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	<title>Heleen Mees &#187; Financial Reform</title>
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		<title>Ex-CEO Comes to Goldman Sachs&#8217; Rescue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heleen Mees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great piece by New York Times reporter Gretchen Morgenson. It shows that then Treasury secretary and former Goldman Sachs  CEO, Henry Paulson, contacted his successor at Goldman Sachs, Lloyd C. Blankfein, over a dozen times in the week that A.I.G. was rescued. Thirteen billion of the $ 85 bln aid for A.I.G. went straight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willem Buiter for President of the U.S. Federal Reserve</title>
		<link>http://blog.heleenmees.com/archives/166</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heleen Mees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry but this is an extremely funny and right on target blogpost by Willem Buiter:
Should Fed chairmen go around kissing babies?
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		<title>Financial Wizards of Oz</title>
		<link>http://blog.heleenmees.com/archives/91</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heleen Mees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Times reports today that investment banks, including Goldman Sachs  and Barclays Capital, are inventing new schemes to reduce the capital cost of risky assets. Financial innovation, which brought about the current economic crisis, is far from dead.
Instead of shifting risk to the economic agents and institutions most willing and able to bear risk, financial shifted risk [...]]]></description>
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