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		<title><![CDATA[Wells Fargo Thinks It Doesn't Have to Reserve Against Bad Loans]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F174682-wells-fargo-thinks-it-doesn-t-have-to-reserve-against-bad-loans%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  Chris Whalen has a must-read essay at Zero Hedge: In the case of WFC [Wells Fargo], the bank has taken the position that NONE of its conforming residential exposures should be brought on balance sheet despite the FASB rule change. As we discussed in The Institutional...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:43:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's Wrong With the Dodd Proposal to Restructure the Fed]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/maximum-utility/the-dodd-proposal-to-restructure-the-federal-reserve-system-concentrates-power-and-politicizes-district-bank-governance/230/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A proposal from Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd  changes the selection process for key positions within the Federal Reserve  system. Unfortunately, this proposal makes the selection process worse, not  better. If this proposal is passed into law, it would further concentrate power  within the Federal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:49:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Japan's Not Out of the Woods Yet]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F174004-japan-s-not-out-of-the-woods-yet%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  My first reaction at seeing the headlines that the Japanese economy grew more than expected in July-Sept was excitement. After all, the main news coming out of Japan has been gloom and doom recently and see  this. by Washington]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:27:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Special Inspector: AIG Counterparty Volunteered to Take Haircut, Geithner Refused]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  I received an advance copy of the Special Inspector General for Tarp's Report called "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties", which will be released tomorrow posted below. The report reveals that at least one counterparty indicated that it was willing to take a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:34:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Weak Dollar and the Too-Big-to-Fails]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F173283-the-weak-dollar-and-the-too-big-to-fails%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  Former chief IMF economist Simon Johnson points out that the U.S. is intentionally weakening the dollar in order to bail out the too-big-to-fails: To bail out our banks, we need cheap money, and this implies some inflation. To finance our current account deficit, investors need to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:07:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Confirmed: Defense Spending Creates Fewer Jobs than Other Types of Spending]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F173032-confirmed-defense-spending-creates-fewer-jobs-than-other-types-of-spending%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  Yesterday, I pointed out that a study by one of the leading economic modeling companies shows that military spending increases unemployment and decreases economic growth. Indeed, an economic paper published in 2007 by The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst - entitled...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:10:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Military Spending Double Whammy: Increasing Unemployment and Reducing GDP]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F172806-military-spending-double-whammy-increasing-unemployment-and-reducing-gdp%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  I have written extensively on the fact that unemployment will continue rising in America for some time, which will make a real, sustainable recovery very difficult. The heads of two Federal Reserve banks are now saying the same thing: by Washington]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:07:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Senator Dodd's Financial Reform Bill: Trying to Prop Up a Broken System]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F172744-senator-dodd-s-financial-reform-bill-trying-to-prop-up-a-broken-system%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  I posted an 11-page summary of Senator Dodd's financial reform bill yesterday. After receiving input from one of the top experts on credit rating agencies and various other smart people, I have now formed an opinion about Dodd's bill. by Washington]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:24:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Citigroup Already  Being Broken Up (But Not Enough)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F172042-citigroup-already-being-broken-up-but-not-enough%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  MarketWatch points out that Citigroup C is actually already being broken up: Citigroup Inc.... is already being broken up under part-ownership by the government, [Richard] Bove and other analysts say... by Washington]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:44:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TARP Watch: $4.3 Trillion of Taxpayer Money Guaranteed Assets During Height of Crisis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F172041-tarp-watch-4-3-trillion-of-taxpayer-money-guaranteed-assets-during-height-of-crisis%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  I have repeatedly pointed out that the government's rescue of the too big to fails didn't just include $700 billion or so in TARP, but also massive guarantees. Elizabeth Warren and the TARP oversight panel now say taxpayer money guaranteed assets worth $4.3 trillion at the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:36:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[America's Overheated Printing Presses and Huge Debts Helping Drive Gold Higher]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F171770-america-s-overheated-printing-presses-and-huge-debts-helping-drive-gold-higher%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  Josh Lipton points out:   The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research AEI published a paper indicating that &#8220;by all relevant debt indicators, the US fiscal scenario will soon approximate the economic scenario for countries on the verge of a sovereign debt default.&#8221; by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:25:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Credit: Too Important to Be Left to Private Banks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F171107-credit-too-important-to-be-left-to-private-banks%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  Many people - including former analyst for the U.S. Treasury Richard Cook - argue that credit is too important a function to be left to the private banks.  Indeed, even after taxpayers have given trillions in bailouts, backstops, guarantees, and other gifts, the giant banks...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:54:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stimulus Report Accurate?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A White House report on jobs created by the stimulus program is coming under fire after an earlier report card showed multiple errors. Chip Reid reports.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:02:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Money Supply Hard to Stabilize Under Current Economic Circumstances]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  Former officials are often more honest than current ones, since they aren't under pressure to spread happy talk.   Former European Central Bank chief economist Otmar Issing recently said what current officials aren't addressing: by Washington]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:57:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank Charge Off Rate Now Worse than During the Depression]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  In May, analyst Mike Mayo predicted that the bank loan loss rate would be higher than during the Great Depression. In a new report, Moody's has just confirmed (as by Washington]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Should We Be Reassured by the New Round of Stress Tests?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F168680-should-we-be-reassured-by-the-new-round-of-stress-tests%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  AFP reports:   The Federal Reserve will expand its so-called stress tests of the banking system to ensure they have enough capital during difficult periods, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday. by Washington]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:31:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Barney Frank's Bad Housing Loans]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F167151-barney-frank-s-bad-housing-loans%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  On October 8, the New York Times wrote a story on the Federal Housing Administration (F.H.A.) stating: Many of the loans the F.H.A. insured in 2007 and last year are now turning delinquent, agency officials acknowledge. The loans made in those two years are performing &#8220;far...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:33:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gold's Performance Against Currencies Other than the Dollar]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  As I have previously pointed out, gold has done very well against the dollar, but not so well against other currencies. Rhona O'Connell provides the following charts click to enlarge to help visualize gold's recent performance in terms of  various currencies charts courtesy of MineWeb:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:26:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dollar Dumping Accelerates]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F167146-dollar-dumping-accelerates%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  After the Independent reported that Middle Eastern oil producers, plus China, Japan and France have all agreed to start trading oil using a basket of currencies - instead of the dollar - starting in 9 years, spokesmen for those governments denied it. The Independent's reporter explained...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:22:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Despite Global Downturn, China's Market Share Continues to Grow]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F166417-despite-global-downturn-china-s-market-share-continues-to-grow%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington's Blog submits:  I have repeatedly argued that  China is in the middle of a bubble of easy credit - which will eventually crash.  See this, this and this.And China had huge residential and commercial real estate  bubbles, just like most of the rest of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:01:24 -0700</pubDate>
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