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        <title><![CDATA[Megan McArdle - Columnist]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Megan McArdle is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist.
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            <title><![CDATA[You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[What a small, happy country can teach a huge and fractious one. And what it can't.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Megan McArdle]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 07:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>100 girls prepare to jump in the water behind Copenhagen&apos;s landmark &quot;Little Mermaid&quot; at Langelinie in Copenhagen, on August 23, 2013 as the statue celebrates her 100th birthday. Perched in the water just off the star-shaped Kastellet fortress near the city&apos;s harbour, the small bronze skinned sculpture of H.C. Andersen&apos;s melancholic fairytale has become a Danish icon on par with Carlsberg, the brewery whose owner once financed her.  AFP PHOTO / Scanpix Denmark/ NIKOLAI LINARES   DENMARK OUT        (Photo credit should read Nikolai Linares/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Need Everyone at the Immigration Table]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Railing against racists will not solve one of the toughest problems in the nation.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:11:24 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 09:  U.S. President Donald Trump presides over a meeting about immigration with Republican and Democrat members of Congress in the Cabinet Room at the White House January 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. In addition to seeking bipartisan solutions to immigration reform, Trump advocated for the reintroduction of earmarks as a way to break the legislative stalemate in Congress.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How a Tax Cut Handed GM a $5 Billion Loss]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Accounting rules can do strange things to the bottom line.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:30:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A General Motors Co. (GM) 2019 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck sits on display after being unveiled at an event during the 2018 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018. GM kicked off the Detroit auto show by revealing all-new Silverado pickup truck that is the first all-new, completely-redesigned truck the automaker has sold since 2007. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rent Control Needs Retirement, Not a Comeback]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The definition of policy insanity is to repeat the same mistake and hope for a different, better outcome.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>CANADA - APRIL 02:  Sign of the times: It&apos;s a tight market; not greed; that causes housing problems; says Stuart Thom; whose report calls for rent controls to end.   (Photo by Dick Darrell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Think Carefully Before Cutting Off Subsidies to Red States]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There are a few ways liberals could reduce the imbalance. But all of them play to conservatives' wishes.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:00:18 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>ASBURY PARK, NJ - NOVEMBER 07: The new Democratic  governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy celebrates his victory on November 7, 2017 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Murphy was projected an early winner over Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.  (Photo by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can Amazon Transform Health Care? It's Not a Crazy Idea]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Three very large companies might just be able to turn employees into more responsible consumers. But there's a reason no one else ever has.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-30/can-amazon-transform-health-care-it-s-not-a-crazy-idea</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:06:26 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., center, points to an aquarium while touring the Spheres during opening day ceremonies at the company&apos;s campus in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. The Spheres, a new gathering and working space for Amazon employees located in the heart of the downtown Seattle Amazon campus, contains hundreds of plant species from cloud rainforest environments around the globe, and maintains a tropical climate similar to Costa Rica or Indonesia. Photographer: Mike Kane/Bloomberg via Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[After 45 Birthdays, Here Are '12 Rules for Life']]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Don't lose friends over politics. Don't lose a spouse over pickles.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sorry, Blue States: You Can't Fix the Tax Bill]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In the end, federal deductibility changes maybe simply force New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to cut their rates to compete with red states.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-26/sorry-blue-states-you-can-t-fix-the-tax-bill</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:46:48 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 16:  The Manhattan skyline stands in lower Manhattan on January 16, 2018 in New York City. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has written a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke urging the federal government to exempt New York State, like it has Florida, from the Trump administration&apos;s plan to expand offshore oil and gas drilling. In the letter the governor said that drilling would &quot;pose an unacceptable threat&quot; to New York&apos;s ocean resources and economy.  (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ode to a Washing Machine]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Trump's tariffs on solar panels are bad for the U.S. economy and the environment. Let us not forget: So are his tariffs on the hero of the laundry room.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Front loading washing machines are displayed in the front lobby of the Whirlpool Corp. manufacturing facility in Clyde, Ohio, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to release business inventories figures on December 11. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Democrats Won't Get Their Way on Immigration]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[They were not elected to run any branch of government. That's hard news to break to the liberal base.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:47:04 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20:  U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference January 20, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The U.S. government is shut down after the Senate failed to pass a resolution to temporarily fund the government through February 16.  (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Get It, Netflix. You're Big. But Don't Be Bad.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[We get it, Netflix. You're big. But you're also running on debt, and bondholders will lose patience with your spending on dreck.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 21:  Royal Corgis at the World Premiere of season 2 of Netflix &quot;The Crown&quot; at Odeon Leicester Square on November 21, 2017 in London, England.  (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Maybe Democrats Learned Their Lesson About Shutdowns]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Let's hope so, because Republicans seem to keep making the same mistake.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:56:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Hospitals Aren't in the Drug Business]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[They want to address shortages and high prices. But existing manufacturers are likely to do so faster and more cheaply.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:23:55 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Containers move along a conveyor on the packaging line for metformin pills at a Laurus Labs Ltd. pharmaceutical plant in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. Among the coconut plantations and beaches of South India, a factory the size of 35 football fields is preparing to churn out billions of generic pills for HIV patients and flood the U.S. market with the low-cost copycat medicines. Photographer: Sara Hylton/Bloomberg via Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the U.S. Ended Up Enthralled by Unions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Even labor-friendly Paris uses fewer workers than New York City, and for a fraction of the cost. American public unions pervert the process.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:47:58 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>NEW YORK - JANUARY 01: Commuters take pictures of the 96th St. Q train station on the newly opened Second Avenue subway line on January 01, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Listen to the 'Bad Feminists']]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[They're the ones who still believe women have power.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:49:21 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An early erotic graphic novel &quot;Lysistrata&quot; from 1876 is displayed at the &quot;Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK&quot; exhbition at the British Library in central London on May 1, 2014. Running from May 2 to August 19, the exhbition is the largest of it&apos;s type in the UK. AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal  == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE EXHIBITION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION  ==        (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Walmart Raised Its Minimum Wage]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Not because of the corporate tax cut, but because the labor market is tight. Which is great news!]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 20:11:31 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An employee moves a TCL Corp. television in shopping cart at a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. location in Burbank, California, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. BlackFriday, the day after Thanksgiving, marks the traditional start to the U.S. holiday shopping season. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley Will Pay the Price for Its Lefty Leanings]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A lawsuit alleges that Google discriminated against conservatives. It won't end well for Google.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:00:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Warning: Trump's Babysitters Are About to Go Home]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[If this is what he's like surrounded by A-list advisers, expect chaos after they quit.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:06:53 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 10:  (L-R) White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attend a news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway in the East Room of the White House January 10, 2018 in Washington, DC. Before the news conference, the two leaders discussed economic security, trade, and their cooperation in the ongoing fight against Islamic State militants.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saving Hollywood From the Chinese Box Office]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>LUOYANG, CHINA - MAY 09: (CHINA OUT) Visitors look a &quot;Bumblebee&quot; transformer robot on first opening day of the China Luoyang International Robot and Intelligent Equipment Exhibition on May 9, 2016 in Luoyang, Henan Province of China. The exhibition which will last three days attracted some 200 robot and intelligent equipment manufacturers from more than 10 countries and regions. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The #MeToo Movement Has Worked]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[That's why the nation has no clear response: The accusers and the accused are our friends and peers.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Megan McArdle]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:36:53 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - SEPTEMBER 22:  (EDITORS NOTE: Image was digitally altered.)  Harvey Weinstein attends the &apos;Lion&apos; premiere and opening ceremony of the 12th Zurich Film Festival at Kino Corso on September 22, 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. The Zurich Film Festival 2016 will take place from September 22 until October 2.  (Photo by Alexander Koerner/Getty Images)</media:description>
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