<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - austerity</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/austerity</link><description>Newsvine - austerity</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 05:37:08 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>As Japan Courts Growth, Europe Keeps Up Its Love Affair With Austerity</title>
<description><![CDATA[For years, Japan and Europe have been the sick men of the world economy. This week, their paths diverged.
Even as Europe fell deeper into what just became its longest recession since World War II, Japan posted anunexpectedly robust growth rate of 3.5 percent&nbsp;under the bold &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperSaiyan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[SuperSaiyan]]></source><link>http://supersaiyan.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/17/18323331-as-japan-courts-growth-europe-keeps-up-its-love-affair-with-austerity</link><guid>http://supersaiyan.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/17/18323331-as-japan-courts-growth-europe-keeps-up-its-love-affair-with-austerity</guid><category>japan</category><category>europe</category><category>world-news</category><category>austerity</category><category>does-not-work</category><category>japan-showing-why-austerity</category><category>europe-not-learning-from-japan-that-austerity-does-not-work</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:54:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=SuperSaiyan5EE7ED8B-D5FF-2FB3-395A-0F103780F247.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="555" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=SuperSaiyan5EE7ED8B-D5FF-2FB3-395A-0F103780F247.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="167" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Austerity: Is the tide turning against it?</title>
<description><![CDATA["Protests, assassination attempts, erroneous predictions and stinging criticisms...is the tide turning against austerity?" Scroll down for video.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carloz]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Carloz]]></source><link>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/15/18280583-austerity-is-the-tide-turning-against-it</link><guid>http://carloz.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/15/18280583-austerity-is-the-tide-turning-against-it</guid><category>eu</category><category>economy</category><category>europe</category><category>video</category><category>european-union</category><category>world-news</category><category>recession</category><category>austerity</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:53:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content medium="video" url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AxDGwAZCac" ><media:thumbnail url="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/5AxDGwAZCac/default.jpg" /><media:description type="plain">May 15, 2013</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The Facts Are In and Paul Ryan Is Wrong -- Daily Intelligencer</title>
<description><![CDATA[When facts are actually considered, ideologically-driven calls  for austerity and in opposition to Obamacare are simply wrong.

Each and every day, republicans seem to go out of their way to live up to their self-description as "the stupid party".]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[dwillie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[dwillie]]></source><link>http://chiwillie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/13/18234995-the-facts-are-in-and-paul-ryan-is-wrong-daily-intelligencer</link><guid>http://chiwillie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/13/18234995-the-facts-are-in-and-paul-ryan-is-wrong-daily-intelligencer</guid><category>economy</category><category>politics</category><category>ideology</category><category>budget-deficit</category><category>fiscal-policy</category><category>federal-debt</category><category>paul-ryan</category><category>austerity</category><category>obamacare</category><category>affordable-care-act</category><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 22:23:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=chiwillieFE423B4E-EE45-C65A-46D8-4DDA21441339.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="248" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=chiwillieFE423B4E-EE45-C65A-46D8-4DDA21441339.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="75" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Barroso defends Merkel on austerity - The Local</title>
<description><![CDATA[
European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso on Saturday defended German Chancellor Angela Merkel against criticism that she is to blame for harsh austerity measures being implemented across Europe.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh Rosenroth]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Josh Rosenroth]]></source><link>http://josh-rosenroth.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/05/18066691-barroso-defends-merkel-on-austerity-the-local</link><guid>http://josh-rosenroth.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/05/18066691-barroso-defends-merkel-on-austerity-the-local</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>germany</category><category>france</category><category>europe</category><category>merkel</category><category>portugal</category><category>euro</category><category>greece</category><category>cyprus</category><category>barroso</category><category>austerity</category><category>debt-crisis</category><pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 12:50:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sequester Furloughs for IRS Employees Will Decrease Revenues | Crooks and Liars</title>
<description><![CDATA[That's Steny Hoyer letting the House have it during the short debate about whether or not the FAA should receive an exemption from the sequester. You go, Steny. I may not agree with you about everything, but I do agree on this.
Just&nbsp;repeal the damn thing already. It's doing&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brite]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Brite]]></source><link>http://brite.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/02/18020001-sequester-furloughs-for-irs-employees-will-decrease-revenues-crooks-and-liars</link><guid>http://brite.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/02/18020001-sequester-furloughs-for-irs-employees-will-decrease-revenues-crooks-and-liars</guid><category>politics</category><category>irs</category><category>furloughs</category><category>austerity</category><category>sequester</category><pubDate>Thu, 2 May 2013 15:29:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Austerity bad for health - study</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Austerity is having a devastating effect on health in Europe and North America, driving suicide, depression and infectious diseases and reducing access to medicines and care, researchers have said. Detailing a decade of research, Oxford University's David Stuckler and Sanjay Ba&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/29/17971625-austerity-bad-for-health-study</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/29/17971625-austerity-bad-for-health-study</guid><category>europe</category><category>suicide</category><category>health</category><category>greece</category><category>north-america</category><category>stanford-university</category><category>depression</category><category>oxford-university</category><category>infectious-diseases</category><category>drug-abuse</category><category>research-study</category><category>hiv-prevention</category><category>austerity</category><category>great-recession</category><category>bad-for-health</category><category>youth-unemployment-rate</category><category>reducing-access-to-medicines</category><category>david-stuckler</category><category>sanjay-basu</category><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:18:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah4AAAB2C5-49A0-7112-CE7F-715B71B9CE06.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="177" width="314" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah4AAAB2C5-49A0-7112-CE7F-715B71B9CE06.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>UK economy is bouncing along the bottom and could take three years to heal, warns Cabinet minister Ken Clarke </title>
<description><![CDATA[
Cabinet minister Ken Clarke today warned the UK economy was likely to be just 'keeping its head above the water' until after the next general election.
Mr Clarke, whose portfolio includes advising Chancellor George Osborne, said Britain was 'slowly getting out of it' but it co&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/28/17959436-uk-economy-is-bouncing-along-the-bottom-and-could-take-three-years-to-heal-warns-cabinet-minister-ken-clarke</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/28/17959436-uk-economy-is-bouncing-along-the-bottom-and-could-take-three-years-to-heal-warns-cabinet-minister-ken-clarke</guid><category>britain</category><category>world-news</category><category>general-election</category><category>sky-news</category><category>uk-economy</category><category>austerity</category><category>financial-crisis</category><category>chancellor-george-osborne</category><category>triple-dip-recession</category><category>cabinet-minister-ken-clarke</category><category>failed-programmes</category><category>murnaghan</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:02:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah75E87408-C8E9-DE55-06BD-B84F7DBBD4C0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="185" width="308" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah75E87408-C8E9-DE55-06BD-B84F7DBBD4C0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Democrats ask: What debt crisis? - Ben White and Tarini Parti - POLITICO.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[Flawed "political economics" have been shown, repeatedly, to be devastating to this country.&nbsp; Everytime an industry or an organization of elites makes a "power grab"; their greed backfires.&nbsp; &nbsp;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[AmericanMOM-598098]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[AmericanMOM-598098]]></source><link>http://tribalgirl64.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/28/17959093-democrats-ask-what-debt-crisis-ben-white-and-tarini-parti-politicocom</link><guid>http://tribalgirl64.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/28/17959093-democrats-ask-what-debt-crisis-ben-white-and-tarini-parti-politicocom</guid><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>republicans</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>international-monetary-fund</category><category>austerity</category><category>spending-cuts</category><category>budget-talks</category><category>usa-economy</category><category>sequester</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:06:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tribalgirl6455297C36-50D4-B45D-4854-ABAC80FF57D9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="217" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=tribalgirl6455297C36-50D4-B45D-4854-ABAC80FF57D9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="66" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>A crime mystery. It's going down, but no one really knows why: Nearly all the so-called experts predicted that austerity would lead to more crime. The opposite is happening (UK News)</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Here is some good news for nearly everyone. Crime is falling. Murder is down. Violent crime generally is down. Property crime is down. In fact, almost every category of criminality that you can think of is declining. Here is the even better news. This is not a blip. The downwar&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/28/17954654-a-crime-mystery-its-going-down-but-no-one-really-knows-why-nearly-all-the-so-called-experts-predicted-that-austerity-would-lead-to-more-crime-the-opposite-is-happening-uk-news</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/28/17954654-a-crime-mystery-its-going-down-but-no-one-really-knows-why-nearly-all-the-so-called-experts-predicted-that-austerity-would-lead-to-more-crime-the-opposite-is-happening-uk-news</guid><category>britain</category><category>united-kingdom</category><category>world-news</category><category>car-theft</category><category>criminality</category><category>austerity</category><category>muggin</category><category>crime-going-down</category><category>crime-falling</category><category>murder-down</category><category>property-crome-down</category><category>causes-of-crime</category><category>prolonged-economic-squeeze</category><category>violent-crimes-dropped</category><category>public-disorder-offences</category><category>summer-riots</category><category>tuition-fees-protests</category><category>pickpockets-more-rampant</category><category>house-burglary</category><category>recorded-rapes</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:27:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah3B6900A4-306B-55DF-143C-023ADB0F1EB6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprah3B6900A4-306B-55DF-143C-023ADB0F1EB6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Deficit Falling Even More Dramatically, Few Know It | Seeing the Forest</title>
<description><![CDATA[Austerity  is beginning to hit and the economy is slowing as a result. The most  immediate effect is that flights are delayed, but unemployment checks  are smaller and there are fewer things We the People do to make our  lives and economy better &mdash; also called &ldquo;governm&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></source><link>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/27/17948810-deficit-falling-even-more-dramatically-few-know-it-seeing-the-forest</link><guid>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/27/17948810-deficit-falling-even-more-dramatically-few-know-it-seeing-the-forest</guid><category>politics</category><category>faster</category><category>austerity</category><category>economy-is-slowing</category><category>deficit-paroblem</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:50:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=don-overtonD2BEF5C2-B28A-664F-37B1-E4DB861F59C5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="291" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=don-overtonD2BEF5C2-B28A-664F-37B1-E4DB861F59C5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="88" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Please, Stop Austerity!</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[paulohok]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[paulohok]]></source><link>http://paulohok.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/24/17898363-please-stop-austerity</link><guid>http://paulohok.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/24/17898363-please-stop-austerity</guid><category>european-union</category><category>austerity</category><category>bankers-on-blow</category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:24:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=paulohok9C611819-FD21-D01A-2BC3-190CF7F91861.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="395" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=paulohok9C611819-FD21-D01A-2BC3-190CF7F91861.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="119" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The Economic Argument Is Over — And Paul Krugman Won</title>
<description><![CDATA[For the past five years, a fierce war of words and  policies has been fought in America and other economically challenged  countries around the world.
On one side were economists and politicians who wanted to increase  government spending to offset weakness in the private sector&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[fredegrar]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[fredegrar]]></source><link>http://fredegrar.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/24/17898276-the-economic-argument-is-over-and-paul-krugman-won</link><guid>http://fredegrar.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/24/17898276-the-economic-argument-is-over-and-paul-krugman-won</guid><category>politics</category><category>depression</category><category>recession</category><category>paul-krugman</category><category>stimulus</category><category>austerity</category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:22:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fredegrar24DFC798-BD6B-F740-8D3F-321BE098877B.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="225" width="225" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fredegrar24DFC798-BD6B-F740-8D3F-321BE098877B.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Spain's population shrinks as immigrants flee economic crisis</title>
<description><![CDATA[
The figures do not take into account many Spaniards who have left in search of work but are still on the census.
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The National Statistic Institute (NSI) says the number of residents  dropped by almost 206,000 to 47.1m - the decline entirely accounted for  by foreigners.
I&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[etva]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[etva]]></source><link>http://etva.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/23/17877926-spains-population-shrinks-as-immigrants-flee-economic-crisis</link><guid>http://etva.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/23/17877926-spains-population-shrinks-as-immigrants-flee-economic-crisis</guid><category>spain</category><category>world-news</category><category>austerity</category><category>euro-zone-crisis</category><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:37:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=etvaE63E64AE-CE03-EB1C-5032-E6106539CBEE.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="81" width="144" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=etvaE63E64AE-CE03-EB1C-5032-E6106539CBEE.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Grad Student Who Shook Global Austerity Movement -- Daily Intelligencer</title>
<description><![CDATA[Most Ph.D. students spend their days reading esoteric books and  stressing out about the tenure-track job market. Thomas Herndon, a  28-year-old economics grad student at UMass Amherst, just used part of  his spring semester to shake the intellectual foundation of the global  aus&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[o'stephanie]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[o'stephanie]]></source><link>http://ostephanie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/19/17829177-grad-student-who-shook-global-austerity-movement-daily-intelligencer</link><guid>http://ostephanie.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/19/17829177-grad-student-who-shook-global-austerity-movement-daily-intelligencer</guid><category>politics</category><category>austerity</category><category>bogus-math</category><category>anti-austerity</category><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:31:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ostephanie7423BD7F-5D9F-E5D6-09FF-E0B2C2218C12.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="160" width="160" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ostephanie7423BD7F-5D9F-E5D6-09FF-E0B2C2218C12.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Merkel as Hitler? | Germany | DW.DE | 18.04.2013 </title>
<description><![CDATA[
It all began in Greece. About three years ago, angry Athenians took to the streets in protest, and one of their banners showed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an SS uniform. Since then, there has been no end to the Nazi comparisons. Merkel's strict austerity measures in the &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh Rosenroth]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Josh Rosenroth]]></source><link>http://josh-rosenroth.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/18/17811772-merkel-as-hitler-germany-dwde-18042013</link><guid>http://josh-rosenroth.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/18/17811772-merkel-as-hitler-germany-dwde-18042013</guid><category>eu</category><category>germany</category><category>france</category><category>europe</category><category>social-security</category><category>greece</category><category>world-news</category><category>cyprus</category><category>german-chancellor-angela-merkel</category><category>business-model</category><category>austerity</category><category>european-council</category><category>german-association</category><category>european-cultural-foundation</category><category>petros-markaris</category><category>ulrike-gu-rot</category><category>olaf-schwencke</category><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:10:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=josh-rosenroth27A1EF59-0DBC-06E3-19AE-01263FC86F44.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="226" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=josh-rosenroth27A1EF59-0DBC-06E3-19AE-01263FC86F44.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Republicans Hope to Rebrand By Modeling Party on the Success of George W Bush</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party&rsquo;s soul searching has come to this: They&rsquo;ve decided that they need to find a way to sound compassionate, to stand for more than austerity, and to model the party on the success of Republican governors like Jindal and Brownback, as well as former Pr&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brite]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Brite]]></source><link>http://brite.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/17/17794938-republicans-hope-to-rebrand-by-modeling-party-on-the-success-of-george-w-bush</link><guid>http://brite.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/17/17794938-republicans-hope-to-rebrand-by-modeling-party-on-the-success-of-george-w-bush</guid><category>politics</category><category>republican-party</category><category>george-w-bush</category><category>rebranding</category><category>compassionate-conservatism</category><category>bobby-jindal</category><category>pre-9-11</category><category>austerity</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:43:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New Research Undermines The GOP&amp;#039;s Austerity Agenda</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the debate over government spending, the central data point&nbsp;wielded by fans of austerity&nbsp;is the claim that once a country reaches a debt load over 90 percent of its economy &mdash; a threshold the United States is approaching &mdash; economic growth goes into a tails&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[SuperSaiyan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[SuperSaiyan]]></source><link>http://supersaiyan.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17784270-new-research-undermines-the-gops-austerity-agenda</link><guid>http://supersaiyan.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17784270-new-research-undermines-the-gops-austerity-agenda</guid><category>politics</category><category>austerity</category><category>new-economic-analysis-utterly-disproving-austerity-works</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:03:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=SuperSaiyanEE795960-9F45-E5F8-0CEC-04BD1BF1AA1E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="227" width="225" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=SuperSaiyanEE795960-9F45-E5F8-0CEC-04BD1BF1AA1E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="121" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Virtually every modern conservative theory of economics has been proven wrong</title>
<description><![CDATA[Consider the four pillars of conservative economics:
First theory: Expanding the monetary base and engaging in deficit spending will cause interest rates to skyrocket and inflation to increase.
Reality: The Fed has engaged in three rounds of quantitative  easing and the current r&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul William Tenny]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Paul William Tenny]]></source><link>http://pwtenny.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17784071-virtually-every-modern-conservative-theory-of-economics-has-been-proven-wrong</link><guid>http://pwtenny.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17784071-virtually-every-modern-conservative-theory-of-economics-has-been-proven-wrong</guid><category>economy</category><category>politics</category><category>austerity</category><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:35:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>White House and Senate Democrats Should Eliminate Social Security Tax Cap for the Rich: Stop CPI Scam on Elderly</title>
<description><![CDATA[BuzzFlash  has posted many a commentary on ways to increase the solvency of Social  Security without reducing often miserly monthly checks to the nation's  elderly. &nbsp;
Unfortunately,  the White House is taking the lead on playing the scrooge of austerity  imposed on those wh&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></source><link>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/13/17739365-white-house-and-senate-democrats-should-eliminate-social-security-tax-cap-for-the-rich-stop-cpi-scam-on-elderly</link><guid>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/13/17739365-white-house-and-senate-democrats-should-eliminate-social-security-tax-cap-for-the-rich-stop-cpi-scam-on-elderly</guid><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>social-security</category><category>obama</category><category>elizabeth-warren</category><category>austerity</category><category>chained-cpi</category><category>payroll-tax-earnings-cap</category><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:18:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=eezzbeat82E9D84B-BA3F-0684-A1F5-BFFEFF13D8B6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="200" width="211" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=eezzbeat82E9D84B-BA3F-0684-A1F5-BFFEFF13D8B6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="114" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The Darker Side of Margaret Thatcher: From Austerity to Apartheid</title>
<description><![CDATA[
AMY&nbsp;GOODMAN:&nbsp;We turn to the &nbsp;news of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the age of 87. She was Britain&rsquo;s first female prime minister, serving three terms in office. Known as the "Iron Lady," Margaret Thatcher became synonymous w&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17668737-the-darker-side-of-margaret-thatcher-from-austerity-to-apartheid</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17668737-the-darker-side-of-margaret-thatcher-from-austerity-to-apartheid</guid><category>united-kingdom</category><category>margaret-thatcher</category><category>world-news</category><category>iron-lady</category><category>apartheid</category><category>amy-goodman</category><category>tariq-ali</category><category>falklands-war</category><category>austerity</category><category>president-ronald-reagan</category><category>union-movement</category><category>reagonomics</category><category>wall-street-crash</category><category>austerity-economics</category><category>first-british-female-prime-minister</category><category>striking-miners</category><category>no-alternative</category><category>wave-of-privatisation</category><pubDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:35:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahEB0D1AD6-3545-67F9-0868-6F80C298F378.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="269" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahEB0D1AD6-3545-67F9-0868-6F80C298F378.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Republicans Celebrate as Americans Face Losing Their Jobs</title>
<description><![CDATA[
One of the benefits of 21st century technological advances  is the quick availability of government reports that relay information  to the population without commentary or criticism from a biased source  such as a news organization or media pundit. Over the past four years,  Re&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></source><link>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/07/17643106-republicans-celebrate-as-americans-face-losing-their-jobs</link><guid>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/07/17643106-republicans-celebrate-as-americans-face-losing-their-jobs</guid><category>economy</category><category>politics</category><category>unemployment</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>obama</category><category>austerity</category><category>sequester</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:45:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>John Boehner Confesses That He Rejected Obama's Budget Offer Without Reading It</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Politicians are wont to repeat, often excessively, a policy meme or  buzzword in hopes it catches on and becomes part of the public&rsquo;s lexicon  as an identifying trait of a political party or particular candidate&rsquo;s  agenda. Whether it is to demonstrate consistency of&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[anti-status quo]]></source><link>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/06/17633468-john-boehner-confesses-that-he-rejected-obamas-budget-offer-without-reading-it</link><guid>http://eezzbeat.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/06/17633468-john-boehner-confesses-that-he-rejected-obamas-budget-offer-without-reading-it</guid><category>politics</category><category>cola</category><category>republicans</category><category>social-security</category><category>obama</category><category>john-boehner</category><category>sequestration</category><category>paul-ryan</category><category>austerity</category><category>path-to-prosperity</category><category>chained-cpi</category><pubDate>Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:02:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Estonia operetta lyricizes economic austerity</title>
<description><![CDATA[Tired of grumbling about economic austerity? Maybe it's time to sing about it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jari Tanner]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jari Tanner]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/06/17624670-estonia-operetta-lyricizes-economic-austerity</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/06/17624670-estonia-operetta-lyricizes-economic-austerity</guid><category>eu</category><category>estonia</category><category>world-news</category><category>operetta</category><category>austerity</category><pubDate>Sat, 6 Apr 2013 05:52:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=16876856-88b2-4f0a-b386-a0746a48f2ff.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=16876856-88b2-4f0a-b386-a0746a48f2ff.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Conductor Risto Joost, rear left, and soprano Iris Oja rehearse the operetta &quot;Nostra Culpa&quot; in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday, April 4, 2013. Inspired by a lively social media exchange between Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the two expats, composer Eugene Birman and Scott Diel, who wrote the lyrics, have composed an operetta that soars across the merits and pitfalls of austerity &amp;#8212; an ever more prominent reality in Europes struggling economy. (AP Photo/Liis Treimann)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=74503452-f66b-4af1-a863-5669b27f8cbb.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="305" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=74503452-f66b-4af1-a863-5669b27f8cbb.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Composer Eugene Birman rehearses the operetta &quot;Nostra Culpa&quot; in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday, April 4, 2013. Inspired by a lively social media exchange between Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the two expats, Birman and Scott Diel, who wrote the lyrics, have composed an operetta that soars across the merits and pitfalls of austerity &amp;#8212; an ever more prominent reality in Europes struggling economy. (AP Photo/Liis Treimann)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a8809300-38f6-4bb2-b4d3-bb71e60ba713.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="243" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a8809300-38f6-4bb2-b4d3-bb71e60ba713.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Conductor Risto Joost and soprano Iris Oja, left, rehearse the operetta &quot;Nostra Culpa&quot; in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday, April 4, 2013. Inspired by a lively social media exchange between Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the two expats, composer Eugene Birman and Scott Diel, who wrote the lyrics, have composed an operetta that soars across the merits and pitfalls of austerity &amp;#8212; an ever more prominent reality in Europes struggling economy. (AP Photo/Liis Treimann)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7a07211c-6c3c-4feb-bbef-64288fddde31.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="245" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7a07211c-6c3c-4feb-bbef-64288fddde31.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="74" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Conductor Risto Joost, left, and soprano Iris Oja rehearse the operetta &quot;Nostra Culpa&quot; in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday, April 4, 2013. Inspired by a lively social media exchange between Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the two expats, composer Eugene Birman and Scott Diel, who wrote the lyrics, have composed an operetta that soars across the merits and pitfalls of austerity &amp;#8212; an ever more prominent reality in Europes struggling economy. (AP Photo/Liis Treimann)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3d6d5fa5-dda3-492e-9a35-f486b4ce69d0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3d6d5fa5-dda3-492e-9a35-f486b4ce69d0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Composer Eugene Birman rehearses the operetta &quot;Nostra Culpa&quot; in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday, April 4, 2013. Inspired by a lively social media exchange between Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the two expats, Birman and Scott Diel, who wrote the lyrics, have composed an operetta that soars across the merits and pitfalls of austerity &amp;#8212; an ever more prominent reality in Europes struggling economy. (AP Photo/Liis Treimann)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=252ee55d-7eee-4021-9d7d-710fbd331842.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=252ee55d-7eee-4021-9d7d-710fbd331842.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Composer Eugene Birman poses during a rehearsal of the operetta &quot;Nostra Culpa&quot; in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday, April 4, 2013. Inspired by a lively social media exchange between Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, the two expats, Birman and Scott Diel, who wrote the lyrics, have composed an operetta that soars across the merits and pitfalls of austerity &amp;#8212; an ever more prominent reality in Europes struggling economy. (AP Photo/Liis Treimann)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>GOP austerity brings economy to a virtual halt</title>
<description><![CDATA[Just an awful jobs report, the worst in quite a while. You can pretty  much blame the sequester for this one, which means you can pretty much  blame John "I got 98% of what I wanted [from it]" Boehner and the GOP:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul William Tenny]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Paul William Tenny]]></source><link>http://pwtenny.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/05/17617073-gop-austerity-brings-economy-to-a-virtual-halt</link><guid>http://pwtenny.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/05/17617073-gop-austerity-brings-economy-to-a-virtual-halt</guid><category>economy</category><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>austerity</category><pubDate>Fri, 5 Apr 2013 15:48:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama, Hagel take voluntary pay cuts</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Yesterday, with sequestration cuts taking their toll on several hundred thousand Defense Department employees, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced he would return a share of his salary for the same number of days that employees are docked because of furloughs. The Pentagon'&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/03/17589324-obama-hagel-take-voluntary-pay-cuts</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/03/17589324-obama-hagel-take-voluntary-pay-cuts</guid><category>budget</category><category>politics</category><category>hagel</category><category>class-warfare</category><category>right-wing-lies</category><category>right-wing-extremism</category><category>austerity</category><category>president-obama</category><category>pay-cuts</category><category>sequester</category><pubDate>Wed, 3 Apr 2013 21:52:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfan9798D776-CB08-D9B7-E99A-F83B2613BA03.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="259" width="360" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfan9798D776-CB08-D9B7-E99A-F83B2613BA03.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>