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        <title><![CDATA[Sebastian Edwards - Professor:Intl Economics]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Sebastian Edwards is the Henry Ford II professor of international economics at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of "American Default."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Victory in Gold Battle Saved the New Deal]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Keynes weighs in, the Supreme Court acts and FDR triumphs: Last of four excerpts from “American Default.”]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2018 14:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Gamble: If Gold Won’t Go Up, Push the Dollar Down]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Dean Acheson thought Roosevelt’s plan in 1933 was a “sham.” Part three of “American Default.” ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 14:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Dean Acheson thought FDR’s gold program was “a sham.” He quit.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Franklin Roosevelt Dropped a Bombshell on Gold]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The global reaction in fall 1933 was calm bewilderment. Second of four excerpts from “American Default.” ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 13:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Those fireside chats could be pretty incendiary.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Untold Story of FDR and the Battle Over Gold]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[First of four excerpts from “American Default,” on one of the strangest and most enduring chapters of the Roosevelt era.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2018 13:00:11 GMT</pubDate>
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