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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>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Reasons to Foil the Fed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like oil and water, the Federal Reserve and transparency do not mix. Or, as the incisive Bill Greider, author of Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, wrote in a recent cover story for The Nation: &#8220;The Federal Reserve is the black hole of our democracy—the crucial contradiction that keeps the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Greatest Swindle Ever Sold&#8217; Swindles On and On and On&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been blogging quite a bit at MotherJones.com, where I&#8217;m now working, on the ever-growing swindle that is the government bailout. It&#8217;s at around $13 trillion dollars now, and as I show, it&#8217;s painfully clear that the bailout has nothing to do with taxpayers or small-business owners or normal citizens. Instead, this has been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wash Indy: &#8220;Government Taps Bailout Contractors With Conflicts of Interest&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 16:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with the theme of corruption, obfuscation, crony capitalism and the like with our much maligned bailout, I highly recommend this Washington Independent article on the shady dealings of the private contractors behind the scenes of the more than $12 trillion bailout. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: As the Wall Street bailout nears its first anniversary, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ highlights potential for fraud, taxpayer scamming in PPIP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 18:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same day I wrote about the potential for gaming and fraud in the bailout&#8217;s Public-Private Investment Program in my TomDispatch piece &#8220;The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold&#8221; one of the largest business newspapers in the country highlighted the same problem.  Here are the highlights from a story in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal: Some banks are [...]]]></description>
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