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		<title>Selling yen instead of products</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/103682/selling-yen-instead-of-products/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Japan Economy News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2007, some folks in the US were claiming that Japan was keeping its currency weak by pursuing a low interest rate policy. Such accusations were of course out of tune with economic science, but the mainstream media published them unquestioningly nonetheless. In May 2010 we reported that the ruling DJP was calling for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nikkei reports on a bizarre poll</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/99419/the-nikkei-reports-on-a-bizarre-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/99419/the-nikkei-reports-on-a-bizarre-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no real way to describe this other than quoting the Nikkei: 60% Favor No Lunch Break At TSE: Poll About 60% of Japan’s retail investors support scrapping the noon recess for trading shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a poll taken by kabu.com Securities Co. (8703) shows. The survey of the online brokerage’s customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nikkei: Western firms buying overpriced property in Japan</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/83247/nikkei-western-firms-buying-overpriced-property-in-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/83247/nikkei-western-firms-buying-overpriced-property-in-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Japan Economy News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the Nikkei published an article asserting that Western firms “are returning to the Japanese real estate market, taking proactive steps in the hope of big gains once the market improves.” This, of course, means that they are paying too much for real estate investments that will turn sour. The Nikkei article has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan slips in global competitiveness rankings</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/64788/japan-slips-in-global-competitiveness-rankings/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/64788/japan-slips-in-global-competitiveness-rankings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in 17 years, the United States in no longer the most competitive economy in the world, according to IMD’s annual competitiveness survey. The US dropped to third place, as Singapore and Hong Kong surged ahead in the rankings. (more…)]]></description>
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		<title>The DPJ really doesn’t get it or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the market</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/58924/the-dpj-really-doesn%e2%80%99t-get-it-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-market/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/58924/the-dpj-really-doesn%e2%80%99t-get-it-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 15:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slew of contradictory economic data is pouring out of Japan this week: McDonald’s saw net profit fall 80% in the first quarter while Uniqlo sales fell 12.4% in April. However, the Japan Center for Economic Research says that GDP increased 1.4% in March against February, for the second straight monthly rise. Miki Shoji reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parisian Women and Behavioral Economics</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/52862/parisian-women-and-behavioral-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/52862/parisian-women-and-behavioral-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychology is also at work when you look at the women of Paris. The principle at work here is the assumption of style and the amplification of grace. Because you are in Paris, you assume that women are fashion-aware, which colors all your judgments about dress, hairstyle, and other factors of appearance. Because you suppose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texting Costs More than Sending a Message via Paper Mail</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/27264/texting-costs-more-than-sending-a-message-via-paper-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/27264/texting-costs-more-than-sending-a-message-via-paper-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about the disgusting markup on text messages before, but here&#8217;s an even better illustration: Google says 250 is considered the standard words per page measurement, and a sheet of paper weighs about 4.5 grams. The U.S. postal service allows your letters to weigh up to 1 ounce before charging you more, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stimulus Scam &#8211; Antony P. Mueller &#8211; Mises Institute</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/22308/the-stimulus-scam-antony-p-mueller-mises-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/22308/the-stimulus-scam-antony-p-mueller-mises-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent improvement of the global economy, with particularly high economic-growth numbers for the United States, is just one more deception in a long series of deceptions that have plagued policy makers and investors. While official statistics register a rising gross domestic product, the long-term production potential of many economies around the world is actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same Shit, Different Day!</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/21914/same-shit-different-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.&#8221; ~ Cicero &#8211; 55 BC]]></description>
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		<title>No easy solutions for U.S., Japan to revive economies &#124; The Japan Times Online</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/21506/no-easy-solutions-for-u-s-japan-to-revive-economies-the-japan-times-online/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/21506/no-easy-solutions-for-u-s-japan-to-revive-economies-the-japan-times-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as Japan and the United States need deficit-funded stimulus now to stay on the recovery path, sustained large budget deficits will be a long-term problem that undermines their future growth prospects and must be addressed. But how? Tax hikes might be one inevitable solution, given that the two countries are near the bottom of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scandinavian-Welfare Myth Revisited &#8211; Markus Bergstrom &#8211; Mises Institute</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/21348/the-scandinavian-welfare-myth-revisited-markus-bergstrom-mises-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/21348/the-scandinavian-welfare-myth-revisited-markus-bergstrom-mises-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama seems hell-bent on expanding the US welfare state at any cost, and of course no welfare-state debate is complete without bringing up the Scandinavian countries as the perfect example of massive statism bringing prosperity. This seems to be a real conundrum, even for Austrians and other libertarians. Being a citizen of Sweden myself, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan’s GDP down 0.3% in January</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/20907/japan%e2%80%99s-gdp-down-0-3-in-january/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/20907/japan%e2%80%99s-gdp-down-0-3-in-january/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a report released Wednesday by the Japan Center for Economic Research, Japan’s GDP fell by 0.3% in January compared to the previous month, showing a decline for the first time in two months. January’s figures contrast the 0.3% increase seen in December. (more…)]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Sign</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/20793/a-great-sign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click on the image to enlarge Nuff Said]]></description>
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		<title>Her First Job!</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/20510/her-first-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little 5-year-old girl and some construction workers that will make you believe that we all can make a difference when we give a child the gift of our time. A young family moved into a house, next to a vacant lot. One day, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke delivers blunt warning on U.S. debt &#8211; Washington Times</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/18950/bernanke-delivers-blunt-warning-on-u-s-debt-washington-times/</link>
		<comments>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/18950/bernanke-delivers-blunt-warning-on-u-s-debt-washington-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With uncharacteristic bluntness, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece, and declared that the central bank will not help legislators by printing money to pay for the ballooning federal debt. Recent events in Europe, where Greece and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edo-era Japan is good example of how to live green › Japan Today</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/18603/edo-era-japan-is-good-example-of-how-to-live-green-%e2%80%ba-japan-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lifestyle of people in Japan around 200 years ago, which was guided by the principle of consuming less, would help to create a sustainable society in the 21st century, an American expert on Japanese architecture says. Just before Japan opened itself up to the West for modernization and industrialization, there was an ideal recycling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Sowell : Economic Whodunit &#8211; Townhall.com</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/18325/thomas-sowell-economic-whodunit-townhall-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During bad times, the blame game is the biggest game in Washington. Wall Street &#8220;greed&#8221; or &#8220;predatory&#8221; lenders seem to be favorite targets to blame for our current economic woes. When government policy is mentioned at all in handing out blame, it is usually blamed for not imposing enough regulation on the private sector. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph C. Phillips : I’ve Got Your Deficit Commission Right Here! &#8211; Townhall.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as a bloodbath looms in the November distance, the Obama administration continues to push healthcare because they know that Americans love their entitlements like winos love wine. They are betting the farm that once that fiery warmth begins running through the National body we will not only love national health care, but will fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of ‘Comprehensive’ Anything / Victor Davis Hanson: JWR Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before envisioning dramatic change, the Roman emperor Augustus is said to have warned, &#34;Make haste slowly.&#34; The reformer Augustus was eager for radical social transformation. But he also knew he had to deal with generations of Roman tradition and habit — and thousands of entrenched special interests.  (Click on the post title to read more)]]></description>
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		<title>There Is No Keynesian Miracle / Paul Johnson: JWR Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During 2009 there was a lot of smug talk among academic and political liberals of Keynesianism enjoying a triumphant revival. But in the real world of jobs, wages and production—as opposed to the imaginary one of the chattering classes—the evidence shows that John Keynes&#8217; notion of being able to spend your way out of recession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get the country to solvency on entitlements / George Will</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president: Paul Ryan. The former congressman from Wisconsin will have come to office with ideas for steering the federal government to solvency. (Click on the post title above to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dick Morris and Eileen McGann : Like Toyota, Obama&#8217;s Accelerator Pedal Is Stuck &#8211; Townhall.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As he professes to want to reduce the dangerous budget deficit, Obama brings to mind the hapless engineers at Toyota who find that their vehicles accelerate whether or not the driver wants them to. It appears that no matter how hard Obama jams on the brakes with his new-found commitment to deficit reduction &#8212; having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one is a little different&#8230; &#8230; Two Different Versions&#8230;. &#8230;Two Different Morals &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; OLD VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.. Come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60 Years &#8211; An Economic Song Parody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;Fear the Boom and Bust&#8221; a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Japanese Migration: Kyushu is a Syphon for Fukuoka is a Syphon for Tokyo is a Syphon for Overseas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a revealing trend in the Japanese working population. More and more of them are looking at job opportunities overseas. This is especially true for the young (25~29 years old) (総務省「人口推計」). There are plenty of reasons of course, the economic malaise, increasing proportion of the aging population, impending collapse of the lifetime employment system, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donald Lambro : Obamanomics: &#8220;A Fiscal Catastrophe in the Making&#8221; &#8211; Townhall.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If President Obama thinks the political disaster that hit his party last month in Massachusetts was bad, he had better brace himself for the Congressional Budget Office&#8217;s latest economic forecasts for the next two years. In testimony before the House Budget Committee last week, which got scant news media attention, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf painted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HowStuffWorks by Marshall Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we stand here at the beginning of a new decade, have you thought about everything that died in the last one? As new technologies rise up, they often kill off older technologies. Let&#8217;s review some of the death and destruction that has occurred over the last 10 years. (Click on the post title to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networks Fail to Criticize Obama Despite Most Jobs Lost in a Year Since 1940</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporters omit failure of stimulus, problems counting jobs created or saved from many jobs stories. The national unemployment rate rests at 10 percent after 85,000 more jobs were lost in December, while the number of people too discouraged to look for work increased by 642,000. CNBC’s Steve Liesman called those figures “absolutely devastating.” Yet the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Warns Regulation May Crimp Recovery &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global business leaders warned Western governments Wednesday that a populist crackdown on the financial industry could crimp a fragile recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s. The worried response to U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s plans to curb big banks and a British assault on bankers&#8217; pay came as 2,500 business leaders and policy makers [...]]]></description>
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