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			<title><![CDATA[Maryland's McDaniel College closing the 'opportunity gap']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-12 06:35:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Here's what Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said three years ago as the nation's gap between rich and poor widened toward historic levels: "I think it's a very bad development. It's creating two societies. And it's based very much, I think, on...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Maryland economy will continue to feel government spending cuts]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-15 16:49:18</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Maryland for years benefited from its close proximity to the nation's capital, but the mandatory federal spending cuts called sequestration will be a drag on the state's economy for the next couple of years, said the president of the Federal Reserve...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Baltimore-area home sales rise 15% in April]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-10 14:49:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Baltimore-area home sales rose 15 percent in April compared with a year earlier, and newly pending deals soared as buyers kicked the spring housing market into higher gear, according to data released Friday.

Prices remained largely unchanged at $238,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson's blooper]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, "effete" homosexual, he embraced a doctrine that favored...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bush deserves the criticism he's getting]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-05 06:30:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When I read Stanley J. Glinka's recent letter defending the presidency of George W. Bush I wanted to laugh, but it was 6 a.m. and I did not want to wake up my still sleeping wife ("Stop blaming Bush," May 1). 

Now I know how people like Michele...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Harbor Bankshares out from under regulatory enforcement orders]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-02 13:18:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve Board announced Thursday that it terminated an enforcement action against Baltimore-based Harbor Bankshares Corp. 

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond issued the action in July 2010, reaching an agreement with the holding company...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The economic elephant in the room: widening inequality]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-24 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Four years into a so-called recovery, and we're still below recession levels in every important respect except the stock market. 

A measly 88,000 jobs were created in March, and total employment remains some 3 million below its pre-recession level....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Did we learn anything from the subprime loan crisis?]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/bs-ed-ehrlich-loans-20130421,0,2067138.column?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-04-21 05:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A dangerous confluence of recent business stories have been attention grabbers. First, the Obama administration announced an initiative to ensure more home loans for those with weak credit. Then, a number of prominent economists issued forecasts...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama budget will lead to disaster]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-15 07:30:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In response to your editorial "Put up or shut up" (April 11), I just have one question: What part of economics don't you understand? 

You mention that the president wants to "reduce deficits to a manageable size." Yet in his budget he proposes growing...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[On student loans, Hugo Chavez and Joe Flacco's taxes]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-31 05:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Remember when President Barack Obama stuck a federal takeover of the student loan program into the "Affordable Care Act," AKA "Obamacare"? 

The dirty deed was accompanied by a promise that federal control would save taxpayer money and cut off all the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Maryland adds 10,500 jobs in February]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-29 17:03:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Maryland employers punched the accelerator on job creation in February, adding 10,500 positions and bringing the state much closer to recovering its recessionary losses five years after they began.

The job growth estimates released Friday by the U.S....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[America lags on plain speech]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-28 09:15:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Internet is changing how leaders talk. Leaders from Rome to Beijing and beyond are helping usher in a new era of plain speaking. But American leaders are lagging behind, stuck in old patterns of windy and obfuscatory speech. 

Around the globe, what's...]]></description>
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