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		<title>Is there a place for morals in finance?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/arena/2009/11/02/is-there-a-place-for-morals-in-finance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post from the Financial Times looks at the question of morality in banking and finance. ]]></description>
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		<title>Should big banks be broken up?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/arena/2009/10/22/should-big-banks-be-broken-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mervyn King, Bank of England governor, has called for Britain’s biggest banks to be split to prevent a future financial crisis. Mr King irritated Gordon Brown, prime minister, and chancellor Alistair Darling by arguing banks should be split  between “utility” retail operations and riskier investment banking arms, cutting them down to size to ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do the UK&#8217;s divorce laws need reform?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/arena/2009/10/15/do-the-uks-divorce-laws-need-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post from the Financial Times looks at whether the UK should reform its divorce laws.]]></description>
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		<title>Should western taxpayers pay to cut carbon emissions in developing countries?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/arena/2009/09/23/should-western-taxpayers-pay-to-cut-carbon-emissions-in-developing-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Copenhagen climate conference nears, developing and developed countries are at loggerheads over the question of who should bear the costs of climate change. Developing countries rest their case on equity and ethics: having grown fat on emissions-generating growth, richer countries should use their ill-gotten gains to help poorer countries become greener without sacrificing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have banks changed enough to avoid another financial crisis?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/arena/2009/09/14/have-banks-changed-enough-to-avoid-another-financial-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four seasons have now passed since the highest-profile casualty of the financial crisis, Lehman Brothers, went under. Since then, all over the world, politicians, regulators and central bankers have focused on what needs changing to prevent another meltdown. Of course, crises come and go. But at the very least have banks learned their lesson? They [...]]]></description>
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