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			<title>How Private Equity Firms are Designed to Earn Big While Risking Little of Their Own</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt&lt;br /&gt;LSE Business Review, January 23, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt)</author>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2017 05:57:44 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>The Trump Cabinet: Strangest Show on Earth</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Dean Baker&lt;br /&gt;Truthout, January 23, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2017 05:32:11 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Trump's Cabinet’s Business Connections Will Leave Workers Disappointed</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;An interview with Dean Baker, by Yongin Yi&lt;br /&gt;The Hankyoreh, January 19, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 06:14:28 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>The Economics of the Affordable Care Act</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Dean Baker&lt;br /&gt;Institute for New Economic Thinking, January 17, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2017 05:00:48 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Republican Part-Time Nation: Going Involuntary </title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Dean Baker&lt;br /&gt;Truthout, January 16, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2017 05:53:18 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Will Trump Be Better for Latin America than Obama?</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Alexander Main&lt;br /&gt;Jacobin, January 13, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>beeton@cepr.net (Alexander Main)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:41:20 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>President Obama Should Make Sure that Haitian Victims of UN-Caused Cholera Are Compensated</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Mark Weisbrot&lt;br /&gt;The Huffington Post, January 12, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>beeton@cepr.net (Mark Weisbrot)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 04:45:43 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Is Globalization to Blame?</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Dean Baker&lt;br /&gt;The Boston Review, January 9, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:59:45 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Intelligence Agencies Ask Americans to “Trust, Don’t Verify” in New Cold War</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Mark Weisbrot&lt;br /&gt;The Hill, January 9, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Mark Weisbrot)</author>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:20:31 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Donald Trump and His Cabinet of Criminals</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Dean Baker&lt;br /&gt;Truthout, January 9, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
			<category>Op-Eds &amp; Columns</category>
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			<title>What Does Donald Trump Actually Intend to Do About Trade?</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Dean Baker&lt;br /&gt;Truthout, January 2, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
			<category>Op-Eds &amp; Columns</category>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Dean Baker&lt;br /&gt;The Hankyoreh, January 1, 2017&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
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			<title>Stimulative Monetary Policy is Better than Doing Nothing to Boost the Economy</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Dean Baker&lt;br /&gt;The International Economy, 2016&lt;/p&gt;
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
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			<title>Trump’s Policy Toward China is Already a Disaster, Even Before Taking Office</title>
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			<author>sedlar@cepr.net (Dean Baker)</author>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;Dean Baker&lt;br /&gt;Truthout, December 19, 2016&lt;/p&gt;
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			<title>Uber and Lyft Are Threatening to Expose Poor and Elderly to Predatory Practices</title>
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