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				<title>Alan Reynolds (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>Barack Obama and the Taxpayer (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9776</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In their 1992 presidential campaign book, Putting People First, Bill Clinton and Al Gore said, "We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduct...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Obama's Tax Deceptions (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9769</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama famously claims, "I'll give a tax break to 95% of workers and their families." The Obama team never explained that figure, because they made it up. They always cite the friendly Tax Policy Center (TPC), when it suits their purposes, but not this time. That is because the Tax Policy Cent...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Obama's '$4 Billion for Exxon' Myth (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9762</link>
				<description><![CDATA[In the final days of the campaign, Barack Obama continues to land the same sucker punch on taxes he used in the debates -- and John McCain continues to take it on the chin.

In the last debate, Sen. Obama said, "We both want to cut taxes, the difference is who we want to cut taxes for. . . . The c...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Where Would President Obama Get His Trillions? (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=768</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>How's Obama Going to Raise $4.3 Trillion? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9746</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The most troublesome tax increases in Barack Obama's plan are not those we can already see but those sure to be announced later, after the election is over and budget realities rear their ugly head.


The new president, whoever he is, will start out facing a budget deficit of at least $1 trillion...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>What to Do About Executive Compensation (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9712</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Congressional hearings to barbecue Wall Street executives are as fun as a circus, but with more clowns. Presidential politics is now taking such political distractions to a lower level. 

The announcer in Sen. Barack Obama's recent TV ad says, "Last week, another bank [Washington Mutual] went unde...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Bank Loans Have Not 'Dried Up' (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9685</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The frantic congressional push to "do something" about mortgage-backed bank investments has been widely defended with equally frantic claims that U.S. bank lending to business and consumers has been shrinking fast.

On Sept. 24, Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag warned Congress tha...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Hoover Analogy Flunks (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9671</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The Congress appears determined to let Treasury Secretary Paulson do some speculative trading in mortgage-backed securities with $700 billion of borrowed money. Reasonable people have reasonable arguments for and against this idea. But unreasonable people prefer unreasonable arguments, like saying w...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>'Wall Street' No Longer Exists (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9660</link>
				<description><![CDATA[With Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley becoming commercial banks, and the other three big investment banks/brokerage houses being acquired by commercial banks, politicians and the press won't have Wall Street to kick around anymore. Headlines now shout about a $700 billion "Bailout for Wall Street." ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Why Bailouts Scare Stocks (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9650</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The federal bailout of insurance giant AIG is the latest in a series of panicky interventions that add a capricious element of political uncertainty to the market for financial stocks.

In essence, these bailouts give bondholders more protection than they'd otherwise see - at stockholders' expense...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Don't Blame Bernanke (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9632</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When the price of crude oil shot up from $100 in early March to $145 in early July, several old friends in economics and journalism blamed it on the Federal Reserve. 

The low fed funds rate caused the dollar to fall, they argued, which fueled a boom in commodity prices. Even the price of rice was...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Should Be Cut Down and Cut Loose (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9557</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Why should Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac enjoy special tax and regulatory privileges unavailable to other publicly traded corporations? Why should U.S. taxpayers be required to lend them money, or pick up the tab if they can't pay their bills?


 The answer of course is that Fannie and Freddie shoul...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Why Not to Panic on Inflation (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9545</link>
				<description><![CDATA[RELAX &#8212; inflation is not galloping out of control. At least, the number pointed to as proof of a crisis doesn't tell us anything like that.

Behind the panic was this week's release of the latest Consumer Price Index figure &#8212; a 5 percent rise from last June. Actually, it was the number...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Is an Oil Price Drop Looming? (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=667</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Scapegoating the Speculators (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9479</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain recently called for a "thorough and complete investigation of speculators" to see if they've driven up oil prices. And Senate Democrats plan a new bill aimed at commodity speculators - a witch hunt that's clearly about oil. 

But, much as politicians would like to blame specula...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Get Ready for the Oil-Price Drop (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9450</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The price of crude oil has jumped as high as $135 lately, up from $87 in early February. The news encouraged some Wall Street analysts to suggest oil might approach $200 before long. In fact, that's quite impossible: The world economy can't handle current energy prices, much less a big increase. 
...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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