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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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			<dc:creator>David Cho and Brady Dennis</dc:creator>
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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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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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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			<dc:creator>Zachary A. Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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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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			<dc:creator>Michael A. Fletcher</dc:creator>
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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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			<dc:creator>Anthony Faiola</dc:creator>
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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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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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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			<title><![CDATA[ British government moves to downsize bailed-out U.K. banks ]]></title>
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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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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. sees shortage of ammunition ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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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			<dc:creator>Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Geithner presses for government powers to wind down firms ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:31:01 EDT</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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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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			<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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			<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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			<title><![CDATA[ Eugene Robinson on Wall Street's weakening of market reform ]]></title>
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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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			<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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			<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>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=bcb0b1285ef9cc820a9b7a6dd7c6671a</link>
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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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			<dc:creator>Bloomberg news</dc:creator>
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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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			<dc:creator>Lori Montgomery</dc:creator>
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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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			<dc:creator>Post</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bank of America deal had early White House support ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=b58c8b34892acafe529cb303aae8d395</link>
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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>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=82f4ab610c38d1a0726bb20834d3f555</link>
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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>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=9868f766610685fb243b7844b489bf33</link>
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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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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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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			<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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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			<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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			<dc:creator>Amy Goldstein and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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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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			<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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			<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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			<dc:creator>Lyndsey Layton</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Aide Summers Counters GOP Criticism of Economic Policy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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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			<dc:creator>David Cho</dc:creator>
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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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			<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin and Michael D. Shear</dc:creator>
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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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			<dc:creator>Renae Merle</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Takes Bully Pulpit to Push Agency For Consumers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis and Binyamin Appelbaum</dc:creator>
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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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			<dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator>
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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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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Foreclosure-Prevention Program Gaining Steam ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration touted progress on its foreclosure-prevention program Thursday after hitting an interim target of signing up 500,000 borrowers three weeks ahead of schedule. But in a report to be released Friday, a congressionally appointed oversight panel questioned whether reaching tha...
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			<title><![CDATA[ WWII's Unclaimed Treasure ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Nearly 70 years ago, the federal government began issuing hundreds of billions of dollars in savings bonds to finance the greatest war effort in the nation's history, with no less than President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who summoned patriotic Americans to "one great partnership," buying the very fi...
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Better Way to Health Reform ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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We can fix the biggest problems without excessive government meddling.
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			<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Targeting the Talkers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:18:58 EDT</pubDate>
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There are no fatter targets for the left than the talk-show titans of the right.
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			<dc:creator>Howard Kurtz</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ SEC Probing Biggest Hospital Company ]]></title>
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a probe into whether the largest hospital company in the world, Hospital Corporation of America, violated securities law by manipulating its books and records, according to documents and people familiar with the investigation.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cartels Face an Economic Battle ]]></title>
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ARCATA, Calif. -- Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United S...
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			<dc:creator>Steve Fainaru and William Booth</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Trade Coalition Seek Curbs on Plans to Regulate Derivatives Market ]]></title>
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An alliance of business trade groups is pushing to scale back the Obama administration's efforts to regulate the multitrillion-dollar derivatives industry, arguing that the proposed changes could have consequences well beyond Wall Street.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Losing Ground on Preventable Deaths ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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As Congress presses forward with landmark legislation to revamp the nation's health-care system, lawmakers are grappling with a troubling question:
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			<dc:creator>Ceci Connolly</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ruined U.S. Cash Worth Millions, but Stories are Priceless ]]></title>
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The fast-talking and well-dressed Texas customs broker has arrived at the Treasury Department twice in recent years with luggage stuffed with crusty, grimy greenbacks. The money was ruined, he said, and worth about $6.4 million.
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Big Money: Let Home Buyer Tax Credit Die a Natural Death ]]></title>
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Never mind end-of-life care discussions for senior citizens. We need to have one right now about the home buyer tax credit. The powers that be need to let this program die with dignity when its time comes rather than letting it linger.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bank of America at a Crossroads ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The last time Washington rewrote the rules of banking starting in the 1980s, it was a bantamweight company based in Charlotte, N.C., that mastered the opportunity, swallowing or surpassing rivals to become the nation's largest lender.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pay Package for AIG Chief to Be Approved ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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President Obama's compensation czar is poised to give his formal blessing to a pay package worth up to $10.5 million for the new chief executive of American International Group, Robert Benmosche, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Iranian Opposition Warns Against Stricter Sanctions ]]></title>
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TEHRAN, Sept. 30 -- As the United States and its allies consider further sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fear that such punishment could have unintended consequences, strengthening the government's hand against domestic dissent and trigg...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Treasury Kicks Off Toxic-Asset Program ]]></title>
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The Treasury Department's long-delayed initiative to purchase toxic assets from financial firms launched Wednesday, nearly a year after Congress authorized the government to tackle what once was billed as the most critical problem facing the banking system.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hardening Views Brandished in Fight Over Consumer Agency ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:34:00 EDT</pubDate>
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For nearly four hours Wednesday, supporters and opponents of a new federal agency that would oversee mortgages, credit cards and other consumer financial products gathered on Capitol Hill to dig their trenches a little deeper.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
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With more toxic chemicals turning up in people's bodies and the environment, the Obama administration asked Congress on Tuesday to draft a tougher law for how the government regulates tens of thousands of chemicals.
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			<title><![CDATA[ It's Crunch Time: The Fight to Fix the Financial System Comes Down to This ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The next couple of months will be crucial in determining the shape of the financial system for decades to come. And so far, the signs are not encouraging.
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			<dc:creator>Simon Johnson and James Kwak</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Plans to Isolate Iran if Nuclear Talks Fail ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The Obama administration is laying plans to cut Iran's economic links to the rest of the world if talks this week over the country's nuclear ambitions founder, according to officials and outside experts familiar with the plans.
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			<dc:creator>Glenn Kessler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ DynCorp to Buy Alexandria Firm as It Seeks Wider Government Work ]]></title>
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DynCorp International, a Falls Church-based government contractor, said Monday that it will buy Phoenix Consulting Group, a privately held Alexandria firm that provides training and technical support to intelligence and special operations units.
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			<dc:creator>Dana Hedgpeth</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Federal Diary: Equal Raises for Defense Employees in 2010 ]]></title>
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Pay increases will be the same in 2010 for almost all Defense Department employees, regardless of whether they are covered by the controversial pay-for-performance or General Schedule system, the Pentagon has decided.
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			<dc:creator>Steve Vogel</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fed Held Back as Evidence Mounted on Subprime Loan Abuses ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The visits had a ritual quality. Three times a year, a coalition of Chicago community groups met with the Federal Reserve and other banking regulators to warn about the growing prevalence of abusive mortgage lending.
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			<dc:creator>Binyamin Appelbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Wave of Labor Unrest Grips Egypt at Crucial Juncture ]]></title>
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TANTA, Egypt -- The warehouses of the Tanta Flax and Oil Co. are quiet, the machines covered with dust. In the silence, Hisham Abu Zaid has found a power unlike anything he has experienced in his life.
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			<dc:creator>Sudarsan Raghavan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ G-20 Grabs Bigger Role in Global Economy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25 -- The leaders of the 20 largest economies officially anointed themselves the steering committee of the global financial system and reached a series of agreements Friday aimed at navigating the world out of recession and onto the path of recovery
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			<dc:creator>Annys Shin and Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's Deal With Drug Firms Survives ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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In the high-stakes battle over health care, the White House and the drug lobby make an unusual -- and unusually powerful -- team.
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			<dc:creator>Ceci Connolly</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Steven Pearlstein: A Health-Insurance Difference Without a Distinction ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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My hat is off to Max Baucus. He's produced a credible plan to make health care both a right and a responsibility of all Americans while beginning to rein in health spending in a way that is politically acceptable to a majority of Americans. In many ways it is the most robust proposal so far because...
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			<dc:creator>Steven Pearlstein</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ G-20 Leaders Reach Consensus on Financial Reform ]]></title>
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 24 -- The Group of 20 largest economies will permanently replace the G-8 as the main forum for international economic cooperation in a move expected to give greater clout to developing nations, a senior White House official said Thursday night.
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			<dc:creator>Annys Shin and Michael D. Shear</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Geithner Presses for Regulatory Overhaul ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Wednesday once again pressed Congress to pass a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system, telling members of the House Financial Services Committee that "we can't let the momentum for reform fade as the memory of the crisis...
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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Spain's Answer to Unemployment: Go Greener ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MADRID -- As world leaders converge in Pittsburgh for a major economic summit this week, one of the biggest questions they face is this: How do you begin to replace the millions of jobs destroyed by the Great Recession, now that the worst of the crisis has potentially passed?
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			<title><![CDATA[ Key Democrats Seek to Speed Up Law Restricting Credit Card Companies ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Two members of Congress plan to introduce a bill Thursday that would accelerate the implementation of a law restricting the ability of credit card companies to raise interest rates and fees. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.),...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Administration Pushing for Regulatory Reform on Many Fronts ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The battle to pass regulatory reform legislation in the face of intense opposition launches in earnest Wednesday morning with a hearing featuring Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, who will once again champion a package of sweeping changes that only Congress has the power to make.
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			<dc:creator>Binyamin Appelbaum</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ France's National Health Insurance Wrestling With Rising Costs ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MARSEILLE, France -- When Jean-Louis Aloy could no longer walk comfortably among his olive trees in the hills above Marseille, he knew the time had come. Bowing to doctor's orders, he checked in to a hospital for a long-delayed back operation.
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			<dc:creator>Edward Cody</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For G-20 Summit, Old Issues Give Way to New ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Having moved with unprecedented speed and coordination five months ago to head off what many feared might be another Great Depression, the leaders of the world's 20 largest economies are set to gather Thursday in Pittsburgh to discuss whether it is time to wind down stimulus efforts and talk abou...
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			<dc:creator>Annys Shin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Insurers Criticize Administration 'Gag Order' ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:12:58 EDT</pubDate>
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The federal government has ordered health insurers to stop telling Medicare beneficiaries that proposed health reform legislation could hurt seniors and jeopardize their benefits.
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			<dc:creator>David S. Hilzenrath</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bank Group Opposes Regulators' Merger ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Financial industry lobbyists on Monday denounced a proposal that would eliminate the four federal agencies now overseeing banks and instead create one super-regulator, calling the plan unwieldy, harmful to the banking system and a possible a roadblock to wider financial reform.
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			<dc:creator>Brady Dennis and Neil Irwin</dc:creator>
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