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			<title><![CDATA[ Obituaries ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Robert E. Skinner, 92, a vice president in a real estate and insurance brokerage, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 9 at Capital Hospice in Arlington County.
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			<title><![CDATA[ America's currency quarrel with China ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BY NOW it is a cliche that the United States has no more important bilateral relationship than that with China. Yet in the wake of President Obama's sometimes awkward visit to Beijing, it is becoming clear that, in one crucial respect, Sino-American relations are dysfunctional: Though umbilically...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Storm of criticism said to buoy Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has been a lightning rod for the Obama administration even longer than he's formally held his position. This week, the storm clouds returned.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. part of global crackdown on counterfeit medicines ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- In highly orchestrated raids across five continents this week, Interpol officers in Europe, drug agents in the United States and task forces from Sweden to Singapore hunted down counterfeit prescription drugs in an effort to stem a rapidly growing criminal business preying on financia...
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			<dc:creator>Ylan Q. Mui</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Alan Blinder: Danger lies in threat to Fed independence ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Why the Fed needs its independence from Congress.
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			<dc:creator>Alan S. Blinder</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama faces congressional anger about economy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration.
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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis, Zachary A. Goldfarb and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. part of global crackdown on counterfeit medicines ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- In highly orchestrated raids around the world this week, Interpol officers in Europe, drug agents in the United States and task forces from Sweden to Singapore hunted down counterfeit prescription drugs in an effort to stem a rapidly growing criminal business preying on financially pr...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ambitious bills could remake financial regulatory landscape ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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As lawmakers on Capitol Hill inch closer toward overhauling the nation's fractured financial regulatory system, each hour of debate, each tweak of legal language, each tedious roll call carries the potential to generate colossal changes in the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bailout program could be extended ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Obama administration is poised to extend the life of the highly unpopular $700 billion financial bailout and, to display a commitment to fiscal responsibility, is planning to use much of the leftover funds to reduce the national debt, government sources said.
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			<dc:creator>David Cho, Michael D. Shear and Lori Montgomery</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Seoul, Obama will confront trade and security issues ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:59 EST</pubDate>
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SEOUL -- President Obama, who arrived here Wednesday night on the final stop of his East Asia tour, will grapple with two long-standing U.S. concerns on the Korean Peninsula, one in the nuclear-armed North and the other here in the trade-dependent South.
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			<dc:creator>Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Task force to take up financial fraud cases ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Top Obama administration officials on Tuesday announced a new federal task force to combat financial fraud after deciding that the number and complexity of investigations linked to the economic crisis require a more coordinated response from government agencies.
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			<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Analysis: Outrage over stimulus jobs misguided ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Another day, another flurry of outrage over the jobs numbers claimed by the government for the administration's $787 billion economic stimulus program.
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			<title><![CDATA[ IRS divulges criteria for targeting UBS accounts ]]></title>
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If your secret Swiss bank account was small enough, you can breathe easier: A landmark deal between the United States and Switzerland to expose American tax dodgers does not call for the Swiss to blow your cover.
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			<dc:creator>David S. Hilzenrath</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fed criticized for not negotiating harder with AIG creditors ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Federal Reserve officials made only a passing attempt to negotiate discounts from the creditors of American International Group last fall before directing the company to fully pay what it owed on its troubled derivatives contracts, according to a report from the special inspector general overseei...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Revamped GM loses $1.2 billion ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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General Motors lost $1.2 billion in the first 83 days after it emerged from bankruptcy protection in July, the company announced Monday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hunger a growing problem in America, USDA reports ]]></title>
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The nation's economic crisis has catapulted the number of Americans who lack enough food to the highest level since the government has been keeping track, according to a new federal report, which shows that nearly 50 million people -- including almost one child in four -- struggled last year to g...
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			<title><![CDATA[ CIT's bankruptcy raises new questions about bailout ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- A year ago, the financial system was tottering and government officials arranged a $2.3 billion emergency cash infusion into CIT Group, a troubled lender to small businesses.
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			<dc:creator>Tomoeh Murakami Tse</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ On eve of Obama visit, an uneasy co-dependency between U.S. and China ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- The U.S. and Chinese economies -- the world's largest and the fastest-growing major economy, respectively -- have become inextricably intertwined, locked in a kind of co-dependency that neither side thinks is particularly healthy, but which for the moment neither will move to break.
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			<dc:creator>Keith B. Richburg</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama to Asia: Don't rely on debt-laden U.S. consumers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:47:53 EST</pubDate>
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SINGAPORE--Declaring the world at "one of those rare inflection points in history," President Obama told the leaders of China and other Asian countries Sunday that they can no longer rely on debt-laden American shoppers to fuel their economies and that the United States must consume less and expo...
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			<dc:creator>Andrew Higgins and Anne E. Kornblut</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ On Obama trip to seal economic ties with Asia, trade policy threatens a rift ]]></title>
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SINGAPORE -- Hours after declaring that China's growing economic muscle doesn't pose a threat, President Obama traveled Saturday night to this usually pro-American city-state to wrestle with another tricky issue: Is the United States itself the troublemaker?
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			<title><![CDATA[ Business Digest: Computer programmers accused of aiding Madoff scam ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A rising China is changing the way Americans live overseas and at home ]]></title>
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WAUSAU, WIS. -- In a cavernous warehouse amid rolling hills and dairy farms, a group of farmers recently gathered around a buyer in a conversation heralding a sea change in the United States.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama calls summit on job creation ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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President Obama plans to hold a White House forum on job creation next month, an attempt to signal his concern about the growing ranks of the unemployed and build consensus on future action to stoke the economy.
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			<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Deficit tops $176 billion in October, sets record as U.S. borrowing climbs ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The federal deficit hit a record for October as the new budget year began where the old one ended: with the government awash in red ink.
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			<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ No monkey business around Ms. Goodall ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Don't forget! Today's the day to see famous primate expert Jane Goodall, speaking at 3 p.m. at the Interior Department's headquarters auditorium.
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			<dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fed takes aim at overdraft penalties ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Federal Reserve will begin banning banks from charging many overdraft fees unless customers sign up for the service, an unprecedented move that comes as a wave of consumer reform sweeps Washington.
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			<dc:creator>Ylan Q. Mui</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fed's response may make withdrawal tricky ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Federal Reserve has over the decades viewed its independence from political influence as crucial for its ability to guide the U.S. economy.
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			<dc:creator>Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dodd's reform plan takes aim at the Fed ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping regulatory reform bill that would strip the Federal Reserve of nearly all of its power to oversee banks, setting up a possible clash with the Obama administration, which has argued for the central bank to play a pivotal r...
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			<dc:creator>David Cho, Brady Dennis and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Legislation by Senator Dodd would overhaul banking regulators ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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A regulatory bill that Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) introduced Tuesday would create three agencies aimed at policing threats to the economy, preserving banks in good health and protecting borrowers from abuse.
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			<dc:creator>Binyamin Appelbaum and Brady Dennis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ China proves to be an aggressive foe in cyberspace ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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One day in late summer 2008, FBI and Secret Service agents flew to Chicago to inform Barack Obama's campaign team that its computer system had been hacked. "You've got a problem. Somebody's trying to get inside your systems," an FBI agent told the team, according to a source familiar with the inc...
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			<dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima and John Pomfret</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Former Bear Stearns executives acquitted of lying to investors ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The government's most prominent criminal case against Wall Street executives accused of wrongdoing in the financial crisis collapsed Tuesday as a jury found two former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers not guilty of charges they lied to investors when their investments in subprime mortgages turned...
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			<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Administration: Mortgage program helping 20 percent of eligible homeowners ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:49:46 EST</pubDate>
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The number of homeowners getting help under the government's massive foreclosure program is growing, according to government data released Tuesday, but it is still unclear how many of these borrowers might still lose their home.
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			<dc:creator>Renae Merle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ FHA's reserve fund hits 7-year low ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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The Federal Housing Administration, which has played a crucial role supporting American home buyers after the collapse of the mortgage market, has burned through a huge cash reserve in less than a decade and could soon wind up with what amounts to an automatic taxpayer bailout if the agency's for...
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			<dc:creator>Dina ElBoghdady</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ What is the true value of the United States' gold? ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Buried in the Treasury's International Reserve Position report is an intriguing bit of math. The document details the total amount, by weight, of the Treasury's gold reserves, plus a dollar value for said metal. But some fast division reveals something interesting: The Treasury marks the value of...
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			<dc:creator>Martha C. White</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fed losing support for bank oversight role ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Key Democratic lawmakers are threatening to dismantle the Obama administration's plans to place the Federal Reserve at the heart of efforts to overhaul the financial regulatory system.
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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis and David Cho</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Some experts worry that cost controls in health-care reform are too cautious ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Democrats in Congress are embracing the spirit of President Obama's call to slow the runaway rise of health-care costs but are shying away from some of the most aggressive techniques for achieving that.
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			<dc:creator>Ceci Connolly</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dodd to go alone with draft for financial reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) plans to circulate a draft bill of sweeping financial reforms as soon as next week that breaks with the Obama administration and the House on two key issues, officials said.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Small public firms win audit exemption with White House help ]]></title>
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A House committee, under pressure from the White House, voted Tuesday to exempt small public companies from part of a federal law designed to prevent financial fraud, despite objections from regulators and key Democratic leaders.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Policies sought to add jobs without piling on the deficit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- With the nation's unemployment rate at its highest point in 26 years and projected to rise, the Obama administration is intensifying its search for policies that can stoke job creation without adding significantly to the nation's crippling budget deficit.
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			<title><![CDATA[ British government downsizes bailed-out U.K. banks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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LONDON -- The British government announced Tuesday that it will break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, highlighting a growing divide across the Atlantic over how to deal with the massive banks that were partially nationalized during the height of the financial...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's first year: A record you can believe in ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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Sometimes I wish he'd be tougher. But he's a president, not a Hollywood action hero.
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			<dc:creator>Eugene Robinson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Business Digest: U.S. auto investment probably lost, GAO says ]]></title>
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AUTOMOTIVE Taxpayers are unlikely to recover their full investment in General Motors or Chrysler, U.S. government investigators said Monday in the latest review to cast doubts that the government will recoup the $80 billion it poured into the two automakers.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Army contractor in Iraq is warned to cut workforce ]]></title>
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The Army's primary support contractor in Iraq has been warned by Pentagon auditors to cut its workforce there or face nearly $200 million in penalties for keeping thousands too many on the payroll.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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LONDON -- The British government is moving to break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, with a restructuring plan expected to be unveiled as soon as Tuesday. The move highlights a growing divide across the Atlantic over how to deal with the massive banks partially...
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In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.
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			<dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold and Fredrick Kunkle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ North Korea military asserts command over nation's economy ]]></title>
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SEOUL -- North Korea's military, whose nuclear program vexes the Obama administration, has grabbed nearly complete command of the nation's state-run economy and staked out a lucrative new trade in mineral sales to China to make money for its supreme commander, Kim Jong Il.
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			<dc:creator>Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Doubts greet Obama's financial oversight plan ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration on Thursday ran into skepticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, as well as a key regulator, as it pushed for broad new powers to monitor risks throughout the financial system and to wind down large, troubled financial firms whose failure could endanger the econ...
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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis and David Cho</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ With big government boost, U.S. economy grew in 3rd quarter ]]></title>
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The U.S. economy roared to life this summer, as an array of government actions led to the strongest quarter of growth in two years.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Geithner presses for government powers to wind down firms ]]></title>
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Thursday urged skeptical lawmakers to give the government broad new powers to wind down large financial firms, allowing them to fail in a way that would not pose serious risks to the economy.
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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Federal Diary: In hiring, Uncle Sam needs better HR and PR ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=daa5b45cb0c95af88d3227b62b18836c</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The 40 people who met behind closed doors in the Ronald Reagan Building on Wednesday weren't in a position to make any decisions about fixing the federal government's recruitment and hiring process, but their discussion could have a lasting impact on federal policy.
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			<dc:creator>Joe Davidson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Stimulus dollars going to accused contractors ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama and members of Congress told federal agencies earlier this year to avoid awarding funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to contractors with troubled histories of work for the federal government.
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			<dc:creator>Kimberly Kindy</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Decline in U.S. dollar's value helps the United States but threatens competitors ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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LONDON -- The dramatic decline of the U.S. dollar is aiding the American economic recovery but setting off alarm bells overseas, with corporate executives, politicians and pundits calling it among the biggest threats to the rebounds underway in Europe and Japan.
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			<dc:creator>Anthony Faiola</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In China, too, a health-care system in disarray ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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BEIJING -- Shen Baohou, 72, who once worked for a hydropower station in Sichuan province, has a serious heart problem, and he -- and his children -- are paying for it dearly.
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			<dc:creator>Steven Mufson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Economics of climate change move to the fore ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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For a decade or more, the political battle over climate change has been fought largely over the validity of the science of global warming. But Tuesday, as the Environment and Public Works Committee opened its first hearing on a Senate climate change bill, those concerns took a rear seat to a...
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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ What's missing in the marketplace ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Ezekiel Emanuel -- older brother to not only Rahm but also Hollywood superagent Ari -- is sometimes called the nicest Emanuel brother. And he certainly seems it as he browses through artisanal jam on a warm Thursday afternoon in October.
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			<dc:creator>Ezra Klein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Economy is kick-started, but can it motor ahead? ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=15d0d60912991e7a768d81cb3900c123</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Over the past year, the U.S. government has thrown almost every tool at its disposal toward making the economy grow again. And it has worked, at least for now.
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			<dc:creator>Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Business Digest: House panel votes to regulate hedge funds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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OVERSIGHT The government would gain far-reaching new powers to regulate, and even shut down, large financial firms that threaten economic stability under a draft bill released Tuesday in Congress.
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			<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bill in works to let U.S. dissolve failing firms ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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House Democrats and the Obama administration are preparing to introduce major legislation aimed at eliminating the devil's choice the government faced last fall, when officials felt forced to decide between spending billions of dollars to rescue some of the nation's most powerful financial firms ...
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			<dc:creator>David Cho, Brady Dennis and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rep. Visclosky and lobbying firm can be swift path to earmarks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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It takes a while for most start-up companies to gain the confidence of a U.S. congressman and the promise of federal funds. But last year, a small Illinois company accomplished its goal in 16 days with the help of Rep. Peter J. Visclosky, a little-known Indiana Democrat who sits on the House comm...
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			<dc:creator>Paul Kane and Carol D. Leonnig</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ If you build a coverage mandate, will they come? ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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People are more likely to buckle their seat belt than follow the speed limit, even though the penalties for speeding are higher. They are more likely to go along with hotel efforts to reduce linen laundry if told that other guests are doing the same.
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			<dc:creator>Alec MacGillis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ China steps up, slowly but surely, to address emissions issue ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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LANGFANG, CHINA -- At a gleaming new research center outside Beijing, about 250 engineers and researchers from the ENN Group are trying to figure out how to make energy use less damaging to the world's climate.
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			<dc:creator>Steven Mufson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Refinancing lifeline fails to reach most 'underwater' homeowners ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A seven-month-old government program to help homeowners with little or no equity refinance their mortgages has so far reached fewer than 3 percent of those targeted, with many struggling borrowers deciding that the benefits of a new loan aren't worth the closing costs.
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			<dc:creator>Renae Merle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Government widens control over paychecks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Federal Reserve joined the Treasury Department on Thursday in imposing new limits on executive pay, extending the government's control over compensation at taxpayer-owned companies to institutions that are merely government regulated.
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			<dc:creator>Frank Ahrens and David Cho</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Eugene Robinson on Wall Street's weakening of market reform ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=91dd8bb74e5687c3642a7529a705d4ce</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Capping salaries and bonuses is like arresting a jaywalker.
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			<dc:creator>Eugene Robinson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House panel passes new consumer-protection bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A key congressional panel voted Thursday to create a federal agency aimed at protecting Americans from the predatory lending practices and other abuses that hastened the financial crisis.
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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Irmgard Neumann, 87, a German immigrant who became an economist with the Commerce Department, died Sept. 22 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville after a heart attack. She was a Silver Spring resident.
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			<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rescue efforts shift to small business ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration is winding down several massive rescue programs that aided large banks and automakers during the heat of the financial crisis, while launching more moderate initiatives to help small businesses and the housing market.
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			<dc:creator>David Cho</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghan witness, detained 14 months, finally testifies in bribery case ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A gaunt Afghan man detained in the United States for 14 months without criminal charges as a witness in a federal bribery case finally told his story Wednesday, disavowing any knowledge of kickbacks that paved the way for contracts at Bagram air base.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama administration to cut executive pay at 7 bailed-out firms ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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NEW YORK -- The Obama administration plans to order companies that have received exceptionally large amounts of bailout money from the government to slash compensation for their highest-paid executives by about half on average, according to people familiar with the long-awaited decision.
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			<dc:creator>Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Brady Dennis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ TARP watchdog says taxpayers Âextremely unlikely' to recoup aid to banks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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U.S. taxpayers are "extremely unlikely" to earn any return on the $700 billion government effort to invest in banks and other companies as the financial system teetered on the edge of collapse, according to a quarterly audit of the program.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House moves to create jobs, prevent economy from slipping ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:41:59 EDT</pubDate>
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It won't be called stimulus. And it won't cost anything close to $787 billion. But, despite record budget deficits, House leaders plan to pour more cash into piecemeal measures aimed at creating jobs and maintaining a safety net for the unemployed in hopes of preventing a still-fragile economy fr...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Budget deficits can't be viewed in light of World War II experience ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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THE FINAL White House estimate for the fiscal 2009 budget deficit is in: $1.4 trillion, or 10 percent of gross domestic product. To mark the occasion, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke called for "a sustainable fiscal trajectory, anchored by a clear commitment to substantially reduce feder...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bank of America deal had early White House support ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Top economic advisers to President Obama signed off on a deal to protect Bank of America from losses incurred by its purchase of failed Wall Street firm Merrill Lynch a month before the new administration took office, according to Bank of America documents.
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			<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Small firms, home buyers to get a boost ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration rolled out an initiative Monday to help moderate- and low-income home buyers, launching what sources familiar with the planning said will be a series of proposals aimed at healing two badly wounded areas of the economy: small business and the housing market.
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			<dc:creator>David Cho</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Most support public option for health insurance, poll finds ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public.
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			<dc:creator>Dan Balz and Jon Cohen</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ New age journalism ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:24:58 EDT</pubDate>
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In California, a former editor at the San Diego Union-Tribune has launched an investigative reporting project that plans to sell stories to her old paper at lower cost.
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			<dc:creator>Howard Kurtz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Big financial firms losing power on Capitol Hill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Large banks are on the verge of losing a key legislative battle over the shape of financial reform, an unusual setback that reflects the continued political backlash over their role in creating the financial crisis.
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			<dc:creator>Binyamin Appelbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama aides contrast Wall Street bonuses with unemployment ]]></title>
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Top Obama administration officials sharply criticized Wall Street firms planning to pay big bonuses, pointedly contrasting the soaring profits some financial companies have recorded in recent days with continuing high jobless rates across the country.
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			<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher and Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Medical Device Makers Court Unlikely Allies in Health Debate ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken of Minnesota are blue-state Democrats strongly supportive of President Obama's health-care reform efforts. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is a Republican presidential contender who has loudly criticized Obama's plans.
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			<dc:creator>Dan Eggen and Ceci Connolly</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pushing Home Ownership Is a Questionable Policy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Some Americans simply can't afford to own a home.
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			<dc:creator>Charles Lane</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Record-High Deficit May Dash Big Plans ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The federal budget deficit soared to a record $1.4 trillion in the fiscal year that ended in September, a chasm of red ink unequaled in the postwar era that threatens to complicate the most ambitious goals of the Obama administration, including plans for fresh spending to create jobs and spur eco...
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			<dc:creator>Lori Montgomery and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Senate Approves Bill Restoring Funding for Hydrogen Car Research ]]></title>
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The hydrogen car may have legions of fervent fans, but Energy Secretary Steven Chu apparently is not among them. Earlier this year, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist essentially zeroed government funding for the clean vehicles and came close to mocking their potential, saying the technology needs...
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			<dc:creator>Peter Whoriskey</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 30,000 Stimulus Jobs, Many in D.C. Area, Reported ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Businesses that received federal contracts from stimulus spending reported creating or saving about 30,000 jobs, according to figures released Thursday. The reports also suggest that the program has been particularly beneficial for the Washington region.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Puts Condition on Joining Talks on Conventional-Arms Trade ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 15 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced late Wednesday that the United States is prepared to begin negotiations on a global treaty regulating trade in conventional weapons but said Washington would sign the accord only if all other states agreed.
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ House Panel Clears Derivatives Bill, Debates Plan for Consumer Agency ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration won its first major victory Thursday in its effort to overhaul the nation's financial system as a key House committee passed a bill to regulate exotic financial instruments known as derivatives.
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			<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Stagnant Consumer Prices Prevent Social Security Benefit Increases ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:47:58 EDT</pubDate>
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For the first time in more than three decades, people who rely on Social Security and federal pensions will not get an increase in their monthly benefit checks because consumer prices have stagnated lately in the weak economy, the government announced Thursday.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Free Perks With Medicare Advantage Plans Aren't Really Free ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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TUCSON -- Patrick Higney, 66, doesn't want to give up the freebies that come with his zero-premium Medicare Advantage plan: free aspirin and free Band-Aids, a free blood pressure machine and a free ear thermometer.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Stagnant Prices Prevent Social Security Increase ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama on Wednesday attempted to preempt the announcement that Social Security recipients will not get an increase in their benefit checks for the first time in three decades, encouraging Congress to provide a one-time payment of $250 to help seniors and disabled Americans weather the...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Effort Underway to Speed Aid to Small Businesses ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The federal government is developing initiatives to make billions of dollars of bailout funds available to small businesses through community banks, according to lawmakers and other government officials.
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			<title><![CDATA[ House Panel to Vote On Derivatives Bill ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A House committee is set to vote Thursday on a bill that would regulate for the first time the vast and opaque market of exotic financial instruments known as derivatives, marking the first major advance in Congress of a key piece of legislation to remake the nation's financial regulatory system.
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			<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As Earnings Portray a Thriving J.P. Morgan, Small Banks Still Struggling ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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A banking industry goliath, J.P. Morgan Chase, reported third-quarter earnings of $3.59 billion Wednesday, its strongest results in two years. Hours later, regulators testified on Capitol Hill that many small banks are struggling to survive mounting losses.
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			<title><![CDATA[ EPA Releases '07 Climate Document Rejected by Bush Team ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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An e-mail message buried by the Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to the White House and never opened.
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			<dc:creator>Dina Cappiello</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ On Stimulus Spending, Deficit Hawks' Concern Is Misplaced ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:06:01 EDT</pubDate>
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The editorial page of this newspaper on Sunday came out against using additional fiscal stimulus to boost national output and reduce the growth rate of unemployment. The basic argument, made in qualitative terms, was that the costs of the incremental national debt would outweigh the benefits in a...
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			<dc:creator>Simon Johnson and James Kwak</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Under Obama, Regulatory Agencies Step Up Enforcement ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration is taking on Cheerios. And popular cold remedies and swimming pool drains and rhinestones on children's clothing.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Aide Summers Counters GOP Criticism of Economic Policy ]]></title>
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The White House's top economic adviser took aim at Republican criticism of President Obama's economic recovery policies on Monday, delivering a sharply worded letter to lawmakers that credited the administration with pulling the nation back from an "abyss" and faulted the record of recent GOP...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Urged to Intensify Push for Climate Measure ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama is coming under renewed pressure internationally and in the United States to throw his weight behind climate-change legislation, which advocates fear has suffered in light of the president's sweeping domestic agenda.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bank of America Scrambles to Provide Mortgage Relief Before Deadline ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PLANO, Tex. -- Bank of America employees are reminded every day of how far they still have to go. Just outside the elevators of their vast third-floor command center, attached to the wall, is a cardboard thermometer that shows them inching toward their goal of signing up 125,000 struggling borrow...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Takes Bully Pulpit to Push Agency For Consumers ]]></title>
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President Obama on Friday scolded business groups that have fought his plan to create a new federal agency to oversee mortgages, credit cards and other consumer financial products, casting the debate as a battle between his administration and Wall Street.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Afghan Men Tricked Into U.S. Trip, Detained ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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For Ziaulhaq, an Afghan driver who had never ventured outside the borders of his war-torn country, the prospect of a trip to the United States seemed like the adventure of a lifetime. He pleaded with his bosses at a contracting company near the U.S. air base at Bagram to include him on the whirlwind...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dollar's Drop Has Aided U.S. Trade Deficit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Friday's news that the trade deficit narrowed in August shows the silver lining from the steep decline in the value of the dollar.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Wall Street Has Geithner's Ear ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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As the federal government propped up the housing market and braced for the collapse of General Motors, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner capped a busy week this spring with phone conversations with three men.
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			<dc:creator>Daniel Wagner and Matt Apuzzo</dc:creator>
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