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    <title><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street - Passé Or Canary In A Coal Mine?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Occupy Wall Street protest movement is expected to resume Monday, on the 1-year anniversary of the protests. Is the coalition passé and irrelevant? Or is it a canary in a coalmine - an indicator of worsening economic and social problems in the United States?.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:32:50 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Reflecting On The Towers: At The Center Of The World]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Originally viewed in the 1970s as a project that added too much office space to Lower Manhattan, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center became a symbol not only for New York, but for the United States, for capitalism, for cosmopolitan / urban life, and for modernity itself.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:08:54 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Romney’s Tax Plan: Bush’s Tax Plan On Steroids]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Gov. Mitt Romney&#039;s tax plan is President George W. Bush&#039;s tax plan on steroids: it cuts taxes on upper-income adults and the uber-rich, and vectors the U.S. budget deficit to even higher levels.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:24:51 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Five Reasons Why Obama Could Win The 2012 Election]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[He&#039;s practically the devil incarnate to the Republican Party, but no president since President Franklin D. Roosevelt has had to address as many serious economic, financial and foreign policy problems as President Barack Obama. Further, Obama&#039;s relative success addressing these problems, and the Republican Party&#039;s callousness, will lead to Obama&#039;s likely re-election in November.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:05:49 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ayn Rand: Her Economic Views, Backed By Paul Ryan, Would Result In A US Dystopia]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Though he denies it today, Paul Ryan’s primary economic and fiscal influence was Ayn Rand, an extremely conservative thinker whose flawed economic and social theories were only outdone in perniciousness by her utter disregard for society and the common good.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:48:43 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Romney’s VP Pick - Its Likely Impact On The 2012 Presidential Election]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s selection of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as his running mate is an attempt to re-structure the 2012 campaign’s debate so that it conforms to the Tea Party’s agenda - but it&#039;s one that will not change the election’s outcome.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:54:23 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Globalization: The Economic Structural Changes Continue]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Globalization -- basically, free markets and the transfer of jobs to lower-cost labor/production centers -- has lifted more than 1 billion people out of poverty.  However, globalization, at least initially, also contains a contradiction that, in time, could undermine not only the uniting of markets, but trade and global GDP growth itself.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:50:06 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Unconventional Economic Times Require An Unconventional Stimulus Tactic]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Unconventional times require unconventional measures, and with the U.S. economy growing at a truly tepid rate, perhaps it&#039;s time to try an innovative fiscal stimulus proposal recommended by an economist about three years ago.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:06:19 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[For Romney, Smartest Move Would Be To Release Tax Returns]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney has not released several U.S. income tax reports, but if history is any indicator, from an electoral standpoint, this is exactly the opposite of what he should do.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:43:26 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[US’s Tepid GDP Growth Requires More Action To Increase It]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Investors can monitor five stats to obtain a reading on the U.S. economy’s strength. Currently, these stats show a slowdown in U.S. GDP growth, which is why Congress should do more to create jobs and help increase the economy’s growth rate.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:47:35 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Has Happened To Lincoln’s Republican Party?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[A compelling question concerning the nation&#039;s current political culture is: what has happened to the Republican Party? President Abraham Lincoln was the Republican Party&#039;s first president, elected in 1860. But do the values of today&#039;s Tea Party faction-dominated Republican Party match the values of Lincoln?.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:21:17 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[On Jobs, The US Congress, And You]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Cutting federal spending in 2012 could tip the U.S. economy back into a recession, just as it almost did in 1937. On the contrary, if the federal government spent more on infrastructure and public works projects now and in the immediate quarters ahead, it would create millions of jobs.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:36:55 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Thinking About Buying A US Home? Think Carefully]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[U.S. mortgage interest rates for 30-year, fixed loans are at/near 40-year lows. Further, while there&#039;s nothing like owning a home, for several reasons &#039;this is not your father&#039;s housing market.&#039; There are pitfalls and pratfalls, and prospective buyers would be wise to review these five tips before taking the plunge.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:07:15 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Great Society Lives - Supreme Court Health Care Ruling A Victory For All Americans]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[One hundred years after former President Teddy Roosevelt first proposed it, the United States -- the richest nation on earth -- has finally joined the world’s other, major, industrialized economies in having a universal health insurance plan.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:51:23 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Health Care Decision - Will It Boost Obama Or Romney More?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Both liberals and conservatives can use the high court’s decision to energize their rank-and-file.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:14:39 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Health Care Reform Supreme Court Decision Surprises Washington Community]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The sharply-divided U.S. Supreme Court Thursday that upheld President Barack Obama&#039;s signature public policy initiative took most of official Washington by surprise.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/357506/20120628/obamacare-health-care-supreme-court.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:19:50 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[US Health Care Reform Act Seen Enhancing ‘Employee Mobility’]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s been overlooked -- it&#039;s received very little coverage by the popular press -- but it&#039;s worth repeating: one benefit of the U.S. health care reform legislation will be: enhanced &quot;employee mobility.&quot;.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:55:23 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Five Investment Tips For Less-Experienced US Stock Owners]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[So the financial crisis, Europe&#039;s inability to act in a big way to address its fiscal issues, and endless partisan bickering in Washington between Democrats and Republicans have prompted you to swear off stocks? Well, one school of thought argues, &quot;Panicking never made anyone a dime.&quot;.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:39:34 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney - Is He Too Old To Be US President?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney’s experience as governor of Massachusetts helped him best a large GOP field in a wild 2012 nomination process to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee-designate. But is he too old to serve in the most demanding elected office in the world?.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/350707/20120611/romney-presidency-2012-election-republican-age.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 06:50:08 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[US Still Trying To Recover From Three 2001-2008 Public Policy Mistakes]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Tea Party members and other conservatives would like Americans to believe that the United States’ problems started in 2009, but nothing could be further from the truth. Three major policy errors by President George W. Bush last decade substantially worsened the U.S.’s fiscal condition, and the nation has been trying to recover ever since.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/348178/20120604/public-policy-taxes-income-tax-bush-afghanistan.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:16:32 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[3 Dividend-Plus-Growth US Stocks For Jittery Investors]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[No, you haven’t imagined it: trying to find a decent investment in these volatile financial times is like trying to find a diamond amid ashes. With the aforementioned in mind, here are three dividend plays that may not be diamonds, but they&#039;re worthy of consideration.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/347350/20120531/stocks-bpt-trp-fgp-british-ferrellgas-transcanada.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 11:05:43 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[US Stocks - Time To 'Sell In May And Go Away'?]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[You can&#039;t blame investors for feeling a bit squeamish regarding deploying new money in the U.S. stock market these days, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s (DJIA) recent slide from 13,300 to 12,450 unnerving even the most experienced institutional investors. Where’s the market headed in the next six months?.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/345627/20120525/dow-stocks-djia-technical-earnings-revenue-economy.htm</guid>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:37:15 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Most-Effective, Quickest Way To Create More U.S. Jobs]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[In a talk at New York&#039;s Princeton Club, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman said the solution to create more jobs and get the U.S. economy to grow faster isn&#039;t rocket science: it&#039;s fiscal stimulus.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/342853/20120518/krugman-fiscal-stimulus-paul-unemployment.htm</guid>
    <link>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/342853/20120518/krugman-fiscal-stimulus-paul-unemployment.htm</link>
    <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:37:30 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[US Presidential Election 2012: It Could Be All About Jobs]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The GOP touts itself as the party of job creation. But the party of which president - Democratic or Republican - creates more jobs per year, on average?]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/340439/20120513/jobs-job-growth-unemployment-presidents-clinton-fdr.htm</guid>
    <link>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/340439/20120513/jobs-job-growth-unemployment-presidents-clinton-fdr.htm</link>
    <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 12:28:41 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tepid April US Job Growth Makes Close 2012 US Presidential Race Even Tighter]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[In some U.S. presidential election years, one issue dominates, and that&#039;s likely to be the case in 2012. The issue: jobs, and so far the Obama administration&#039;s policies have not created enough. President Barack Obama needs to find ways to create more jobs, if he hopes to be re-elected.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/337392/20120504/jobs-unemployment-rate-gdp-obama-romney-growth.htm</guid>
    <link>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/337392/20120504/jobs-unemployment-rate-gdp-obama-romney-growth.htm</link>
    <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 12:23:24 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How To Prevent Another US Bank Bailout]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[Regarding its banking system, the United States has now experienced its third generation of &quot;heads the banks win, tails the taxpayer and the public loses.” Is there a better way? Is it possible to create a bank that serves the people of the United States?.]]></description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:31:35 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[5 Reasons Obama Could Lose The 2012 Election]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[If the U.S. presidential election was held today, President Barack Obama could easily lose. Fortunately for Obama -- and, by extension, for the Democratic Party -- the election is not today: it&#039;s 7 months from now.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/334696/20120429/obama-election-jobs-unemployment-economy-oil.htm</guid>
    <link>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/334696/20120429/obama-election-jobs-unemployment-economy-oil.htm</link>
    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:20:31 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[It Happens Every Spring]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth, baseball’s greatest player, said it best: “The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.”]]></description>
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    <link>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/331589/20120422/baseball-major-league-mlb-yankees-ruth-berra.htm</link>
    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:23:29 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Titanic: 100 Years Later, Still The World's Most Tragic Maritime Disaster]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[One hundred years have passed and there have been larger maritime disasters, but for reasons unique to the ship, the tragedy of the RMS Titanic continues to be a part of the popular culture’s consciousness.]]></description>
    <guid>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/329476/20120417/titanic-100th-anniversary-sinking-cruise-travel-ocean.htm</guid>
    <link>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/329476/20120417/titanic-100th-anniversary-sinking-cruise-travel-ocean.htm</link>
    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:40:30 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cut U.S. Defense Spending Now - Don’t Fund The F-35]]></title>
    <description><![CDATA[The United States does not need and cannot afford the Pentagon’s request for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which will cost -- incredibly -- a mind-boggling $134.5 million per plane.]]></description>
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    <link>http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/325200/20120407/defense-spending-economy-jobs-unemployment-infrastructure-gdp.htm</link>
    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:33:01 +0100</pubDate>
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