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            <title><![CDATA[Retiree Annuities May Be Promoted by Obama Aides]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Washington Swings at Reform]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Lurks on the Books of Banks]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Treasury's Mortgage Modification: Empty Threats?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[These Men Could Kill SarbOx]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street Plays Hardball]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Senator Dodd Unveils Bank-Reform Bill]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Credit Creaks into Gear]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Public Option Shows Signs of Life]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The SEC's Tough New Offensive on Insider Trading]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Home-Foreclosure Rescue Is Falling Short, Critics Say]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:01:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Washington Revives the Mortgage Cramdown]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The FDIC's Gift to Banks]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[World Leaders Commit to Rein in Financial Bonuses]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why So Hard to Make Banks Boost Capital?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[G-20: Don't Expect the Earth to Move]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:18:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Real Is the Rally in Real Estate Bonds?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lehman's Fall: The What-Ifs Linger]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[What would the past year have been like if the government had bailed out Lehman Brothers? There's no easy answer]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[No Big Fix for Global Finance]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:36:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Private Equity Waits Out the Feds]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[More problem banks and less FDIC money mean tough takeover rules could eventually be loosened]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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