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</html><description>in The American Prospect, my latest op-ed, with Norm Silber. Excerpt: For the next stimulus package, rather than sending tens of millions of checks to consumers, Congress would do better to strike at the economic crisis by using the existing lending mechanism, right in front of us, that more than three-quarters of us already possess:&#xA0;credit [...]</description></oembed>
