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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Federal Reserve</title>
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		<title>Fed Fought Two Years to Keep Bank Bailout Details Secret</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/03/fed-fought-two-years-to-keep-bank-bailout-details-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/03/fed-fought-two-years-to-keep-bank-bailout-details-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=12463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Secret Fed loans led to $13 billion in bank profits. The Fed concealed from Congress which banks borrowed, when, how much and at what interest rate.]]></description>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Cuomo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sub-prime mortgage crisis]]></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>Occupy Wall Street Wins Labor&#8217;s Love</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/27/occupy-wall-street-wins-labors-love/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/27/occupy-wall-street-wins-labors-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Trumka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11767</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early last Friday morning, as the Occupy Wall Street protesters were just uncurling from their sleeping bags, I went downtown for a walkthrough of their campsite at Zuccotti Park, now also known as Liberty Plaza. I met up there with AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka and New York City Central Labor Council President Vincent Alvarez. (I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy Versus Bankers at the Fed</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/18/democracy-versus-bankers-at-the-fed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/18/democracy-versus-bankers-at-the-fed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monetary Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quantitative Easing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11618</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve Board has provided the basis for thousands of conspiracy theories in its near-100-year existence. These conspiracies have some basis in reality as can be seen by the Fed&#8217;s recent moves on monetary policy. In the last two meetings of the Fed&#8217;s Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed&#8217;s key decision-making body, the members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Demands to Make of Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/15/six-demands-to-make-of-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/15/six-demands-to-make-of-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From the Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speculation fee]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous, and secretive economic and political force in America. If this country is to break out of the horrendous recession and create the millions of jobs we desperately need, if we are going to create a modicum of financial stability for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the Money: Behind Europe’s Debt Crisis Lurks Another Giant Bailout of Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/06/follow-the-money-behind-europe%e2%80%99s-debt-crisis-lurks-another-giant-bailout-of-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/10/06/follow-the-money-behind-europe%e2%80%99s-debt-crisis-lurks-another-giant-bailout-of-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reich]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Ben Bernanke added his voice to those who are worried about Europe’s debt crisis. But why exactly should America be so concerned? Yes, we export to Europe – but those exports aren’t going to dry up. And in any event, they’re tiny compared to the size of the U.S. economy. If you want the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Republicans’ Latest Ploy to Keep the Economy Lousy through Election Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/22/the-republicans%e2%80%99-latest-ploy-to-keep-the-economy-lousy-through-election-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/22/the-republicans%e2%80%99-latest-ploy-to-keep-the-economy-lousy-through-election-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typical GOP shenanigans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=11237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever shred of doubt you may have harbored about the determination of congressional Republicans to keep the economy in the dumps through Election Day should now be gone. Today, in advance of a key meeting of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee to decide what to do about the continuing awful economy and high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke&#8217;s Disappointing Speech at Jackson Hole (But the stock market loved it.)</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/28/10804/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/08/28/10804/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allied Approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Kuttner]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=10804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke&#8217;s closely watched annual speech at this morning&#8217;s session of the Fed&#8217;s Jackson Hole Conference is a good illustration of why Thomas Carlyle referred to economics as the dismal science. Chairman Bernanke was doubly dismal, not just as an economic pessimist but as a political coward. Bernanke&#8217;s assessment of the economy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Wall Street&#8217;s &#8216;Dirty Business&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/25/exploring-wall-streets-dirty-business/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/25/exploring-wall-streets-dirty-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white-collar crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=9668</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From National Public Radio&#8217;s Morning Edition &#8230; George Packer&#8217;s article in The New Yorker follows the U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York during an insider trading case. In &#8220;A Dirty Business,&#8221; Packer explores why it&#8217;s been difficult to build prosecutions directly tied to the financial crisis. Packer talks to Steve Inskeep about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Chronic Cronyism – and Corruption</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/04/our-chronic-cronyism-%e2%80%93-and-corruption/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/04/our-chronic-cronyism-%e2%80%93-and-corruption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Foley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crony capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Stockman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fed loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Research Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Glassner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guilded Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPMorgan Chase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roaring Twenties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starbucks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=8560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Pizzigati Editor, on line weekly Too Much America&#8216;s top bankers and CEOs don&#8217;t have any more talent than millions of other Americans. They do have, two timely new data dumps remind us, plenty of generous friends in pivotal places. We Americans, former Reagan White House budget director David Stockman told a reporter last [...]]]></description>
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