt that many can't afford, so naturally Private Credit's solution is to add more]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The SPAC Is Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/the-spac-is-back</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Private Equity deal machine is in trouble, so of course it's time to bring back perhaps the most idiotic product Wall Street has ever produced.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nothing Stops Goldman Sachs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/nothing-stops-goldman-sachs</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the 1MDB scandal comes to a close, Goldman continues to defy reputation risk]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Private Equity Is Extending an Invitation to 'The Big Club']]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/its-3-am-and-private-equity-is-extending</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Private Equity is ramping up efforts to get at the $12 trillion 401k sector.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Oracle of Omaha Calls It a Career]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/the-oracle-of-omaha-calls-it-a-career</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes even the great ones need to get by with a little help from their friends]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Private Equity and Hospitals: Have They Gone Too Far?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/private-equity-and-hospitals-have</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Private equity has made significant investments in for-profit hospitals over the last 15 years. Perhaps it's time to stop them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump vs. Powell. It's On!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/trump-vs-powell-its-on</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In pushing for rate cuts the president insults the Fed chairman '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but Trump's tariffs are driving prices the other way]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Private Equity's Version of 'The Sting']]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/private-equitys-version-of-the-sting</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Eric Salzman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the classic 1973 movie'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Sting,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' con men extraordinaire played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford hatch a plan to take down a fearsome mob boss played by Robert Shaw in a high-stakes poker game. The cons first pickpocket Shaw, stealing his billfold and then, using Shaw'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s own...]]></description>
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