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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:57:07 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The new AIG report reveals how Geithner—and U.S. taxpayers—were fleeced by Wall Street banks.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The issue has been festering for months: Why were AIG's counterparties—including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS—paid 100 cents on the dollar when the feds rescued the insurance giant, helping raise the cost of the bailout to nearly $200 billion? A new report issued by Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky now reveals that government officials, notably then-New York Fed President and current Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, grievously damaged the nation and capitulated to the very banks they should have been supervising.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236460/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Eliot Spitzer</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:57:07 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Obama needs to show Americans how health care reform, Wall Street reform, and the stimulus are connected.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The most important elections of last week took place not in Virginia or New Jersey or even in New York's 23rd congressional district, but in Westchester, Nassau, and Rockland counties, New York suburbs voting for county executive. These are three prosperous suburbs of NYC that voted solidly Democratic recently in almost all races but are actually dominated by independent, nonideological voters. In Westchester and Nassau, incumbent Democrats who were expected to coast to victory were either thrown out—Andy Spano lost in Westchester by 14 percent—or are hanging on—Tom Suozzi of Nassau is in a dead heat with 8,000 paper ballots to be counted. Yet in Rockland County, Republican incumbent C. Scott Vanderhoef coasted to an eight-point win over a well-liked challenger.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235104/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Eliot Spitzer</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:00:08 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How the Angelides Commission can crack open the Wall Street scandal—if it dares.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Commissions are often created to defer tough decisions; to forge a consensus around a hard solution to a genuine problem; and, rarely, actually to delve into underlying facts. The Angelides commission, officially chartered by Congress this summer as the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, has the chance to be that third kind of commission, gathering the missing empirical data on fundamental questions that can guide future decision-making.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2233680/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>the best policy</category>
  <author>Eliot Spitzer</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:24:12 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce must be stopped. Here's how to do it.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce—the self-proclaimed voice of business in Washington—has been wrong on virtually every major public-policy issue of the past decade: financial deregulation, tax and fiscal policy, global warming and environmental enforcement, consumer protection, health care reform …<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2232441/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=1756" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=1756" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Eliot Spitzer</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:23:45 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>None of the Obama administration's banking reforms help middle-class Americans.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The Obama administration, which has spent much of the past year bailing out banks and protecting the markets, has done shockingly little to help the middle class that has borne the brunt of the financial meltdown. Two acts are particularly revealing. First, the administration failed to go to the mat to give judges the power to reform mortgages in the bankruptcy context. The administration barely winced as the Senate caved to the banks on this critical issue, risking no political capital to protect one of the few reforms that could have totally transformed the mortgage crisis. As the foreclosure wave continues, and as adjustable-rate mortgages hit reset points that are going to cause havoc for millions of additional families, this failure of political leadership by the administration stands as one of the early warning signs that things were amiss.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2231088/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>the best policy</category>
  <author>Eliot Spitzer</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:29:20 EST</pubDate>
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