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		<title>The Federal Reserve: Can you hear me now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fed makes its views loud and clear Jan 28th 2012 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC &#124; from the print edition  JAPAN holds the modern record for years spent with interest rates at zero; they were on the floor from 2001 to 2006. America is on track to break that record. Having cut its short-term rate to near zero [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1418&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Austerity and the markets: The perils of prudence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More evidence that austerity can backfire Jan 28th 2012 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC &#124; from the print edition [Greg Ip] THE fiscal hawks should be pleased. For all the hand-wringing about public profligacy, budget deficits across the rich world fell by about 1% of GDP last year. Moreover, that was almost all the result of policy actions (spending [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1421&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American energy trends: Less of a menace from oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan 23rd 2012, 22:35 by G.I. &#124; WASHINGTON  If I had to pick the economy&#8217;s likeliest spoiler this year, it would be oil prices. Whether it&#8217;s Iran trying to close the strait of Hormuz or the Arab Spring  wafting through Saudi Arabia, I have no idea; but nothing matches the track record of oil in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1412&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American energy trends: Less of a menace from oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan 23rd 2012, 22:35 by G.I. &#124; WASHINGTON IF I had to pick the economy&#8217;s likeliest spoiler this year, it would be oil prices. Whether it&#8217;s Iran trying to close the strait of Hormuz or the Arab Spring wafting through Saudi Arabia, I have no idea; but nothing matches the track record of oil in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1423&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Income inequality: Who exactly are the 1%?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very rich in America increasingly work in finance, marry each other and care passionately about politics Jan 21st 2012 &#124; from the print edition  [Greg Ip]MITT ROMNEY is not the first multi-millionaire to seek the presidency, nor the richest. Ross Perot, the record-holder, spent some of his billions earned from computer data on losing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1406&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing the rich in America: The politics of plutocracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America’s rich should pay more, but there is no need to raise their income-tax rates Jan 21st 2012 &#124; from the print edition  IN AN ordinary American presidential election, a candidate who had earned a fortune in business and then paid an absurdly low tax rate would barely raise eyebrows. Americans have long considered wealth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1402&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural disasters: Counting the cost of calamities (feature article)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death rates from natural disasters are falling; and fears that they have become more common are misplaced. But their economic cost is rising relentlessly Jan 14th 2012 &#124; ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS AND WASHINGTON, DC &#124; from the print edition [Greg Ip] THE world’s industrial supply chains were only just recovering from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami in March when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1384&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Natural disasters: The rising cost of catastrophes (editorial)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to limit the damage that natural disasters do Jan 14th 2012 &#124; from the print edition  COMMERCE has long been at the mercy of the elements. The British East India Company was almost strangled at birth when it lost several of its ships in a storm. But the toll is rising. The world has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1382&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Central banks: Crazy aunt on the loose</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Greg Ip] THERE was a time when the Federal Reserve wouldn’t say whether it had changed interest rates. Soon it will say where it thinks rates will be years from now. Beginning with its policy meeting on January 24th-25th, Fed officials will disclose when they expect to start raising their short-term interest-rate target, which is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1388&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not normal: The recovery runs out of steam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 17th 2011 &#124; WASHINGTON, DC &#124; from The World In 2012 print edition  By Greg Ip, U.S. Economics Editor If these were normal times, America’s economy would be on track for a reasonable, if restrained, expansion in 2012. Consumers and businesses are well on the way to rebuilding their finances, and the usual imbalances that presage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gregip.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5387080&amp;post=1364&amp;subd=gregip&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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