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		<title>The Dyer Index: boom fatigue as Black Friday looms</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/the-dyer-index-boom-fatigue-as-black-friday-looms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/the-dyer-index-boom-fatigue-as-black-friday-looms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Stevens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dyer Index]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[America is heading towards Thanksgiving and the now-familiar ritual of "will the retail surge from Friday onwards save the economy (and our bonuses)?"]]></description>
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		<title>Obama in danger of Hoovering the economy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/obama-in-danger-of-hoovering-the-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ringmasters of Obama’s economic policy must go. Obama is becoming another Hoover, incapable of turning from the advice of the money masters, writes <b>David Hirst</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Black hole sun not shining on housing, US recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/black-hole-sun-not-shining-on-housing-us-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/black-hole-sun-not-shining-on-housing-us-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US housing market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The black hole that is the US housing crisis continues to widen, sucking in more and more American homeowners and making a mockery of the confident assertions of politicians, policymakers and the stockmarket that the worst is over.

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		<title>Congress to lift the ceiling on US&#8217; $12 trillion debt</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/congress-to-lift-the-ceiling-on-us-12-trillion-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/congress-to-lift-the-ceiling-on-us-12-trillion-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Federal Reserve]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The $12 billion US government debt may force Congress to engage in a brawl with the President that could see the government shut down. It could also lead the Obama administration to produce the toughest Budget in a decade, with massive spending cuts.]]></description>
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		<title>US public debt ticks over to $12 trillion</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/us-public-debt-ticks-over-to-12-trillion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/us-public-debt-ticks-over-to-12-trillion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US public debt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While America was having last weekend off, the country's public debt ticked over the impossible to comprehend figure of $US12 trillion -- over 80% of the country's annual GDP.]]></description>
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		<title>Forty-nine million Americans go hungry</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/forty-nine-million-americans-go-hungry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/forty-nine-million-americans-go-hungry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[underemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all the talk of a recovery in the US economy, a grim reality has been outlined in Washington for all the world to see: America can't feed all its 303 million people, with one in seven going short at some stage in a week.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>US finance sector&#8217;s sick reality</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/us-finance-sectors-sick-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/us-finance-sectors-sick-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MBIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wall street bailout]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past month, 24 US banks have failed, two big finance companies have gone into bankruptcy, followed by a small credit card provider. But American investors don't care; they know if the banks are small enough, the regulators will clean up.]]></description>
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		<title>Wal-Mart&#8217;s failure is the US writ large</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/wal-marts-failure-is-the-us-writ-large/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/wal-marts-failure-is-the-us-writ-large/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Motors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[However Wal-Mart's sales grow, so grows the US economy -- and in the past two quarters it's been a miserable story from the retailer: some store sales have sunk, as overall retail sales have drifted lower.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Goldman doing &#8220;God&#8217;s work&#8221;; in kitten shame</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/goldman-doing-gods-work-in-kitten-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/13/goldman-doing-gods-work-in-kitten-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lloyd blankfein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate investment trusts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs' antics continue to give Wall Street a bad name, writes <b>David Hirst</b>: publishing an upbeat report on real estate investment trusts while small town and Main Street America stagger to a forlorn future.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>US Fed bosses: record-low rates to stay for a while</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/us-fed-bosses-record-low-rates-to-stay-for-a-while/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/us-fed-bosses-record-low-rates-to-stay-for-a-while/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Federal Reserve]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the US, four Federal Reserve board members have tried to explain to Americans that while the economy is definitely recovering, it's not really doing so in the conventional sense.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Political economy: US Fed says we&#8217;re saved</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/political-economy-us-fed-says-were-saved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/political-economy-us-fed-says-were-saved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Fed says economic activity has picked up... but household spending is sluggish, interest rates will remain the same, and the economy is still shedding jobs. No surprises here, says <b>Henry Thornton</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>All-American hero Buffett has a $26.6b rails bet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/all-american-hero-buffett-has-a-26-6b-rails-bet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/all-american-hero-buffett-has-a-26-6b-rails-bet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[berkshire hathaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[railways]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warren Buffett has revealed a deal that defines his optimism in America's future, spending $26.6b to buy out America's second biggest railroad.]]></description>
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		<title>An inconvenient truth sobers thinking on weak state of US banking</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/an-inconvenient-truth-sobers-thinking-on-weak-state-of-us-banking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/an-inconvenient-truth-sobers-thinking-on-weak-state-of-us-banking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank death watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dow Jones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Markets are not known for their consistency. Last night, the US market went up 148 points very quickly, then slid back into the red, only to close up 76 points.

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		<title>Fed&#8217;s Thursday statement the key to US concerns</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/feds-thursday-statement-the-key-to-us-concerns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/feds-thursday-statement-the-key-to-us-concerns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citigroup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us banks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forrget China, South Korea, and even Japan: when it comes to confidence in the global financial system, the world remains firmly coupled to the US.]]></description>
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		<title>The Barossa&#8217;s approach to a crushing problem</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-34/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-34/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Closing the Gap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beleaguered Australian wine industry gets some relief with the news that the crush during this year's vintage was 5% less than in 2008, a cautionary tale from Paul Krugman, and why we're still not "closing the gap".]]></description>
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		<title>US rebound overshadowed by Costco&#8217;s food stamps move</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/us-rebound-overshadowed-by-costcos-food-stamps-move/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/us-rebound-overshadowed-by-costcos-food-stamps-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the American recession is over: go tell it to the eight million or more people who have lost their jobs and remain unemployed, the tens of millions more working shorter hours for lower wages, or the 35 million or so on food aid.

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		<title>Green shoots scepticism in the land of the greenback</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/29/green-shoots-scepticism-in-the-land-of-the-greenback/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/29/green-shoots-scepticism-in-the-land-of-the-greenback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aussie dollar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slowly some healthy scepticism about the strength of those worldwide green shoots is emerging in financial markets, but it's nothing dramatic yet. The Aussie dollar fell slightly against the US dollar and Norway lifted interest rates.]]></description>
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		<title>American consumers give up, go home</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/american-consumers-give-up-go-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/28/american-consumers-give-up-go-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumer confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us consumer confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The unhealthy position of the big market rally has been exposed for the high-wire act it is by a sharp fall in American consumer confidence, to 47.7 in October.]]></description>
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		<title>US economy flirting with the repo men</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/us-economy-flirting-with-the-repo-men/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/us-economy-flirting-with-the-repo-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repurchase agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The overnight repo market holds the key to Wall Street's bubble-driven economy. The crazy days of 2008 have now been laid bare, writes <b>Julian Gillespie</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Political economy: How best to regulate the financial system</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/political-economy-how-best-to-regulate-the-financial-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/political-economy-how-best-to-regulate-the-financial-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been observed that if a bank is too big to fail it is too large to live, writes <b>Henry Thornton</b>. Goldman Sachs is in the class of organisations that should be allowed to fail.]]></description>
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		<title>Despite rebound, US still hasn&#8217;t got its housing in order</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/despite-rebound-us-still-hasnt-got-its-housing-in-order/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/despite-rebound-us-still-hasnt-got-its-housing-in-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US housing market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stand by for the "two-speed America" story to start emerging: that's where the rebound in financial markets and on wall Street is way ahead with the sluggish wider economy, especially housing.]]></description>
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		<title>US economy blows another bubble</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/us-economy-blows-another-bubble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/us-economy-blows-another-bubble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The great market bubble goes on as cheap credit, blinkered managements and greedy investors continue to power markets higher to unsustainable levels.]]></description>
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		<title>US lending continues with the contractions</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/us-lending-continues-with-the-contractions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/13/us-lending-continues-with-the-contractions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subprime mortgage loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[US banks are showing no other sign than a continued contraction in all forms of lending if you aren't already a big and beautiful company, writes <b>Julian Gillespie</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Political economy: a looming property crash?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/political-economy-a-looming-property-crash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/05/political-economy-a-looming-property-crash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US umemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One reason to be worried about raising interest rates here is the parlous state of the US economy, writes <b>Henry Thornton</b>, with US unemployment at 9.8% and hours worked at record lows.]]></description>
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		<title>Reality bites global economy, again</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/reality-bites-global-economy-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/reality-bites-global-economy-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly realism is back in fashion on Wall Street and in other parts of the business world. Which is why markets across the globe are falling, quickly and sharply.]]></description>
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