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	<title>The Swamp Report &#187; FED</title>
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	<description>Political, Economic, and Finance related commentary. J.D. Swampfox Associates report on battles for prosperity against the &#34;Tarleton&#34; of big government.</description>
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		<title>FED answers to the Banksters&#8230;again</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/fed-answers-to-the-banksters-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/fed-answers-to-the-banksters-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banksters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free taxpayer money for banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Wolfe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FT&#8217;s Martin Wolf says (ht Tech Ticker), &#8230;the Fed is helping the banks recapitalize themselves.  The banks aren&#8217;t lending because they&#8217;re still trying to recover from all the lousy loans they made three years ago (and because there aren&#8217;t all that many folks to lend to).  So there&#8217;s nothing else to do with the money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Mauldin: Fed will do what it takes to keep us from deflation</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/john-mauldin-fed-will-do-what-it-takes-to-keep-us-from-deflation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/john-mauldin-fed-will-do-what-it-takes-to-keep-us-from-deflation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Bonner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Mauldin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naivete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Schiff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=2610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Mauldin is in the &#8220;mild&#8221; inflation camp, while Bill Bonner is in the deflation camp.  Mauldin cites the elements resulting in a tendency toward deflation as rising unemployment, massive wealth destruction, decreased final demand, low capacity utilization, massive deleveraging and a very weak housing market. But, then he bravely argues that our powerful, benevolent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Bid to Sway Commodity Prices Rooted in Feeble Soil</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/chinas-bid-to-sway-commodity-prices-rooted-in-feeble-soil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/chinas-bid-to-sway-commodity-prices-rooted-in-feeble-soil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minute Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodity Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[End the FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil prices]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=2573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the WSJ talks of &#8220;China Nurtur[ing] Futures Markets in Bid to Sway Commodity Prices&#8220;: Chinese leaders are concerned that their nation&#8217;s enormous economic expansion is becoming an excuse for foreign suppliers to inflate commodity costs. So, they hope to use their three futures exchanges to fight back. Government officials say the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FED, banks directly responsible for stock&#8217;s rise</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/fed-banks-directly-responsible-for-stocks-rise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/fed-banks-directly-responsible-for-stocks-rise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[excess reserves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market maipulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantitative easing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=2438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zero Hedge points out the strong correlation between Federal Reserve bank reserve creation and the rise in the stock market. Their chart is just the latest in a long series of evidence: The relation is just too strong to lead to any other conclusion&#8230;the Federal Reserve (with the cooperation of its owners) has orchestrated the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the FED appeal?</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/will-the-fed-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/will-the-fed-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public right to know]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=2331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FED has lost (so far) in the Bloomberg suit to force it to reveal details about firms who received FED support during the financial crisis.  Will the FED appeal? We doubt it.  Too much negative publicity and little chance of winning.  However, will they stall until after Helicopter Ben is reappointed? -it&#8217;s likely&#8230; Bloomberg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed Audit Supported By 75% Of Americans</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/fed-audit-supported-by-75-of-americans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/fed-audit-supported-by-75-of-americans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minute Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit the FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit the Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defrauding the American taxpayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=2148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Rassmussen Reports, 75% of Americans support auditing the Federal Reserve. In contrast, only 9% of adults surveyed were against the idea of a FED audit. In the face of all this support, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is continuing to push back against the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, that would give the Comptroller General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power to create money rests with Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/the-power-to-create-money-rests-with-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/the-power-to-create-money-rests-with-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creation of money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fereal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wright Patman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=2112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The power to  create money rests with Congress.  But Congress farmed out (abdicated) its responsibility to a third party &#8211; private banks &#8211; in return for kick-backs in the form of campaign contributions.  Washington&#8217;s blog has some good thoughts on this. For example: And in 1933, Congressman Wright Patman asked Congress the following rhetorical question: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hank Paulson&#8217;s Prepared Testimony on the Fed&#8217;s Assistance to Bank of America</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/hank-paulsons-prepared-testimony-for-jun-16th-hearings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/hank-paulsons-prepared-testimony-for-jun-16th-hearings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minute Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BofA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hank Paulson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Paulson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a copy of Hank Paulson&#8217;s prepared testimony for tomorrow&#8217;s (June 16th) hearings which will cover the assistance that FED&#8217;s provided to Bank of America (thanks Zero Hedge):]]></description>
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		<title>Goldman Sachs Should Stop Pretending to be a Commercial Bank</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/goldman-should-stop-pretending-to-be-a-commercial-bank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/goldman-should-stop-pretending-to-be-a-commercial-bank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minute Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commercial Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs earnings]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1961</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs had one of its biggest quarters ever by reaping the benefits of the Fed&#8217;s currently cheap discount window while still operating with hedge fund levels of risk. That doesn&#8217;t even take into consideration the profits they gained from the AIG bailout. From Rolfe Winkler&#8217;s blog: In addition to the federal money it took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DeMint on why we need to Audit the Federal Reserve</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/demint-on-why-we-need-to-audit-the-federal-reserve/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/demint-on-why-we-need-to-audit-the-federal-reserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minute Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit the FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit the Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DeMint]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim DeMint]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) was on Fox News yesterday urging Democrat leaders in Congress to stop blocking a vote on legislation to audit the Federal Reserve, authored by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) in the House, H.R. 1207, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Senate, S. 604.]]></description>
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		<title>DeMint Amendment to Audit the Federal Reserve blocked by Senate &#8220;Leadership&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/senate-amendment-to-audit-the-federal-reserve-blocked-by-senate-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/senate-amendment-to-audit-the-federal-reserve-blocked-by-senate-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Minute Man</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit federal reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audit the FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim DeMint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1838</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is blocked by Senate Democrat Leadership from having a vote on his amendment to audit the Federal Reserve by Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska who raised a &#8220;point of order&#8221; to prevent the vote. After being blocked, DeMint directly challenges Senate leadership by pointing out the other GAO audits contained in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failed FED policy&#8230;a joke</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/failed-fed-policya-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/failed-fed-policya-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantitative easing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasuries]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports: Federal Reserve purchases of U.S. Treasuries have not produced a lasting drop in long-term yields, according to a study by the St Louis Federal Reserve&#8230; The Fed shocked markets on March 18 with a $300 billion purchase program of longer dated U.S. Treasury bonds, which quickly reduced longer bond yields by about 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hussman: Catch 22 still rules</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/hussman-catch-22-still-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/hussman-catch-22-still-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hayek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasuries]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Hussman makes two excellent points&#8230;whether you are a bull or a bear, you have to accept the cold facts and see the forest as well as the trees: 1. &#8220;So where does the money come from to buy [all] these new Treasury securities? Clearly, the sale of those securities must absorb the savings of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuomo&#8217;s Letter to Congress is a Call to Arms</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/cuomos-letter-to-congress-is-a-call-to-arms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/cuomos-letter-to-congress-is-a-call-to-arms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuomo's letter to Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politicalposts.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post:    Angie &#8211; PoliticalPosts.com No more funny stuff. The Fed is not running this country. A group of bankers with inherent conflicts of interest cannot be allowed to flagrantly attempt to manipulate our “animal spirits” to our own personal detriment. This is a freight train coming and ladies and gentlemen … we – you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bear Stearns FED losses up to $9B now</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/bear-stearns-fed-losses-up-9b-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/bear-stearns-fed-losses-up-9b-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bear Stearns bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg elaborates on the FED&#8217;s losses from the Bear Stearns bailout: In its biggest disclosure of the securities accepted to stabilize capital markets, the Fed said yesterday it had unrealized losses of $9.6 billion on the assets as of Dec. 31. The bonds, swaps and notes were taken in from Bear Stearns, once the fifth-biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial production: &#8220;serious cliff diving&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/industrial-production-serious-cliff-diving/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/industrial-production-serious-cliff-diving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capacity utilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial production]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Calculated Risk&#8217;s post on the new industrial production and capacity utilization numbers released by the FED calls it &#8220;serious cliff diving&#8221;.  Industrial production is down 13% since the recession began and capacity utilization is 69.3%, as low as it has ever been.]]></description>
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		<title>The S&amp;P in Eurodollars</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/the-sp-in-eurodollars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/the-sp-in-eurodollars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This chart of the S&#38;P 500 in Eurodollars is from TPC: The FED&#8217;s printing really is dollar destruction&#8230;and helps to destroy the most recent little rally too&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>FT&#8217;s John Authers: &#8220;Fed may know something&#8230;that others do not.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/fts-john-authers-fed-may-know-something-about-the-banking-system-that-others-do-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Financial Times: &#8220;The stunning news that [the FED] would buy $300bn (â‚¬222bn) in Treasury bonds (and spend a lot more on many other fixed-interest securities) also used another classic military strategy. It had the element of surprise&#8230;So why did the Fed do it? The theories are out there. With the AIG bonuses moving public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke: &#8220;until we get [Banks] stabilized&#8230;we&#8217;re not going to see recovery.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/bernanke-until-we-get-banks-stabilized-and-working-normally-were-not-going-to-see-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chairman Bernanke in his 60 Minutes interview suggested that the biggest potential dangers facing the economy now was the potential for a lack of &#8220;political will&#8221; to solve the financial crisis.Â  We wonder if that&#8217;s political will for making bank bondholders take a haircut&#8230; He did say that the United States has averted the risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jamie Dimon is tired&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/jamie-dimon-is-tired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the video of his speech to the US Chamber of Commerce today Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan said JPM didn&#8217;t need TARP money and didn&#8217;t ask for it. He also said he is tired of the vilification of Corporate America.Â  Hmmm, is he really still part of Corporate America?Â  After all, his &#8220;firm&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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