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		<title>How to keep politics out of rating agency reform [FT]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By requiring a neutral third party to select the rating agency, Congress would significantly improve the quality of bond ratings relied on by small institutions and individual investors. Yet this approach avoids excessive political influence ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/05/how-to-keep-politics-out-of-rating-agency-reform-ft/</link>
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		<title>Pozen Doesn’t See Greece Crisis Hurting U.S. Rebound [Bloomberg Video]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management, talks with Bloomberg's Matt Miller and Carol Massar about the impact of Greece's sovereign debt crisis on the US economy. US stocks tumbled the most in a year on concern Europes debt crisis will halt the global recovery. (Source: Bloomberg)]]></description>
		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/05/pozen-doesn%e2%80%99t-see-greece-crisis-hurting-u-s-rebound-bloomberg-video/</link>
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		<title>A case of regulatory jitters [Boston Globe]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local banks, insurers, financial firms brace for a new regimen of rules.]]></description>
		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/05/a-case-of-regulatory-jitters-boston-globe/</link>
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		<title>They’ve Got It: Fixes for the Financial System [New York Times]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By SEWELL CHAN and BINYAMIN APPELBAUM. Robert C. Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management and author of “Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System” (Wiley, 2010), wants to require banks to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/04/they%e2%80%99ve-got-it-fixes-for-the-financial-system-new-york-times/</link>
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		<title>A better fail-safe than CoCo bonds [FT]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CoCo with its mandatory conversion presents the unappetising combination of bond returns with equity-type risk. Sub-debt with an option to convert offers bond risks with the potential for equity-type returns. Which one would you choose? ]]></description>
		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/04/a-better-fail-safe-than-coco-bonds-ft/</link>
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		<title>Financial Crisis Reading List [New York Times - Economix]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By David Leonhardt.  &#8220;One book that may deserve more attention than it’s received is “Too Big to Save,” by Robert Pozen, a former vice chairman of Fidelity Investments. I found Chapter 6 — on ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/03/financial-crisis-reading-list-new-york-times-economix/</link>
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		<title>How to design a fair bank tax [Financial Times]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is unfair to impose a bank tax on all financial institutions with over $50bn in assets regardless of whether they received any direct federal assistance during the financial crisis. Congress should raise roughly the same amount by imposing the tax only on the very large financial institutions that received direct federal assistance and it should base the size of the tax on the amount of that assistance.]]></description>
		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/03/how-to-design-a-fair-bank-tax-financial-times/</link>
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		<title>Defusing the Banks&#8217; Financial Time Bomb [BusinessWeek]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Review by By Geoffrey Miller.  Without tough reforms, writes Robert Pozen, we&#8217;ll probably face an ugly repeat of recent history 
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		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/03/defusing-the-banks-financial-time-bomb-businessweek/</link>
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		<title>America’s budget deficit needs bipartisan action [FT]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although a bipartisan agreement will be hard to achieve in the current Washington environment, both parties should recognise that a package of entitlement reforms is less dangerous than an explosion of US interest rates in ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/03/america%e2%80%99s-budget-deficit-needs-bipartisan-action-ft/</link>
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		<title>A Selective Defense of &#8220;Too Big to Fail&#8221; [Barron&#039;s]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Reviewed by Jim McTague. Here&#8217;s an idea for curbing the rapine of all those financial executives thumbing their noses at the taxpayers who rescued them from ruin: Limit their annual salaries to $300,000 to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bobpozen.com/2010/03/a-selective-defense-of-too-big-to-fail-barrons/</link>
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