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        <title><![CDATA[Carolyn Silverman - Data Journalist]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Carolyn Silverman is a data journalist for Bloomberg Opinion. She previously served as a data scientist for the University of Chicago Crime Lab and Education Lab.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Most Prediction Market Traders Are Losing Money While Bots Rack Up Gains]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Data from millions of accounts shows that trading and profits are dominated by a tiny slice of highly active accounts.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Silverman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Polymarket Bets on Iran War Show Limits of Prediction Markets for Wall Street]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/iran-war-bets-on-polymarket-kalshi-are-cautionary-tale-for-wall-street</link>
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            <category><![CDATA[personal-finance]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Silverman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:20:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI Is the Hot Topic in Tech Earnings and a Blind Spot Everywhere Else]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[While discussion of AI dominates tech earnings calls, analysts are showing little interest in how — or whether — the rest of the economy is keeping up.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-wall-street-ai-questions-beyond-tech</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Silverman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:00:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A New Way to Understand America’s Congressional Doom Loop]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A simple 2x2 matrix can explain why the House of Representatives has found it harder and harder to get anything done.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-12-17/why-can-t-congress-agree-demographic-divides-not-redistricting</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronald Brownstein]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:00:08 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Speaker of a House divided.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Year in Review: 2025 in Graphics, Maps, and Visual Stories]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Year in Graphics]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-in-graphics/</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cedric Sam]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:00:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will Trump Do It? It Pays to Bet ‘No’]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Polymarket data shows wagers against Trump taking action would have yielded returns similar to the S&P 500. And gambling that he'll actually follow through was a losing proposition.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-10-20/polymarket-bets-on-trump-inaction-pay-off</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Silverman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:00:12 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A simple rule on Trump would’ve made you money on Polymarket.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[From Gucci to Rolex: The Rise and Fall of Luxury in Music]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Mentions of expensive brands in songs have sunk, underlining the sector’s bust. Can it reassert itself in popular culture once more?]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-08-14/from-gucci-to-rolex-to-prada-the-rise-and-fall-of-luxury-in-music</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrea Felsted]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The US Is Exceptional — When It Comes to Rates]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Fed is expected to maintain its pause as the gap widens with other central banks.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-06-16/the-us-is-exceptional-when-it-comes-to-rates</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[John Authers]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 05:00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during the Federal Reserve IF 75TH Anniversary Conference in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, DC, US, on Monday, June 2, 2025. US President Donald Trump pushed Powell to lower interest rates at their first in-person meeting since the president&apos;s inauguration last week, the White House said.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[NIH Grant Cuts Aren't Saving Money. They're Wasting It.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Trump administration says the canceled funding is about cost efficiency, but data shows that the opposite is happening. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-17/nih-grant-cuts-are-turning-out-to-be-a-waste-of-money</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa Jarvis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:00:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Community Notes Can’t Save Social Media From Itself]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The crowdsourced fact-checking system, which Meta adopted from X, is falling well short of stopping the spread of misinformation.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-03-18/community-notes-on-x-and-meta-can-t-save-social-media-from-itself</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Lee]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>“You are the media.”</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[2024: The Year in Graphics]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Year in Graphics]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-in-graphics/</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cedric Sam]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 05:00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Central Banks Started a Rates Descent They Can’t Finish]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Fed’s cold feet on cuts shows that the world is down from a peak, but the changing terrain is no less dangerous.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2024-12-19/fed-cuts-2025-central-banks-began-a-descent-they-can-t-finish</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[John Authers]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:11:20 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Coming down the mountain of high rates gets mesa-d up.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ChatGPT’s $8 Trillion Birthday Gift to Big Tech]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Two years in, generative AI’s value to the world is still unclear. But these charts show that it’s been a bonanza for the largest tech firms.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-29/chatgpt-turns-2-and-gives-8-trillion-birthday-gift-to-big-tech</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Parmy Olson]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:00:06 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The ChatGPT virtual assistant app on a smartphone in Riga, Latvia, on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. The public release of advanced generative AI tools such as Google&apos;s Gemini, Meta AI, and OpenAI&apos;s ChatGPT over the past two years has heightened fears that millions of workers could be displaced.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[This Is Why You Don’t Recognize Your State Government]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A trove of legislative and electoral data reveals that when one party secures control, voters get ignored.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-one-party-control-data-dominates-state-politics-disenfranchises-voters/</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Carolyn Silverman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:00:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fed’s Rates Descent Can Start With a Step or Jump]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The odds are 50-50 on a jumbo 50 basis points, but either way Powell won’t be alone at the peak any longer.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-09-16/rate-cuts-fed-s-descent-can-start-with-a-step-or-jump</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[John Authers]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:41:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Will the Fed Finally Start Down the Mountain?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The US looks lonelier than ever at peak rates. The FOMC’s options seem to be a first cut, or a step toward it. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-30/fed-rates-options-look-like-a-first-cut-or-step-toward-it</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Abbey]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 04:01:32 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Climber descending Cotopaxi Volcano, Cotopaxi National Park, Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador, South America. (Photo by: Matthew Williams-Ellis/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biden Is Giving Red Districts an Inconvenient Gift: Green Jobs]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The White House’s policies have fueled plans for more than $200 billion in cleantech manufacturing investments — mostly in districts with Republican lawmakers opposed to the agenda. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-biden-ira-sends-green-energy-investment-republican-districts/</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Liam Denning]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:30:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[For the Descent, Follow the Dots]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[While the Fed still plots its course down from high rates, other central banks are starting off on their own. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-11/fed-meeting-forget-rate-cuts-for-now-follow-the-dots</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[John Authers]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:24:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Fed Won’t Climb Down Yet. Others Can’t Wait]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Our series on The Year of Descending Dangerously shows big central banks can’t hang on forever for the US to start cutting rates — but still fear going first.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-01/rate-cuts-fed-won-t-climb-down-yet-but-others-can-t-wait-any-longer</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[John Authers]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 04:04:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Great Rates Descent Will Be Nasty, Brutish and Long]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In a new monthly project, Points of Return will track the world’s perilous journey out of the most far-reaching inflation and interest-rates turmoil in decades.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-opinion-rate-cuts-covid-inflation-central-banks/</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[John Authers]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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