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	<title>Crikey &#187; Economy</title>
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		<title>Why the RBA should hold fire on rates</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/23/why-the-rba-should-hold-fire-on-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/23/why-the-rba-should-hold-fire-on-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian bureau of statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eurozone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank of australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The local and international economies aren't as bad as many claim, and the RBA should hold off on cutting rates.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Consumers open wallets wider, so why do we need to cut rates?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/13/consumers-open-wallets-wider-so-why-do-we-need-to-cut-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/13/consumers-open-wallets-wider-so-why-do-we-need-to-cut-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs figures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment figures]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=252578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can anyone explain why the Reserve Bank needs to cut interest rates, as quite a few economists, media writers and industry leaders say it will, either next month, or December? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>As the economy improves, Labor&#8217;s ownership of it deteriorates</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/08/as-the-economy-improves-labors-ownership-of-it-deteriorates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/08/as-the-economy-improves-labors-ownership-of-it-deteriorates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resources boom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=245757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The stronger the economy seems under Labor, the less Labor gets any credit for it. Labor should be pondering why and front and centre in any such inquiry should be Wayne Swan.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/08/as-the-economy-improves-labors-ownership-of-it-deteriorates/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>62</slash:comments>
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		<title>Labor&#8217;s life is in foreign hands &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/04/labors-life-is-in-foreign-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/04/labors-life-is-in-foreign-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=239343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A gathering economic storm overseas may wreck Labor's entire political strategy, write <b>Bernard Keane</b> and <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/04/labors-life-is-in-foreign-hands/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>111</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abbott&#8217;s scorched earth (and brilliant) carbon pitch</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/13/abbotts-scorched-earth-and-brilliant-carbon-pitch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/13/abbotts-scorched-earth-and-brilliant-carbon-pitch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barnaby Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon pricing package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=235212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumer confidence data suggests Tony Abbott's strategy of talking down the economy is working brilliantly.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/13/abbotts-scorched-earth-and-brilliant-carbon-pitch/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>185</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: voters increasingly gloomy about the economy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/04/essential-voters-increasingly-gloomy-about-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/04/essential-voters-increasingly-gloomy-about-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essential Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting intention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=233130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters are significantly more worried about the economy, according to today's Essential Report. And the Coalition has stretched its already big voting intention lead.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/04/essential-voters-increasingly-gloomy-about-the-economy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia can afford to have vision</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/30/crikey-says-the-vision-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/30/crikey-says-the-vision-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 03:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terms of trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=225924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a nation we've never been better placed to tackle long term issues like health, our ageing population, transport, sustainability, communications, superannuation, climate change and the growing gap between rich and poor.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/30/crikey-says-the-vision-thing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Good question, prime minister</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/20/crikey-says-good-question-prime-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/20/crikey-says-good-question-prime-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Council of Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=218891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard has always been good at calling a spade a spade. And that's exactly what she's done in her letter to the Business Council of Australia today.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/20/crikey-says-good-question-prime-minister/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Inconvenient labour data for the deregulationistas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/10/inconvenient-labour-data-for-the-deregulationistas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/10/inconvenient-labour-data-for-the-deregulationistas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABS unemployment data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial disputes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=209456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[February unemployment data shows more solid growth in the economy, and the forecast rise in industrial disputes hasn't materialised.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/10/inconvenient-labour-data-for-the-deregulationistas/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Everyone&#8217;s hoping this was a mere &#8220;bump in the road&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/01/everyones-hoping-this-was-a-mere-bump-in-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/01/everyones-hoping-this-was-a-mere-bump-in-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national accounts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=190008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's in everyone's interest to explain away today's weak GDP figure as a one-off -- in spite of nagging evidence that the economy outside the mining industry isn't quite as strong as we'd all like to think.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/01/everyones-hoping-this-was-a-mere-bump-in-the-road/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pricing our 5% emissions target</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/30/how-do-we-meet-a-5-emissions-target-let-alone-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/30/how-do-we-meet-a-5-emissions-target-let-alone-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renewables]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=189584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the debate over our emissions reduction target flares, the problem of how to meet it is the subject of a new report.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/30/how-do-we-meet-a-5-emissions-target-let-alone-15/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>75</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey says: it&#8217;s about confidence, isn&#8217;t it?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/12/crikey-says-its-about-confidence-isnt-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/12/crikey-says-its-about-confidence-isnt-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=163759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So did it or didn't it? Can't someone say definitively, once and for all, if the Rudd government's stimulus package kept Australia out of a major recession?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/12/crikey-says-its-about-confidence-isnt-it/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re finding it tough to make ends meet, it&#8217;s not because of inflation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/29/if-youre-finding-it-tough-to-make-ends-meet-its-not-because-of-inflation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/29/if-youre-finding-it-tough-to-make-ends-meet-its-not-because-of-inflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Keane on the Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=158926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s CPI figures showed what an extraordinary load of rubbish this “cost of living” campaign focus is from both sides.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/29/if-youre-finding-it-tough-to-make-ends-meet-its-not-because-of-inflation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Postcard from Gladstone, a small town in a big world</title>
		<link>http://mondediplo.com/2009/10/12australia</link>
		<comments>http://mondediplo.com/2009/10/12australia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gladstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world commodity markets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=94585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Queensland town of Gladstone may seem sunny and laid back, but its future hangs on the precarious movements of the global commodities market, with thousands of jobs in danger. That's if the environmentalists don't get to them first. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Economy is not out of the woods yet&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-329/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-329/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big bad wolf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evil ogre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gingerbread house]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[princess wayne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-329/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is lost, wandering through the forest]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/04/first-dog-on-the-moon-329/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Government tests the power of positive thought</title>
		<link>http://business.theage.com.au/business/shhh--dont-mention-bad-economic-news-20090524-bjhe.html?page=-1</link>
		<comments>http://business.theage.com.au/business/shhh--dont-mention-bad-economic-news-20090524-bjhe.html?page=-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 23:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudd government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=60826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can the government's efforts to keep public discourse on the economy positive minimise the impact of the recession? asks <b>Ross Gittins</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Protectionism is fine when it comes to people</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/17/protectionism-is-fine-when-it-comes-to-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/17/protectionism-is-fine-when-it-comes-to-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chris evans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that immigration adversely affects employment is the "big lie" of Australian politics, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/17/protectionism-is-fine-when-it-comes-to-people/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Japan? No. Try Russia, and the sick men of Eastern Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/japan-no-try-russia-and-the-sick-men-of-eastern-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/japan-no-try-russia-and-the-sick-men-of-eastern-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eastern europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hungary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every economy in the East is tanking: with Russia and the Ukraine probably the most damaged, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/japan-no-try-russia-and-the-sick-men-of-eastern-europe/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comitatus: Economic Security Package worked. Shock.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/05/comitatus-economic-security-package-worked-shock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/05/comitatus-economic-security-package-worked-shock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The $10.4 billion Economic Security Package not only worked, but worked nearly exactly as Treasury had forecast it would, writes <b>Possum Comitatus</b>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/05/comitatus-economic-security-package-worked-shock/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Of pointless pressers and partisan politics</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/of-pointless-pressers-and-partisan-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/of-pointless-pressers-and-partisan-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nation building and jobs plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A confused and irrelevant Opposition and a Government bent on playing partisan wordgames. Just what we need right now, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/of-pointless-pressers-and-partisan-politics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama changes stimulus plan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/12/obama-changes-stimulus-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/12/obama-changes-stimulus-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US08]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obama has offered concessions in his economic stimulus plan to help win support in Congress, reports <b>Politico</b>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/12/obama-changes-stimulus-plan/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>For heaven&#8217;s sake Julie Bishop!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/first-dog-on-the-moon-254/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/first-dog-on-the-moon-254/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthrax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chocolate biscuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meet the virgins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[witchcraft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australia's economy is on a knife edge...]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/first-dog-on-the-moon-254/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What was the RBA advice on guaranteeing deposits?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/21/what-was-the-rba-advice-on-guaranteeing-deposits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/21/what-was-the-rba-advice-on-guaranteeing-deposits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserve bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The predictable consequence of the Government intervening in the financial market to guarantee loans and deposits – that those not afforded the same guarantee are competitively disadvantaged – didn’t take long to emerge, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/21/what-was-the-rba-advice-on-guaranteeing-deposits/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s package stimulates talkback</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/15/rudds-package-stimulates-talkback/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/15/rudds-package-stimulates-talkback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[talkback]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Has Rudd's package left punters sufficiently stimulated to go forth and spend, spend, spend? Talkback has the answers. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/15/rudds-package-stimulates-talkback/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does the bank guarantee do enough?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/14/does-the-bank-guarantee-do-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/14/does-the-bank-guarantee-do-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is the government's plan to guarantee all bank deposits really the most equitable response? By <b>David Lewis</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/14/does-the-bank-guarantee-do-enough/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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