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		<title>All They Ask for Is an Unfair Advantage</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/01/all-they-ask-for-is-an-unfair-advantage/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/01/all-they-ask-for-is-an-unfair-advantage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Winship Senior writer at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS I attended a screening this week of Alex Gibney&#8217;s new documentary, Client 9. It&#8217;s the story of the rise and fall of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer, brought down by imperial hubris and a reckless penchant for ladies of the evening. Gibney, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers Together to Save America</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/05/workers-together-to-save-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/05/workers-together-to-save-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=4687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  When I grew up back in the 1950&#8242;s, the heart of the U.S. economy was Detroit and when my grandfather retired and moved to Florida in the late 50&#8242;s from Youngstown, Ohio, he and his friends had good pensions and health insurance and could enjoy life at the end.  Back then most Americans were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feingold v. Fernholz: Vote For Wall Street Reform</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/02/feingold-v-fernholz-vote-for-wall-street-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/02/feingold-v-fernholz-vote-for-wall-street-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit the fed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blanche Lincoln]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[central clearinghouse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[derivatives]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Fernholz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[too big to fail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volcker Rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Zach Carter Zach Carter Economics Editor, AlterNet Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is defending his decision to vote against the Wall Street reform bill on the grounds that it is simply too weak to prevent future crises, and Tim Fernholz is crying foul. On policy substance, Feingold is undoubtedly correct. From Feingold: At the start of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Theme of Gulf Oil Spill, Wall Street Collapse: Unrestrained Corporate Recklessness</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/04/common-theme-of-gulf-oil-spill-wall-street-collapse-unrestrained-corporate-recklessness/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/05/04/common-theme-of-gulf-oil-spill-wall-street-collapse-unrestrained-corporate-recklessness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=3208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Creamer By Robert Creamer Political organizer, strategist and author The BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the 2008 collapse of Wall Street may not be identical twins, but they are siblings. Both are the children of unrestrained corporate recklessness &#8212; recklessness that was made possible by a fifty-year corporate conservative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a New AIG Story. I was an AIG Exec. Here&#8217;s the Deal.</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/04/21/there%e2%80%99s-a-new-aig-story-i-was-an-aig-exec-here%e2%80%99s-the-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/04/21/there%e2%80%99s-a-new-aig-story-i-was-an-aig-exec-here%e2%80%99s-the-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abacus-Portfolios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard (RJ) Eskow Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future It&#8217;s looking like the SEC/Goldman Sachs lawsuit could open up a whole new can of worms &#8212; one that Tim Geithner and some bank executives aren&#8217;t likely to be very happy about. The story&#8217;s about AIG and I used to work there so, as much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit Commissions and Financial Transactions Taxes: Who Is Serious?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/04/09/deficit-commissions-and-financial-transactions-taxes-who-is-serious/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/04/09/deficit-commissions-and-financial-transactions-taxes-who-is-serious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Budget Office]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research In the middle of the worst downturn since the Great Depression, with unemployment projected to remain at elevated levels for most of the next decade, we have the bizarre spectacle of a presidential commission on the deficit. The commission is supposed to issue a report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Moment</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/22/defining-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/22/defining-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[from Robert Kuttner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=2736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect We have just witnessed what could be a turning point in the Obama presidency. In many respects we can thank Scott Brown. For it took the humiliating loss of Ted Kennedy&#8217;s senate seat, and the even deeper incipient humiliation of lost health reform, for Obama to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Reform: It&#8217;s the Derivatives, Stupid.</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/19/financial-reform-it%e2%80%99s-the-derivatives-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/19/financial-reform-it%e2%80%99s-the-derivatives-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=2701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  By Leo W. Gerard USW International President  Tricky auto loans didn’t cause the financial meltdown on Wall Street. Unscrupulous payday lenders didn’t cost taxpayers a $700 billion “troubled asset” bailout.  So fussing about whether U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd’s financial reform legislation contains an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency is like worrying about whether you’ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and the &#8220;Savvy&#8221; Bankers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/16/obama-and-the-savvy-bankers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/02/16/obama-and-the-savvy-bankers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Last week, when President Obama was asked about the $9 million bonus for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, he described Blankfein as a savvy businessman, adding that Americans don&#8217;t begrudge people being rewarded for success. While the White House later qualified Obama&#8217;s comment about Blankfein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Overpaid Executives to Heel</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/06/bringing-overpaid-executives-to-heel/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/01/06/bringing-overpaid-executives-to-heel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Moshe Adler Director, Public Interest Economics  A recent Time magazine poll found that 71% of Americans who responded want the government to place limits on the executive compensation at firms that received bailout money. Yet accomplishing this task selectively is impossible to do. The government did appoint a czar of executive compensation for these [...]]]></description>
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