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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>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<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>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>
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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>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>Blind Ben and the Fed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted with MotherJones.com
In his column today, the New York Times&#8217; David Leonhardt takes to task the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, for not acknowledging that they inexplicably missed the housing bubble, and questions the Fed&#8217;s ability to spot future bubbles. In the wake of Bernanke&#8217;s speech this weekend in which he deflected blame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glass-Steagall Resurrected?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted with Mother Jones
Is the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era law that blocked commercial banks from participating in riskier investment banking, set for a revival? That&#8217;s what a new piece of legislation, introduced yesterday by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), would do, forcing major changes to financial titans like JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatch from Foreclosureland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted with Mother Jones
In August, I wrote about the Obama administration&#8217;s flawed $75 billion homeowner rescue effort, the Home Affordable Modification Program, and therein introduced readers to Florida homeowner Kristina Page. Page&#8217;s mortgage company, Saxon Mortgage Services, first told her it hadn&#8217;t heard of HAMP. Then, when Saxon finally admitted Page into the program, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Lease on Life for Detroit&#8217;s Auto Dealers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted with Mother Jones
Buried way down in the fine print of the Congress&#8217; $1.1 trillion spending bill, passed Thursday by the House, is a lifeline for an endangered species—the American car dealer. A clause inside the the 1,088-page bill would give thousands of General Motors and Chrysler dealerships that have been put on the chopping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OBAMA vs. THE WASHINGTON INFLUENCE MACHINE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

That&#8217;s the title of my new piece published at TomDispatch.com, a dive into the onslaught by lobbyists and their special interest clients to derail the Obama administration&#8217;s legislative agenda. The piece looks at the vast amount of money being spent on lobbying, the growing numbers of lobbyists working on K Street and Capitol Hill (six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Government&#8217;s Foreclosure Rescue Mirage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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Mother Jones published a new investigative story of mine today on the government&#8217;s Home Affordable Modification Program, its $75 billion, largely taxpayer funded foreclosure prevention program. The one that&#8217;s been one big bust.
I&#8217;ve excerpted the piece below, and you can check the full thing out and comment on it here, at MotherJones.com. (Which you should [...]]]></description>
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