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		<title>Iceland’s new banking disaster?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2012/02/iceland%e2%80%99s-new-banking-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/?p=15571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Olafur Arnarson, Michael Hudson and Gunnar Tomasson Today, from Greece to Iceland, governments are acting as enforcers or even as collection agents on behalf of the financial sector — and Iceland stands as a dress rehearsal for this power &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2012/02/iceland%e2%80%99s-new-banking-disaster/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Iceland’s new banking disaster?"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Capital controls are not beggar thy neighbour</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2012/01/capital-controls-are-not-beggar-thy-neighbour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Times</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/?p=15271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin P. Gallagher Emerging markets have fallen victim to unstable capital flows in the wake of the financial crisis. In an attempt to mitigate the accompanying asset bubbles and exchange rate pressures that come with such volatility, a number &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2012/01/capital-controls-are-not-beggar-thy-neighbour/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Capital controls are not beggar thy neighbour"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The IMF and the eurozone: weighing unconventional options to stabilise the global economy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2012/01/the-imf-and-the-eurozone-weighing-unconventional-options-to-stabilise-the-global-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Times</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Central banks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christine Lagarde]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eurozone crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Drawing Rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/?p=15321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Domenico Lombardi and Sarah Puritz Milsom Following the unprecedented downgrade of the European Financial Stability Facility and nine eurozone sovereigns by Standard &amp; Poor’s, there is a renewed impetus for the International Monetary Fund to step up its involvement in &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2012/01/the-imf-and-the-eurozone-weighing-unconventional-options-to-stabilise-the-global-economy/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"The IMF and the eurozone: weighing unconventional options to stabilise the global economy"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Euro lacks a government banker, not lender of last resort</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/12/the-euro-lacks-a-government-banker-not-a-lender-of-last-resort/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/12/the-euro-lacks-a-government-banker-not-a-lender-of-last-resort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Times</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/?p=15131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas I. Palley In his novel, The Jungle, the American muckraking author Upton Sinclair wrote about the horrendous work and sanitary conditions in the Chicago meat packing industry of the early 20th century. It is sometimes said Sinclair aimed &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/12/the-euro-lacks-a-government-banker-not-a-lender-of-last-resort/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Euro lacks a government banker, not lender of last resort"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>EU economy: Black hole or green growth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/10/eu-economy-black-hole-or-green-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Times</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarzoky]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/?p=14746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlo Jaeger “The facts, ma’am, just the facts”: these words, attributed to the detective Joe Friday in the American 1950s crime series Dragnet, resonate in today’s eurozone crisis. Will anybody help Angela Merkel, German chancellor and a trained physicist &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/10/eu-economy-black-hole-or-green-growth/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"EU economy: Black hole or green growth"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Supply pessimism can ruin your health</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/10/supply-pessimism-can-ruin-your-health/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/10/supply-pessimism-can-ruin-your-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Times</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/?p=14671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Martin Has the UK’s economy been structurally weakened by the banking crisis? Policy makers think so – in spades. Despite the depth of recession and limp recovery, they believe that the gap between output and some notion of &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/10/supply-pessimism-can-ruin-your-health/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Supply pessimism can ruin your health"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>African Monetary Union risks perpetuating the myth Africa is one country</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/09/african-monetary-union-risks-perpetuating-the-myth-africa-is-one-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Times</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/?p=14591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Xhanti Payi One of the most difficult struggles being fought by those who wish to attract investment into Africa is to destroy the widely held belief that Africa is one big country. Africa in reality is a collection of &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/09/african-monetary-union-risks-perpetuating-the-myth-africa-is-one-country/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"African Monetary Union risks perpetuating the myth Africa is one country"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Vickers Report failed the UK and the world</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/09/why-the-vickers-report-failed-the-uk-and-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Times</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Limited Purpose Banking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laurence Kotlikoff The Independent Banking Commission&#8217;s final report is a grave disappointment. The ICB (chaired by Sir John Vickers) seeks to reinstate Glass-Steagall by ring-fencing good banks and letting bad banks do their thing and, if they get into &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/09/why-the-vickers-report-failed-the-uk-and-the-world/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Why the Vickers Report failed the UK and the world"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the global economic recovery is in trouble</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/09/why-the-global-economic-recovery-is-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Financial Times</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/?p=14501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda The world economy has hit a rough patch on the road to recovery and is in danger of skidding off course. The latest update of the Brookings Institution-FT Tracking Indices for the Global Economic &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/09/why-the-global-economic-recovery-is-in-trouble/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Why the global economic recovery is in trouble"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Euro bonds are not enough: eurozone countries need a government banker</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/08/euro-bonds-are-not-enough-eurozone-countries-need-a-government-banker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/?p=14376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas I. Palley The eurozone&#8216;s public finance crisis continues to fester, reflecting both political and intellectual failure. The intellectual failure is that the crisis has been interpreted exclusively as a debt crisis when it is also a central bank &hellip;<div class="entry-meta"><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/2011/08/euro-bonds-are-not-enough-eurozone-countries-need-a-government-banker/">Continue reading: <span class="meta-nav">"Euro bonds are not enough: eurozone countries need a government banker"</span></a></div>]]></description>
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