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		<title>Heckuva Job, Barry</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/22/heckuva-job-barry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From uExpress
By Ted Rall
Pro-Obama political cartoonists have drawn variations of the same cartoon: the president, in the role of badgered parent on a family trip, is driving a car labeled &#8220;The Economy.&#8221; The American public, depicted as Uncle Sam or Joe Average, whines: &#8220;Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?&#8221;
With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing Health Insurance Premiums and Subsidizing Health Care Providers</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/21/taxing-health-insurance-premiums-and-subsidizing-health-care-providers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TruthOut
By Dean Baker
As a card-carrying economist, I don&#8217;t like the unlimited tax deduction for health insurance premiums. It is regressive and just plain bad policy.
    Low- and moderate-income people are both less likely to have employer-provided health insurance, and benefit much less from the tax deduction if they do. Most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joy of Sachs</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/17/the-joy-of-sachs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The NY Times
By Paul Krugman
The American economy remains in dire straits, with one worker in six unemployed or underemployed. Yet Goldman Sachs just reported record quarterly profits — and it’s preparing to hand out huge bonuses, comparable to what it was paying before the crisis. What does this contrast tell us?
First, it tells us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Income Inequality Continues to Grow</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/17/us-income-inequality-continues-to-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Common Dreams
By Don Monkerud
In June 2009, the U.S. economy saw its second steepest decline in 27 years. New jobless claims increased, business inventories fell and exports plunged as bad economic news persisted.
Will the once high-flying American wealth machine continue to produce the vast inequalities of the past?
Only two years ago, Steve Forbes, CEO of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pelosi&#8217;s Toothless Watchdogs</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/16/pelosis-toothless-watchdogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The NY Observer
By Joe Conason
Very soon, Congressional leaders are expected to announce the creation of a new commission to investigate the real causes of America’s crippling financial disaster. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that this investigative panel will be modeled on the legendary “Pecora Commission,” which held a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Government Sachs’ Strikes Gold &#8230; Again</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/16/%e2%80%98government-sachs%e2%80%99-strikes-gold-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TruthDig
By Robert Scheer
Connect the dots: Goldman Sachs made $3.44 billion in profit this past quarter, while the U.S deficit topped $1 trillion for the first time in the nation’s history and appeared to be headed toward doubling that figure before the budget year is out. Since most of the increase in the federal deficit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosures at Record High in First Half 2009 Despite Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/16/foreclosures-at-record-high-in-first-half-2009-despite-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Reuters News
By Lynn Adler
U.S. home foreclosure activity galloped to a record in the first half of the year, overwhelming broad efforts to remedy failing loans while job losses escalated.
Foreclosure filings jumped to a record 1.9 million on more than 1.5 million properties in the first six months of the year, RealtyTrac said on Thursday.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JPMorgan Earnings Soar as It Finds Profit in Slump</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/16/jpmorgan-earnings-soar-as-it-finds-profit-in-slump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The NY Times
By Eric Dash
Even as it weathers the worst economic downturn in decades, JPMorgan Chase on Thursday announced a $2.7 billion second-quarter profit from stellar trading and investment banking results.
The strong showing may put to rest some worries that the bank was allowed to pay back its $25 billion taxpayer investment too early, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demanding an End to Fed Secrecy, Sen. Bernie Sanders Questions Bonuses at Goldman Sachs and Other Big Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/16/demanding-an-end-to-fed-secrecy-sen-bernie-sanders-questions-bonuses-at-goldman-sachs-and-other-big-banks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From BuzzFlash
Stepping up a campaign for Federal Reserve accountability, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today questioned whether some of more than $2.2 trillion in secret subsidies went to Goldman Sachs and other bailed-out banks now planning to shower executives with huge bonuses.
Sanders voiced his concern in a letter to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery of the Missing Unemployed Man</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/07/13/the-mystery-of-the-missing-unemployed-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tom Dispatch
By Barbara Garson
For the book I&#8217;m writing about unemployed Americans, I had no trouble finding accountants, brokers, cashiers, or die casters. Admittedly, I had to go out of town to interview the die casters. But when I arrived, alphabetically, at unemployed editors, I had only to look in my address book.
Financiers were further [...]]]></description>
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