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		<title>To Counter Currency Manipulation: Rally Some Allies</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/10/to-counter-currency-manipulation-rally-some-allies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China’s aggression in September after Japan seized a Chinese fisherman near the East China Sea islands claimed by both countries confirmed China as a burly international tyrant. The caution for countries attempting to negotiate with China is to avoid Japan’s mistake, which was single-handedly contesting the giant. For America, that means seeking an end to China's currency manipulation by simultaneously pursuing every option the United States has, including  formally naming China a currency manipulator, imposing tariffs on imports from countries that undervalue currency and creating a community of allies to campaign together to combat the illegal trade practice.]]></description>
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		<title>Preventing Political Moral Hazard Means Stopping Bernanke</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/12/12/preventing-political-moral-hazard-means-stopping-bernanke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From David Sirota]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[              By David Sirota Newspaper columnist, radio host, bestselling author   Washington&#8217;s favorite term these days is &#8220;moral hazard.&#8221; Though this buzz-phrase may seem like a complex and even intimidating idea, most of us, whether consciously or not, understand the principle because it&#8217;s basic common sense. Applaud your kid for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Citigroup Need China?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/10/20/does-citigroup-need-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailouts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Most of the economists and pundits who could not see an $8 trillion housing bubble are telling us that the United States desperately needs for the Chinese government to keep buying its debt. This crew of failed analysts argues that without the support of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TARP is welfare; control it</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/02/06/control-tarp-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leo W. Gerard By Leo W. Gerard International President A decade or so ago, some states gave welfare recipients food stamp debit cards. Welfare mothers could use them to buy groceries with plastic, just like virtually everybody else in the check out line. Plastic made accounting easier for clerks because the debit cards failed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The banks have stolen enough; it&#8217;s time to take them over</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/01/27/the-banks-have-stolen-enough-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-take-them-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Hold onto your wallets. The bankers are coming bank for more money. They burned through the $350 billion that we gave them in the first round of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and they are worried that even the second $350 billion will not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit or depression?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2009/01/03/deficit-or-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Kutner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect Here is a fine example of why a despairing President Truman once said, &#8220;Bring me a one-armed economist.&#8221; Our quote of the day comes from Martin N. Baily, an economist at the Brookings Institution, who was once on President Bill Clinton Council of Economic Advisers. [...]]]></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>Will Henry Paulson sink Detroit?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/20/will-henry-paulson-sink-detroit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Henry Paulson&#8217;s main claim to fame is getting just about everything wrong in his tenure as Treasury secretary. However, he now stands to gain lasting notoriety as the person who destroyed the domestic U.S. auto industry, and the economies of the Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson&#8217;s Swindle Revealed</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/10/30/paulsons-swindle-revealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Willaim Greider National Affairs Correspondent, The Nation The swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, including $10 billion for Goldman Sachs, his old firm. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paulson deal cheats American taxpayers</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/10/29/paulson-deal-cheats-american-taxpayers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/10/29/paulson-deal-cheats-american-taxpayers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President Are you feeling depressed, dogged by daily bad news about the effects of reckless, unregulated Wall Street speculators sinking the economy? Well, U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has decided to take this opportunity to kick you while you’re down. And use your money to do it. Paulson cheated American [...]]]></description>
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