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	<title><![CDATA[PPIF and the Geithner 5]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-rosner/ppif-and-the-geithner-5_b_190854.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Timothy F. Geithner, the United States Treasury secretary, recently proposed a public-private partnership to rid the nation's banks of troubled assets, or what the government delicately calls "legacy securities." </p>

<p>The Treasury's proposal is designed to get banks lending again and that is a worthy goal. But important aspects of the program are vague and some of the details that we do have are troubling. Indeed, the plan as written may even lead to greater systemic risk by expanding the "Too...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Business]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-04-23T21:54:00-04:00</date_published>
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