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		<title>Ben Bernanke:  U.S. recovery &#8220;fragile.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/ben-bernanke-u-s-recovery-fragile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catsden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernanke does it again.  Speaking in Washington, Bernanke deflates hope that the U.S. economy will recover, despite recent gains.  His comments also lower the value of the dollar.  Has he scared you again?  Will Congress feel compelled to reappoint him as chairmen of the FED?
Following Mr Bernanke&#8217;s comments, the dollar lost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3080&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I want to know:  Why are we fighting in Afghanistan?</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/i-want-to-know-why-are-we-fighting-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catsden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immediately after the president announced &#8221;his decision&#8221; about Afghanistan, his aides began to clarify change the meaning of his announcement.  Then everyone got distracted by the deadline/not deadline issue or the numbers of soldiers to be deployed (too many/not enough), but few asked why we are still involved in a war in Afghanistan. 
According to Obama&#8217;s  photo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3064&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Sanders to put &#8220;hold&#8221; on Bernanke&#8217;s nomination.</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/senator-sanders-to-put-hold-on-bernankes-nomination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catsden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Institutions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transparency in Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[from the Associated Press, via NPR here:
Irked by the Federal Reserve&#8217;s bailout of Wall Street, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Wednesday that he will seek to block the Senate from confirming Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the nation&#8217;s central bank.
By placing a &#8220;hold&#8221; on Bernanke&#8217;s nomination, the Senator will force [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3060&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rupert Murdoch 1 &#8211; Google 0</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/rupert-murdoch-1-google-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catsden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinionated cat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[free access to news and blogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under pressure from Rupert Murdoch, Google has agreed to limit the number of times that users of their search engine can access subscription content on-line.
Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can now prevent unrestricted access to subscription websites.
Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3057&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering is good for US.</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/suffering-is-good-for-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catsden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters is carrying a story here in which Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, discusses the high rate of unemployment and the need to create more jobs.    However, Summers warns that solving these problems will take a long time. 
&#8220;Addressing 10.2 percent unemployment is a matter of very great urgency. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3055&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke: the FED has learned from the economic crisis.</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/bernanke-the-fed-has-learned-from-the-economic-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catsden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve System (FED)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is rich.  Ben Bernanke, in today&#8217;s Washington Post writes that 
our challenge is to design a system of financial oversight that will embody the lessons of the past two years and provide a robust framework for preventing future crises and the economic damage they cause.   here
He admits that the FED didn&#8217;t really handle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3049&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is what I shall be doing this afternoon&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/this-is-what-i-shall-be-doing-this-afternoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catsden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinionated cat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple pie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Happy Thanksgiving!
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3041&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery is Loss</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/recovery-loss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catsden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://catsden.wordpress.com/?p=3035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Geithner believes that &#8220;the economy is better by any measure&#8221; since Obama took Office.
Here&#8217;s how this works &#8211; you may be out of work, struggling to pay your bills and feed your family but as long as &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; tells us how lucky we are and what the &#8220;truth&#8221; is, we should all rejoice. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3035&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/3024/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While our undermanned, under-served, and overwhelmed military are being killed or wounded, our president holds meeting about what to do in Afghanistan.  His ninth meeting is scheduled for today &#8211; good thing for the troops that the &#8220;bow and scrape&#8221; Asian tour is over. Hopefully, Obama will be able to make some sort of decision [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3024&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s latest bad decision:  Holder and the terrorists.</title>
		<link>http://catsden.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/obamas-latest-bad-decision-holder-and-the-terrorists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catsden</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Constitution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Obama studied Constitution Law, he either didn&#8217;t get it or he didn&#8217;t like it.  As we have seen during his brief nine months in office, he&#8217;s perfectly willing to step around the Constitution whenever he likes &#8211; a fact that has a lot of citizens in this country so worried that his ratings continue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=catsden.wordpress.com&blog=5463943&post=3020&subd=catsden&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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