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	<title><![CDATA[A plague on the Wall Street casinos]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-francis/a-plague-on-the-wall-stre_b_126748.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>America's biggest substance abuse problem is money. Like a crack addict in charge of the drug squad, Washington did little to nothing to control the artificial creation of credit. That is because the Wall Street casinos enabled, with their recklessness, the ability for the Republicans to finance massive budget deficits, trade deficits, an unnecessary war in Iraq and unjust tax cuts for rich people.<br />
This weekend, was the addict's first intervention or the decision by the U.S. Treasury Secretary to...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-10-17T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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