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	<title>Clive Crook's blog</title>
	
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		<title>Signing off</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/signing-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be my last post on ft.com. I am moving on. Thanks for reading. If you wish to keep following my commentary you can do so on my blog at The Atlantic.]]></description>
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		<title>FT column: Only a move to the middle can salvage Obama’s presidency</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8db2dfe4-dfca-11e0-b1db-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YLd9w7yX</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s bid to seize the initiative with a second fiscal stimulus is barely a week old and, as the president prepares to make a second announcement on the subject today, already in trouble. As I argued last week, part one &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/ft-column-only-a-move-to-the-middle-can-salvage-obama%e2%80%99s-presidency/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"FT column: Only a move to the middle can salvage Obama’s presidency"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for the White House (and the Super Committee)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/waiting-for-the-white-house-and-the-super-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday the Obama administration has promised to spell out its thinking on long-term deficit reduction. Something to read while you&#8217;re waiting: &#8220;What we hope to see from the Super Committee,&#8221; courtesy of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/waiting-for-the-white-house-and-the-super-committee/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Waiting for the White House (and the Super Committee)"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking central banking</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/rethinking-central-banking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Financial markets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An event at the Brookings Institution launched a new report, Rethinking Central Banking, by a team of economic eminences including Barry Eichengreen, Raghu Rajan, Eswar Prasad, Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff, and others. I&#8217;ve only skimmed it so far but the &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/rethinking-central-banking/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Rethinking central banking"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>FT column: A bold bid to reset the presidency</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/eefb1284-dae9-11e0-a58b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1XgmngvVW</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s economic policy address to a joint session of Congress last week lived up to the billing. It was an ambitious and impressive speech – an attempt to reset his presidency. Nothing less is required if Mr Obama is &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/ft-column-a-bold-bid-to-reset-the-presidency/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"FT column: A bold bid to reset the presidency"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering 9/11</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/remembering-911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found Peggy Noonan’s piece for the Wall Street Journal very moving. She says something at the beginning which is obvious as soon as it is drawn to your attention, but which you might otherwise not notice. New York saw &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/remembering-911/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Remembering 9/11"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s new stimulus</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/obamas-new-stimulus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/?p=13581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama’s speech to Congress was impressive. Good to see some leading from the front, for a change. The tone was commanding, confident, and purposeful. Crucially, he took the initiative and presented a detailed plan. No more, “I’m willing to &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/obamas-new-stimulus/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Obama&#8217;s new stimulus"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Democrats revert to form</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/helping-democrats-revert-to-form/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/?p=13556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my column this week I say Obama should propose a big, bold stimulus&#8211;but I say he should disappoint progressives at the same time, by getting serious about longer-term deficit reduction. He needs both elements, I argue. “Forget those imaginary &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/helping-democrats-revert-to-form/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Helping Democrats revert to form"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>FT column: Time to be bold, Mr President</title>
		<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/728a5dd6-d4cc-11e0-a7ac-00144feab49a.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dismal new employment figures – the worst for a year, threatening a double-dip recession – provide the setting for Barack Obama’s address to Congress on Thursday. With his poll numbers sliding and the US economy getting worse, this might be &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/ft-column-time-to-be-bold-mr-president/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"FT column: Time to be bold, Mr President"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal and AFL-CIO unite</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/wall-street-journal-and-afl-cio-unite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not every day that you see the editors of the Wall Street Journal agreeing with the leaders of the AFL-CIO on an issue of economic policy. Both authorities deplore the Justice Department&#8217;s action against AT&#38;T&#8217;s takeover of T-Mobile. The &#8230;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/09/wall-street-journal-and-afl-cio-unite/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Wall Street Journal and AFL-CIO unite"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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