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	<title><![CDATA[Greenspan denies blame for crisis, admits 'flaw']]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/house-panel-to-tackle-mel_n_137108.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON &amp;mdash; Badgered by lawmakers, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan denied the nation's economic crisis was his fault on Thursday but conceded the meltdown had revealed a flaw in a lifetime of economic thinking and left him in a "state of shocked disbelief."</p>

<p>Greenspan, who stepped down in 2006, called the banking and housing chaos a "once-in-a-century credit tsunami" that led to a breakdown in how the free market system functions. And he warned that things would get worse before...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-11-23T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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