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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Alan Greenspan</title>
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		<title>The Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis Should Have Been Predicted and Prevented</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/31/the-sub-prime-mortgage-crisis-should-have-been-predicted-and-prevented/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/31/the-sub-prime-mortgage-crisis-should-have-been-predicted-and-prevented/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adjustable rate mortgaage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who was looking at the numbers? Who was minding the store? These were the questions I was asking myself back in the fall of 2007, when the sub-prime mortgage crisis began. I was questioning and focusing on the mortgage products that were the root causes, the ARM (Adjustable Rate Mortgage) and the Sub-prime (no documentation). If these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the &#8220;Lazy Jobless&#8221; Myth Persists</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/12/17/why-the-lazy-jobless-myth-persists/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/12/17/why-the-lazy-jobless-myth-persists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Payne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Costanza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joblessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Buchanan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[unemployment benefits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist During the recent fight over extending unemployment benefits, conservatives trotted out the shibboleth that says the program fosters sloth. Sen. Judd Gregg, for instance, said added unemployment benefits mean people are &#8220;encouraged not to go look for work.&#8221; Columnist Pat Buchanan said expanding these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politicizing Public Pensions</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/23/politicizing-public-pensions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACORN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defined-benefit pension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.P. Morgan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research In recent weeks there has been a serious effort by the conservatives and even many centrists to whip up anger at public sector workers over their pensions.   Their basic line is that public sector workers get better pensions on average than their private sector counterparts.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben Bernanke: Wall Street&#8217;s Servant</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/17/ben-bernanke-wall-streets-servant/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/17/ben-bernanke-wall-streets-servant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailouots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Last week, the Fed announced that it would use the proceeds from retired mortgage-backed securities to buy up more government bonds. This may have a very modest effect in keeping long-term interest rates low, thereby giving a small boost to the economy. Such a measure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenspan, Rubin, and Herbert Hoover</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/09/greenspan-rubin-and-herbert-hoover/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/09/greenspan-rubin-and-herbert-hoover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Mellon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodity Futures Trading Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deficit Hawks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax cuts for the rich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Herbert Hoover&#8217;s disciples are making noises even as America moves closer towards a double dip recession. Fed Chair Alan Greenspan tells the New York Times all the Bush tax cuts should expire as scheduled, even those that benefit the middle class and not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economists Tell the Masses: &#8220;It Could Have Been Worse&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/02/economists-tell-the-masses-it-could-have-been-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/02/economists-tell-the-masses-it-could-have-been-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Blinder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=4653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research It is amazing that angry mobs have not risen up and chased all the economists out of the country. While the greed of the Wall Street gang provided the fuel for the bubble, the economists played an essential role as enablers. This was most directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Side Are You On? Alice Rivlin and the Wall Street Bailout King or Social Security?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/30/which-side-are-you-on-alice-rivlin-and-the-wall-street-bailout-king-or-social-security/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/30/which-side-are-you-on-alice-rivlin-and-the-wall-street-bailout-king-or-social-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFSCME]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard (RJ) Eskow Senior Fellow, Campaign for America’s Future There&#8217;s a battle going on between those who are defending Social Security &#8211; that is to say, the &#8220;good guys&#8221; &#8211; and those like economist Alice Rivlin and Wall Street banker/giveaway king Neel Kashkari, who would cut it. The attackers pretend to see nuances that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Senators Who Gave Us 15 Million Unemployed Want to Deny Them Benefits</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/20/the-senators-who-gave-us-15-million-unemployed-want-to-deny-them-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/20/the-senators-who-gave-us-15-million-unemployed-want-to-deny-them-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment benefits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research It is amazing how people in Washington are so forgiving &#8212; of each other. We have close to 15 million people unemployed and more than 8 million people under-employed because the folks managing our economy were incompetent. In spite of the efforts of economists and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Greenspan and Things Forgotten</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/19/alan-greenspan-and-things-forgotten/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/19/alan-greenspan-and-things-forgotten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Johnson Fellow with Campaign for America’s Future Ah, the things we forget. This was then: Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan greenlighted the Bush tax cuts, saying that Clinton was paying down the country&#8217;s debt too fast as a result of modest taxes on the wealthy. So the Bush tax cuts for the rich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Father and Alan Greenspan</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/21/my-father-and-alan-greenspan/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/06/21/my-father-and-alan-greenspan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[national debit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley When I was a small boy at the start of the 1950s, my father gave me my first economics lesson. &#8220;Bobby,&#8221; he said with obvious concern, &#8220;you and your children and your children&#8217;s children will be repaying the national debt created by Franklin D. [...]]]></description>
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