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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How to do a second stimulus</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/how-to-do-a-second-stimulus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My new column for National Journal looks at the case for a jobs bill.
Speaking to the Economic Club of New York this week, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a gloomier assessment of the economy than many were expecting. The recession is over, he declared, but the Fed expects no more than &#8220;moderate&#8221; growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s at stake in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/whats-at-stake-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Support for the war continues to slide in the US.
Support for the war in Afghanistan has ebbed to a new low in ABC News/Washington Post polls, with concerns over strategy and broad doubts about the reliability of the Afghan government leaving Americans sharply divided on where to go from here.
Just 44 percent now say the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural curriculum</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/cultural-curriculum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Further reading on the conditions for an opportunity society (see previous post).
At his Senate confirmation hearing in February, Arne Duncan succinctly summarized the Obama administration’s approach to education reform: “We must build upon what works. We must stop doing what doesn’t work.” Since becoming education secretary, Duncan has launched a $4.3 billion federal “Race to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American dream needs repair</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/american-dream-needs-repair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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Sooner or later the US will find itself grappling with an immense fiscal problem. The recession and stimulus have combined to produce record-breaking deficits, and economic recovery will not come close to restoring balance. US voters have big questions to answer about the entitlements they demand and the taxes they are willing to pay.
This dismal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craig Brown channels Malcolm Gladwell</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/craig-brown-channels-malcolm-gladwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perfect.
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		<title>1989</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/1989/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/?p=2091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An expectedly interesting essay by Timothy Garton Ash. I applaud the strictures against hindsight bias, an endlessly recurring analytical error which practitioners of my trade seem especially prone to.
Every writer on 1989 wrestles with an almost unavoidable human proclivity that psychologists have christened &#8220;hindsight bias&#8221;—the tendency, that is, to regard actual historical outcomes as more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something else for Democrats to smile about</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/something-else-for-democrats-to-smile-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[They are on a roll. The good news just keeps coming.
Republicans have moved ahead of Democrats by 48% to 44% among registered voters in the latest update on Gallup&#8217;s generic congressional ballot for the 2010 House elections, after trailing by six points in July and two points last month&#8230; Over the course of the year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama has lost sight of the centre</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/obama-has-lost-sight-of-the-centre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clive Crook</dc:creator>
		
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Barack Obama and the Democrats want you to know they had a good week. Last Tuesday Republicans threw away a New York congressional seat they had held for a century, preferring to fight each other than win an easy contest. Excellent, say Democrats. Civil war in the Republican party augurs well for next year’s mid-term [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2009/11/what-to-do-about-bankers-pay/#comments</comments>
		<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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