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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Bailout</title>
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		<title>Obama goes from Spock to Kirk in one speech.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But is it too late? Last night, Barack Obama finally put the hurt on the Republicans. Listening to Senator John Kyl&#8217;s floundering and blustering at the State of the Union address shows that it clearly hit home. Obama did what he had to do. He diverted blame for the economic shit sandwich firmly to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIG. Was the Bailout From Hell a Mistake?</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/19/aig-was-the-bailout-from-hell-a-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word du jour right now is &#8220;rathole&#8221;, a rather ugly expletive that equates to plughole, drain, succubus, and other such unpleasantries. It may however be too polite a phrase for what is going on right now with the bailout of AIG, the government&#8217;s new pet project that looks like it&#8217;s going to hand the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The AIG Gravy Train &#8211; It Just Keeps Getting Worse</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/02/the-aig-gravy-train-it-just-keeps-getting-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/02/the-aig-gravy-train-it-just-keeps-getting-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Nocera of the New York Times wrote a great post today which adds more grist to the mill on the price discovery issue relating to AIG&#8217;s credit default swaps (CDSs). Not only does the government end up propping up the most destructive derivative behavior around, but it does so while allowing AIG to maintain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Reich and Howard Dean. Where are They?</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/17/robert-reich-and-howard-dean-where-are-they/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/17/robert-reich-and-howard-dean-where-are-they/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many left-leaning Democrats are asking the same question. Reich would have been a superb choice at Treasury and Dean an obvious choice at HHS. Both are tough, forward-thinking progressive politicians with total command of the briefs in question.  Many people inside and outside the Beltway are surprised that neither man was even in the running. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Definition of Normal by George W. Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/13/the-definition-of-normal-by-george-w-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s more than a tad ironic that one of the last and most important acts of the outgoing Bush administration will be to attempt an end-run around Republicans in Congress and allow a bridge loan to the US automakers from the the $700 billion set aside all those months ago for the purchase of &#8220;toxic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Bailouts Are Big Gifts. Some Bailouts Are Bad Loans.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/08/some-bailouts-are-big-gifts-some-bailouts-are-bad-loans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/08/some-bailouts-are-big-gifts-some-bailouts-are-bad-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s the rise of the Internet that did it, but there are an awful lot of lemmings in the fourth estate these days. Once the zeitgeist gets hold of a word it&#8217;s everywhere fast. That&#8217;s especially true of catch-all terms that lose their meaning the moment anyone begins to dig even a tiny bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford + GM Have Been Making Small Cars For Years. In Europe.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/03/ford-gm-have-been-making-small-cars-for-years-in-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/03/ford-gm-have-been-making-small-cars-for-years-in-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recognize these? The one on the left is a Ford Ka, the one on the right is GM Vauxhall Corsa. Small, good-looking, low cost, not at all thirsty, and sold in Europe for years. Ford and GM during their latest congressional grovel sessions, said they&#8217;d tool up to produce small cars in the US. Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury Runs Out Of Money To Give Away. Fed Rides In</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/25/treasury-runs-out-of-money-to-give-away-fed-rides-in/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/25/treasury-runs-out-of-money-to-give-away-fed-rides-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is getting silly. Two days ago, Toxic assets were out. Then Treasury bailed out Citigroup&#8217;s&#8230;toxic assets. And now the Fed (they&#8217;re the ones who actually print all those T-bills) have taken over and pledged $800 billion to bail out all toxic securities built on consumer credit card debt. In one fell swoop that&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fix is In &#8211; The Long and the Short Of Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/24/the-fix-is-in-the-long-and-the-short-of-wall-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/24/the-fix-is-in-the-long-and-the-short-of-wall-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another bumper day on the Street. The Government bails out another basket case bank. Everything&#8217;s right with the world. Hurrah! Yet again, Wall Street proves it&#8217;s an utterly amoral, self-interested, club that has nothing whatsoever to do with you and me. Massive market volatility, huge gains on the basis of nothing, followed by huge losses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Talk About &#8220;The System&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/24/lets-talk-about-the-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/24/lets-talk-about-the-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the eighties there was an awful lot of talk about the nefarious &#8220;system&#8221;, a deep and dark conspiracy of the powerful to keep down the powerless. Before resentment became a tool of the right, it was a clarion call of the unreconstructed left, a youthful, incoherent, but somehow meaningful rallying cry that drove [...]]]></description>
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