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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Robert Rubin</title>
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		<title>Riding the Rails, Looking for Work</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/11/11/riding-the-rails-looking-for-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Winship Senior writer at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS Now that an entire week or so has passed, it&#8217;s possible to make a cool, complete and objective assessment of the meaning of the 2010 vote. Thus, ladies and gentlemen, it becomes clear what this election was all about: jobs. I mean, just look [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Being Rude To The Deficit Hawks</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/04/30/being-rude-to-the-deficit-hawks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research I worked at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) for 6 ½ years. During this time, the credibility of my work and that of my colleagues was often impugned by describing EPI as &#8220;labor backed.&#8221; This was partially true, we got 20-25 percent of our funding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Bernie Madoff the Exception or the Rule?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/04/15/was-bernie-madoff-the-exception-or-the-rule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future Were the big banks all knowingly running Ponzi schemes? That&#8217;s the question that arises from the stunning hearings held this week by the Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations, chaired by Senator Carl Levin, on the collapse of Washington Mutual, the largest thrift failure in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Rubin: Why Won&#8217;t He Go Away?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/03/09/robert-rubin-why-won%e2%80%99t-he-go-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research As Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin put in place all the pieces that set up the economy for the disaster that we are now living through. He pushed legislation that weakened regulation of the financial sector; he cheered on a stock bubble that eventually grew to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Deficit, Bob Rubin, and the Strong Dollar</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/09/11/big-deficit-bob-rubin-and-the-strong-dollar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Robert Rubin&#8217;s reputation has taken a serious hit in the last couple of years. After getting glowing reviews for his stint as treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, the world has now seen the fallout from the financial deregulation that he engineered and personally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If G.M. was a Canadian company it wouldn&#8217;t be asking for help</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/12/if-gm-was-a-canadian-company-it-wouldnt-be-asking-for-help/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/12/if-gm-was-a-canadian-company-it-wouldnt-be-asking-for-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research The Detroit automakers have made many mistaken business decisions that have been important factors contributing to their current crisis. However, they are not responsible for some of the factors that have brought them to the brink of bankruptcy. Most obviously, they are not responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IOUSA: Failed scare flick of the decade</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/02/iousa-failed-scare-flick-of-the-decade/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/02/iousa-failed-scare-flick-of-the-decade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Every few years there is a book or movie that stands out for its incredibly bad timing. As the Internet bubble exploded in 2000, the book Dow 36,000 quickly went from a work of inspired genius to intense derision. More recently, the 2005 book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress bails out those who shower before work, but not those who shower after work</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/25/congress-bails-out-those-who-shower-before-work-but-not-those-who-shower-after-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President     Congress drove the Big Three CEOs out of Washington, D.C. last week, ordering them not to return with their tin cups until they could guarantee their companies would be viable after a $25 billion bailout. Just days later, Citigroup, a bank that had already received a $25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redistribution: From Joe the Plumber to Robert Rubin</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/10/21/redistribution-from-joe-the-plumber-to-robert-rubin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Okay, as we all know now that almost everything about Joe the Plumber is a lie. He doesn&#8217;t own a plumbing business and apparently is not even licensed as a plumber, but he does raise a legitimate concern about &#8220;spreading the wealth around.&#8221; The only [...]]]></description>
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