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        <title><![CDATA[Christopher Smart - Managing Partner/Founder]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Christopher Smart is managing partner of Arbroath Group, a geopolitical advisory firm. He is a former special assistant to the president in the Barack Obama administration, and a former chief global strategist for Barings LLC.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Strings Will Trump Attach to Dollar Lifelines?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>This illustration picture taken on January 10, 2025 in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, shows a partial view of the portrait of the first US President George Washington (1732-1799) on the one US dollar banknote. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Global Corporate Tax Avoidance Might Get Harder]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[An effort to coordinate international taxation will end many of the old dodges.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:00:36 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Just a resort island again.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Investors, There’s No China Trade Deal You’re Going to Like]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Even if modest progress is made, the relationship won’t revert to the way it was.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The anticipating is too much.</media:description>
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