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		<title>Bank Lobby Blitz Targets Elizabeth Warren</title>
		<link>http://www.andykroll.com/uncategorized/she-will-build-that-agency-in-her-image</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s my latest from MotherJones.com, on the bank lobbying quietly underway to block Elizabeth Warren, the consumer advocate and bailout watchdog, from leading the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (which, of course, was her idea).
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&#8220;She Will Build That Agency In Her Image&#8221;
That&#8217;s why banking industry reps are lobbying against Elizabeth Warren, the consumer protection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Won&#8217;t the GOP Criticize BP?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.andykroll.com/?p=793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First published at MotherJones.com.
Elected Democrats haven&#8217;t been shy about slamming BP for the horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Last month, Senate majority leader Harry Reid emotionally declared on the Senate floor that the oil company&#8217;s &#8220;greed led to 11 horrific and unnecessary deaths. It has harmed an enormous tourism industry, threatened business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re All Bernie Madoff: Welcome to the Ponzi Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade—call it the Ponzi Era—has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast wave of financial fraud swelled in the first years of the new century. Then, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Dodd&#8217;s Race to the Bottom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from Mother Jones.com
In just six months, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the stately front man of the Senate&#8217;s campaign to crack down on Wall Street, has transformed from financial-reform avenger, scourge of the Federal Reserve, and ally of the average consumer to a GOP pushover. Last fall, the veteran Senator and chairman of the banking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, rhetorical fisticuffs, and the new &#8220;jobs surge&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.andykroll.com/american-politics/obama-rhetorical-fisticuffs-and-the-new-jobs-surge</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a new, short piece of mine—an introduction, to be precise, to Steve Fraser&#8217;s most recent piece for TomDispatch.com, &#8220;The New Deal in Reverse: How the Obama Administration Ended Up Where Franklin Roosevelt Began.&#8221; Fraser&#8217;s piece compares the first years of Obama and FDR, and unlike any other historian, he describes how the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers, Guns, and Money: How Banks Snooze and Arms Dealers Profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CROSS-POSTED FROM MOTHERJONES.COM
Among Bank of America’s 50 million customers, Pierre Falcone was far from ordinary. An infamous global arms dealer who unlawfully sold weapons to Angola for its civil war and an international fugitive, Falcone was convicted of tax fraud and illegal arms dealing in 2007 and 2009 and is currently serving six years behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Taliban Trust Fund and the Infinite Af-Pak War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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At a major conference in London today, Afghan president Hamid Karzai rolled out his much anticipated Taliban &#8220;reintegration&#8221; or buyout plan, an initiative for which Afghanistan&#8217;s allies have pledged $500 million to pay mid- or lower level fighters to stop fighting and reintegrate into Afghan society. The money could include resettling former Taliban fighters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Obama Won in Iraq?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a day when there&#8217;s nothing but dismal, depressing news on the Obama front, Juan Cole credits the president for what Cole deems his first major foreign policy success: the US drawdown in Iraq. While he acknowledges the presence of US bases there (which will likely never leave), Cole credits Obama for his adherence to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crash Course on the Financial Meltdown — Pecora Part II Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from MotherJones.com.
The 10 members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the modern heir to the famous Pecora Commission convened in the wake of Wall Street&#8217;s 1929 crash, kicked off a marathon set of hearings on  Wednesday and Thursday by grilling some of Wall Street&#8217;s most powerful executives, the regulators supposedly tasked with reining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan&#8217;s Brain Drain Continues&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The New York Times:
Maine, Michigan, North Dakota and Vermont had net losses of about one in 10 of their young people from 2000 to 2009, as the populations of Northeastern and Midwestern states continued to age faster than those in the Sun Belt, according to new Census Bureau data.
Since 2000, half the states registered [...]]]></description>
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