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            <title><![CDATA[Data Center Proliferation Foretells Rapidly Falling Electricity Prices]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Data centers will eventually drive down electricity prices, perhaps to zero. If not, close to zero.
Which means Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is on to something. And that&#039;s true even...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/07/data_center_proliferation_foretells_rapidly_falling_electricity_prices_1209818.html</link>

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                        <author>John Tamny</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Data Centers]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Meta data centers operate, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026, near Social Circle, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Data Confess: Models, Money and Public Policy]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Ronald Coase once remarked, “If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess.”
Governments increasingly rely on sophisticated statistical models to justify policies. Before accepting a...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/07/when_data_confess_models_money_and_public_policy_1209954.html</link>

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                        <author>Shahid Islam</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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            <title><![CDATA[Paramount-Warner Reveals the Extent of California&#039;s Control]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Twelve state Attorneys General have just settled their lawsuit that tried to block Paramount from acquiring Warner Brothers.  The case was brought under federal antitrust law. The settlement,...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/07/paramount-warner_reveals_the_extent_of_californias_control_1210222.html</link>

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                        <author>Tom Campbell</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Warner Bros What to Know]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[FILE - The Paramount Pictures water tower is seen in Los Angeles, Dec. 18, 2025, with the Hollywood sign in the distance. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Interest Payments Could Eat Half Your Tax Dollars by 2035]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[The US debt load crossed $40 trillion in August 2026. The Treasury publishes the number and updates it every business day. $32.4 trillion of it is borrowed from investors, pension funds, and foreign...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/interest_payments_could_eat_half_your_tax_dollars_by_2035_1209219.html</link>

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                        <author>Jonathan Dever</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Economy US Dollar]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/interest_payments_could_eat_half_your_tax_dollars_by_2035_1209219.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[A portrait of George Washington is displayed on a stack of U.S. one-dollar bills in Dallas, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Congress Isn&#039;t Drunk, and It Hasn&#039;t Yet Begun To Drink]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Congress is acting rationally, and in sober fashion. As the wealth pie grows so does federal tax revenue, along with the ability of Treasury to borrow in growing amounts for a Congress that is still...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/congress_isnt_drunk_and_it_hasnt_yet_begun_to_drink_1209644.html</link>

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                        <author>John Tamny</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[National Debt Record]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/congress_isnt_drunk_and_it_hasnt_yet_begun_to_drink_1209644.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Capitol is seen from the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Capitalism Puts the Individual In the Arena]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[&quot;It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/capitalism_puts_the_individual_in_the_arena_1209964.html</link>

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                        <author>Timothy Nash, Anthony Storer, Thomas Rastin &amp; Bob Thomas</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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            <title><![CDATA[RCM/TIPP Optimism Index at Highest Level Since March]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[
Headline Index Rises to 46.8 as All Three Components Advance; Investors Pull 25.1 Points Ahead of Non-Investors, the Widest Gap Since the Index Began in 2001
Consumer sentiment improved for a second...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/rcmtipp_optimism_index_at_highest_level_since_march_1209822.html</link>

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                        <author>Raghavan Mayur</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Inflation]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/rcmtipp_optimism_index_at_highest_level_since_march_1209822.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Shopping carts at an Amazon Fresh grocery store in Warrington, Pa., Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mamdani&#039;s Hiring of Lina Khan Signals New York Is Closed for Business]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[This week marks another milestone for socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s goal of remaking New York’s economy. By definition, it also means taking America’s largest metropolitan economy...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/mamdanis_hiring_of_lina_khan_signals_new_york_is_closed_for_business_1209977.html</link>

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                        <author>Ronna McDaniel</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Election 2025 New York Mayor]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/mamdanis_hiring_of_lina_khan_signals_new_york_is_closed_for_business_1209977.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, speaks at a campaign rally for New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in New York on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reckless Politicians Stoke Baseless AI Surveillance Pricing Fears]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Never doubt the creativity of state and federal politicians when it comes to rescuing Americans from problems that do not exist or are vastly overblown, while working the public into a tizzy.
A case...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/reckless_politicians_stoke_baseless_ai_surveillance_pricing_fears_1210002.html</link>

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                        <author>Paul Steidler</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Inflation Vs Prices]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/reckless_politicians_stoke_baseless_ai_surveillance_pricing_fears_1210002.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Prices for eggs are seen at a grocery store in Chicago, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bigness Is Not a Crime. Let Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Merge]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[On May 10, 1869, workers drove a golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, and the Union Pacific met the Central Pacific. For the first time, freight could cross the country by rail. More than 150...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/bigness_is_not_a_crime_let_union_pacific_and_norfolk_southern_merge_1210112.html</link>

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                        <author>Tom Giovanetti</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[STB Firing Rail Merger]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[FILE - A maintenance worker walks past the company logo on the side of a locomotive in the Union Pacific Railroad fueling yard in north Denver, Oct. 18, 2006. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[August&#039;s Trade Deficit Tells Two Very Different Stories]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[August’s ugly $105.6 billion trade deficit tells two very different stories. One begins with the Supreme Court’s February decision knocking down President Trump’s broad reciprocal tariffs and...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/augusts_trade_deficit_tells_two_very_different_stories_1210166.html</link>

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                        <author>Peter Navarro</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Tariffs Forced Labor]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/06/augusts_trade_deficit_tells_two_very_different_stories_1210166.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[FILE - Cargo containers line a ship at the Port of Oakland on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Most Favored Nation Price Controls Disfavor Patients]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[President Trump recently boasted that all 50 state Medicaid programs, along with the DC and Puerto Rico programs, are now using Most Favored Drug (MFN) pricing. MFN pricing requires pharmaceutical...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/05/most_favored_nation_price_controls_disfavor_patients_1209577.html</link>

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                        <author>Charles Sauer</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Switzerland Davos]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/05/most_favored_nation_price_controls_disfavor_patients_1209577.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Flags decorate the Congress Center where the Annual Meeting of the World Economy Forum take place in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Fed&#039;s Rate Hike Was a Bad Call, Not Bad Faith]]></title>

            
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                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/05/the_feds_rate_hike_was_a_bad_call_not_bad_faith_1209709.html</link>

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                        <author>Richard Roberts</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Warsh]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/05/the_feds_rate_hike_was_a_bad_call_not_bad_faith_1209709.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Board Chairman Kevin Warsh speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Parents Know Good Schools, and What Makes Them Good]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The next task for education reform isn&#039;t merely helping parents identify good schools but understanding what makes schools good.&quot; That&#039;s Robert Pondiscio of the American Enterprise Institute, in a...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/03/parents_know_good_schools_and_what_makes_them_good_1209579.html</link>

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                        <author>John Tamny</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[The Television Academy&#039;s 75th Creative Arts Emmy Awards - Night 2 - Show]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/03/parents_know_good_schools_and_what_makes_them_good_1209579.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE - Nikole Hannah-Jones from &quot;The 1619 Project&quot; accepts the Emmy for outstanding documentary or nonfiction series during night two of the Television Academy&#039;s 75th Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024 in Los Angeles (Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Need a Serious Discussion About AI Risks]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Whether advanced AI poses an existential threat is a real debate even among the people building it, and it&#039;s a debate the public should understand and participate in. That&#039;s a real role for ordinary...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/02/we_need_a_serious_discussion_about_ai_risks_1209080.html</link>

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                        <author>Steve Adler</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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            <title><![CDATA[Divining the Relationship Between Interest Rates and Oil Prices]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[In a recent Wall Street Journal “Investing” column, Heather Gillers and Sam Goldfarb (GG) report a seeming paradox: Interest rates (on Treasury bonds) are rising sharply “despite a decline in...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/02/divining_the_relationship_between_interest_rates_and_oil_prices_1209146.html</link>

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                        <author>Benjamin Zycher</author>

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            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Off The Charts Oil Prices]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[FILE - A pumpjack of Wintershall DEA extracts crude oil at an old oil field in Emlichheim, Germany, March 18, 2022. Oil prices are creeping higher and raising concerns about the impact on inflation’s cooling trajectory, consumers’ wallets and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Freeing Small Business To Take Risk Management Into Their Own Hands]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[This month, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in three years, pointing to elevated inflation as the reason for this decision. The quarter percent increase moved the target...]]></description>
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                        <author>Pete Dawson</author>

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            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Pastry Painting Free Speech]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[FILE - Bismark donuts are showered with powdered sugar at Leavitt&#039;s Country Bakery, Thursday, April 13, 2023, in Conway, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Don&#039;t Need More Rep. Pelosi&#039;s, We Need More Nancy Pelosi&#039;s]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Without insider trading, the stock markets are blinded. Which means we need more insider trading. 
What&#039;s hard to fathom is why &quot;insider trading&quot; ever became a pejorative in the first place. Exactly...]]></description>
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                        <author>John Tamny</author>

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            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Congress Jan 6]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks at an event marking the installation of a plaque commemorating Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Jobs Report Reveals Federal Reserve Election Interference]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[CNBC and Yahoo Finance called the jobs report a miss. Fox said it was lower than expected. More bad analysis from a Keynesian financial press that has shown extraordinary supply-side ignorance...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/02/the_jobs_report_reveals_federal_reserve_election_interference_1209575.html</link>

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                        <author>Peter Navarro</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Warsh]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Board Chairman Kevin Warsh speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Social Security Is Protection From An Activist Congress]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Social Security’s rising costs restrain the growth of the federal government. Yes, you read that right.
That’s why it would be a major blunder if deficit hawks and self-proclaimed limited...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/01/social_security_is_protection_from_an_activist_congress_1209031.html</link>

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                        <author>John Tamny</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[Social Security Medicare]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[FILE - A Social Security card is displayed on Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The AI Race With China Has Seven Fronts]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[At the White House on Tuesday, President Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and leaders of America&#039;s  major AI companies emerged with a voluntary accord calling for robust internal controls,  independent...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/01/the_ai_race_with_china_has_seven_fronts_1209072.html</link>

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                        <author>Noosheen Hashemi</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[China Anthropic AI]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Visitors walk past a display depicting artificial intelligence and a human hand at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Monday, June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Rapid Evolution of Affordable GLP-1s]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Republicans and Democrats both love to campaign against high prescription drug prices. They just use different words to describe how they’ll subvert markets and fix prices at a level their voters...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/01/the_rapid_evolution_of_affordable_glp-1s_1209087.html</link>

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                        <author>David Clement &amp; Araceli Vargas</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[GLP-1 Substance Abuse What to Know]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/01/the_rapid_evolution_of_affordable_glp-1s_1209087.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[FILE - The injectable drug Ozempic in Houston on July 1, 2023. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI Geniuses Are Decidedly Not Policy and Economic Geniuses]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[Geniuses are an odd species. To paraphrase Montesquieu, the exceptional are often also a bit loony. Cornelius Vanderbilt, a devotee of spiritualism, believed himself to have communicated with the...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/10/01/ai_geniuses_are_decidedly_not_policy_and_economic_geniuses_1209135.html</link>

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                        <author>David McGarry</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/10</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026</fullpubdate>

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            <title><![CDATA[$40T National Debt Alarmists Ignore How Much Bigger We Are]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[I’m pretty sure you recently heard that the national debt has crossed the $40 trillion mark. And now, we’re supposed to panic. Yes. The math says that every person in the U. S. owes the...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/09/30/40t_national_debt_alarmists_ignore_how_much_bigger_we_are_1208637.html</link>

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                        <author>Don Chance</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/09</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026</fullpubdate>

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                    <title><![CDATA[US Trump Tariffs]]></title>
                    <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/09/30/40t_national_debt_alarmists_ignore_how_much_bigger_we_are_1208637.html</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[The National Debt Clock is displayed, Monday, April 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Come Peggy Noonan Never Feared the Play Station 2?]]></title>

            
                        <description><![CDATA[The Play Station 2&#039;s arrival in the U.S. apparently never kept Peggy Noonan up at night. At least not publicly.
Notable about the gaming device is that while it escaped Noonan’s critiques, it...]]></description>
                        <link>https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2026/09/30/how_come_peggy_noonan_never_called_for_the_play_station_2s_pause_1208854.html</link>

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                        <author>John Tamny</author>

            <category>Standard</category>
            <pubdate>2026/09</pubdate>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
            <fullpubdate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026</fullpubdate>

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