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        <title><![CDATA[Karen Petrou - Deceased]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Karen Petrou is the managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics Inc., a financial services consulting firm. She is the author of "Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Financial Sanctions Call for a New Bretton Woods Framework]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The next iteration of the global financial order would benefit from a base of core democratic values.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2022 10:00:06 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>US President Joe Biden delivers a speech about the Russian war in Ukraine at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland on March 26, 2022. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Make the 'S' in ESG More Relevant]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[New financial instruments backed, at least at first, by a federal guarantee can spur promising medical research and other social-welfare goals.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>HOUSTON, TEXAS - AUGUST 13: Laboratory Technician Julio Vasquez isolates COVID-19 samples at the Genview Diagnosis lab on August 13, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Across the Houston metropolitan area, testing has significantly increased as the Delta variant overwhelms hospitals, and schools and business&apos;s continue to reopen. Houston has seen an upward increase of Delta infections, and research is showing the Delta variant to be 60% more contagious than its predecessor the Alpha variant, also known as COVID-19. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Fed Has a Chance to Boost Equality With Digital Currency]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The central bank must focus not only how it would impact the transmission of monetary policy, but also on ensuring that it improves economic opportunity. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:00:29 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 16: George Washington appears on the front of a US one dollar bill displayed for a photograph in New York on February 16, 2005. (Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)</media:description>
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