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		<title>Debt and the deficit: Priority report</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans have a plan to force lower spending without risking default May 18th 2013 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC &#124;From the print edition [Greg Ip] AUSTERITY may be weighing on America’s economy, but it has its consolations. On May 14th, the Congressional Budget Office sharply revised down its estimate of the budget deficit this fiscal year, to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1947&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring inflation: Counting the cost of living</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fed and the White House wrestle with price indices May 11th 2013 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC &#124;From the print edition [Greg Ip] IN RECENT years inflation has been one of the few economic indices that has not caused much trouble to Americans. Contrary to repeated warnings, it has neither rocketed higher nor turned into deflation. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1949&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s jobs report: Not swooning, not soaring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 3rd 2013, 15:06 by G.I. &#124; WASHINGTON, D.C. WILL America be fourth time lucky? A better-than-expected jobs report for April has soothed fears that the economy was swooning, as it has in the spring or summer of each of the last three years. The relief sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 15,000 and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1944&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lehman, PSI and the consequences of credit policy: The third lever of macroeconomics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 2nd 2013, 19:20  by G.I. &#124; WASHINGTON, D.C. ECONOMICS undergrads learn early on about two levers to manage the macroeconomy: fiscal policy and monetary policy. Events of the last five years make clear that there is a third lever that while poorly understood and difficult to model, it is at times critical: credit policy. By [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1942&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American bond markets: Term report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulators fret about the risk of a sudden rise in long-term bond yields May 4th 2013  &#124; Washington, DC &#124;From the print edition [Greg Ip] THE Federal Reserve has long acknowledged trade-offs in its efforts to revive growth with ultra-easy monetary policy. Now those trade-offs are getting starker. On April 26th America’s economy was reported to have grown [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1938&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Federal Reserve speaks: Fearful symmetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 22:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 1st 2013, 21:45 by G.I. &#124; WASHINGTON, D.C. THE Federal Reserve, as widely expected, stood pat today, reaffirming its commitment to near zero interest rates until unemployment fell to 6.5% or lower, and continuing to buy $85 billion of Treasury and mortgage-backed bonds until the jobs market improved substantially. But its otherwise ho-hum statement [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1940&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The budget: Something for everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s latest budget makes concessions to Republicans Apr 13th 2013 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC &#124;From the print edition [Greg Ip] WHEN negotiations over a grand bargain on America’s budget collapsed in December, Republican leaders vowed not to negotiate with Barack Obama again. But perhaps Mr Obama didn’t get the memo, because on April 10th he [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1934&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Mrs Thatcher smashed the Keynesian consensus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apr 9th 2013, 14:13 by G.I. &#124; WASHINGTON, D.C. [Greg Ip] In March 1981, 364 eminent British economists published a letter to Margaret Thatcher in The Times condemning her plans to hike taxes even as her monetarist attack on inflation plunged the economy ever deeper into recession. The signatories wrote: There is no basis in economic theory [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1932&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-commerce: Click and pay</title>
		<link>http://gregip.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/e-commerce-click-and-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both parties are getting keener to tax sales on the internet Apr 6th 2013 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC &#124;From the print edition [Greg Ip]THE past few years have brought little relief for pinched state finances. But on March 22nd 75 senators, including majorities of both parties, approved an amendment to a proposed federal budget which, if [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1930&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Averting a shutdown: Continuing irresolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rare, but limited, bipartisan effort Mar 23rd 2013 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC &#124;From the print edition [Greg Ip] ORDINARILY, merely keeping the federal government from shutting down would not be cause for congressional self-congratulation. But the workmanlike and bipartisan fashion in which the Senate agreed to keep the federal government funded was a welcome respite [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5387080&#038;post=1920&#038;subd=gregip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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