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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How to reinvent China’s growth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/how-to-reinvent-china%e2%80%99s-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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My column in the FT this week is on Beijing&#8217;s rapid development:
Shooting down the multi-lane highway from Qingdao airport to the centre of the coastal city this week, I had the usual impressions of a visitor to China. The roads were immaculate, the drive into town took a long time because of the sprawl of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese censorship shifts towards social networks</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/chinese-censorship-shifts-towards-social-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in Qingdao at the FT Chinese annual forum, I am confronting at first hand the shift in the pattern of Chinese censorship towards social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
It is easy to access media sites such as the websites of the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. Twittering or adding an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murdoch will relish a battle over online charging</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/murdoch-will-relish-a-battle-over-online-charging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written a piece about Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s stand-off with Google for the Weekend FT, saying he ought to stop talking about it and go ahead and charge for access to newspapers such as The Times online. You can read it and comment on it here.
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		<title>The risky quoteability of Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/the-risky-quoteability-of-goldmans-lloyd-blankfein/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/the-risky-quoteability-of-goldmans-lloyd-blankfein/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not be quotable is probably a good motto for bankers, one that was ignored by Chuck Prince, the former chairman and chief executive of Citigroup. Now Lloyd Blankfein, head of Goldman Sachs, appears to have fallen into the same trap.
Mr Blankfein&#8217;s wry claim that Goldman is &#8220;doing God&#8217;s work&#8221; by financing companies and investors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When a product recall does not mean a recall</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/when-a-product-recall-does-not-mean-a-recall/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/when-a-product-recall-does-not-mean-a-recall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my FT column this week, I have written about this week&#8217;s recall of 1m folding pushchairs by Maclaren, the British company -  and what we can learn from how it mishandled the event. FT.com has now introduced a comment facility on all articles so please add your comments there.
Incidentally, the most confusing thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The media’s struggle is a boon to consumers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/the-medias-struggle-is-a-boon-to-consumers/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/the-medias-struggle-is-a-boon-to-consumers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One does not need statistics to know that a lot of media companies - music labels, film studios, newspapers etc - are facing a crisis of profitability. However, the figures do bear it out.
Some new research from Deloitte has found that, while many industries suffer from intense pricing pressures and falling return on assets, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maclaren faces the mother of all product recalls</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/maclaren-faces-the-mother-of-all-product-recalls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recalling of up to 1m Maclaren pushchairs - or strollers, as they are called in the US - must rank as one of the most sweeping ever. It affects not just a single model but all of the umbrella-folding strollers sold by the British company in the US since 1999.
Furthermore, the product recall, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safe signals from Buffett’s train deal</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/safe-signals-from-buffetts-train-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/safe-signals-from-buffetts-train-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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My column in the FT this week is on the Sage of Omaha:
In the annals of double-edged compliments, Warren Buffett’s description of his planned $27bn acquisition of Burlington Northern Santa Fe as an “all-in wager on the economic future of the US” ranks highly. If the best expression of the future of the US economy is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carly Fiorina tries to cultivate her inner politician</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/carly-fiorina-attempts-to-cultivate-her-inner-politician/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/carly-fiorina-attempts-to-cultivate-her-inner-politician/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gapper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For what it is worth, Carly Fiorina always struck me as having more the affect of a politician than a chief executive.
Ms Fiorina, whose troubled leadership of Hewlett-Packard ended in 2005 when she was pushed out by the board, and eventually succeeded by Mark Hurd, today revealed that she plans to run as a Republican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Volcker distances himself from Glass-Steagall</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/paul-volcker-distances-himself-from-glass-steagall/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/gapperblog/2009/11/paul-volcker-distances-himself-from-glass-steagall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gapper</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps Paul Volcker is not so keen on Glass-Steagall after all.
I listened to the former chairman of the Federal Reserve at a conference in Florida organised by the CME Group today (immediately after he had walked out on an interview with Maria Bartiromo) and thought he might be softening his stance a bit.
Mr Volcker was [...]]]></description>
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