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	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why Democrats are&#8230;smiling?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/why-democrats-aresmiling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the post-election commentary has been entertaining, if not very  enlightening. To any disinterested observer,   the Republicans had a good day on the whole last Tuesday. Not an unalloyed success, bearing in mind the self-inflicted wound in New York, but looking at New Jersey and Virginia, a pretty good day. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to do about bankers&#8217; pay</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/what-to-do-about-bankers-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My new column for National Journal agrees with the Fed that bankers&#8217; pay needs to be supervised, but warns that by itself this will do little to improve financial safety.
The pay changes that the Fed proposes are worth making, but by themselves are insufficient. Other regulatory reforms in the works would do more to promote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress misses the point of reform</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/congress-misses-the-point-of-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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More than a year after the US financial emergency went critical and threatened the global economy with its worst reverse since the 1930s, the underlying causes have yet to be addressed. When it comes to improving financial regulation, the crux of the matter, there has been a lot of talk – usually about the wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best show in America</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/the-best-show-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I went to one of Levon Helm&#8217;s Midnight Rambles. I wrote a gushing, and entirely sincere, review of the event for the FT. I suggested &#8220;The best show in America&#8221; as the title for the article but my editor, I think, deemed this a little over the top. If she had come along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costing the health care bills</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/10/costing-the-health-care-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Cannon at Cato draws my attention to these posts by Donald Marron, a former CBO director, on the confusion surrounding recent estimates of the cost of the health reform bills. (A good place to start in fact is this earlier post by Marron, which sets out the various definitions of &#8220;cost&#8221;.) The president has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord Turner on the financial crisis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/10/lord-turner-on-the-financial-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adair Turner of the UK Financial Services Authority gave a very good speech on the causes and implications of the financial crisis yesterday in Washington. The event was hosted by National Journal and the Economic Club of America. Video here for National Journal subscribers. Transcript here.
The speech drew on a new FSA discussion paper, prepared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking to Ken Feinberg</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/10/talking-to-ken-feinberg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I took part in an event organized by  Georgetown Law and the Aspen Institute: a conversation with Ken Feinberg, special master for executive compensation at firms receiving assistance under the TARP, followed by a panel discussion on some of the issues he raised, featuring Mike Oxley, Chris Brummer, John Olson and Nell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dithering on public borrowing</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/10/dithering-on-public-borrowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new column for National Journal I ask what needs to happen before this problem is taken seriously.
The public debt stands at nearly $8 trillion and within 10 years, according to Congressional Budget Office projections, it will be more than $14 trillion. Getting to that second figure in one piece depends on two things. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama is dithering on Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/10/obama-is-dithering-on-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/10/obama-is-dithering-on-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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After eight years of government by gut instinct, most Americans welcomed the arrival of a deliberative president. Yes, get the experts in. Reflect, weigh their advice. What a good idea.
And so it is if you are attempting, say, to reform the healthcare system. (A shame it was not tried.) There is even more to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The public option lives</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/10/the-public-option-lives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of a public option in healthcare reform is not dead yet. A lot of Democrats believe you need it to hold down costs. A lot also see it as a first stride towards Medicare-for-all, which is where they want the system to end up. Obama has signalled he is ready to drop the [...]]]></description>
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