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    <title>Our Summer of Climate Truth</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For years, climate scientists have been warning the world that the heavy use of fossil fuels threatens the world with human-induced climate change. Now those changes are hitting in every direction, even as corporate lobbies and media propagandists try to deny the truth.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For years, climate scientists have been warning the world that the heavy use of fossil fuels threatens the world with human-induced climate change. Now those changes are hitting in every direction, even as corporate lobbies and media propagandists try to deny the truth.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Politics of Anger Management</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The apoplectic rage that followed the US Supreme Court’s decision on Barack Obama’s health-care legislation is becoming routine in America’s public discourse, and it is a bipartisan malady. The age of information and communications has given way to an age of anger.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The apoplectic rage that followed the US Supreme Court’s decision on Barack Obama’s health-care legislation is becoming routine in America’s public discourse, and it is a bipartisan malady. The age of information and communications has given way to an age of anger.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Christopher R. Hill</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Christopher R. Hill</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Crises of Summer</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Summer crises are a familiar feature of European history – and of financial history. Often, addressing some technical issue was not enough to resolve a major political problem, which is true today as well, with Europe’s current crisis reflecting exactly the same mixture of elements, each requiring a very different type of solution.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Summer crises are a familiar feature of European history – and of financial history. Often, addressing some technical issue was not enough to resolve a major political problem, which is true today as well, with Europe’s current crisis reflecting exactly the same mixture of elements, each requiring a very different type of solution.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Will Europe Be Willing but Disabled?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The eurozone crisis might break European leaders’ inherent resistance to compromise, collaboration, and common action. But the longer they bicker and dither, the greater the risk that what they gain in willingness will be lost to incapacity.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The eurozone crisis might break European leaders’ inherent resistance to compromise, collaboration, and common action. But the longer they bicker and dither, the greater the risk that what they gain in willingness will be lost to incapacity.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mohamed A. El-Erian</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mohamed A. El-Erian</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>One Big Union</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks, the idea of establishing a European banking union has become the latest remedy advanced as a solution to the long-running euro crisis. But, whatever the merits of a banking union – and there are many – proposals to establish one raise more questions than can currently be answered.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the last few weeks, the idea of establishing a European banking union has become the latest remedy advanced as a solution to the long-running euro crisis. But, whatever the merits of a banking union – and there are many – proposals to establish one raise more questions than can currently be answered.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Howard Davies</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Howard Davies</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Labor’s Paradise Lost</title>
    <description><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes thought that most people by now would have to work only 15 hours a week to produce all that they needed for subsistence and comfort. What Keynes did not foresee was that the lion’s share of the productivity gains achieved since the 1980's, when working hours stopped falling, would be seized by the well-off.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes thought that most people by now would have to work only 15 hours a week to produce all that they needed for subsistence and comfort. What Keynes did not foresee was that the lion’s share of the productivity gains achieved since the 1980's, when working hours stopped falling, would be seized by the well-off.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How Do Start-Ups Succeed?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For start-up companies, money is rarely enough – not just that there is not enough of it, but, more important, there never could be. Entrepreneurs need advice, contacts, customers, and employees immersed in a culture of effectiveness to succeed, and they need to create real value to have a meaningful economic impact.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For start-up companies, money is rarely enough – not just that there is not enough of it, but, more important, there never could be. Entrepreneurs need advice, contacts, customers, and employees immersed in a culture of effectiveness to succeed, and they need to create real value to have a meaningful economic impact.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Couple’s Counseling for the US and China</title>
    <description><![CDATA[China’s inadequate intellectual-property protection, exchange-rate policy, and support for state-owned companies has damaged its relations with the US. But the real problems in the China-US relationship are made in America.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[China’s inadequate intellectual-property protection, exchange-rate policy, and support for state-owned companies has damaged its relations with the US. But the real problems in the China-US relationship are made in America.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yao Yang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yao Yang</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Use and Abuse of Religious Freedom</title>
    <description><![CDATA[When people are prohibited from practicing their religion – for example, by laws that bar worshipping in certain ways – there can be no doubt that their freedom of religion has been violated. But many, if not most, appeals to religious freedom nowadays do not satisfy that test.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When people are prohibited from practicing their religion – for example, by laws that bar worshipping in certain ways – there can be no doubt that their freedom of religion has been violated. But many, if not most, appeals to religious freedom nowadays do not satisfy that test.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Intervention Dilemma</title>
    <description><![CDATA[When should states intervene militarily to stop atrocities in other countries? The question is an old and well-traveled one – indeed, it is now visiting Syria – and the UN's unanimous embrace of states' "responsibility to protect" their citizens has done little to answer it definitively.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When should states intervene militarily to stop atrocities in other countries? The question is an old and well-traveled one – indeed, it is now visiting Syria – and the UN's unanimous embrace of states' "responsibility to protect" their citizens has done little to answer it definitively.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 15:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>An Argentine Guide to the Greek Crisis</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Policymakers in Europe seem to be surprised at the ongoing bank run in Greece (and the nascent run in Spain). They should not be: anyone familiar with emerging-market meltdowns knows that a financial crisis nearly always follows a fiscal crisis.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Policymakers in Europe seem to be surprised at the ongoing bank run in Greece (and the nascent run in Spain). They should not be: anyone familiar with emerging-market meltdowns knows that a financial crisis nearly always follows a fiscal crisis.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 12:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Andres Velasco</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Andres Velasco</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Aid Works</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The critics of foreign aid are wrong. A growing flood of data shows that death rates in the poorest countries are falling sharply, and for a simple reason: aid aimed at improving health care works.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The critics of foreign aid are wrong. A growing flood of data shows that death rates in the poorest countries are falling sharply, and for a simple reason: aid aimed at improving health care works.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 12:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Greece-Proofing China</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Recently, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, referring to a possible Greek exit from the eurozone, told the European Parliament that there is no “Plan B.” Barroso’s statement was meant to be reassuring, but China should have its own plan in place should Greece be forced to leave the eurozone.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Recently, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, referring to a possible Greek exit from the eurozone, told the European Parliament that there is no “Plan B.” Barroso’s statement was meant to be reassuring, but China should have its own plan in place should Greece be forced to leave the eurozone.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 13:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yu Yongding</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yu Yongding</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Is the Euro Ending or Beginning?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[An environment of crisis is forcing Europeans to make choices that they did not want to envisage, much less confront, in quieter times. Depending on how they choose, recent developments could mark the beginning of the end for the euro – or the end of the beginning.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[An environment of crisis is forcing Europeans to make choices that they did not want to envisage, much less confront, in quieter times. Depending on how they choose, recent developments could mark the beginning of the end for the euro – or the end of the beginning.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Cuba's dissidents want many things, such as regime change, a free economy, and lots of other things too disruptive to mention. But they are careful not to do anything that smacks of protest, and they stay within the law, even though its boundaries are unclear.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cuba's dissidents want many things, such as regime change, a free economy, and lots of other things too disruptive to mention. But they are careful not to do anything that smacks of protest, and they stay within the law, even though its boundaries are unclear.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The Greek euro tragedy is reaching its final act: it is clear that either this year or next, Greece is highly likely to default on its debt and exit the eurozone.Like a doomed marriage, it is better to have rules for the inevitable breakup that make separation less costly to both sides.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Greek euro tragedy is reaching its final act: it is clear that either this year or next, Greece is highly likely to default on its debt and exit the eurozone.Like a doomed marriage, it is better to have rules for the inevitable breakup that make separation less costly to both sides.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Smartest Ways to Save the World</title>
    <description><![CDATA[If you had $75 billion to spend over the next four years and your goal was to advance human welfare, especially in the developing world, how could you get the most value for your money? An expert panel of economists, including four Nobel laureates, would tell you to invest mainly in nutrition and reduction of chronic disease.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If you had $75 billion to spend over the next four years and your goal was to advance human welfare, especially in the developing world, how could you get the most value for your money? An expert panel of economists, including four Nobel laureates, would tell you to invest mainly in nutrition and reduction of chronic disease.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Hillary Clinton’s Asian Adventure</title>
    <description><![CDATA[On her recent trip to China, Bangladesh, and India, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was eager to trumpet America’s “New Silk Road” strategy, which she unveiled last September. But the Silk Road was a trade route, whereas knife-edge diplomacy dominated Clinton’s Asian tour.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[On her recent trip to China, Bangladesh, and India, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was eager to trumpet America’s “New Silk Road” strategy, which she unveiled last September. But the Silk Road was a trade route, whereas knife-edge diplomacy dominated Clinton’s Asian tour.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jaswant Singh</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Rebalancing the Eurozone</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As long as the eurozone's internal divergence in unit labor costs persists, the euro crisis cannot be fully resolved, because current-account deficits and/or slow growth will continue to stalk the “south,” perpetuating worries about sovereign debt and commercial banks. But the burden of adjustment cannot rest solely on the south.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As long as the eurozone's internal divergence in unit labor costs persists, the euro crisis cannot be fully resolved, because current-account deficits and/or slow growth will continue to stalk the “south,” perpetuating worries about sovereign debt and commercial banks. But the burden of adjustment cannot rest solely on the south.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kemal Derviş</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kemal Derviş</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Romney versus Obama</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Leadership theorists suggest that we should pay less attention to leaders’ policy promises than to their emotional intelligence – their self-mastery and ability to reach out to others. So, how do US President Barack Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, measure up?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Leadership theorists suggest that we should pay less attention to leaders’ policy promises than to their emotional intelligence – their self-mastery and ability to reach out to others. So, how do US President Barack Obama and his presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, measure up?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Europe’s Misguided Search for Growth</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In short order, the eurozone’s attention has shifted from austerity to growth. This is a recurring pattern in European politics: austerity is proclaimed and defended as the pre-condition for growth, but then, when a recession bites, growth becomes the pre-condition for continued austerity.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In short order, the eurozone’s attention has shifted from austerity to growth. This is a recurring pattern in European politics: austerity is proclaimed and defended as the pre-condition for growth, but then, when a recession bites, growth becomes the pre-condition for continued austerity.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>After Austerity</title>
    <description><![CDATA[So many economies are vulnerable to natural disasters – earthquakes, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis – that adding a man-made disaster is all the more tragic. The pain that Europe, especially its poor and young, is suffering as a result of its leaders’ willful ignorance of the lessons of the past is entirely unnecessary.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[So many economies are vulnerable to natural disasters – earthquakes, floods, typhoons, hurricanes, tsunamis – that adding a man-made disaster is all the more tragic. The pain that Europe, especially its poor and young, is suffering as a result of its leaders’ willful ignorance of the lessons of the past is entirely unnecessary.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 13:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Are Humans Getting Better?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[With daily headlines focusing on war, terrorism, and the abuses of repressive governments, it is easy to get the impression that we are witnessing a moral collapse. But there are grounds to believe that humans' improved reasoning abilities have enabled us to reduce the influence of those more impulsive elements of our nature that lead to violence.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With daily headlines focusing on war, terrorism, and the abuses of repressive governments, it is easy to get the impression that we are witnessing a moral collapse. But there are grounds to believe that humans' improved reasoning abilities have enabled us to reduce the influence of those more impulsive elements of our nature that lead to violence.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Ultimately, there can be no strong Germany without a stable eurozone; no stable eurozone without a strong Germany; and no global economic stability without both. Germans might not like their choices, but refusing the responsibility of leadership is one option that Germany does not have.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ultimately, there can be no strong Germany without a stable eurozone; no stable eurozone without a strong Germany; and no global economic stability without both. Germans might not like their choices, but refusing the responsibility of leadership is one option that Germany does not have.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mohamed A. El-Erian</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mohamed A. El-Erian</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Iran’s Nuclear Grass Eaters</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In 1965, Pakistan's foreign minister famously declared that if India, its sworn enemy, went nuclear, his country would “eat grass [and] even go hungry” in order to develop a nuclear bomb of its own. Concerning Iran today, the question is no longer whether the West can prevent the regime from developing nuclear weapons, but whether the regime runs out of grass first.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1965, Pakistan's foreign minister famously declared that if India, its sworn enemy, went nuclear, his country would “eat grass [and] even go hungry” in order to develop a nuclear bomb of its own. Concerning Iran today, the question is no longer whether the West can prevent the regime from developing nuclear weapons, but whether the regime runs out of grass first.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Summit of Muted Intentions</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Summit of the Americas is a bellweather of US-Latin American relations, even if it fails to accomplish much of significance. This year's meeting in April will be no exception: once again, Cuba and drugs will be at the top of the agenda.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Summit of the Americas is a bellweather of US-Latin American relations, even if it fails to accomplish much of significance. This year's meeting in April will be no exception: once again, Cuba and drugs will be at the top of the agenda.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jorge G. Castañeda</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jorge G. Castañeda</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The American Recovery</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US has gone through an arduous period of intervention and rehabilitation since the global financial crisis in 2008 sent it to the economic equivalent of the emergency room. The question now is whether the US economy is ready not just to walk, but also to run and sprint.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US has gone through an arduous period of intervention and rehabilitation since the global financial crisis in 2008 sent it to the economic equivalent of the emergency room. The question now is whether the US economy is ready not just to walk, but also to run and sprint.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mohamed A. El-Erian</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mohamed A. El-Erian</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Despite its shaky economics, the fair-trade movement should not be despised. While cynics say that it only makes consumers feel better about their purchases, the movement represents a spark of protest against mindless consumerism, grass-roots resistance against an impersonal logic, and an expression of communal activism.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Despite its shaky economics, the fair-trade movement should not be despised. While cynics say that it only makes consumers feel better about their purchases, the movement represents a spark of protest against mindless consumerism, grass-roots resistance against an impersonal logic, and an expression of communal activism.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[For many foreign audiences, the Republican primary elections must be a frightening display of what Americans and their leaders do not know about foreign policy. Worse still, ignorance seems to be a source of strength for the candidates still in the race.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For many foreign audiences, the Republican primary elections must be a frightening display of what Americans and their leaders do not know about foreign policy. Worse still, ignorance seems to be a source of strength for the candidates still in the race.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Christopher R. Hill</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Christopher R. Hill</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The unruly outcome of state-assembly elections in India on March 6 has fueled speculation that the national government might be in jeopardy – and has revived a sense that India may be suffering from too much democracy. But this is the India that Mahatma Gandhi fought to free, and its turbulent politics is well worth celebrating.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The unruly outcome of state-assembly elections in India on March 6 has fueled speculation that the national government might be in jeopardy – and has revived a sense that India may be suffering from too much democracy. But this is the India that Mahatma Gandhi fought to free, and its turbulent politics is well worth celebrating.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Europe’s Trust Deficit</title>
    <description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of talk nowadays about Europe’s deficits – fiscal, external, institutional – and the need to correct them. But the deficit that prevents Europe from drawing a line under its crisis is a deficit of trust.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There is no shortage of talk nowadays about Europe’s deficits – fiscal, external, institutional – and the need to correct them. But the deficit that prevents Europe from drawing a line under its crisis is a deficit of trust.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Inequality Trap</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In the early twentieth century, some argued that capitalism tends to generate chronic weakness in effective demand, as growing concentration of income leads to a “savings glut.” Nowadays, with income inequality on the rise, that argument has returned.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the early twentieth century, some argued that capitalism tends to generate chronic weakness in effective demand, as growing concentration of income leads to a “savings glut.” Nowadays, with income inequality on the rise, that argument has returned.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kemal Derviş</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kemal Derviş</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Our Kind of Truth</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It is unlikely that Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum, or many of his followers, has read much post-modern theory. And yet their attitude toward truth suggests that the most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York, or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is unlikely that Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum, or many of his followers, has read much post-modern theory. And yet their attitude toward truth suggests that the most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York, or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The disintegration of Assad’s iron rule into a bloody civil war shows once again that the disorderly collapse of dictatorships tends to foment inter-ethnic war and national dismemberment. Indeed, as in Iraq, Syria’s sectarian strife looks increasingly like a jihadist religious war.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The disintegration of Assad’s iron rule into a bloody civil war shows once again that the disorderly collapse of dictatorships tends to foment inter-ethnic war and national dismemberment. Indeed, as in Iraq, Syria’s sectarian strife looks increasingly like a jihadist religious war.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>America’s Islamic Blind Spots</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As protests against the Koran-burning at the US Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, continue to escalate, and the death toll mounts, Americans' blindness to the roots of Afghans' rage needs to be addressed. As Goethe put it: where they burn books, soon they burn people – and that certainly seems true of Bagram.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As protests against the Koran-burning at the US Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, continue to escalate, and the death toll mounts, Americans' blindness to the roots of Afghans' rage needs to be addressed. As Goethe put it: where they burn books, soon they burn people – and that certainly seems true of Bagram.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Usual Suspect</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Across the Euro-Atlantic world, economic recovery remains sluggish and halting, turning readily curable cyclical unemployment into structural unemployment, and a brief hiccup in capital accumulation into a prolonged investment shortfall. Unless governments spend more now,output could suffer for decades.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Across the Euro-Atlantic world, economic recovery remains sluggish and halting, turning readily curable cyclical unemployment into structural unemployment, and a brief hiccup in capital accumulation into a prolonged investment shortfall. Unless governments spend more now,output could suffer for decades.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Asia’s Take on Austerity</title>
    <description><![CDATA[With Europe on the brink of recession and recovery in the US finally getting some traction, the case for fiscal consolidation appears increasingly weak. But the case becomes stronger when one considers Asian countries' path from crisis in the late 1990's to astounding growth and prosperity today.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With Europe on the brink of recession and recovery in the US finally getting some traction, the case for fiscal consolidation appears increasingly weak. But the case becomes stronger when one considers Asian countries' path from crisis in the late 1990's to astounding growth and prosperity today.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Stephen S. Roach</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Stephen S. Roach</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Nuclear Disarmament’s Midnight Hour</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Last month, the Doomsday Clock’s hands were moved a minute closer to midnight by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which for decades has tracked the risk of nuclear catastrophe. Though few around the world seemed to be listening, the scientists’ argument was sobering, and demands attention.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Last month, the Doomsday Clock’s hands were moved a minute closer to midnight by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which for decades has tracked the risk of nuclear catastrophe. Though few around the world seemed to be listening, the scientists’ argument was sobering, and demands attention.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Gareth Evans</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Gareth Evans</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Europe’s Empty Fiscal Compact</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The EU’s current focus on creating a “fiscal compact,” which would bind member states to supposedly inviolable deficit ceilings, reflects the “European project” of political integration. Unfortunately, the proposed compact subordinates economic reality to political leaders’ desire for bragging rights about progress toward “ever closer union.”]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The EU’s current focus on creating a “fiscal compact,” which would bind member states to supposedly inviolable deficit ceilings, reflects the “European project” of political integration. Unfortunately, the proposed compact subordinates economic reality to political leaders’ desire for bragging rights about progress toward “ever closer union.”]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Too Big to Jail</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Among the fundamental principles of any functioning judicial system is the following: Don’t lie to a judge or falsify documents submitted to a court, or you will go to jail. These are serious criminal offenses, but apparently not if you are the heart of America’s financial system.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Among the fundamental principles of any functioning judicial system is the following: Don’t lie to a judge or falsify documents submitted to a court, or you will go to jail. These are serious criminal offenses, but apparently not if you are the heart of America’s financial system.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Thirty-three years ago, then-US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke of “an arc of crisis” coursing through the Middle East and into Central Asia. Today, events from Syria to Pakistan suggest that Brzezinski’s arc is more salient than ever.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Thirty-three years ago, then-US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke of “an arc of crisis” coursing through the Middle East and into Central Asia. Today, events from Syria to Pakistan suggest that Brzezinski’s arc is more salient than ever.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jaswant Singh</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Nowadays, many are questioning the old assumption that greater market efficiency is always and everywhere a public good. Phrases like “sand in the machine” and “grit in the oyster,” which were pejorative before the 2008 financial crisis, are now used to support regulatory or fiscal changes that might slow down trading and reduce its volume.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Nowadays, many are questioning the old assumption that greater market efficiency is always and everywhere a public good. Phrases like “sand in the machine” and “grit in the oyster,” which were pejorative before the 2008 financial crisis, are now used to support regulatory or fiscal changes that might slow down trading and reduce its volume.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Howard Davies</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Howard Davies</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[French President Nicolas Sarkozy has had to confront exceptionally difficult circumstances, and his record since assuming office in 2007 is far from poor. But, barring a last-minute miracle, he will lose his re-election bid to the Socialist candidate, François Hollande.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[French President Nicolas Sarkozy has had to confront exceptionally difficult circumstances, and his record since assuming office in 2007 is far from poor. But, barring a last-minute miracle, he will lose his re-election bid to the Socialist candidate, François Hollande.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Good and Bad Deficits</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The distinction between capital and current spending (or between “good” and “bad” deficits) is old hat to any student of public finance. Nevertheless, we forget knowledge at such an alarming rate nowadays that it is worth re-stating, particularly with deficit hawks in power in the UK and throughout Europe.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The distinction between capital and current spending (or between “good” and “bad” deficits) is old hat to any student of public finance. Nevertheless, we forget knowledge at such an alarming rate nowadays that it is worth re-stating, particularly with deficit hawks in power in the UK and throughout Europe.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Tobin Trouble</title>
    <description><![CDATA[European leaders are seriously considering a Tobin tax, which would put a small levy on financial transactions, thereby dampening trading. But that is neither a desirable outcome nor an appropriate goal.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[European leaders are seriously considering a Tobin tax, which would put a small levy on financial transactions, thereby dampening trading. But that is neither a desirable outcome nor an appropriate goal.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mark Roe</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mark Roe</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Sustainability Mindset</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The global economy will probably triple in size in the next quarter-century, fueling concern that the planet’s natural resources and recuperative capacities will not withstand the pressure. The challenge is to change the growth model in order to lighten the impact of higher levels of economic activity.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The global economy will probably triple in size in the next quarter-century, fueling concern that the planet’s natural resources and recuperative capacities will not withstand the pressure. The challenge is to change the growth model in order to lighten the impact of higher levels of economic activity.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Germany’s Sunshine Daydream</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Germany once prided itself on becoming the "world champion" of solar power. But now the German government is vowing to cut its massive subsidies sooner than planned, and to phase out support over the next five years – a reflection of the policy's economic failure and absent impact on global warming.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Germany once prided itself on becoming the "world champion" of solar power. But now the German government is vowing to cut its massive subsidies sooner than planned, and to phase out support over the next five years – a reflection of the policy's economic failure and absent impact on global warming.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Austerity under Attack</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As the European economy risks falling into recession, many observers are asking whether austerity could lead to such a sharp decline in economic activity that revenues fall and the fiscal position actually deteriorates further. But it would be dangerous for the eurozone’s highly indebted countries to abandon austerity now.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the European economy risks falling into recession, many observers are asking whether austerity could lead to such a sharp decline in economic activity that revenues fall and the fiscal position actually deteriorates further. But it would be dangerous for the eurozone’s highly indebted countries to abandon austerity now.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>America’s Three Deficits</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US faces painful choices about how to close its long-run fiscal gap, and a credible plan should be decided now and implemented promptly  – but only after the economy has recovered. For the next few years, the priorities of fiscal policy should be jobs, investment, and growth.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US faces painful choices about how to close its long-run fiscal gap, and a credible plan should be decided now and implemented promptly  – but only after the economy has recovered. For the next few years, the priorities of fiscal policy should be jobs, investment, and growth.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Laura Tyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Laura Tyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Coronary Capitalism</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Just as the financial industry caused a near-meltdown of the global economy in 2008, the food industry has facilitated the explosion of obesity around the world. In both cases, the links to broader problems with contemporary Western capitalism have become impossible to ignore.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Just as the financial industry caused a near-meltdown of the global economy in 2008, the food industry has facilitated the explosion of obesity around the world. In both cases, the links to broader problems with contemporary Western capitalism have become impossible to ignore.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Referendum on Obama</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The 2012 US presidential election will be a referendum on Barack Obama’s policies and performance. A Republican presidential victory, together with Republican control of Congress, would most likely lead to substantial reduction, repeal, and replacement of many Obama initiatives, attempts to reform taxes and entitlements, and greater fiscal discipline.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The 2012 US presidential election will be a referendum on Barack Obama’s policies and performance. A Republican presidential victory, together with Republican control of Congress, would most likely lead to substantial reduction, repeal, and replacement of many Obama initiatives, attempts to reform taxes and entitlements, and greater fiscal discipline.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Boskin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Boskin</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Eurozone’s Strategy of Pain</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For the third year in a row, the eurozone is the weakest link in the world economy, with concerns mounting about its very viability. But the eurozone is doubling down on austerity, reasoning that no pain in Southern Europe would mean no gain in reform and adjustment.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For the third year in a row, the eurozone is the weakest link in the world economy, with concerns mounting about its very viability. But the eurozone is doubling down on austerity, reasoning that no pain in Southern Europe would mean no gain in reform and adjustment.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Last year, India's GDP growth decelerated, manufacturing plummeted, and corruption grew uncontrollably, while the government failed to enact even a single piece of legislation, much less undertake any economic reforms, control inflation, or address widespread civil disorder. Will 2012 prove to be a year of renewal for India, or another annus horribilis?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Last year, India's GDP growth decelerated, manufacturing plummeted, and corruption grew uncontrollably, while the government failed to enact even a single piece of legislation, much less undertake any economic reforms, control inflation, or address widespread civil disorder. Will 2012 prove to be a year of renewal for India, or another annus horribilis?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jaswant Singh</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Libertarian and the Lobbyists</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Among the Republican candidates still vying to challenge Barack Obama in November’s US presidential election, Ron Paul stands out for arguing consistently that government is the problem, not the answer, with regard to banking. But the real problem with financial regulation, a new study shows, is lobbying.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Among the Republican candidates still vying to challenge Barack Obama in November’s US presidential election, Ron Paul stands out for arguing consistently that government is the problem, not the answer, with regard to banking. But the real problem with financial regulation, a new study shows, is lobbying.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Leaderless Global Governance</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Too much global political capital nowadays is wasted on harmonizing policies that don't need it, and not enough is spent on harmonizing those that do. Over-ambitious and misdirected efforts at global governance will not serve us well at a time when global leadership and cooperation are bound to remain in limited supply.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Too much global political capital nowadays is wasted on harmonizing policies that don't need it, and not enough is spent on harmonizing those that do. Over-ambitious and misdirected efforts at global governance will not serve us well at a time when global leadership and cooperation are bound to remain in limited supply.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Most societies have important economic and other objectives that markets and competition are not designed to achieve. In today’s rapidly globalizing world, the most important of these objectives – expressed in various ways through the political and policymaking process in a wide range of countries – are stability, distributional equity, and sustainability.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Most societies have important economic and other objectives that markets and competition are not designed to achieve. In today’s rapidly globalizing world, the most important of these objectives – expressed in various ways through the political and policymaking process in a wide range of countries – are stability, distributional equity, and sustainability.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Can Italy Be Saved?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As the economist Mario Monti assembles Italy’s next government, much is at stake for the country, for Europe, and for the global economy. Only bold commitments by both the EU and Italy can prevent an extremely bad outcome – and ensure a relatively favorable one.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the economist Mario Monti assembles Italy’s next government, much is at stake for the country, for Europe, and for the global economy. Only bold commitments by both the EU and Italy can prevent an extremely bad outcome – and ensure a relatively favorable one.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Wages of Economic Ignorance</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Politicians portray everything good that happens as the result of their exceptional talents and efforts, while everything bad is caused by someone or something else. But, when i comes to most advanced countries' inability to achieve a sustained recovery since 2008, they have only their own economic illiteracy to blame.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Politicians portray everything good that happens as the result of their exceptional talents and efforts, while everything bad is caused by someone or something else. But, when i comes to most advanced countries' inability to achieve a sustained recovery since 2008, they have only their own economic illiteracy to blame.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Anatomy of Global Economic Uncertainty</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The sense of uncertainty prevailing in the West is palpable, and rightly so: People are worried about their future, with a record number now fearing that their children may end up worse off than them. Unfortunately, things will become even more unsettling in the months and years ahead.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The sense of uncertainty prevailing in the West is palpable, and rightly so: People are worried about their future, with a record number now fearing that their children may end up worse off than them. Unfortunately, things will become even more unsettling in the months and years ahead.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mohamed A. El-Erian</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mohamed A. El-Erian</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Start-Up Soup</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Building a company is a lot harder than having a good idea, for it requires attracting people and organizing them to work together. That fact is lost on too many Internet "entrepreneurs" nowadays, who sell themselves to Google, Facebook, and other large firms before they have created real companies.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Building a company is a lot harder than having a good idea, for it requires attracting people and organizing them to work together. That fact is lost on too many Internet "entrepreneurs" nowadays, who sell themselves to Google, Facebook, and other large firms before they have created real companies.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>New India, Old Europe</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Although India has several affinities with the EU, this has not translated into close political or strategic relations. The case for India-EU cooperation could not be stronger, but the danger remains that India could write off Europe as a charming but irrelevant continent.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although India has several affinities with the EU, this has not translated into close political or strategic relations. The case for India-EU cooperation could not be stronger, but the danger remains that India could write off Europe as a charming but irrelevant continent.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Seeming Green</title>
    <description><![CDATA[From political photo opportunities, to governments' environmental subsidies, it seems everyone these days wants to look green. But we do not burn fossil fuels simply to annoy environmentalists; we burn them because fossil fuels facilitate virtually all the material advances that civilization has achieved over the last few hundred years.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[From political photo opportunities, to governments' environmental subsidies, it seems everyone these days wants to look green. But we do not burn fossil fuels simply to annoy environmentalists; we burn them because fossil fuels facilitate virtually all the material advances that civilization has achieved over the last few hundred years.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Should We Ban Cigarettes?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Cigarettes are among the deadliest artifacts in human history, and kill more people every year than AIDS, Malaria, and traffic accidents combined. If we want to save lives and improve health, nothing else that is readily achievable would be as effective as banning their sale.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cigarettes are among the deadliest artifacts in human history, and kill more people every year than AIDS, Malaria, and traffic accidents combined. If we want to save lives and improve health, nothing else that is readily achievable would be as effective as banning their sale.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Angela Merkel’s Vision Thing</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As Europe struggles to save the euro, the chorus of complaints about weak leadership in the world’s major economies grows louder, with many singling out German Chancellor Angela Merkel for failing to promote a vision of Europe similar to that of her predecessor and mentor, Helmut Kohl. Are the critics right?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As Europe struggles to save the euro, the chorus of complaints about weak leadership in the world’s major economies grows louder, with many singling out German Chancellor Angela Merkel for failing to promote a vision of Europe similar to that of her predecessor and mentor, Helmut Kohl. Are the critics right?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[With globalization and modern technology, social movements can transcend borders as rapidly as ideas can. And social protest has found fertile ground everywhere: a sense that the “system” has failed, and the conviction that even in a democracy, the electoral process will not set things right – at least not without strong pressure from the street.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With globalization and modern technology, social movements can transcend borders as rapidly as ideas can. And social protest has found fertile ground everywhere: a sense that the “system” has failed, and the conviction that even in a democracy, the electoral process will not set things right – at least not without strong pressure from the street.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Ransoming Israel’s Chance for Peace</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Hamas and Hezbollah are bound to read the Gilad Shalit exchange as a sign of Israel’s weakness and as a promise of its imminent capitulation. In these circumstances, Israel's task is to boost Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, not weaken him, as it did in the Shalit deal.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Hamas and Hezbollah are bound to read the Gilad Shalit exchange as a sign of Israel’s weakness and as a promise of its imminent capitulation. In these circumstances, Israel's task is to boost Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, not weaken him, as it did in the Shalit deal.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[There are plenty of vaguely-plausible reasons why the euro has remained so firm against the dollar throughout the euro crisis, at least so far. But, with so many forces arrayed against the current exchange rate, and little reason for it to be maintained, don’t count on this stability sticking around.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There are plenty of vaguely-plausible reasons why the euro has remained so firm against the dollar throughout the euro crisis, at least so far. But, with so many forces arrayed against the current exchange rate, and little reason for it to be maintained, don’t count on this stability sticking around.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[A central bank always has a crucial role to play in a financial crisis. But the ECB’s role within the eurozone nowadays is even more “central” than that of the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England, because it has been forced to substitute for the cross-border interbank market.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A central bank always has a crucial role to play in a financial crisis. But the ECB’s role within the eurozone nowadays is even more “central” than that of the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England, because it has been forced to substitute for the cross-border interbank market.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[With its refusal to negotiate for a realistic peace, Israel is effectively demanding the disappearance of Palestinian identity. The rest of the world should not tolerate that effort, even if the US does.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With its refusal to negotiate for a realistic peace, Israel is effectively demanding the disappearance of Palestinian identity. The rest of the world should not tolerate that effort, even if the US does.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michel Rocard</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michel Rocard</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Many on the left are suspicious of the idea that economic growth helps to reduce poverty in developing countries, and that redistribution is the key to poverty reduction. These assertions, however, are not borne out by the evidence.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Many on the left are suspicious of the idea that economic growth helps to reduce poverty in developing countries, and that redistribution is the key to poverty reduction. These assertions, however, are not borne out by the evidence.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[A good test of a bilateral relationship’s durability is, of course, how long it has endured – and also how it has endured leadership changes. And, as the US-South Korea relationship shows, political leaders’ need the time and space to develop the strong personal relationships with their counterparts on which an effective foreign policy depends.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A good test of a bilateral relationship’s durability is, of course, how long it has endured – and also how it has endured leadership changes. And, as the US-South Korea relationship shows, political leaders’ need the time and space to develop the strong personal relationships with their counterparts on which an effective foreign policy depends.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Christopher R. Hill</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Christopher R. Hill</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When it comes to refinancing Italy, bond purchases are just the tip of the iceberg: in August alone, Italy’s central bank drew €40 billion in credit from the ECB system, and it probably drew roughly another €50 billion in September. This is not the end of the world – not even for the ECB – but the eurozone has entered dangerous territory.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When it comes to refinancing Italy, bond purchases are just the tip of the iceberg: in August alone, Italy’s central bank drew €40 billion in credit from the ECB system, and it probably drew roughly another €50 billion in September. This is not the end of the world – not even for the ECB – but the eurozone has entered dangerous territory.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Hans-Werner Sinn</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Hans-Werner Sinn</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Whenever opposite political forces attract, as activists and big business have in the case of global warming, there is a high risk that the public interest will be caught in the middle. That, in a nutshell, is the story of the rise of "renewable" energy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Whenever opposite political forces attract, as activists and big business have in the case of global warming, there is a high risk that the public interest will be caught in the middle. That, in a nutshell, is the story of the rise of "renewable" energy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The major emerging economies have succeeded by focusing not only on macro and monetary stability, but also on adaptation, guided by a forward-looking (though inherently imperfect) assessment of coming micro and macro structural shifts and the measures needed to support them. Can the major developed countries do the same?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The major emerging economies have succeeded by focusing not only on macro and monetary stability, but also on adaptation, guided by a forward-looking (though inherently imperfect) assessment of coming micro and macro structural shifts and the measures needed to support them. Can the major developed countries do the same?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[So far, the EU's Greek strategy has amounted to squeezing blood from a stone. Instead, Europeans might usefully look back 60 years, to a time when their own countries, perched on the brink of a similar collapse, received the help that they needed to recover – help that has put them in a position to do something similar for Greece today.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[So far, the EU's Greek strategy has amounted to squeezing blood from a stone. Instead, Europeans might usefully look back 60 years, to a time when their own countries, perched on the brink of a similar collapse, received the help that they needed to recover – help that has put them in a position to do something similar for Greece today.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Moral Progress and Animal Welfare</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Indeed, charting the progress of animal-welfare legislation around the world is an indication of moral progress more generally.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Indeed, charting the progress of animal-welfare legislation around the world is an indication of moral progress more generally.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s announcement of the start of US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, and his administration’s increasing emphasis on reconciliation with the Taliban, has been studied attentively in one capital that has a large stake in the outcome – New Delhi. India has no troops in Afghanistan, but it cannot afford failure there.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s announcement of the start of US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, and his administration’s increasing emphasis on reconciliation with the Taliban, has been studied attentively in one capital that has a large stake in the outcome – New Delhi. India has no troops in Afghanistan, but it cannot afford failure there.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Most European citizens (for example, more than 60% in France and Germany) believe that Turkey should not become part of the EU, and to insist on it would smack of precisely the kind of undemocratic paternalism that has turned many Europeans against the EU already. But, on this question, the majority is not right.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Most European citizens (for example, more than 60% in France and Germany) believe that Turkey should not become part of the EU, and to insist on it would smack of precisely the kind of undemocratic paternalism that has turned many Europeans against the EU already. But, on this question, the majority is not right.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Until now, the relentless march of technology and globalization has played out hugely in favor of high-skilled labor, helping fuel record-high levels of income and wealth inequality around the world. But that march is now turning against skilled workers, promising to narrow the equality gap.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Until now, the relentless march of technology and globalization has played out hugely in favor of high-skilled labor, helping fuel record-high levels of income and wealth inequality around the world. But that march is now turning against skilled workers, promising to narrow the equality gap.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Ideological Crisis of Western Capitalism</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US economy's troubles should have taught Americans (and others) that they need greater equality,stronger regulation, and a better balance between the market and government. Instead, resurgent right-wing economics once again threatens the global economy – or at least Europe and America.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US economy's troubles should have taught Americans (and others) that they need greater equality,stronger regulation, and a better balance between the market and government. Instead, resurgent right-wing economics once again threatens the global economy – or at least Europe and America.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[America’s reluctance to be drawn into the Libyan quagmire, and the West’s failure to intervene to stop the Syrian army from massacring civilians, now looks like a sad, and fairly accurate, guide to the future. The future is not one of Western non-interventionism, but of restraint, owing to the limits of US power.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[America’s reluctance to be drawn into the Libyan quagmire, and the West’s failure to intervene to stop the Syrian army from massacring civilians, now looks like a sad, and fairly accurate, guide to the future. The future is not one of Western non-interventionism, but of restraint, owing to the limits of US power.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Farewell to the Euro?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It is time to face the fact that Europe’s peripheral countries have to become poorer. The only question is whether they will take the euro down as well.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is time to face the fact that Europe’s peripheral countries have to become poorer. The only question is whether they will take the euro down as well.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Hans-Werner Sinn</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Hans-Werner Sinn</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The US economy has recently slowed dramatically, and the probability of another economic downturn increases with each new round of data. This is a sharp change from the economic situation at the end of last year – and it represents a return to the very weak pace of expansion since the recovery began in the summer of 2009.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US economy has recently slowed dramatically, and the probability of another economic downturn increases with each new round of data. This is a sharp change from the economic situation at the end of last year – and it represents a return to the very weak pace of expansion since the recovery began in the summer of 2009.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[European leaders are convinced that bank capital is “expensive,” in the sense that raising capital requirements would slow economic growth. But the latest developments in the Greek crisis show that the exact opposite is true – it’s European banks’ lack of capital that threatens to derail European and global growth.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[European leaders are convinced that bank capital is “expensive,” in the sense that raising capital requirements would slow economic growth. But the latest developments in the Greek crisis show that the exact opposite is true – it’s European banks’ lack of capital that threatens to derail European and global growth.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Ban Ki-moon and the Age of Sustainable Development</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The world can breathe easier with the reelection this month of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to a second term in office. During the past five years, Ban has embodied the unity that a fractious world needs, both in his unique personal diplomacy and in his role as head of the world’s indispensable global organization.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The world can breathe easier with the reelection this month of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to a second term in office. During the past five years, Ban has embodied the unity that a fractious world needs, both in his unique personal diplomacy and in his role as head of the world’s indispensable global organization.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>To Repay or Not to Repay Debts?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For months now, a fight over sovereign-debt restructuring has been raging between those who insist that Greece must continue to honor its signature and those for whom the country's public debt should be partly canceled. Who is right?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For months now, a fight over sovereign-debt restructuring has been raging between those who insist that Greece must continue to honor its signature and those for whom the country's public debt should be partly canceled. Who is right?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Why Free Trade Matters</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Contrary to what skeptics often assert, the case for free trade is robust. It extends not just to overall prosperity, but also to distributional outcomes, which make the free-trade argument morally compelling as well.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Contrary to what skeptics often assert, the case for free trade is robust. It extends not just to overall prosperity, but also to distributional outcomes, which make the free-trade argument morally compelling as well.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Chinese Finance Comes of Age</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Back in 2002, all of China’s major banks were awash in non-performing loans, which in some cases amounted to more than 10% of the total balance sheet. Less than a decade later, much has changed – with some important lessons for Western regulators.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Back in 2002, all of China’s major banks were awash in non-performing loans, which in some cases amounted to more than 10% of the total balance sheet. Less than a decade later, much has changed – with some important lessons for Western regulators.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Howard Davies</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Howard Davies</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Turning Privacy “Threats” Into Opportunities</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Most companies regard online privacy warily, seeing only expensive disclosure requirements, constraints on their ability to collect information about their customers, and a potential source of legal liabilities. But companies should be turning personal data into an asset by giving it back to their customers in an enhanced form.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Most companies regard online privacy warily, seeing only expensive disclosure requirements, constraints on their ability to collect information about their customers, and a potential source of legal liabilities. But companies should be turning personal data into an asset by giving it back to their customers in an enhanced form.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Common Sense on Capital Controls</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Those who claim that capital controls are ineffective seldom specify at what they are presumed to be ineffective. In fact, by reducing the share of short-term foreign-currency debt in a country’s total liabilities, capital controls can reduce vulnerability to financial crises.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Those who claim that capital controls are ineffective seldom specify at what they are presumed to be ineffective. In fact, by reducing the share of short-term foreign-currency debt in a country’s total liabilities, capital controls can reduce vulnerability to financial crises.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Andres Velasco</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Andres Velasco</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Free Speech under Siege</title>
    <description><![CDATA[You know that a doctrine is in trouble when even those claiming to defend it do not understand what it means. By that standard, the classic doctrine of free speech is in crisis.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[You know that a doctrine is in trouble when even those claiming to defend it do not understand what it means. By that standard, the classic doctrine of free speech is in crisis.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Asia After the Afghan War</title>
    <description><![CDATA[July will mark two milestones in America’s relations with Asia: the  first US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, and the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret mission to Beijing. Will the Obama administration’s apparent lack of any explicit Asia strategy mean a general US retreat from Asia?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[July will mark two milestones in America’s relations with Asia: the  first US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, and the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret mission to Beijing. Will the Obama administration’s apparent lack of any explicit Asia strategy mean a general US retreat from Asia?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How to Set Goals</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The intention behind the UN's Millennium Development Goals was laudable, but 11 years on, progress in achieving them has been uneven. As decision-makers start to consider what our aspirations should be after the deadline has expired in 2015, it is worth looking back at what worked, what didn’t, and how we could do better.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The intention behind the UN's Millennium Development Goals was laudable, but 11 years on, progress in achieving them has been uneven. As decision-makers start to consider what our aspirations should be after the deadline has expired in 2015, it is worth looking back at what worked, what didn’t, and how we could do better.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Does Anything Matter?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Can moral judgments be true or false, or is ethics, at bottom, a purely subjective matter, for individuals to choose, or perhaps relative to the culture of the society in which one lives? We might have just found out the answer.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Can moral judgments be true or false, or is ethics, at bottom, a purely subjective matter, for individuals to choose, or perhaps relative to the culture of the society in which one lives? We might have just found out the answer.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>India Gives</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For decades after independence, India was seen as an impoverished land of destitute people, desperately in need of international handouts. But India has now emerged as a significant donor to developing countries in Africa and Asia, second only to China among countries of the global South.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For decades after independence, India was seen as an impoverished land of destitute people, desperately in need of international handouts. But India has now emerged as a significant donor to developing countries in Africa and Asia, second only to China among countries of the global South.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How to Kill a Dollar</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Many complain that the Fed's near-zero interest-rate policy is debasing the dollar and eroding the currency’s purchasing power. But, if there is a threat to the dollar, it stems not from monetary policy, but from the fiscal side.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Many complain that the Fed's near-zero interest-rate policy is debasing the dollar and eroding the currency’s purchasing power. But, if there is a threat to the dollar, it stems not from monetary policy, but from the fiscal side.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Has Economic Power Replaced Military Might?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Military power, which some call the ultimate form of power in world politics, requires a thriving economy. But whether economic or military resources produce more power in today’s world depends on the context.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Military power, which some call the ultimate form of power in world politics, requires a thriving economy. But whether economic or military resources produce more power in today’s world depends on the context.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Euro’s PIG-Headed Masters</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Europe is in constitutional crisis: no one seems to have the power to impose a sensible resolution of its peripheral countries’ debt crisis. Indeed, it is hard to see how the single currency can survive much longer without a decisive move towards a far stronger fiscal union.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Europe is in constitutional crisis: no one seems to have the power to impose a sensible resolution of its peripheral countries’ debt crisis. Indeed, it is hard to see how the single currency can survive much longer without a decisive move towards a far stronger fiscal union.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The EU’s Rules to Default By</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Greece’s troubles with its ballooning public debt are again throwing Europe’s financial markets into turmoil, because the entire regulatory framework for the financial system was built on the assumption that government debt is risk-free. We now know that it is not, though EU regulators are still encouraging banks to take on as much of it as they want.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Greece’s troubles with its ballooning public debt are again throwing Europe’s financial markets into turmoil, because the entire regulatory framework for the financial system was built on the assumption that government debt is risk-free. We now know that it is not, though EU regulators are still encouraging banks to take on as much of it as they want.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>When Will China’s Economy Overtake America’s?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As China’s economy continues to grow and eventually matches US GDP, the demand that the Chinese assume greater responsibility for the global economy’s health will become stronger. By almost all recent estimates, they have little time to prepare.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As China’s economy continues to grow and eventually matches US GDP, the demand that the Chinese assume greater responsibility for the global economy’s health will become stronger. By almost all recent estimates, they have little time to prepare.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yao Yang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yao Yang</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Asia’s New Growth Model</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Emerging markets’ share of the global economy has risen steadily, led by Asian economies – home to almost three-fifths of the world’s population. If these economies take roughly the same route as their predecessors to advanced-country status, the impact on natural resources and the environment would be enormous – and probably disastrous.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Emerging markets’ share of the global economy has risen steadily, led by Asian economies – home to almost three-fifths of the world’s population. If these economies take roughly the same route as their predecessors to advanced-country status, the impact on natural resources and the environment would be enormous – and probably disastrous.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Consensual sex between adults is no one else’s business. But now that public figures are susceptible to being watched three-dimensionally, the chances of being compromised are far higher than they were in the days of the UK’s Profumo affair.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Consensual sex between adults is no one else’s business. But now that public figures are susceptible to being watched three-dimensionally, the chances of being compromised are far higher than they were in the days of the UK’s Profumo affair.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Life without Doha</title>
    <description><![CDATA[If the Doha Round fails, the global free-trade agenda would shift from the WTO to preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which are already spreading like an epidemic. That, in turn, would mean the end of non-discriminatory trade liberalization and uniform rule-making and enforcement.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If the Doha Round fails, the global free-trade agenda would shift from the WTO to preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which are already spreading like an epidemic. That, in turn, would mean the end of non-discriminatory trade liberalization and uniform rule-making and enforcement.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Squaring Asia’s Nuclear Triangle</title>
    <description><![CDATA[At their recent trilateral summit, Japan, China, and South Korea agreed to cooperate more closely on managing nuclear power in the region. But regional cooperation on nuclear safety cannot succeed unless Taiwan is invited to join the effort.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[At their recent trilateral summit, Japan, China, and South Korea agreed to cooperate more closely on managing nuclear power in the region. But regional cooperation on nuclear safety cannot succeed unless Taiwan is invited to join the effort.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Ten Reasons Why China is Different</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Stephen S. Roach</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Stephen S. Roach</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Economy, Insure Thyself</title>
    <description><![CDATA[If countries covered their risks by issuing a different kind of national debt, tied to their own GDP or a similar measure of economic success, many would have a much debt burden today. Just ask Japan.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If countries covered their risks by issuing a different kind of national debt, tied to their own GDP or a similar measure of economic success, many would have a much debt burden today. Just ask Japan.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert J. Shiller</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert J. Shiller</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The Greek government, the European Commission, and the IMF are all denying what markets perceive clearly: Greece will eventually default on its debts to its private and public creditors. But even a default will provide no guarantee of a return to fiscal sustainability – and it will not fix Greece's equally unsustainable trade deficit.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Greek government, the European Commission, and the IMF are all denying what markets perceive clearly: Greece will eventually default on its debts to its private and public creditors. But even a default will provide no guarantee of a return to fiscal sustainability – and it will not fix Greece's equally unsustainable trade deficit.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Bombs Away</title>
    <description><![CDATA[One of the most dispiriting features of contemporary international debate is that the threat to humanity posed by the world’s 23,000 nuclear weapons has been consigned to the margin of politics. Indeed, Japan’s Fukushima disaster has generated a massive debate about the safety of nuclear power, but not about nuclear weapons.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One of the most dispiriting features of contemporary international debate is that the threat to humanity posed by the world’s 23,000 nuclear weapons has been consigned to the margin of politics. Indeed, Japan’s Fukushima disaster has generated a massive debate about the safety of nuclear power, but not about nuclear weapons.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Gareth Evans</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Gareth Evans</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Built to Bust</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In 2007, it was reasonable to expect that construction spending in the US would be depressed for some time to come. But the extent of the subsequent fall-off in construction spending relative to long-run trends has dwarfed the level of excess spending in 2003-2006.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 2007, it was reasonable to expect that construction spending in the US would be depressed for some time to come. But the extent of the subsequent fall-off in construction spending relative to long-run trends has dwarfed the level of excess spending in 2003-2006.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A World of Regions</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In almost every part of the world, long-festering problems can be solved through closer cooperation among neighboring countries. So why do most regional groupings remain too weak to address their members’ pressing needs?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In almost every part of the world, long-festering problems can be solved through closer cooperation among neighboring countries. So why do most regional groupings remain too weak to address their members’ pressing needs?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Hobble and Muddle</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The world economy will remain unusually fluid – systemically interconnected, but increasingly fragmented cognitively over the next 3-5 years, and thus plagued by weak global governance and policy coordination. In this environment, those who seek to benefit from change could easily fall victim to it.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The world economy will remain unusually fluid – systemically interconnected, but increasingly fragmented cognitively over the next 3-5 years, and thus plagued by weak global governance and policy coordination. In this environment, those who seek to benefit from change could easily fall victim to it.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mohamed A. El-Erian</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mohamed A. El-Erian</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Geneva on the Rhine</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, newly reunified Germany was perceived as a threat to the European balance. Today, it is not an excess of German ambition, but rather a lack of it, that is threatening Europe.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, newly reunified Germany was perceived as a threat to the European balance. Today, it is not an excess of German ambition, but rather a lack of it, that is threatening Europe.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Illusions of Democracy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Internet has changed how we do business, how we do politics, and even how we change our leaders – at least some of the time. But we should not let that fool us into believing that the online world is even remotely like democracy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Internet has changed how we do business, how we do politics, and even how we change our leaders – at least some of the time. But we should not let that fool us into believing that the online world is even remotely like democracy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Lumpy Labor</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Work-sharing is surely the most civilized solution to the problem of technology-driven unemployment. And yet all schemes aimed at easing the burden of work and increasing the amount of leisure risk falling victim to our genius for conjuring up new disasters.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Work-sharing is surely the most civilized solution to the problem of technology-driven unemployment. And yet all schemes aimed at easing the burden of work and increasing the amount of leisure risk falling victim to our genius for conjuring up new disasters.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Derivatives Market’s Helpful Enemies</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The launch of two European antitrust investigations into the market for credit default swaps might appear to be no more than a political vendetta against an alleged culprit behind the 2010 European sovereign-debt crisis. But the existence of political motivations does not undermine the legitimacy of the new inquiries.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The launch of two European antitrust investigations into the market for credit default swaps might appear to be no more than a political vendetta against an alleged culprit behind the 2010 European sovereign-debt crisis. But the existence of political motivations does not undermine the legitimacy of the new inquiries.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Luigi Zingales</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Luigi Zingales</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Myth of Green Energy Security</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In many Western countries, climate-change policies are increasingly being wrapped in promises of greater energy security. But the old, discredited policies look no better in their new packaging.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In many Western countries, climate-change policies are increasingly being wrapped in promises of greater energy security. But the old, discredited policies look no better in their new packaging.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Will The US Have A “Debt Crisis”?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[John Boehner, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is leading the Republican Party’s charge on fiscal policy, arguing that his side needs to see “trillions of dollars” in spending cuts in order for Congress to approve an increase in the US government’s debt ceiling. No one should believe him.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[John Boehner, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is leading the Republican Party’s charge on fiscal policy, arguing that his side needs to see “trillions of dollars” in spending cuts in order for Congress to approve an increase in the US government’s debt ceiling. No one should believe him.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Loan and a Prayer</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Europe cannot afford to continue throwing money at insolvent eurozone members and pray that growth and time will bring salvation. The creditors and bondholders who lent the money in the first place must carry their share of the burden – not least for the sake of their own bottom lines.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Europe cannot afford to continue throwing money at insolvent eurozone members and pray that growth and time will bring salvation. The creditors and bondholders who lent the money in the first place must carry their share of the burden – not least for the sake of their own bottom lines.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Stephen Mihm</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Stephen Mihm, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Osama Opening</title>
    <description><![CDATA[If the world is to reap the benefits of Osama bin Laden's death, the respective national aims of Afghanistan, the US, India, Pakistan, Iran, and the region’s other important countries must somehow be reconciled. The US has a unique opportunity to assist in finding the correct regional balance.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If the world is to reap the benefits of Osama bin Laden's death, the respective national aims of Afghanistan, the US, India, Pakistan, Iran, and the region’s other important countries must somehow be reconciled. The US has a unique opportunity to assist in finding the correct regional balance.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jaswant Singh</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>When Prevention is Better than Relief</title>
    <description><![CDATA[People donate hundreds of millions of dollars to help people after a disaster – even after a disaster in a wealthy country like Japan – but are unwilling to invest the same amount to save lives before a predictable disaster strikes. But we should be guided by the best estimates of the chance that prevention will save lives, and by the cost of saving those lives.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[People donate hundreds of millions of dollars to help people after a disaster – even after a disaster in a wealthy country like Japan – but are unwilling to invest the same amount to save lives before a predictable disaster strikes. But we should be guided by the best estimates of the chance that prevention will save lives, and by the cost of saving those lives.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Economists and Democracy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Raised on textbooks that obscure the role of institutions, economists often imagine that markets arise on their own, with no help from purposeful, collective action. And, once we recognize that markets require rules, we must next ask who writes those rules.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Raised on textbooks that obscure the role of institutions, economists often imagine that markets arise on their own, with no help from purposeful, collective action. And, once we recognize that markets require rules, we must next ask who writes those rules.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The IMF’s Switch in Time</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The annual spring meeting of the IMF was notable in marking the Fund’s effort to distance itself from its own long-standing tenets on capital controls and labor-market flexibility. It appears that a new IMF has gradually emerged under the leadership of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who may soon be leaving to seek the presidency of France.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The annual spring meeting of the IMF was notable in marking the Fund’s effort to distance itself from its own long-standing tenets on capital controls and labor-market flexibility. It appears that a new IMF has gradually emerged under the leadership of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who may soon be leaving to seek the presidency of France.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Today, many pundits argue that other countries’ rising power and the loss of American influence in a revolutionary Middle East point to the decline of “American hegemony.” But the term is confusing, not least because possession of power resources does not always imply that one can get the outcomes one prefers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today, many pundits argue that other countries’ rising power and the loss of American influence in a revolutionary Middle East point to the decline of “American hegemony.” But the term is confusing, not least because possession of power resources does not always imply that one can get the outcomes one prefers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[At the US Federal Reserve’s recent and first-ever public press conference, Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a spirited defense of the Fed’s much-criticized policy of mass purchases of US government bonds, also known as “quantitative easing.” But was his justification persuasive?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[At the US Federal Reserve’s recent and first-ever public press conference, Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a spirited defense of the Fed’s much-criticized policy of mass purchases of US government bonds, also known as “quantitative easing.” But was his justification persuasive?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Seven-Year Ditch</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The most obvious parallel to Europe’s current woes is the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980’s. Unfortunately, there appears to be no way for southern European debtors to avoid the seven years of misery that Latin American countries suffered before returning to economic vigor and dynamism.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The most obvious parallel to Europe’s current woes is the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980’s. Unfortunately, there appears to be no way for southern European debtors to avoid the seven years of misery that Latin American countries suffered before returning to economic vigor and dynamism.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The Arab revolt against inertia, despair, and decline has rightly inspired the admiration of civilized people everywhere – everywhere, that is, except in Israel. But such inertia was not always Israel’s way – and it is not the way forward for the country now.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Arab revolt against inertia, despair, and decline has rightly inspired the admiration of civilized people everywhere – everywhere, that is, except in Israel. But such inertia was not always Israel’s way – and it is not the way forward for the country now.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Alliances of the Air</title>
    <description><![CDATA[India’s recent decision not to purchase US warplanes for its $10 billion-plus fighter aircraft program – the largest single military tender in the country’s history – has stirred debate in defense circles worldwide. But the notion that a major arms purchase should be based on strategic considerations rather than on technical grounds, strikes Indian officials as unfair.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[India’s recent decision not to purchase US warplanes for its $10 billion-plus fighter aircraft program – the largest single military tender in the country’s history – has stirred debate in defense circles worldwide. But the notion that a major arms purchase should be based on strategic considerations rather than on technical grounds, strikes Indian officials as unfair.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Economics in Crisis</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Asked recently to name where to turn to understand what was going on in 2008, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers cited three dead men, a book written 33 years ago, and another written the century before last. Economists today, by contrast, have allowed themselves to be continually distracted, confused, and in denial.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Asked recently to name where to turn to understand what was going on in 2008, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers cited three dead men, a book written 33 years ago, and another written the century before last. Economists today, by contrast, have allowed themselves to be continually distracted, confused, and in denial.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Yale’s Safe Sex Criminals</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In October 2010, the brothers of George W. Bush’s former fraternity at Yale University marched through the campus chanting, “No means yes! Yes means anal!” while holding signs reading, “We love Yale Sluts.” Now, after sweeping such incidents – and much worse – under the rug for decades, Yale is facing a lawsuit and a federal investigation.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In October 2010, the brothers of George W. Bush’s former fraternity at Yale University marched through the campus chanting, “No means yes! Yes means anal!” while holding signs reading, “We love Yale Sluts.” Now, after sweeping such incidents – and much worse – under the rug for decades, Yale is facing a lawsuit and a federal investigation.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Japan’s nuclear disaster has fueled fear and uncertainty among all of the world’s producers of nuclear power. For India, an energy-starved country, much is at stake.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Japan’s nuclear disaster has fueled fear and uncertainty among all of the world’s producers of nuclear power. For India, an energy-starved country, much is at stake.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jaswant Singh</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Doha Round’s Premature Obituary</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Doha Round, the first multilateral trade negotiation conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, is at a critical stage. Now in their 10th year, with much negotiated, the talks need a final political nudge, lest Doha – and hence the WTO – disappear from the world’s radar screen.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Doha Round, the first multilateral trade negotiation conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, is at a critical stage. Now in their 10th year, with much negotiated, the talks need a final political nudge, lest Doha – and hence the WTO – disappear from the world’s radar screen.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When our common humanity is under threat, even if we can’t do everything we should, shouldn’t we at least do what we can? Libya and Côte d’Ivoire pass the five tests of legitimacy that any outside military intervention must meet, whereas Bahrain, Syria and Yemen do not, partly because other options have not been exhausted.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When our common humanity is under threat, even if we can’t do everything we should, shouldn’t we at least do what we can? Libya and Côte d’Ivoire pass the five tests of legitimacy that any outside military intervention must meet, whereas Bahrain, Syria and Yemen do not, partly because other options have not been exhausted.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Gareth Evans</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Gareth Evans</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How Asia Copes with America’s Zombie Consumers</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come.  Asia now has no choice but to turn inward and draw support from its own 3.5 billion consumers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come.  Asia now has no choice but to turn inward and draw support from its own 3.5 billion consumers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Stephen S. Roach</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Stephen S. Roach</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Arrogance and Authority</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It is increasingly common to hear prominent US and European central bankers claim, with respect to the crisis of 2008-10, essentially the following verdict: “We did well.” But this arrogant claim merely undermines central bankers' credibility, which, ultimately, is the only basis of their authority.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is increasingly common to hear prominent US and European central bankers claim, with respect to the crisis of 2008-10, essentially the following verdict: “We did well.” But this arrogant claim merely undermines central bankers' credibility, which, ultimately, is the only basis of their authority.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Democracy or Finance?</title>
    <description><![CDATA["Shorting" sovereign debt is how financial markets hold governments accountable. Ultimately, however, it is voters, not markets, that hold governments to account, and, when these two accounting standards diverge, the popular standard must prevail if democracy is to survive.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA["Shorting" sovereign debt is how financial markets hold governments accountable. Ultimately, however, it is voters, not markets, that hold governments to account, and, when these two accounting standards diverge, the popular standard must prevail if democracy is to survive.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[For decades, developing countries dreamed of a nirvana of sky-high commodity prices and rock-bottom international interest rates. But perhaps finance ministers in Lima, Bogota, Pretoria, or Jakarta should have been more careful about what they wished for.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For decades, developing countries dreamed of a nirvana of sky-high commodity prices and rock-bottom international interest rates. But perhaps finance ministers in Lima, Bogota, Pretoria, or Jakarta should have been more careful about what they wished for.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Andres Velasco</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Andres Velasco</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Programming Human Perfectibility?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Can online job services not only find good employees, but also help people become better employees? No online service can make people perfect, but the right one might enable people to become as perfect as they need to be.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Can online job services not only find good employees, but also help people become better employees? No online service can make people perfect, but the right one might enable people to become as perfect as they need to be.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How Risky is the Global Economy?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[While the obstacles to sustainable global economic growth are not yet sufficiently serious to derail the ongoing recovery, it would be foolish to gloss over them. Nowadays, four major risks are looming larger in importance and becoming more threatening in character.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[While the obstacles to sustainable global economic growth are not yet sufficiently serious to derail the ongoing recovery, it would be foolish to gloss over them. Nowadays, four major risks are looming larger in importance and becoming more threatening in character.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mohamed A. El-Erian</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mohamed A. El-Erian</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Fukushima and Derivatives Meltdowns</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Many financial commentators have likened Japan’s nuclear catastrophe to the 2008 financial meltdown. But, while the resemblance between these crises is clear enough – each activity yields big benefits and a tiny but explosive risk – it ends where preventing their recurrence begins.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Many financial commentators have likened Japan’s nuclear catastrophe to the 2008 financial meltdown. But, while the resemblance between these crises is clear enough – each activity yields big benefits and a tiny but explosive risk – it ends where preventing their recurrence begins.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mark Roe</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mark Roe</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Sun Will Rise Again</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Japan’s economy, having endured two decades of sluggishness, has been falling behind globally even faster since the financial crisis that erupted in 2008. How, then, will the massive shock caused by the earthquake and tsunami affect the country’s economic prospects?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Japan’s economy, having endured two decades of sluggishness, has been falling behind globally even faster since the financial crisis that erupted in 2008. How, then, will the massive shock caused by the earthquake and tsunami affect the country’s economic prospects?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Universal Library</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Today, we can make not just books, but paintings, films, and music, available to anyone, anywhere, anytime – but we don't, owing to a copyright system skewed toward corporate interests.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Today, we can make not just books, but paintings, films, and music, available to anyone, anywhere, anytime – but we don't, owing to a copyright system skewed toward corporate interests.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Wickets and Wariness</title>
    <description><![CDATA[India-Pakistan relations – a challenge at the best of times, and in the doldrums since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in November 2008 – received an unexpected boost last month from an unlikely source: cricket. Though the thaw has involved no substantive policy decisions, dialogue might be its own reward.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[India-Pakistan relations – a challenge at the best of times, and in the doldrums since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in November 2008 – received an unexpected boost last month from an unlikely source: cricket. Though the thaw has involved no substantive policy decisions, dialogue might be its own reward.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Saif Qaddafi and Me</title>
    <description><![CDATA[There is a strong sentiment that academics and institutions that collaborated with such an odious regime as Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's – often under political pressure, no doubt – suffered a grave lapse of judgment. But many of the critics would fall over each other for a chance to advise China's leaders.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There is a strong sentiment that academics and institutions that collaborated with such an odious regime as Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's – often under political pressure, no doubt – suffered a grave lapse of judgment. But many of the critics would fall over each other for a chance to advise China's leaders.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Bear of Bretton Woods</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In early April, leading thinkers and former policymakers met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the birthplace in 1944 of the IMF and our dollar-centered international monetary system. This time around, it had already become clear that dollar will have to make way for the euro and renminbi.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In early April, leading thinkers and former policymakers met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the birthplace in 1944 of the IMF and our dollar-centered international monetary system. This time around, it had already become clear that dollar will have to make way for the euro and renminbi.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Three Paths for Indebted Democracies</title>
    <description><![CDATA[One explanation for advanced countries’ sky-high public debt is that it reflects the flourishing of democracy and markets, with the former requiring government intervention to offset the volatility caused by the latter. If so, what can democratically elected governments do when their ability to spend has reached its limit?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One explanation for advanced countries’ sky-high public debt is that it reflects the flourishing of democracy and markets, with the former requiring government intervention to offset the volatility caused by the latter. If so, what can democratically elected governments do when their ability to spend has reached its limit?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Japan’s Political Tremors</title>
    <description><![CDATA[If Japan’s relatively inexperienced government is blamed for everything that goes wrong in the aftermath of the earthquake, Japanese might wish to retreat to the old ways of murky paternalism. But official opacity and obfuscation are the problem, not the solution.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If Japan’s relatively inexperienced government is blamed for everything that goes wrong in the aftermath of the earthquake, Japanese might wish to retreat to the old ways of murky paternalism. But official opacity and obfuscation are the problem, not the solution.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Is China Overtaking America?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Even if overall Chinese and US GDP reach parity in the 2020’s, as many predict, the two economies might be equal in size but not in composition. And China faces far greater obstacles to sustainable growth and global success than many estimates suggest.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Even if overall Chinese and US GDP reach parity in the 2020’s, as many predict, the two economies might be equal in size but not in composition. And China faces far greater obstacles to sustainable growth and global success than many estimates suggest.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Europe’s Subprime Quagmire</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Back in 2007-2008, when the financial crisis was still called the “subprime” crisis, Europeans felt superior to the US. These days, Europeans have little reason to feel smug, and their leaders could learn a lot from the US experience.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Back in 2007-2008, when the financial crisis was still called the “subprime” crisis, Europeans felt superior to the US. These days, Europeans have little reason to feel smug, and their leaders could learn a lot from the US experience.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[As with defective software, European policymakers have introduced successive new versions of Economic and Monetary Union at a frantic pace – only to discover remaining vulnerabilities shortly afterwards. And, each time, despite last-minute hiccups and disagreements, officials claim to have produced a bug-free version.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As with defective software, European policymakers have introduced successive new versions of Economic and Monetary Union at a frantic pace – only to discover remaining vulnerabilities shortly afterwards. And, each time, despite last-minute hiccups and disagreements, officials claim to have produced a bug-free version.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Over the past 20 years, central banks around the world pursued price stability with rather remarkable success. But now, in the wake of the financial crisis, a tide of distrust is sweeping the world – including a new and widespread fear that central banks are incapable of controlling inflation.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Over the past 20 years, central banks around the world pursued price stability with rather remarkable success. But now, in the wake of the financial crisis, a tide of distrust is sweeping the world – including a new and widespread fear that central banks are incapable of controlling inflation.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Many Faces of the Arab Spring</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The attack by a Western-led alliance on Muammer Gaddafi’s forces in Libya is driven largely by principled motives. So what explains Western leniency toward violent repression of pro-democracy protests in the Gulf states?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The attack by a Western-led alliance on Muammer Gaddafi’s forces in Libya is driven largely by principled motives. So what explains Western leniency toward violent repression of pro-democracy protests in the Gulf states?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Arab Young and Restless</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Many factors underlay the ongoing upheavals in the Middle East: decades of corrupt and authoritarian rule, increasingly literate and digitally-connected societies, and skyrocketing world food prices. But the region's youth unemployment crisis might be the most important cause – and the gravest challenge for reformers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Many factors underlay the ongoing upheavals in the Middle East: decades of corrupt and authoritarian rule, increasingly literate and digitally-connected societies, and skyrocketing world food prices. But the region's youth unemployment crisis might be the most important cause – and the gravest challenge for reformers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Anatomy of Slow Recovery</title>
    <description><![CDATA[What America needs now is not just a recovery in demand, but also structural adjustment. Unfortunately, the market cannot produce a demand recovery rapidly by itself, and it cannot produce structural adjustment at all until a demand recovery is well under way.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[What America needs now is not just a recovery in demand, but also structural adjustment. Unfortunately, the market cannot produce a demand recovery rapidly by itself, and it cannot produce structural adjustment at all until a demand recovery is well under way.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>I Want My Al Jazeera</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera has been targeted by the US government since 2003, when Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld described it as tantamount to an arm of Al Qaeda. And, to this day, it is effectively shut out of the US, where none of the major cable and satellite companies carry it – despite huge public demand.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Al Jazeera has been targeted by the US government since 2003, when Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld described it as tantamount to an arm of Al Qaeda. And, to this day, it is effectively shut out of the US, where none of the major cable and satellite companies carry it – despite huge public demand.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[India has had a functioning democratic order since before 1947, and its economy weathered the recent global economic crisis when most others faltered. But a combination of factors has raised serious concerns about the threat that corruption poses to the very fabric of the Indian state.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[India has had a functioning democratic order since before 1947, and its economy weathered the recent global economic crisis when most others faltered. But a combination of factors has raised serious concerns about the threat that corruption poses to the very fabric of the Indian state.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jaswant Singh</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Grameen vs. Bangladesh</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In Bangladesh's feud between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mohammed Yunus, the founder of the microloan-making Grameen Bank, Yunus, with help from the US, is being portrayed as a victim of political persecution. But the truth is considerably more complicated.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In Bangladesh's feud between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mohammed Yunus, the founder of the microloan-making Grameen Bank, Yunus, with help from the US, is being portrayed as a victim of political persecution. But the truth is considerably more complicated.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Europe and the Arab Spring</title>
    <description><![CDATA[French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France, who in the 1950’s withdrew his country from Vietnam and Tunisia, famously said that governing is choosing. Europe’s choice now is clear: mobilize to help its North African neighbors open up their economies and societies, or start beefing up its coastguards and manning the patrol boats.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France, who in the 1950’s withdrew his country from Vietnam and Tunisia, famously said that governing is choosing. Europe’s choice now is clear: mobilize to help its North African neighbors open up their economies and societies, or start beefing up its coastguards and manning the patrol boats.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The California Syndrome</title>
    <description><![CDATA[California has long been a harbinger of national and global trends, a birthplace of innovation in everything from technology and entertainment to lifestyles. But then something went radically wrong, and understanding why offers lessons for national and subnational governments everywhere.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[California has long been a harbinger of national and global trends, a birthplace of innovation in everything from technology and entertainment to lifestyles. But then something went radically wrong, and understanding why offers lessons for national and subnational governments everywhere.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Boskin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Boskin</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Imperialism Reclaimed</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, as de-colonization accelerated, no one had a good word to say for imperialism. Nowadays, it is extolled for spreading economic progress, the rule of law, and science and technology to countries that would never have benefited from them otherwise.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, as de-colonization accelerated, no one had a good word to say for imperialism. Nowadays, it is extolled for spreading economic progress, the rule of law, and science and technology to countries that would never have benefited from them otherwise.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Dark Underbelly of Finance</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The insider-trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, has now begun. It is likely to provide an especially lurid exposé of the financial world's ambient corruption.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The insider-trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, has now begun. It is likely to provide an especially lurid exposé of the financial world's ambient corruption.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Luigi Zingales</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Luigi Zingales</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Bubble Spotting</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Forecasting the next speculative bubble is a bit like predicting who will be running the government two elections from now. But some places appear a little more likely than others to give rise to bubbles, and right now one of those places is farmland.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Forecasting the next speculative bubble is a bit like predicting who will be running the government two elections from now. But some places appear a little more likely than others to give rise to bubbles, and right now one of those places is farmland.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert J. Shiller</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert J. Shiller</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Dead Parrot Trade Talks</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Doha Round of global trade talks recalls the classic Monty Python sketch in which a customer holds up a dead parrot in a cage while the shopkeeper insists that the parrot is only “resting.” Given the stakes for the global economy, the parrot must be revived.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Doha Round of global trade talks recalls the classic Monty Python sketch in which a customer holds up a dead parrot in a cage while the shopkeeper insists that the parrot is only “resting.” Given the stakes for the global economy, the parrot must be revived.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[All countries, including the successful emerging economies, have addressed issues of inclusiveness, distribution, and equity as part of the core of their growth and development strategies. Morally, pragmatically, and politically, that is the right course.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[All countries, including the successful emerging economies, have addressed issues of inclusiveness, distribution, and equity as part of the core of their growth and development strategies. Morally, pragmatically, and politically, that is the right course.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Sandile Hlatshwayo</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Sandile Hlatshwayo, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Obama of Arabia?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Moments like the current one in the Arab world are especially challenging for foreign-policy makers, who must keep one eye on the world as it is and the other on the world as it might be in the future. In trying to do just that, US President Barack Obama has been right to lay low, despite pressure from left and right to  do more.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Moments like the current one in the Arab world are especially challenging for foreign-policy makers, who must keep one eye on the world as it is and the other on the world as it might be in the future. In trying to do just that, US President Barack Obama has been right to lay low, despite pressure from left and right to  do more.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Christopher R. Hill</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Christopher R. Hill</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Race to Hunger</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Spectators at February’s Daytona 500 road race in Florida were handed green flags to wave in celebration of the news that the stock cars now use gasoline with 15% corn-based ethanol. But the millions of people now threatened by hunger as a result of developed countries' biofuel policies are not cheering.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Spectators at February’s Daytona 500 road race in Florida were handed green flags to wave in celebration of the news that the stock cars now use gasoline with 15% corn-based ethanol. But the millions of people now threatened by hunger as a result of developed countries' biofuel policies are not cheering.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Development in Reverse</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Developing countries' economies are a mish-mash, combining the productive with the unproductive, the First World with the Third. But why are some developing countries able to shift workers from low-productivity activities to higher-productivity sectors, whereas others have seen labor flowing in the opposite direction?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Developing countries' economies are a mish-mash, combining the productive with the unproductive, the First World with the Third. But why are some developing countries able to shift workers from low-productivity activities to higher-productivity sectors, whereas others have seen labor flowing in the opposite direction?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Will Next Time Be Different?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Democracy tends to institutionalize moral hazard in sectors that are economically or politically important, such as finance or real estate, allowing them to privatize gains and socialize losses. But this does not mean that policymakers must repeat the same mistakes every time such sectors get into trouble.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Democracy tends to institutionalize moral hazard in sectors that are economically or politically important, such as finance or real estate, allowing them to privatize gains and socialize losses. But this does not mean that policymakers must repeat the same mistakes every time such sectors get into trouble.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Obama’s Tightrope</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Balancing hard-power relations with governments with soft-power support for democracy is like walking a tightrope. The Obama administration has wobbled in this balancing act, but thus far it has not fallen off.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Balancing hard-power relations with governments with soft-power support for democracy is like walking a tightrope. The Obama administration has wobbled in this balancing act, but thus far it has not fallen off.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Obama Gets It Right</title>
    <description><![CDATA[People in the Middle East and North Africa have been led by the West, or by Western-backed dictators, for long enough. They must find their own way to freedom – something that US President Barack Obama seems to understand.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[People in the Middle East and North Africa have been led by the West, or by Western-backed dictators, for long enough. They must find their own way to freedom – something that US President Barack Obama seems to understand.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The EU’s Band-Aid on a Bullet Hole</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Europe’s leaders have promised to devise by the end of this month a comprehensive package not only to end the euro crisis, but also to preserve the common currency's stability. Unfortunately, they are unlikely to succeed, because most of the package revealed so far addresses the symptoms of the crisis, not its underlying causes.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Europe’s leaders have promised to devise by the end of this month a comprehensive package not only to end the euro crisis, but also to preserve the common currency's stability. Unfortunately, they are unlikely to succeed, because most of the package revealed so far addresses the symptoms of the crisis, not its underlying causes.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Saving the Egyptian Revolution</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Egypt’s revolution is one whose initial stage ended with power not in the hands of its initiators, but fully in the hands of the old regime’s repressive apparatus. The risk is that the fraternal ties between the army – not exactly innocent of the Mubarak regime's repressive practices – and the protesters might prove short-lived.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Egypt’s revolution is one whose initial stage ended with power not in the hands of its initiators, but fully in the hands of the old regime’s repressive apparatus. The risk is that the fraternal ties between the army – not exactly innocent of the Mubarak regime's repressive practices – and the protesters might prove short-lived.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Machiavellian Economics</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In the Machiavellian tradition, lying is sometimes justified by reference to the higher needs of political statecraft, and sometimes by the claim that the state represents a higher level of morality. That tradition is once again in the spotlight, as the question of political untruth has recently resurfaced in many bitter disputes.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the Machiavellian tradition, lying is sometimes justified by reference to the higher needs of political statecraft, and sometimes by the claim that the state represents a higher level of morality. That tradition is once again in the spotlight, as the question of political untruth has recently resurfaced in many bitter disputes.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Global Justice and Military Intervention</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The UN Security Council voted unanimously to impose an arms embargo on Libya, urge member nations to freeze assets owned by the Qaddafi family, and refer the regime's violence to the International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of those responsible. But do these measures go far enough?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The UN Security Council voted unanimously to impose an arms embargo on Libya, urge member nations to freeze assets owned by the Qaddafi family, and refer the regime's violence to the International Criminal Court for possible prosecution of those responsible. But do these measures go far enough?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Global Imbalances without Tears</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Doctors have long known that it is not just how much you eat, but what you eat, that contributes to or diminishes your health. Likewise, economists have long noted that for countries gorging on capital inflows, there is a big difference between debt instruments and equity investments.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Doctors have long known that it is not just how much you eat, but what you eat, that contributes to or diminishes your health. Likewise, economists have long noted that for countries gorging on capital inflows, there is a big difference between debt instruments and equity investments.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Diplomacy of the Blind</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Why do revolutions so often take professional diplomats by surprise? As we have seen again in the Middle East, while diplomats often provide penetrating analysis, it is as if, owing to an excess of prudence, they cannot bring themselves to pursue their own arguments to their logical conclusions.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why do revolutions so often take professional diplomats by surprise? As we have seen again in the Middle East, while diplomats often provide penetrating analysis, it is as if, owing to an excess of prudence, they cannot bring themselves to pursue their own arguments to their logical conclusions.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Having agreed to double the European Financial Stability Facility's capacity to lend to distressed eurozone members, EU countries are now mulling how the EFSF’s funds will be made available. The crucial issue is the extent to which creditors will have to participate in rescue measures by accepting “haircuts” – that is, partial losses on their claims.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Having agreed to double the European Financial Stability Facility's capacity to lend to distressed eurozone members, EU countries are now mulling how the EFSF’s funds will be made available. The crucial issue is the extent to which creditors will have to participate in rescue measures by accepting “haircuts” – that is, partial losses on their claims.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Hans-Werner Sinn</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Hans-Werner Sinn</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that the US economy rallied strongly at the end of 2010. But much of the growth was due to the Federal Reserve’s policy of “quantitative easing,” which pumped up equity prices and thus consumption – and which will be phased out in 2011.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There is no doubt that the US economy rallied strongly at the end of 2010. But much of the growth was due to the Federal Reserve’s policy of “quantitative easing,” which pumped up equity prices and thus consumption – and which will be phased out in 2011.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[There’s an old, true joke in the advertising business: half of it is wasted on customers who will never buy, but nobody knows which half. The real number is probably much worse, but that is beginning to change, thanks to a massive increase in the amount of relevant information.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There’s an old, true joke in the advertising business: half of it is wasted on customers who will never buy, but nobody knows which half. The real number is probably much worse, but that is beginning to change, thanks to a massive increase in the amount of relevant information.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The current twin crises in finance and the real economy, what Americans call Wall Street and Main Street, and the interminable discussions about financial reform and the prospects for economic recovery, have spawned several fallacies. They need to be addressed and dismissed, lest we absorb the wrong lessons.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The current twin crises in finance and the real economy, what Americans call Wall Street and Main Street, and the interminable discussions about financial reform and the prospects for economic recovery, have spawned several fallacies. They need to be addressed and dismissed, lest we absorb the wrong lessons.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In the long run, America’s growth pattern must undergo a structural shift from reliance on debt and consumption to an economy driven by America’s ability to innovate and create. But in the short run, the US current-account deficit will remain, regardless of which country runs bilateral surpluses.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the long run, America’s growth pattern must undergo a structural shift from reliance on debt and consumption to an economy driven by America’s ability to innovate and create. But in the short run, the US current-account deficit will remain, regardless of which country runs bilateral surpluses.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yu Yongding</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yu Yongding</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In the coming weeks, as South Korea’s government ponders whether to provide food aid to North Korea, it will confront one of the toughest choices that any government can face. It must decide whether the short-term cost in human lives is worth the potential long-term benefits that a famine-induced collapse of North Korea could bring.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the coming weeks, as South Korea’s government ponders whether to provide food aid to North Korea, it will confront one of the toughest choices that any government can face. It must decide whether the short-term cost in human lives is worth the potential long-term benefits that a famine-induced collapse of North Korea could bring.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Christopher R. Hill</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Christopher R. Hill</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Geithner’s Gamble</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, recently laid out his view of the nature of world economic growth and the role of the US financial sector. It is a deeply disturbing vision, one that amounts to a huge, uninformed gamble with the future of the American economy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, recently laid out his view of the nature of world economic growth and the role of the US financial sector. It is a deeply disturbing vision, one that amounts to a huge, uninformed gamble with the future of the American economy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Economic Future of Egypt’s Revolution</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The question of the day regarding Egypt is whether the country will build a democratic political system or relapse into some form of autocratic regime. But an equally important question – above all for Egyptians, but also for other developing countries (and development experts) – is the economic impact of the outcome.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The question of the day regarding Egypt is whether the country will build a democratic political system or relapse into some form of autocratic regime. But an equally important question – above all for Egyptians, but also for other developing countries (and development experts) – is the economic impact of the outcome.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mark Roe</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mark Roe</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>No Exceptions</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For years, the West talked up democracy around the world, but, despite the occasional gentle slap on the wrist, we accepted that there was an Arab exception to the desire for freedom and accountability. The West now has to accept that if there is no “Arab exception,” there is no “China exception,” either.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For years, the West talked up democracy around the world, but, despite the occasional gentle slap on the wrist, we accepted that there was an Arab exception to the desire for freedom and accountability. The West now has to accept that if there is no “Arab exception,” there is no “China exception,” either.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Unsettling America</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The idea that the US is a status-quo power is a delusion of international-relations experts. In the short run, of course, the US behaves like an ordinary power – protecting its interests even if this requires supporting unsavory regimes – but America’s long-term goal is to remake the world in its image.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The idea that the US is a status-quo power is a delusion of international-relations experts. In the short run, of course, the US behaves like an ordinary power – protecting its interests even if this requires supporting unsavory regimes – but America’s long-term goal is to remake the world in its image.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>And Free Flows the Nile</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Will Egypt’s revolution travel beyond the Nile? This is the question that now haunts not only other Arab lands, but also governments from Washington to Beijing as they scramble to re-evaluate decades-old strategic certainties.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Will Egypt’s revolution travel beyond the Nile? This is the question that now haunts not only other Arab lands, but also governments from Washington to Beijing as they scramble to re-evaluate decades-old strategic certainties.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jaswant Singh</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Evolving Structure of Global Growth</title>
    <description><![CDATA[We are now slightly more than halfway through the century-long process of modernization that started for many of today's developing countries with their emergence from colonialism in the years following World War II. But where is that process taking us, and how can we influence its course?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[We are now slightly more than halfway through the century-long process of modernization that started for many of today's developing countries with their emergence from colonialism in the years following World War II. But where is that process taking us, and how can we influence its course?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Sandile Hlatshwayo</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Sandile Hlatshwayo, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Tiger Mothers or Elephant Mothers?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Yale Law Professor Amy Chua's recent paean to what she describes as the Chinese "tiger" style of mothering has stirred debate worldwide. But do we really want to live in a world of solitary tigers who have been rigorously trained to think only of themselves?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Yale Law Professor Amy Chua's recent paean to what she describes as the Chinese "tiger" style of mothering has stirred debate worldwide. But do we really want to live in a world of solitary tigers who have been rigorously trained to think only of themselves?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[For the first time since the end of World War II, no country or strong alliance of countries has the political will and economic leverage to secure its goals on the global stage. Ours is, in essence a G-Zero world, which may encourage, as in previous historical periods, the ambitious and the aggressive to seek their own advantage.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For the first time since the end of World War II, no country or strong alliance of countries has the political will and economic leverage to secure its goals on the global stage. Ours is, in essence a G-Zero world, which may encourage, as in previous historical periods, the ambitious and the aggressive to seek their own advantage.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind, we are increasingly being told, promises huge economic payoffs – above all, a freshet of so-called "green jobs." Unfortunately, that promise does not measure up to economic reality.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind, we are increasingly being told, promises huge economic payoffs – above all, a freshet of so-called "green jobs." Unfortunately, that promise does not measure up to economic reality.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Since failing to predict the global economic crisis, economists have been accused of everything from ideological blindness to outright corruption. These charges deserve to be taken seriously, the true reason could be far more mundane  – and thus far more worrisome.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Since failing to predict the global economic crisis, economists have been accused of everything from ideological blindness to outright corruption. These charges deserve to be taken seriously, the true reason could be far more mundane  – and thus far more worrisome.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood would win a general election in Egypt – or perhaps not. But Egyptians should be allowed to make that choice, in part because denying it to them would almost certainly make things worse, possibly leading to precisely the kind of religious extremism that many people rightly fear.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood would win a general election in Egypt – or perhaps not. But Egyptians should be allowed to make that choice, in part because denying it to them would almost certainly make things worse, possibly leading to precisely the kind of religious extremism that many people rightly fear.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Inequality Wildcard</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As the dramatic events in North Africa continue to unfold, many outside observers smugly tell themselves that it is all about corruption and political repression. But high unemployment, glaring inequality, and soaring prices for basic commodities are also a huge factor – and look set to roil the developed world as well.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the dramatic events in North Africa continue to unfold, many outside observers smugly tell themselves that it is all about corruption and political repression. But high unemployment, glaring inequality, and soaring prices for basic commodities are also a huge factor – and look set to roil the developed world as well.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Various forms of common “European bonds” have been proposed recently as a way out of the current euro crisis, with proponents stressing the promise of lower borrowing costs. But this seems to be wishful thinking, because all the proposals would give official debt seniority over private claims, thereby driving up the cost of private financing.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Various forms of common “European bonds” have been proposed recently as a way out of the current euro crisis, with proponents stressing the promise of lower borrowing costs. But this seems to be wishful thinking, because all the proposals would give official debt seniority over private claims, thereby driving up the cost of private financing.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Perils of Palestinian Strategy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is right to opt for a new peace paradigm vis-à-vis Israel, but his plan for a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence might be the wrong choice. Indeed, it could lead to a deal that would be highly unpalatable to most Palestinians.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is right to opt for a new peace paradigm vis-à-vis Israel, but his plan for a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence might be the wrong choice. Indeed, it could lead to a deal that would be highly unpalatable to most Palestinians.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Goodbye to “Globalization”</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The term “globalization” first swept the world in the 1990’s and reached its highpoint of popularity in 2000 and 2001, but has since faded rapidly. A brief history of the concept, and a comparison with another term – "totalitarianism" – that also became discredited by overuse, helps to explain what happened.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The term “globalization” first swept the world in the 1990’s and reached its highpoint of popularity in 2000 and 2001, but has since faded rapidly. A brief history of the concept, and a comparison with another term – "totalitarianism" – that also became discredited by overuse, helps to explain what happened.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Europe and the US, which had fought depression jointly in 2009, begin 2011 with divergent positions on economic policy. That rift threatens to obscure the question that all should be addressing: how to manage a global economy in which the balance of power between advanced and emerging countries is shifting at great speed.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Europe and the US, which had fought depression jointly in 2009, begin 2011 with divergent positions on economic policy. That rift threatens to obscure the question that all should be addressing: how to manage a global economy in which the balance of power between advanced and emerging countries is shifting at great speed.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The End of China’s Surplus</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The policies that China will adopt as part of its new five-year plan will shrink its trade and current-account surpluses, possibly moving them into deficit. This is exactly the outcome that US officials want, but they should be careful what they wish for.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The policies that China will adopt as part of its new five-year plan will shrink its trade and current-account surpluses, possibly moving them into deficit. This is exactly the outcome that US officials want, but they should be careful what they wish for.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Globalization Marches On</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Today’s alarmism about the end of globalization is misplaced. In fact, the current crisis may actually shift policies in favor of more globalization, not less, as is suggested by remarkable commitment to efforts – largely successful – to prevent backsliding into protectionism.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today’s alarmism about the end of globalization is misplaced. In fact, the current crisis may actually shift policies in favor of more globalization, not less, as is suggested by remarkable commitment to efforts – largely successful – to prevent backsliding into protectionism.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Tale of Two Currency Areas</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US and Europe both operate single-currency areas, but only Europe's faces uncertainty about its survival. Their similarities and differences, particularly with respect to internal labor mobility, productivity, and fiscal policies, suggest why – and provide clues about whether the eurozone can evolve into a stable monetary union.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US and Europe both operate single-currency areas, but only Europe's faces uncertainty about its survival. Their similarities and differences, particularly with respect to internal labor mobility, productivity, and fiscal policies, suggest why – and provide clues about whether the eurozone can evolve into a stable monetary union.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Boskin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Boskin</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Peace, Not a Peace Offensive</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il’s recent soothing words to US diplomats do not represent an offer of peace, but a “peace offensive” – a tactic used by the North repeatedly  in order to sow division whenever the regime’s adversaries show unity and resolve.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Kim Jong-il’s recent soothing words to US diplomats do not represent an offer of peace, but a “peace offensive” – a tactic used by the North repeatedly  in order to sow division whenever the regime’s adversaries show unity and resolve.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Sputnik Redux</title>
    <description><![CDATA[More than 50 years ago, the so-called “Sputnik moment” was a wake-up call that pushed the US to increase investment in technology and science education. Now America has had its "Dragon moment": for the first time, a private company has built and successfully launched a spacecraft into orbit and then recovered it from a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[More than 50 years ago, the so-called “Sputnik moment” was a wake-up call that pushed the US to increase investment in technology and science education. Now America has had its "Dragon moment": for the first time, a private company has built and successfully launched a spacecraft into orbit and then recovered it from a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Did the Poor Cause the Crisis?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US continues to be riven by heated debate about the causes of the 2007-09 financial crisis, with Republicans blaming government policies that encouraged the poor to borrow more than they could afford. But if US politicians love the poor so much, why have they bailed out only the rich?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US continues to be riven by heated debate about the causes of the 2007-09 financial crisis, with Republicans blaming government policies that encouraged the poor to borrow more than they could afford. But if US politicians love the poor so much, why have they bailed out only the rich?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Death of Pakistan?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[This is a watershed moment for Pakistan. Will it survive the current maelstrom of challenges that it faces – exemplified by the recent assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer of Punjab by one of his bodyguards, an Islamic zealot – or will it founder on a theocratic path leading back centuries in time?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is a watershed moment for Pakistan. Will it survive the current maelstrom of challenges that it faces – exemplified by the recent assassination of Governor Salmaan Taseer of Punjab by one of his bodyguards, an Islamic zealot – or will it founder on a theocratic path leading back centuries in time?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jaswant Singh</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Five Steps Forward in 2011</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The worst of the economic worst ended for most of the world in 2010, but downside risks in the advanced countries continue to threaten global recovery. A return to stable, inclusive growth is needed to bolster support for economic openness, but achieving this requires meeting five key goals.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The worst of the economic worst ended for most of the world in 2010, but downside risks in the advanced countries continue to threaten global recovery. A return to stable, inclusive growth is needed to bolster support for economic openness, but achieving this requires meeting five key goals.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Best Investments</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In a world fraught with competing claims on human solidarity, we have a moral obligation to direct additional resources to where they can achieve the most good. Unfortunately, that is not how we allocate international aid now.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In a world fraught with competing claims on human solidarity, we have a moral obligation to direct additional resources to where they can achieve the most good. Unfortunately, that is not how we allocate international aid now.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Global Risk and Reward in 2011</title>
    <description><![CDATA[So far, the downside and upside risks for the global economy in 2011 are balanced. But if sound government policies in advanced and major emerging economies contain the downside risks that are more prevalent in the first half of this year – which derive from political and policy uncertainty – a more resilient global economic recovery could take hold in the second half and 2012.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[So far, the downside and upside risks for the global economy in 2011 are balanced. But if sound government policies in advanced and major emerging economies contain the downside risks that are more prevalent in the first half of this year – which derive from political and policy uncertainty – a more resilient global economic recovery could take hold in the second half and 2012.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[This is an unusual year for the UN Security Council: several powerful states, whose growing global clout has made them aspirants to permanent seats, will be serving two-year terms. For India, the role is both an opportunity and a challenge.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is an unusual year for the UN Security Council: several powerful states, whose growing global clout has made them aspirants to permanent seats, will be serving two-year terms. For India, the role is both an opportunity and a challenge.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Mr. Hu Goes to Washington</title>
    <description><![CDATA[US/China relations have taken a turn for the worst over the past year. Will Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington starting January 19 narrow or widen that gap?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[US/China relations have taken a turn for the worst over the past year. Will Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington starting January 19 narrow or widen that gap?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Official pronouncements stress friendly relations between India and China, and some trade analysts argue that the two giant, rapidly growing markets will become an economic “Chindia.” Nevertheless, strategic anxiety lurks below the surface, particularly in India.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Official pronouncements stress friendly relations between India and China, and some trade analysts argue that the two giant, rapidly growing markets will become an economic “Chindia.” Nevertheless, strategic anxiety lurks below the surface, particularly in India.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>New Rules for the Global Economy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The ultimate paradox of globalization is that it works best when it is not pushed too far. That paradox must be reflected in new global economic arrangements that are based on democratic deliberation where it really occurs – within national states.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The ultimate paradox of globalization is that it works best when it is not pushed too far. That paradox must be reflected in new global economic arrangements that are based on democratic deliberation where it really occurs – within national states.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Typically, supply and demand are equal, and, if not, powerful forces push them towards each other. But, with high and persistent levels of unemployment in the US, there is a real question about the nature of the problem: is aggregate demand too low, or are there problems with supply?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Typically, supply and demand are equal, and, if not, powerful forces push them towards each other. But, with high and persistent levels of unemployment in the US, there is a real question about the nature of the problem: is aggregate demand too low, or are there problems with supply?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Israel has been welcoming some rather peculiar visitors of late: European right-wing populists who tell sympathetic Israeli audiences that their country is on the front line of the Western war against Islam. These are the wrong friends for Israel – and even worse friends for Jews.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Israel has been welcoming some rather peculiar visitors of late: European right-wing populists who tell sympathetic Israeli audiences that their country is on the front line of the Western war against Islam. These are the wrong friends for Israel – and even worse friends for Jews.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Japan Myth</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For the second time in a decade, central banks around the world have responded to the collapse of an asset bubble by moving aggressively to ease monetary policy, a tactic explicitly justified by the need to avoid a Japanese-style "lost decade." The problem is, Japan never lost a decade.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For the second time in a decade, central banks around the world have responded to the collapse of an asset bubble by moving aggressively to ease monetary policy, a tactic explicitly justified by the need to avoid a Japanese-style "lost decade." The problem is, Japan never lost a decade.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Debt and Democracy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The EU’s sovereign-debt crisis constitutes a fundamental threat  not only to the euro, but also to democracy and public accountability. Indeed, the principle of not reneging on public debt is is deeply intertwined with the development of legal security, representative government, and modern democracy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The EU’s sovereign-debt crisis constitutes a fundamental threat  not only to the euro, but also to democracy and public accountability. Indeed, the principle of not reneging on public debt is is deeply intertwined with the development of legal security, representative government, and modern democracy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[It is universally recognized that a key factor behind the financial crisis was the diffusion of collateralized debt obligations, which transformed lower-rated debt into highly rated debt. And now Europe has embraced this egregious financial alchemy, in the form of the European Financial Stability Facility.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is universally recognized that a key factor behind the financial crisis was the diffusion of collateralized debt obligations, which transformed lower-rated debt into highly rated debt. And now Europe has embraced this egregious financial alchemy, in the form of the European Financial Stability Facility.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Luigi Zingales</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Luigi Zingales</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Making of International Monetary Reform</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The run-up to the G-20 summit in Seoul was marred by a series of currency controversies, bringing international monetary reform to the fore. But the task is anything but simple: the subject is abstruse, and no one outside academia has taken any interest in it for the last 20 years.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The run-up to the G-20 summit in Seoul was marred by a series of currency controversies, bringing international monetary reform to the fore. But the task is anything but simple: the subject is abstruse, and no one outside academia has taken any interest in it for the last 20 years.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>New Wave Nationalism</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In the 1990’s, the fall of the Soviet empire and the brutal implosion of Yugoslavia led to a spectacular increase in the number of independent states. Now a new wave of identity fragmentation, spanning Africa and perhaps Europe, may be approaching.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the 1990’s, the fall of the Soviet empire and the brutal implosion of Yugoslavia led to a spectacular increase in the number of independent states. Now a new wave of identity fragmentation, spanning Africa and perhaps Europe, may be approaching.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Confederal Solution for Palestine</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Official Western policy still backs a two-state solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. But such a possibility was always an illusion; there is simply enough land to satisfy the passionate possessiveness of all those with claims to it.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Official Western policy still backs a two-state solution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. But such a possibility was always an illusion; there is simply enough land to satisfy the passionate possessiveness of all those with claims to it.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Non-Smoking Gun</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For Latin America, Wikileaks has so far provided enticing tidbits of both gossip and substance about Brazil and Argentina; interesting, first-rate analysis regarding Honduras, Bolivia, and Mexico; and a few intriguing notes about regional politics and international relations. Nothing extraordinary has been revealed, but much will be learned.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For Latin America, Wikileaks has so far provided enticing tidbits of both gossip and substance about Brazil and Argentina; interesting, first-rate analysis regarding Honduras, Bolivia, and Mexico; and a few intriguing notes about regional politics and international relations. Nothing extraordinary has been revealed, but much will be learned.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jorge G. Castañeda</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jorge G. Castañeda</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In the next few months, it will become clear whether European policymakers can compromise and implement reforms that dampen the threat of a eurozone breakup. Either the EU moves in the direction of a more stable equilibrium of closer integration, or the risk of an unstable and disorderly breakup scenario will rise significantly.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the next few months, it will become clear whether European policymakers can compromise and implement reforms that dampen the threat of a eurozone breakup. Either the EU moves in the direction of a more stable equilibrium of closer integration, or the risk of an unstable and disorderly breakup scenario will rise significantly.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Risk Tsunami</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Several significant risks to global economic stability and prosperity must be addressed urgently. And yet the G-20's cooperative approach at the outset of the crisis is devolving into an  array of often-heedless unilateral actions by its members.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Several significant risks to global economic stability and prosperity must be addressed urgently. And yet the G-20's cooperative approach at the outset of the crisis is devolving into an  array of often-heedless unilateral actions by its members.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Is Open Diplomacy Possible?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Is WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange following in the footsteps of Woodrow Wilson, who sought a world in which "diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view"? Perhaps, but the most likely outcome of the recent revelations will be greater restrictions to prevent further leaks.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange following in the footsteps of Woodrow Wilson, who sought a world in which "diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view"? Perhaps, but the most likely outcome of the recent revelations will be greater restrictions to prevent further leaks.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>No, You Can’t</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For years now, climate activists from Al Gore to Leonardo DiCaprio have argued that individual actions like driving more economical cars and using more efficient light bulbs are a crucial element in the effort to address global warming. That is entirely wrong, as new research shows.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For years now, climate activists from Al Gore to Leonardo DiCaprio have argued that individual actions like driving more economical cars and using more efficient light bulbs are a crucial element in the effort to address global warming. That is entirely wrong, as new research shows.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Thinking the Unthinkable in Europe</title>
    <description><![CDATA[When Greece was bailed out by a joint eurozone-IMF rescue package back in May, it was clear that the deal had bought only a temporary respite. Now, with Ireland’s troubles threatening to spill over to Portugal, Spain, and even Italy, the other shoe has dropped, and it is time to rethink the viability of Europe’s currency union.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When Greece was bailed out by a joint eurozone-IMF rescue package back in May, it was clear that the deal had bought only a temporary respite. Now, with Ireland’s troubles threatening to spill over to Portugal, Spain, and even Italy, the other shoe has dropped, and it is time to rethink the viability of Europe’s currency union.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The eurozone's crisis countries - Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Greece - have no currency to devalue to regain competitiveness, so they must devalue internally, through painful wage and budget cuts. But internal devaluation can work only if the value of debts, where it already represents a heavy burden, is reduced.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The eurozone's crisis countries - Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Greece - have no currency to devalue to regain competitiveness, so they must devalue internally, through painful wage and budget cuts. But internal devaluation can work only if the value of debts, where it already represents a heavy burden, is reduced.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Doing Poorly by Doing Good</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The new catchphrase in business seems to be “do well by doing good,”  that is, boost profits by undertaking socially responsible activities. But, in much of the world, doing well still implies that you must be up to no good, especially if you are dealing with the poor.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The new catchphrase in business seems to be “do well by doing good,”  that is, boost profits by undertaking socially responsible activities. But, in much of the world, doing well still implies that you must be up to no good, especially if you are dealing with the poor.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Last Line of Decency</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For more than a year, hundreds of Israeli Jews have protested every Friday in solidarity with Palestinians in East Jerusalem facing eviction to make way for Israeli settlers. However ineffectual in the short run, the demonstrations are essential, for they make Israel a more civilized place.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For more than a year, hundreds of Israeli Jews have protested every Friday in solidarity with Palestinians in East Jerusalem facing eviction to make way for Israeli settlers. However ineffectual in the short run, the demonstrations are essential, for they make Israel a more civilized place.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Alternatives to Austerity</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Rapid recession-fueled growth in public debt  has led many governments to adopt austerity measures. But, for the US – and perhaps for some other countries – there is a better way to boost efficiency and promote growth, based on greater public investment and deep cuts in defense spending and corporate welfare.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Rapid recession-fueled growth in public debt  has led many governments to adopt austerity measures. But, for the US – and perhaps for some other countries – there is a better way to boost efficiency and promote growth, based on greater public investment and deep cuts in defense spending and corporate welfare.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Obama’s Vision Thing</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s problem lies not in his vision for America and the world, but in his deficient efforts to move from theory to practice. That makes America's newly divided government doubly problematic, because there is no better alternative to Obama’s vision in view.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s problem lies not in his vision for America and the world, but in his deficient efforts to move from theory to practice. That makes America's newly divided government doubly problematic, because there is no better alternative to Obama’s vision in view.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Europe’s Time to Learn</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In successive waves of painful crisis – in Latin America in the 1980’s, and in East Asia after 1997 – countries learned a better approach to economic policy and developed a more sustainable framework for managing public-sector debt. Today it is Europe’s turn.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In successive waves of painful crisis – in Latin America in the 1980’s, and in East Asia after 1997 – countries learned a better approach to economic policy and developed a more sustainable framework for managing public-sector debt. Today it is Europe’s turn.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>What Size is the Fire Exit?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The situation in the eurozone for investors today resembles that of a crowded cinema with only one exit: everyone knows that in case of fire, only the first to leave will be safe. So, depending on the size of the exit, even the faintest whiff of smoke can trigger a stampede.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The situation in the eurozone for investors today resembles that of a crowded cinema with only one exit: everyone knows that in case of fire, only the first to leave will be safe. So, depending on the size of the exit, even the faintest whiff of smoke can trigger a stampede.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The North Korean Enigma</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Most observers attribute North Korea's recent provocations to the anticipated succession of power there. If so, the risky behavior we have seen this year is part of the process of solidifying a unique political system: a hereditary Communist monarchy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Most observers attribute North Korea's recent provocations to the anticipated succession of power there. If so, the risky behavior we have seen this year is part of the process of solidifying a unique political system: a hereditary Communist monarchy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>India or China?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[When US President Barack Obama visited India in November and complimented its leaders on the growing success and prowess of their economy, a tacit question returned to center stage: Will China grow faster than India indefinitely, or will India shortly overtake it?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When US President Barack Obama visited India in November and complimented its leaders on the growing success and prowess of their economy, a tacit question returned to center stage: Will China grow faster than India indefinitely, or will India shortly overtake it?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The G-20’s New Thinking For the Global Economy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Seoul G-20 summit was notable for the increasing political weight of the emerging economies. In two crucial areas, macroeconomics and global economic development, their views prevailed.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Seoul G-20 summit was notable for the increasing political weight of the emerging economies. In two crucial areas, macroeconomics and global economic development, their views prevailed.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Quantitative Easing and the Renminbi</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US Federal Reserve’s policy of “quantitative easing” is reducing the value of the dollar relative to other currencies that have floating exchange rates. But what does the new Fed policy mean for one of the most important exchange rates of all – that of the renminbi relative to the dollar and to other currencies?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US Federal Reserve’s policy of “quantitative easing” is reducing the value of the dollar relative to other currencies that have floating exchange rates. But what does the new Fed policy mean for one of the most important exchange rates of all – that of the renminbi relative to the dollar and to other currencies?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Retreat of Macroeconomic Policy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Until recently, no government could or would tolerate any prolonged period in which the unemployment rate was kissing 10% and inflation was quiescent without doing something major about it. So why is that precisely what is happening today in the US?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Until recently, no government could or would tolerate any prolonged period in which the unemployment rate was kissing 10% and inflation was quiescent without doing something major about it. So why is that precisely what is happening today in the US?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Crooked Path of Financial Reform</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Two years ago, governments saved the necks of the world's financial markets, while today those same markets intimidate governments, or at least some of them. But, while no one is proclaiming, "mission accomplished," it is not true that nothing has been done to reform finance.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Two years ago, governments saved the necks of the world's financial markets, while today those same markets intimidate governments, or at least some of them. But, while no one is proclaiming, "mission accomplished," it is not true that nothing has been done to reform finance.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Closing of the European Mind</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In Asia today, the European example of a continent where the prospect of war between traditional enemies – or contemporary rivals – has simply disappeared is more attractive than ever. Europeans, unfortunately, lack any reciprocal curiosity about Asia.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In Asia today, the European example of a continent where the prospect of war between traditional enemies – or contemporary rivals – has simply disappeared is more attractive than ever. Europeans, unfortunately, lack any reciprocal curiosity about Asia.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Vietnam’s strategic position – as a neighbor of China, situated parallel to the great sea trade routes of Asia – always made the country tremendously important. In recent years, however, Vietnam’s strategic significance has increased dramatically, owing to huge transformations in its economic performance and foreign-policy orientation.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Vietnam’s strategic position – as a neighbor of China, situated parallel to the great sea trade routes of Asia – always made the country tremendously important. In recent years, however, Vietnam’s strategic significance has increased dramatically, owing to huge transformations in its economic performance and foreign-policy orientation.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Elevated savings and reduced consumption relative to pre-crisis levels are likely to be permanent in the US, even after households reduce leverage and restore retirement savings. To make up the difference, Americans must focus on competing effectively for a portion of global demand.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Elevated savings and reduced consumption relative to pre-crisis levels are likely to be permanent in the US, even after households reduce leverage and restore retirement savings. To make up the difference, Americans must focus on competing effectively for a portion of global demand.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When justified by economic fundamentals, a currency's exchange rate should be allowed to rise gradually. But when a currency’s appreciation is triggered by capital inflows that represent the asset-diversification preferences of advanced-economy investors, it can and should be resisted.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When justified by economic fundamentals, a currency's exchange rate should be allowed to rise gradually. But when a currency’s appreciation is triggered by capital inflows that represent the asset-diversification preferences of advanced-economy investors, it can and should be resisted.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When diamonds’ role in fueling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the industry established the Kimberley Process to prevent trade in “blood diamonds." But now many, even within the industry, argue that the Kimberley Process has lulled consumers into believing that all ethical problems with diamonds have been resolved.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When diamonds’ role in fueling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the industry established the Kimberley Process to prevent trade in “blood diamonds." But now many, even within the industry, argue that the Kimberley Process has lulled consumers into believing that all ethical problems with diamonds have been resolved.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Return to Reason</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Common sense was an early loser in the scorching battle over the reality of man-made global warming. Fortunately, there finally seems to be an emerging cadre of influential scientists, economists, and politicians who represent a more sensible approach to the issue.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Common sense was an early loser in the scorching battle over the reality of man-made global warming. Fortunately, there finally seems to be an emerging cadre of influential scientists, economists, and politicians who represent a more sensible approach to the issue.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Japan’s Options</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The current tensions between China and Japan have revived talk about how far Japan has fallen since its glory years of the 1980’s. But, despite its poor economic performance in recent years, Japan retains impressive power resources, and has an impressive record of reinventing itself.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The current tensions between China and Japan have revived talk about how far Japan has fallen since its glory years of the 1980’s. But, despite its poor economic performance in recent years, Japan retains impressive power resources, and has an impressive record of reinventing itself.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Big Blink</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Although the source of future global demand is clearly the billions of consumers in Africa, China, and India, policies being pursued in the advanced countries are jeopardizing the adjustment process. The showdown between advanced and emerging-market economies should end with all sides blinking simultaneously and embracing commonsense compromises.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although the source of future global demand is clearly the billions of consumers in Africa, China, and India, policies being pursued in the advanced countries are jeopardizing the adjustment process. The showdown between advanced and emerging-market economies should end with all sides blinking simultaneously and embracing commonsense compromises.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[China's recent bullying of its neighbors, and its refusal to allow the renminbi to appreciate, stand in sharp contrast to the deftness of its foreign policy over the last decade. So, is China drunk on its new great-power status, or is its assertiveness abroad a symptom of weakness at home?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[China's recent bullying of its neighbors, and its refusal to allow the renminbi to appreciate, stand in sharp contrast to the deftness of its foreign policy over the last decade. So, is China drunk on its new great-power status, or is its assertiveness abroad a symptom of weakness at home?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Diplomacy’s Darkest Hours</title>
    <description><![CDATA[History teaches that diplomacy all too frequently produces results only when backed by overwhelming power, and that it begins where the battlefield ends. Unfortunately, in today’s most consequential militarized conflicts, that boundary is still nowhere in sight.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[History teaches that diplomacy all too frequently produces results only when backed by overwhelming power, and that it begins where the battlefield ends. Unfortunately, in today’s most consequential militarized conflicts, that boundary is still nowhere in sight.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Cost of America’s Free Lunch</title>
    <description><![CDATA[For decades, the world has complained that the dollar’s role as global reserve currency has given the US guaranteed access to cheap money. But there is no free lunch; the US must choose between job creation, which requires a more competitive exchange rate, and cheap financing of its external and fiscal deficits.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[For decades, the world has complained that the dollar’s role as global reserve currency has given the US guaranteed access to cheap money. But there is no free lunch; the US must choose between job creation, which requires a more competitive exchange rate, and cheap financing of its external and fiscal deficits.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Austerity Politics, Then and Now</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Britain’s recently announced policy of fiscal consolidation has sent shock waves around the world, with Keynesian critics piling up analogies to the Great Depression. But the critics get their history wrong: fiscal tightening in 1931 was the only viable response to financial markets' abrupt loss of confidence in government debt - a lesson that the British government has not forgotten.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Britain’s recently announced policy of fiscal consolidation has sent shock waves around the world, with Keynesian critics piling up analogies to the Great Depression. But the critics get their history wrong: fiscal tightening in 1931 was the only viable response to financial markets' abrupt loss of confidence in government debt - a lesson that the British government has not forgotten.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Beware of Wounded Lions</title>
    <description><![CDATA[G-20 leaders who scoff at America's proposal for numerical trade-balance limits should know that they are playing with fire. The US is not making a demand as much as it is issuing a plea for help.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[G-20 leaders who scoff at America's proposal for numerical trade-balance limits should know that they are playing with fire. The US is not making a demand as much as it is issuing a plea for help.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Who Will Rescue the Rest of Us?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, from what was feared would be their tomb, gave the world something to cheer about. But, looking around us today, there do not seem to be many reasons for optimism elsewhere.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, from what was feared would be their tomb, gave the world something to cheer about. But, looking around us today, there do not seem to be many reasons for optimism elsewhere.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>China’s War on Inequality</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A major new target in the five-year plan that China just unveiled is to boost the growth rate for household income so that it equals the growth rate of GDP. The reason is simple: over the past 10 years or so, China’s household income grew more slowly than GDP, giving rise to significant structural problems.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A major new target in the five-year plan that China just unveiled is to boost the growth rate for household income so that it equals the growth rate of GDP. The reason is simple: over the past 10 years or so, China’s household income grew more slowly than GDP, giving rise to significant structural problems.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Fan Gang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Fan Gang</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Whose Corporate Social Responsibility?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Increasingly, corporations are under pressure, often from activist non-governmental organizations, to take on specific “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) obligations. But the fact that CSR is being demanded, and occasionally conceded, does not ensure clarity about either its rationale or the ways in which it should be undertaken.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Increasingly, corporations are under pressure, often from activist non-governmental organizations, to take on specific “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) obligations. But the fact that CSR is being demanded, and occasionally conceded, does not ensure clarity about either its rationale or the ways in which it should be undertaken.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>China’s Fair-Weather American Friends</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US accepted the undervaluation of the renminbi as long as China returned the dollars that it earned from bilateral trade by financing America’s budget deficit. Now that the Chinese prefer to invest that money in raw materials in Africa and elsewhere, they have aroused the full ire of American policymakers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US accepted the undervaluation of the renminbi as long as China returned the dollars that it earned from bilateral trade by financing America’s budget deficit. Now that the Chinese prefer to invest that money in raw materials in Africa and elsewhere, they have aroused the full ire of American policymakers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Hans-Werner Sinn</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Hans-Werner Sinn</dc:creator>
	
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	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Despite the financial crisis, New York and London, still lead all rankings of the world's financial centers. But Asian financial centers are closing the gap, and, unless the US and Britain call a truce between the state and the markets soon, those markets may move elsewhere.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Despite the financial crisis, New York and London, still lead all rankings of the world's financial centers. But Asian financial centers are closing the gap, and, unless the US and Britain call a truce between the state and the markets soon, those markets may move elsewhere.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Howard Davies</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Howard Davies</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The High Court of India&#39;s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has finally decided a 61-year-old suit over possession of a disputed site in the temple city of Ayodhya, where, in 1992, a mob of Hindu extremists tore down the 500-tear-old Babri Masjid mosque. The court&#39;s decision is an affirmation of Indian pluralism and of the rule of law.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The High Court of India&#39;s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has finally decided a 61-year-old suit over possession of a disputed site in the temple city of Ayodhya, where, in 1992, a mob of Hindu extremists tore down the 500-tear-old Babri Masjid mosque. The court&#39;s decision is an affirmation of Indian pluralism and of the rule of law.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The risk of global currency and trade wars is rising, with most economies now engaged in competitive devaluations. But, because not all currencies can be weak at the same time, and not all countries can boost their exports simultaneously, this is a game that some must lose.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The risk of global currency and trade wars is rising, with most economies now engaged in competitive devaluations. But, because not all currencies can be weak at the same time, and not all countries can boost their exports simultaneously, this is a game that some must lose.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Although some climate activists still rely on scare tactics,  many now spend more time highlighting the “benefits” of their policy prescription. They no longer dwell on impending climate doom, but on the economic windfall that will result from embracing the “green” economy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although some climate activists still rely on scare tactics,  many now spend more time highlighting the “benefits” of their policy prescription. They no longer dwell on impending climate doom, but on the economic windfall that will result from embracing the “green” economy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Three years into the financial crisis, one might think that the world could put Great Depression analogies behind it. But they are back, and now the fear is that currency warfare, leading to tariffs and retaliation, could cause disruptions to the international trading system as serious as those of the 1930’s.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Three years into the financial crisis, one might think that the world could put Great Depression analogies behind it. But they are back, and now the fear is that currency warfare, leading to tariffs and retaliation, could cause disruptions to the international trading system as serious as those of the 1930’s.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Douglas Irwin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Douglas Irwin, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Federal Reserve’s Relevance Test</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The best that can be said for US monetary policy over the last few years is that it prevented the direst outcomes that could have followed Lehmann Brothers’ collapse. But no one would claim that lowering short-term interest rates spurred investment.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The best that can be said for US monetary policy over the last few years is that it prevented the direst outcomes that could have followed Lehmann Brothers’ collapse. But no one would claim that lowering short-term interest rates spurred investment.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Troubling Interventions</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The most noteworthy commemoration of the second anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse was Japan’s unilateral intervention to weaken the yen. That move marks a shift in the character of the global financial crisis, away from concern with banking problems and toward a focus on the world’s supposedly dysfunctional exchange-rate system.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The most noteworthy commemoration of the second anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse was Japan’s unilateral intervention to weaken the yen. That move marks a shift in the character of the global financial crisis, away from concern with banking problems and toward a focus on the world’s supposedly dysfunctional exchange-rate system.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>$10,000 Gold?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Now that gold has crossed the magic $1,000 barrier, some investors evidently believe that, like the stock market when the Dow Jones index hit 1,000, the price can increase ten-fold. What was true for the alchemists of yore remains true today: gold and reason are often difficult to reconcile.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Now that gold has crossed the magic $1,000 barrier, some investors evidently believe that, like the stock market when the Dow Jones index hit 1,000, the price can increase ten-fold. What was true for the alchemists of yore remains true today: gold and reason are often difficult to reconcile.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Economists generally agree on the advantages of openness in trade. But the case for non-discrimination in trade is also a compelling one - and  the US is flouting WTO rules against it by raising visa fees for temporary foreign workers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Economists generally agree on the advantages of openness in trade. But the case for non-discrimination in trade is also a compelling one - and  the US is flouting WTO rules against it by raising visa fees for temporary foreign workers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Japan is heading toward a savings crisis. The potential financing crunch caused by a combination of rising fiscal deficits and a plummeting household saving rate could have powerful negative effects on both the Japanese and the global economy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Japan is heading toward a savings crisis. The potential financing crunch caused by a combination of rising fiscal deficits and a plummeting household saving rate could have powerful negative effects on both the Japanese and the global economy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[China's "string of pearls" policy, aimed at encircling India by sea with strategically positioned naval stations, and on land by promoting bogus Pakistani claims that undermine India’s territorial integrity, takes the “Great Game” to a new and more dangerous level. The outcome will determine whether the current century will be Asian or Chinese.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[China's "string of pearls" policy, aimed at encircling India by sea with strategically positioned naval stations, and on land by promoting bogus Pakistani claims that undermine India’s territorial integrity, takes the “Great Game” to a new and more dangerous level. The outcome will determine whether the current century will be Asian or Chinese.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jaswant Singh</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jaswant Singh</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In the long term, the world economy can easily afford the costs of higher capital requirements for banks in order to insure against ruinous financial crises. The problem is that the short-term transition costs of tighter regulation could undermine the pace of economic recovery.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the long term, the world economy can easily afford the costs of higher capital requirements for banks in order to insure against ruinous financial crises. The problem is that the short-term transition costs of tighter regulation could undermine the pace of economic recovery.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama told the last G-20 summit that he will propose tough deficit-reduction measures next year. But his administration has followed the opposite strategy, letting rip with new spending, which he hopes will lead to pressure for higher taxes, possibly even a European-style value-added tax - an agenda that American voters aren't buying.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Barack Obama told the last G-20 summit that he will propose tough deficit-reduction measures next year. But his administration has followed the opposite strategy, letting rip with new spending, which he hopes will lead to pressure for higher taxes, possibly even a European-style value-added tax - an agenda that American voters aren't buying.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Boskin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Boskin</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[“The Northern Lights” was the title of a major painting exhibition in Paris a few years ago, dedicated to Scandinavian masterpieces. But “northern lights” may also correspond to what Europe, if not the entire West, needs nowadays: a political, economic, social, and ethical model that looks like Scandinavia's.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[“The Northern Lights” was the title of a major painting exhibition in Paris a few years ago, dedicated to Scandinavian masterpieces. But “northern lights” may also correspond to what Europe, if not the entire West, needs nowadays: a political, economic, social, and ethical model that looks like Scandinavia's.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Brazil is on the cusp of sustained growth, higher international stature, and consolidating its middle-class status. But, until it develops a mature foreign policy that matches its economic aspirations – a foreign policy based on principled leadership, not heedless Third World solidarity – its global influence will be constrained.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Brazil is on the cusp of sustained growth, higher international stature, and consolidating its middle-class status. But, until it develops a mature foreign policy that matches its economic aspirations – a foreign policy based on principled leadership, not heedless Third World solidarity – its global influence will be constrained.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jorge G. Castañeda</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jorge G. Castañeda</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[A new software tool called Digital Mirror allows you to analyze your on-line relationships by assessing the shape, tone, and content of your e-mails. This is all part of a trend toward greater clarity in our personal and professional relations, though the social networks, advertisers and behavioral targeters never make this informations available to you.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A new software tool called Digital Mirror allows you to analyze your on-line relationships by assessing the shape, tone, and content of your e-mails. This is all part of a trend toward greater clarity in our personal and professional relations, though the social networks, advertisers and behavioral targeters never make this informations available to you.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[It is not true that if you break a mirror, you will have seven years’ bad luck. But if you allow a financial market to spin wildly until it breaks down, it really does seem - based on historical patterns - that you run the risk of years of economic malaise.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is not true that if you break a mirror, you will have seven years’ bad luck. But if you allow a financial market to spin wildly until it breaks down, it really does seem - based on historical patterns - that you run the risk of years of economic malaise.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert J. Shiller</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert J. Shiller</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Having initially been shunned at the outset of the recent financial crisis, the IMF has assumed a key role in financing – and, more importantly, implementing – fiscal-stabilization programs. But the Fund is also at the epicenter of large-scale global coordination challenges, particularly the need to rebalance and restore global demand.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Having initially been shunned at the outset of the recent financial crisis, the IMF has assumed a key role in financing – and, more importantly, implementing – fiscal-stabilization programs. But the Fund is also at the epicenter of large-scale global coordination challenges, particularly the need to rebalance and restore global demand.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[After a summer of Europeans forgetting their woes and tanning themselves at the beach, the time for a reality check has come. For the fundamental problems of the eurozone remain unresolved - and are re-asserting themselves with a vengeance.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[After a summer of Europeans forgetting their woes and tanning themselves at the beach, the time for a reality check has come. For the fundamental problems of the eurozone remain unresolved - and are re-asserting themselves with a vengeance.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Today’s conventional view of the eurozone is that the crisis is over – the intense, often existential concern earlier this year about the common currency’s future has been assuaged, and everything now is back under control. But this is completely at odds with the facts – and the IMF seems poised to make Europe's insolvency problems worse.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today’s conventional view of the eurozone is that the crisis is over – the intense, often existential concern earlier this year about the common currency’s future has been assuaged, and everything now is back under control. But this is completely at odds with the facts – and the IMF seems poised to make Europe's insolvency problems worse.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Boone</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Boone, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[By most accounts, North Korea’s communist regime is set to complete its second dynastic transfer of power, this time from Kim Jong-il, who has ruled since 1994, to his youngest son, Kim Jong-eun. But Kim Kyong-hui, Kim Jong-il's powerful sister, may have other plans.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[By most accounts, North Korea’s communist regime is set to complete its second dynastic transfer of power, this time from Kim Jong-il, who has ruled since 1994, to his youngest son, Kim Jong-eun. But Kim Kyong-hui, Kim Jong-il's powerful sister, may have other plans.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The target date for fulfilling the UN's Millennium Development Goals is 2015, and the world knows it is not on course to meet those goals. In order to get back on track, we must change the way the world goes about the business of providing development aid.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The target date for fulfilling the UN's Millennium Development Goals is 2015, and the world knows it is not on course to meet those goals. In order to get back on track, we must change the way the world goes about the business of providing development aid.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Evidence is now accumulating that commercial fishing inflicts an unimaginable amount of pain and suffering. We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely – or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Evidence is now accumulating that commercial fishing inflicts an unimaginable amount of pain and suffering. We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely – or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[A new collection of studies supports the view that climate engineering and higher spending on R&D for alternative energy, not carbon cuts, are the most effective ways to fight global warming. This agenda promises a less expensive and faster fix than trying to cut carbon emissions, and developing countries are far more likely to embrace it.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A new collection of studies supports the view that climate engineering and higher spending on R&D for alternative energy, not carbon cuts, are the most effective ways to fight global warming. This agenda promises a less expensive and faster fix than trying to cut carbon emissions, and developing countries are far more likely to embrace it.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[China's huge trade surplus and a stalling US recovery point to renewed pressure on the Chinese government to revalue the renminbi. But, rather than holding China responsible for pursuing its own economic interests, other countries, particularly in the developing world, should reconsider their own misguided currency policies.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[China's huge trade surplus and a stalling US recovery point to renewed pressure on the Chinese government to revalue the renminbi. But, rather than holding China responsible for pursuing its own economic interests, other countries, particularly in the developing world, should reconsider their own misguided currency policies.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[There is growing concern In the US that the worst recession since the Great Depression has damaged the economy’s capacity to grow. But it is often forgotten that, in addition to the similarities between then and now – credit rationing by banks, low investment, and jobless growth – the 1930's witnessed the fastest productivity growth in US history.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There is growing concern In the US that the worst recession since the Great Depression has damaged the economy’s capacity to grow. But it is often forgotten that, in addition to the similarities between then and now – credit rationing by banks, low investment, and jobless growth – the 1930's witnessed the fastest productivity growth in US history.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Is Russia an industrialized banana republic whose corrupt institutions and insurmountable demographic and health problems make decline inevitable, or will reform and modernization enable Russia to surmount its problems? Either outcome is possible, but there are few good reasons to be optimistic.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is Russia an industrialized banana republic whose corrupt institutions and insurmountable demographic and health problems make decline inevitable, or will reform and modernization enable Russia to surmount its problems? Either outcome is possible, but there are few good reasons to be optimistic.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[There is no "market" in the US housing market anymore, with a broad consensus emerging that the government will have to continue propping up the sector for the foreseeable future. This stance is perplexing and possibly dangerous, for it prolongs the deleveraging process and creates the conditions for Japanese-style malaise.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There is no "market" in the US housing market anymore, with a broad consensus emerging that the government will have to continue propping up the sector for the foreseeable future. This stance is perplexing and possibly dangerous, for it prolongs the deleveraging process and creates the conditions for Japanese-style malaise.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How to Sell Global Re-Balancing</title>
    <description><![CDATA[We keep hoping that somehow meetings of heads of state will magically produce the policies that will rebalance world trade. Unfortunately, the macroeconomic changes that countries must make involve actions to which even heads of state cannot commit, because there is virtually no domestic constituency to support and promote them.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[We keep hoping that somehow meetings of heads of state will magically produce the policies that will rebalance world trade. Unfortunately, the macroeconomic changes that countries must make involve actions to which even heads of state cannot commit, because there is virtually no domestic constituency to support and promote them.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The news that China has overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy did not come as a surprise. This is the major geo-political outcome of the Great Recession of the early twenty-first century – one that carries both economic hope and political fear.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The news that China has overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy did not come as a surprise. This is the major geo-political outcome of the Great Recession of the early twenty-first century – one that carries both economic hope and political fear.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The slowdown in the pace of economic recovery, particularly in the US, has predictably led to calls for further fiscal and monetary stimulus. But  economic policy can do little more than ease the social pain of the long and difficult structural adjustment that countries like the US face as they try to re-establish the skills needed to strengthen exports.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The slowdown in the pace of economic recovery, particularly in the US, has predictably led to calls for further fiscal and monetary stimulus. But  economic policy can do little more than ease the social pain of the long and difficult structural adjustment that countries like the US face as they try to re-establish the skills needed to strengthen exports.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Trapped since the 1960’s in armed conflict with unscrupulous militias, and hostage to drug lords who turned the country’s vast rural areas into fiefdoms of crime and untold atrocities, Colombia long appeared to be addicted to violence. But that is no longer true, and President Juan Manuel Santos is poised to build on the country's recent successes.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Trapped since the 1960’s in armed conflict with unscrupulous militias, and hostage to drug lords who turned the country’s vast rural areas into fiefdoms of crime and untold atrocities, Colombia long appeared to be addicted to violence. But that is no longer true, and President Juan Manuel Santos is poised to build on the country's recent successes.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[As the US economy limps toward the second anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, anemic growth has left unemployment mired near 10%, with little prospect of significant improvement anytime soon. The bottom line is that, as with financial crises in the past, it will take many years for the US economy to climb out of its hole. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the US economy limps toward the second anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, anemic growth has left unemployment mired near 10%, with little prospect of significant improvement anytime soon. The bottom line is that, as with financial crises in the past, it will take many years for the US economy to climb out of its hole. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The household saving rate in the US has tripled in the past three years. If the saving rate continues to rise rapidly, it could push America’s fragile economy into another downturn, which would mean lower imports and potential problems for countries that depend for their employment on exporting to the US.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The household saving rate in the US has tripled in the past three years. If the saving rate continues to rise rapidly, it could push America’s fragile economy into another downturn, which would mean lower imports and potential problems for countries that depend for their employment on exporting to the US.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Just as single mothers were irrationally castigated a generation ago, so today an equally irrational hagiography has risen around them. Indeed, in US pop culture, single mothers are the new maternal ideal – women whose maternal drive is so selfless and intense that they choose to raise children even under the burden of their solitary status.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Just as single mothers were irrationally castigated a generation ago, so today an equally irrational hagiography has risen around them. Indeed, in US pop culture, single mothers are the new maternal ideal – women whose maternal drive is so selfless and intense that they choose to raise children even under the burden of their solitary status.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Reports of labor shortages, wage disputes, and wage increases in China have abounded of late, naturally raising concerns that China’s labor-cost advantages may be disappearing. But, because China must still reallocate almost 200 million workers to non-farm jobs, China should remain cost competitive for the foreseeable future.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Reports of labor shortages, wage disputes, and wage increases in China have abounded of late, naturally raising concerns that China’s labor-cost advantages may be disappearing. But, because China must still reallocate almost 200 million workers to non-farm jobs, China should remain cost competitive for the foreseeable future.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Fan Gang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Fan Gang</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Manufacturing Fallacy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Economists long ago put to rest Adam Smith’s error in arguing for the primacy of manufactures in a country’s economy. But the manufactures fetish recurs repeatedly, the latest manifestation being in the US in the wake of the recent crisis.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Economists long ago put to rest Adam Smith’s error in arguing for the primacy of manufactures in a country’s economy. But the manufactures fetish recurs repeatedly, the latest manifestation being in the US in the wake of the recent crisis.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Gazelles and Turtles</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The world is currently divided into two groups of countries: those that are off to a strong recovery, and others that lag behind and are signaling new problems. This division, in turn, reflects a process of portfolio rebalancing, which is reversing the international ranking of growth rates relative to those before the crisis. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The world is currently divided into two groups of countries: those that are off to a strong recovery, and others that lag behind and are signaling new problems. This division, in turn, reflects a process of portfolio rebalancing, which is reversing the international ranking of growth rates relative to those before the crisis. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Hans-Werner Sinn</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Hans-Werner Sinn</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In its quest for higher "gross national happiness," the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is posing a set of economic and social questions that are of pressing interest for the entire world. How to guide an economy to produce sustainable happiness – combining material well-being, environmental conservation, and psychological and cultural resiliency – needs to be addressed everywhere.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In its quest for higher "gross national happiness," the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is posing a set of economic and social questions that are of pressing interest for the entire world. How to guide an economy to produce sustainable happiness – combining material well-being, environmental conservation, and psychological and cultural resiliency – needs to be addressed everywhere.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Taking August Seriously</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Europe’s holiday month of August is no time for serious politics – the world and its worries are meant to close down while Europeans repose. But, even on vacation, one cannot escape the effects of the massive transformations wrought by globalization.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Europe’s holiday month of August is no time for serious politics – the world and its worries are meant to close down while Europeans repose. But, even on vacation, one cannot escape the effects of the massive transformations wrought by globalization.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Winston Churchill’s denunciation of British and French tactics on the eve of World War II – they "had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have war.” – should be a warning to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In fanning anti-immigrant passions for short-term political gain, he will have dishonor and then defeat.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Winston Churchill’s denunciation of British and French tactics on the eve of World War II – they "had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have war.” – should be a warning to French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In fanning anti-immigrant passions for short-term political gain, he will have dishonor and then defeat.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that we will quickly return to the heady growth in financial assets, credit, and risk we saw from the 1970’s to 2007. Financial-sector returns are likely to be lower – returns of 20% on equity targets are a thing of the past – and lower profitability will reduce pay more effectively than any direct regulatory controls.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is hard to believe that we will quickly return to the heady growth in financial assets, credit, and risk we saw from the 1970’s to 2007. Financial-sector returns are likely to be lower – returns of 20% on equity targets are a thing of the past – and lower profitability will reduce pay more effectively than any direct regulatory controls.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Howard Davies</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Howard Davies</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Even as the online world has turned its attention from searching to social networking, Internet search is beginning to get interesting again. When people search, they aren't just looking for information; they mostly want to find something in order to do something - an imperative that first Bing, and now Google, have begun working hard to satisfy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Even as the online world has turned its attention from searching to social networking, Internet search is beginning to get interesting again. When people search, they aren't just looking for information; they mostly want to find something in order to do something - an imperative that first Bing, and now Google, have begun working hard to satisfy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago this month, Saddam Hussein, then the unchallenged ruler of Iraq, invaded Kuwait, triggering the first great international crisis of the post-Cold War era. Today, it is Iran, even more than Iraq or Afghanistan, where the lessons of the first Gulf war are likely to be debated and, ultimately, applied.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Twenty years ago this month, Saddam Hussein, then the unchallenged ruler of Iraq, invaded Kuwait, triggering the first great international crisis of the post-Cold War era. Today, it is Iran, even more than Iraq or Afghanistan, where the lessons of the first Gulf war are likely to be debated and, ultimately, applied.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Richard N. Haass</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Richard N. Haass</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In its July session, the European parliament approved some of the strictest rules in the world on the bonuses paid to bankers. If the problem is the moral hazard implied by being too big to fail, the solution is not to restrict pay, but to eliminate the hazard by forcing shareholders to issue more equity or lose their stock when banks’ debt starts to become risky. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In its July session, the European parliament approved some of the strictest rules in the world on the bonuses paid to bankers. If the problem is the moral hazard implied by being too big to fail, the solution is not to restrict pay, but to eliminate the hazard by forcing shareholders to issue more equity or lose their stock when banks’ debt starts to become risky. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Luigi Zingales</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Luigi Zingales</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Fixing the Right Hole</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It is not fear of government bankruptcy, but governments’ determination to balance their budgets, that is reducing business confidence nowadays by lowering expectations of employment, incomes, and orders. The problem is not the hole in the budget; it is the hole in the economy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is not fear of government bankruptcy, but governments’ determination to balance their budgets, that is reducing business confidence nowadays by lowering expectations of employment, incomes, and orders. The problem is not the hole in the budget; it is the hole in the economy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The US has a significant budget deficit, likely to be $1.3 trillion (10% of GDP) this year, and the long-term forecasts are worrying. While America can finance these deficits in the short term, if there is no serious effort at fiscal consolidation, serious trouble lies ahead, both for the US and for the world economy. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US has a significant budget deficit, likely to be $1.3 trillion (10% of GDP) this year, and the long-term forecasts are worrying. While America can finance these deficits in the short term, if there is no serious effort at fiscal consolidation, serious trouble lies ahead, both for the US and for the world economy. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In the past two years, we have had two dangerous episodes of financial instability and sudden change in market dynamics. More are likely, because the global economy is out of balance in several respects as we emerge from the crisis, particularly in terms of the distribution of sovereign debt and the structure of global demand.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the past two years, we have had two dangerous episodes of financial instability and sudden change in market dynamics. More are likely, because the global economy is out of balance in several respects as we emerge from the crisis, particularly in terms of the distribution of sovereign debt and the structure of global demand.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In the 1987 film Wall Street, the character Gordon Gekko famously declared, “Greed is good,” before being packed off to prison. A generation later, the film's sequel – to be released next month – sees Gekko released from jail and returned to the financial world – a world in which greed, arrogance, and immorality remain untamed by adequate regulation.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the 1987 film Wall Street, the character Gordon Gekko famously declared, “Greed is good,” before being packed off to prison. A generation later, the film's sequel – to be released next month – sees Gekko released from jail and returned to the financial world – a world in which greed, arrogance, and immorality remain untamed by adequate regulation.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How Much Transparency is Too Much?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Ever since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, there has been a call for “greater transparency” in financial services, and the same appeal has been used to force oil and mining companies to reveal their payments to governments of countries where they operate. But the recent Wikileaks imbroglio raises a key question: is greater transparency always good?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ever since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, there has been a call for “greater transparency” in financial services, and the same appeal has been used to force oil and mining companies to reveal their payments to governments of countries where they operate. But the recent Wikileaks imbroglio raises a key question: is greater transparency always good?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[As the world economy begins to recover, Indians are looking back with particular satisfaction at how they coped with the recent crisis. Despite an unprecedented global recession, India remained the second fastest growing economy in the world. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the world economy begins to recover, Indians are looking back with particular satisfaction at how they coped with the recent crisis. Despite an unprecedented global recession, India remained the second fastest growing economy in the world. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Like it or not, global warming is real, it is man-made, and we need to do something about it. But, given that many cities, including Tokyo, Tianjin, Shanghai, Osaka, Bangkok, and Jakarta, have already managed to protect themselves from large sea-level rises and thrive, we also need to recognize that we are not facing the end of the world.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Like it or not, global warming is real, it is man-made, and we need to do something about it. But, given that many cities, including Tokyo, Tianjin, Shanghai, Osaka, Bangkok, and Jakarta, have already managed to protect themselves from large sea-level rises and thrive, we also need to recognize that we are not facing the end of the world.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The relationship between the IMF and the G-20 is symbiotic but conflicted. Like a long-married couple who habitually bicker and fight, the two can’t seem to live together – but they can’t live apart, either.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The relationship between the IMF and the G-20 is symbiotic but conflicted. Like a long-married couple who habitually bicker and fight, the two can’t seem to live together – but they can’t live apart, either.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The US is locked in debate over immigration, reflecting fears over newcomers' effect on national values and American identity that have existed since the nation’s early years. But if the US turned inward and seriously curtailed immigration, it would have serious consequences for America’s position in the world.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US is locked in debate over immigration, reflecting fears over newcomers' effect on national values and American identity that have existed since the nation’s early years. But if the US turned inward and seriously curtailed immigration, it would have serious consequences for America’s position in the world.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Even as the world becomes more integrated, the word “security” crops up again and again, as in “food security” or “energy security,” which typically means a country creating and controlling domestic production facilities no matter what the cost. But such decisions merely lead to collective economic insecurity.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Even as the world becomes more integrated, the word “security” crops up again and again, as in “food security” or “energy security,” which typically means a country creating and controlling domestic production facilities no matter what the cost. But such decisions merely lead to collective economic insecurity.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Japan's DPJ government, unlike its predecessors, understands that the country must develop a more independent and assertive foreign policy in order to balance the power of China in Asia. But the US seems to prefer an obedient one-party state to a difficult, faltering, but more democratic partner in the region.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Japan's DPJ government, unlike its predecessors, understands that the country must develop a more independent and assertive foreign policy in order to balance the power of China in Asia. But the US seems to prefer an obedient one-party state to a difficult, faltering, but more democratic partner in the region.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Australia had the shortest and shallowest of recessions of the advanced industrial countries, thanks to one of the best-designed Keynesian stimulus packages in the world. But that hasn't stopped opponents from focusing needlessly on inefficient spending, and on the fiscal deficit that the downturn and the government’s response created.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Australia had the shortest and shallowest of recessions of the advanced industrial countries, thanks to one of the best-designed Keynesian stimulus packages in the world. But that hasn't stopped opponents from focusing needlessly on inefficient spending, and on the fiscal deficit that the downturn and the government’s response created.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Europeans hope that the recent publication of the results of stress tests of their banks will have the same stabilizing effect in Europe that last year's stress tests of US banks produced in America. But, while the results of stress tests may be good for the financial sector, they may be bad for the real economy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Europeans hope that the recent publication of the results of stress tests of their banks will have the same stabilizing effect in Europe that last year's stress tests of US banks produced in America. But, while the results of stress tests may be good for the financial sector, they may be bad for the real economy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Twenty years after the Madrid Peace conference, and ten years after Bill Clinton’s heroic efforts at Camp David failed to yield a settlement between Israelis and Palestinians, one cannot escape the conclusion that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become one of the most spectacular deceptions in modern diplomatic history.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Twenty years after the Madrid Peace conference, and ten years after Bill Clinton’s heroic efforts at Camp David failed to yield a settlement between Israelis and Palestinians, one cannot escape the conclusion that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become one of the most spectacular deceptions in modern diplomatic history.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening. This summer has gives us one such example: the climate-change bill, for which President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the United States Senate, because it stands no chance of passage.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sometimes the most important news is what is not happening. This summer has gives us one such example: the climate-change bill, for which President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the United States Senate, because it stands no chance of passage.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[As the US and European economies continue to struggle, there is rising concern that they face a Japanese-style “lost decade.” But policymakers must remember that whether or not the US and Europe avoid Japan's fate depends on their economies' productive vitality, not simply on short-term demand-stimulation measures.  ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the US and European economies continue to struggle, there is rising concern that they face a Japanese-style “lost decade.” But policymakers must remember that whether or not the US and Europe avoid Japan's fate depends on their economies' productive vitality, not simply on short-term demand-stimulation measures.  ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[It is easier to enter a maximum-security prison than it is to enter the strip of land – 45 kilometers long and maybe eight wide – that is home to Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians. And conditions inside reveal the self-defeating nature of Israel's continued blockade.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is easier to enter a maximum-security prison than it is to enter the strip of land – 45 kilometers long and maybe eight wide – that is home to Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians. And conditions inside reveal the self-defeating nature of Israel's continued blockade.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>God Crashes the Tea Party</title>
    <description><![CDATA[There has always been tension in the US between church-state separation and regular upsurges of religious faith that seek an outlet in the political process – or even seek to dominate it. Nowhere is this tension more visible today than in the struggle for the political soul of the Tea Party.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There has always been tension in the US between church-state separation and regular upsurges of religious faith that seek an outlet in the political process – or even seek to dominate it. Nowhere is this tension more visible today than in the struggle for the political soul of the Tea Party.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Broadband Liberation</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Swiss writer and playwright Max Frisch once dismissed technology as “the art of arranging the world so that we need not experience it.” Today, however, technology is essential to effective participation in our world, and the information revolution has liberated millions of people.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Swiss writer and playwright Max Frisch once dismissed technology as “the art of arranging the world so that we need not experience it.” Today, however, technology is essential to effective participation in our world, and the information revolution has liberated millions of people.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shashi Tharoor</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shashi Tharoor</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When a developing country has a high savings rate as a result of structural factors, as China does, the best strategy is not to reduce savings through dramatic exchange-rate appreciation, which may kill export industries overnight. Rather, savings should be channeled even more – and more efficiently – to domestic investment in order to avoid large external imbalances.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When a developing country has a high savings rate as a result of structural factors, as China does, the best strategy is not to reduce savings through dramatic exchange-rate appreciation, which may kill export industries overnight. Rather, savings should be channeled even more – and more efficiently – to domestic investment in order to avoid large external imbalances.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Fan Gang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Fan Gang</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When demand for government bonds is high, as it is nowadays, governments should increase the supply. That lesson, bequeathed to us by John Stewart Mill, is one that the core economies of the global North, as well as the European Central Bank, do not seem to have learned.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When demand for government bonds is high, as it is nowadays, governments should increase the supply. That lesson, bequeathed to us by John Stewart Mill, is one that the core economies of the global North, as well as the European Central Bank, do not seem to have learned.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Making Sense of the Climate Impasse</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Intense heat waves are currently hitting many parts of the world: the first five months of this year were the warmest on record going back to 1880, and May was the warmest month ever. So why do we still fail to act?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Intense heat waves are currently hitting many parts of the world: the first five months of this year were the warmest on record going back to 1880, and May was the warmest month ever. So why do we still fail to act?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How to Pay a Banker</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It is now widely accepted that it is important to reward bankers for long-term results, because tying their compensation to short-term returns encourages them to take excessive risks. But tying executive payoffs to long-term results does not provide a complete answer to the challenge facing financial firms and regulators.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is now widely accepted that it is important to reward bankers for long-term results, because tying their compensation to short-term returns encourages them to take excessive risks. But tying executive payoffs to long-term results does not provide a complete answer to the challenge facing financial firms and regulators.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Lucian Bebchuk</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Lucian Bebchuk</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Europe’s Federalism Debate Revived</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It is an old debate, but tensions within the euro area have revived it: can a monetary union survive without some form of fiscal federalism? If not, what kind of federalism is right for Europe?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is an old debate, but tensions within the euro area have revived it: can a monetary union survive without some form of fiscal federalism? If not, what kind of federalism is right for Europe?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean Pisani-Ferry</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean Pisani-Ferry</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Hidden Future of the US Economy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Just how bad is the outlook for the US economy? Unfortunately, you cannot tell from the forecasts, though many economists are raising their odds on a double-dip recession as government stimulus programs end and spending declines.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Just how bad is the outlook for the US economy? Unfortunately, you cannot tell from the forecasts, though many economists are raising their odds on a double-dip recession as government stimulus programs end and spending declines.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Recession Dating Game</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The optimism that emerged in the early stages of the recovery from the financial crisis and recession has given way to more sobering assessments, with fear of a double-dip recession rising. But, depending on how we date when a recession begins and ends, double-dip recessions are more the rule than the exception. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The optimism that emerged in the early stages of the recovery from the financial crisis and recession has given way to more sobering assessments, with fear of a double-dip recession rising. But, depending on how we date when a recession begins and ends, double-dip recessions are more the rule than the exception. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Boskin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Boskin</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Life by the Numbers</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Almost everyone is faced at some point with decisions about medical treatments and side-effects, for themselves and for loved ones. The most important thing to understand in such situations is statistics.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Almost everyone is faced at some point with decisions about medical treatments and side-effects, for themselves and for loved ones. The most important thing to understand in such situations is statistics.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Running in Place on Trade</title>
    <description><![CDATA[G-20 meetings regularly affirm the importance of maintaining and strengthening openness in trade, and June’s summit in Toronto was no different. Yet talk is cheap, and the open-mouth policy of (generally pro-trade) pronouncements has not been matched by action.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[G-20 meetings regularly affirm the importance of maintaining and strengthening openness in trade, and June’s summit in Toronto was no different. Yet talk is cheap, and the open-mouth policy of (generally pro-trade) pronouncements has not been matched by action.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jagdish Bhagwati</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jagdish Bhagwati</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Consolidators versus Stimulators</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The classical view of the economy, which Keynes set out to demolish, is not only alive, but in recent years has been dominant, feeding the belief that competitive markets can regulate themselves, will always provide as much employment as is wanted, and are immune to large-scale collapse. Now the believers are clamoring for fiscal consolidation worldwide. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The classical view of the economy, which Keynes set out to demolish, is not only alive, but in recent years has been dominant, feeding the belief that competitive markets can regulate themselves, will always provide as much employment as is wanted, and are immune to large-scale collapse. Now the believers are clamoring for fiscal consolidation worldwide. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Russia’s Lost Opportunity with Japan</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The recent exchange of spies between Russia and the US appears to demonstrate that the “reset” in bilateral relations has worked. But Russia failure to “reset” its relations with Japan is not only a lost opportunity, given Russia’s need to modernize its economy, but also a strategic error in view of Russia’s increasing worries about China.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The recent exchange of spies between Russia and the US appears to demonstrate that the “reset” in bilateral relations has worked. But Russia failure to “reset” its relations with Japan is not only a lost opportunity, given Russia’s need to modernize its economy, but also a strategic error in view of Russia’s increasing worries about China.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>In Finance We Distrust</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It now seems universally accepted that government should establish the structure and rules for the financial system, with participants then pursuing their self-interest within that framework. But in a complex system in which expertise, insight, and real-time information are widely dispersed – and trust is lacking – reliance on such a framework seems deficient and unwise. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It now seems universally accepted that government should establish the structure and rules for the financial system, with participants then pursuing their self-interest within that framework. But in a complex system in which expertise, insight, and real-time information are widely dispersed – and trust is lacking – reliance on such a framework seems deficient and unwise. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Double-Dip Days</title>
    <description><![CDATA[With the world economy set to slow, a scenario in which US growth slumps to 1.5%, the eurozone and Japan stagnate, and China’s growth rate falls below 8% may not imply a global contraction, but it will feel like one. And any additional shock – a highly plausible concern – could tip the global economy back into full-fledged recession.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With the world economy set to slow, a scenario in which US growth slumps to 1.5%, the eurozone and Japan stagnate, and China’s growth rate falls below 8% may not imply a global contraction, but it will feel like one. And any additional shock – a highly plausible concern – could tip the global economy back into full-fledged recession.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Affordable Green Energy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The dominant approach to addressing climate change – subsidizing inefficient technologies or making fossil fuels too expensive to use - cannot possibly achieve the goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 50% by mid-century. Instead, we should fund the basic research that will make green energy too cheap and easy to resist.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The dominant approach to addressing climate change – subsidizing inefficient technologies or making fossil fuels too expensive to use - cannot possibly achieve the goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 50% by mid-century. Instead, we should fund the basic research that will make green energy too cheap and easy to resist.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Roosevelt Moment for America’s Megabanks?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Just over a hundred years ago, the US led the world in terms of rethinking how big business worked – and when the power of such firms should be constrained - by enacting the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Dodd-Frank financial-reform bill, which is about to pass the US Senate, does something similar – and long overdue – for banking.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Just over a hundred years ago, the US led the world in terms of rethinking how big business worked – and when the power of such firms should be constrained - by enacting the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Dodd-Frank financial-reform bill, which is about to pass the US Senate, does something similar – and long overdue – for banking.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Fiscal Fibs and Follies</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Across the globe, the debate over fiscal consolidation has the distinct sound of two sides talking past one another. Whereas severely distressed southern European states may well benefit from cutting their budget deficits, those arguing for fiscal consolidation in the major G-20 economies are playing a dangerous game.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Across the globe, the debate over fiscal consolidation has the distinct sound of two sides talking past one another. Whereas severely distressed southern European states may well benefit from cutting their budget deficits, those arguing for fiscal consolidation in the major G-20 economies are playing a dangerous game.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Market Confidence Bugaboo</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Governments around the world are now cowering in fear of "market confidence" – that ineffable object of desire that makes officials impement policies they don't really believe in. Indeed, if the current crisis gets worse, it will be political leaders that bear primary responsibility – not because they ignored markets, but because they took them too seriously.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Governments around the world are now cowering in fear of "market confidence" – that ineffable object of desire that makes officials impement policies they don't really believe in. Indeed, if the current crisis gets worse, it will be political leaders that bear primary responsibility – not because they ignored markets, but because they took them too seriously.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Dollar and the Dragon</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A "balance of financial terror" has settled over US-China economic relations. China could bring the US to its knees by selling off its massive holdings of dollar-denominated reserves, but it would bring itself to its ankles in the process.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A "balance of financial terror" has settled over US-China economic relations. China could bring the US to its knees by selling off its massive holdings of dollar-denominated reserves, but it would bring itself to its ankles in the process.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How Inequality Fueled the Crisis</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Before the recent financial crisis, politicians from both political parties in the US egged on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government-backed mortgage agencies, to support low-income lending in their constituencies. There was a deeper concern behind this newly discovered passion for housing for the poor: growing income inequality.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Before the recent financial crisis, politicians from both political parties in the US egged on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government-backed mortgage agencies, to support low-income lending in their constituencies. There was a deeper concern behind this newly discovered passion for housing for the poor: growing income inequality.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Taming Finance in an Age of Austerity</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Finance is supposed to serve the interests of the rest of society, not the other way around. Having gotten the world into its current economic mess, financial markets are now dictating fiscal austerity to countries that have no choice but to go along - and then betting against these countries when they do.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Finance is supposed to serve the interests of the rest of society, not the other way around. Having gotten the world into its current economic mess, financial markets are now dictating fiscal austerity to countries that have no choice but to go along - and then betting against these countries when they do.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Can Good Emerge From the BP Oil Spill?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Perhaps it is a pipe dream, but it is just possible that the ongoing BP oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico will finally catalyze support for a US environmental policy with teeth. If so, the starting point should be a renewed push for a carbon tax.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Perhaps it is a pipe dream, but it is just possible that the ongoing BP oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico will finally catalyze support for a US environmental policy with teeth. If so, the starting point should be a renewed push for a carbon tax.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Unaccountable G-8</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In hosting the 2010 G-8 summit of major economies, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for an “accountability summit,” to hold the G-8 responsible for the promises that it made over the years. But the G-8 has neither fulfilled its promises, nor taken responsibility for its failure to do so.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In hosting the 2010 G-8 summit of major economies, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for an “accountability summit,” to hold the G-8 responsible for the promises that it made over the years. But the G-8 has neither fulfilled its promises, nor taken responsibility for its failure to do so.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The High Cost of Cheap Fashion</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Fashion has been transformed by the recent emergence of retail chains that hire good designers to make throwaway clothing and accessories that are right on trend. But what has been liberating for Western women is a system built literally on the backs of women in the developing world.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Fashion has been transformed by the recent emergence of retail chains that hire good designers to make throwaway clothing and accessories that are right on trend. But what has been liberating for Western women is a system built literally on the backs of women in the developing world.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Chinese Economy’s Secret Recipe</title>
    <description><![CDATA[While most major economies in their early stages of growth suffered crises, China’s story seems abnormal (or accidental), and has elicited periodic predictions of an “upcoming crash.” But there is nothing more abnormal about China’s 30-year unbroken pattern of growth than effective macroeconomic intervention in boom times.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[While most major economies in their early stages of growth suffered crises, China’s story seems abnormal (or accidental), and has elicited periodic predictions of an “upcoming crash.” But there is nothing more abnormal about China’s 30-year unbroken pattern of growth than effective macroeconomic intervention in boom times.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Fan Gang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Fan Gang</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Listening to Arsonists</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama made a significant mistake in naming the Republican ex-senator Alan Simpson to co-chair the president’s deficit-reduction commission. Simpson was a noted budget arsonist when he was in the Senate, and he has recently expressed views that make no sense whatsoever.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Barack Obama made a significant mistake in naming the Republican ex-senator Alan Simpson to co-chair the president’s deficit-reduction commission. Simpson was a noted budget arsonist when he was in the Senate, and he has recently expressed views that make no sense whatsoever.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>From “Les Bleus” to “the Blues”</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Like the French army in the spring of 1940, the French World Cup team’s strategy and technique were outmoded. Substituting war for soccer, the comparison that comes to mind is that of the aging French military establishment, behind the Maginot Line in 1940, unable to confront General Heinz Guderian’s masterful command of blitzkrieg tank attacks.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Like the French army in the spring of 1940, the French World Cup team’s strategy and technique were outmoded. Substituting war for soccer, the comparison that comes to mind is that of the aging French military establishment, behind the Maginot Line in 1940, unable to confront General Heinz Guderian’s masterful command of blitzkrieg tank attacks.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Turkey’s growing relevance in the Middle East is the measure of the Arabs’ failure. As Islamist democracies whose governments emerge from popular elections, Iran and Turkey – and their Hamas and Hezbollah allies – can claim an advantage over the incumbent Arab regimes, all of which suffer from a desperately yawning legitimacy deficit.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Turkey’s growing relevance in the Middle East is the measure of the Arabs’ failure. As Islamist democracies whose governments emerge from popular elections, Iran and Turkey – and their Hamas and Hezbollah allies – can claim an advantage over the incumbent Arab regimes, all of which suffer from a desperately yawning legitimacy deficit.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Investors nowadays are not sure which to worry about more in the US: future inflation or future deflation. The good news is that the answer – for at least the next few years – is “neither.”]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Investors nowadays are not sure which to worry about more in the US: future inflation or future deflation. The good news is that the answer – for at least the next few years – is “neither.”]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Keynes and Social Democracy Today</title>
    <description><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes' main contribution to social democracy lies not in the specifics of policy, but in his insistence that the state as ultimate protector of the public good has a duty to supplement and regulate market forces. Today, that means stopping financial markets from behaving badly.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes' main contribution to social democracy lies not in the specifics of policy, but in his insistence that the state as ultimate protector of the public good has a duty to supplement and regulate market forces. Today, that means stopping financial markets from behaving badly.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>America’s Oil-Spill Nationalism</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The oil company BP is discovering that American exceptionalism, when it runs rampant, is a tsunami to be avoided. But, while many Americans wrongly equate BP with Europe, and Europe with failure, it is nonetheless true that Europeans suffer the consequences of their own exceptionalist fantasy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The oil company BP is discovering that American exceptionalism, when it runs rampant, is a tsunami to be avoided. But, while many Americans wrongly equate BP with Europe, and Europe with failure, it is nonetheless true that Europeans suffer the consequences of their own exceptionalist fantasy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Naked ECB</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The European Central Bank has begun to buy government bonds, including those of Greece, at prices well above those that would prevail in a free market. But the decision to do so was not unanimous, and has exposed issues concerning the ECB's governance that Europe’s decision-makers have wanted to keep under the carpet.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The European Central Bank has begun to buy government bonds, including those of Greece, at prices well above those that would prevail in a free market. But the decision to do so was not unanimous, and has exposed issues concerning the ECB's governance that Europe’s decision-makers have wanted to keep under the carpet.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Howard Davies</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Howard Davies</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>China Needs a Service-Sector Revolution</title>
    <description><![CDATA[With a wave of strikes pushing up wages and making exports of manufactures more expensive, China will have to grow by producing something else. It will have to move away from a strategy in which manufactures are the engine of growth toward the model of a more mature economy, in which employment is increasingly concentrated in the service sector.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With a wave of strikes pushing up wages and making exports of manufactures more expensive, China will have to grow by producing something else. It will have to move away from a strategy in which manufactures are the engine of growth toward the model of a more mature economy, in which employment is increasingly concentrated in the service sector.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Face-to-Face with Facebook</title>
    <description><![CDATA[While many people are up in arms about Facebook’s shifting privacy policies, millions of others are calmly managing their reputations online, using the tools that Facebook and other social Web sites provide. More troubling is the data you don’t even know about – the kind of data collected by ad networks and shared with advertisers and other marketers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[While many people are up in arms about Facebook’s shifting privacy policies, millions of others are calmly managing their reputations online, using the tools that Facebook and other social Web sites provide. More troubling is the data you don’t even know about – the kind of data collected by ad networks and shared with advertisers and other marketers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The relative quiet in the ongoing ideological, political, and diplomatic conflict between Latin America's "Bolivarian" countries – Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, and Nicaragua – is only temporary. Any number of rising tempests, including conflict between Colombia and Venezuela, could end it.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The relative quiet in the ongoing ideological, political, and diplomatic conflict between Latin America's "Bolivarian" countries – Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, and Nicaragua – is only temporary. Any number of rising tempests, including conflict between Colombia and Venezuela, could end it.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jorge G. Castañeda</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jorge G. Castañeda</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Banking on the IMF</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The biggest financial nightmare looming over the world economy is the insolvency of a large international bank. To minimize the risk of an unruly collapse, an international resolution mechanism with authority over all major international financial institutions is needed – the IMF being the obvious candidate. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The biggest financial nightmare looming over the world economy is the insolvency of a large international bank. To minimize the risk of an unruly collapse, an international resolution mechanism with authority over all major international financial institutions is needed – the IMF being the obvious candidate. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Luigi Zingales</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Luigi Zingales</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How to Avoid a Double-Dip Global Recession</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Failure to adopt coordinated policy measures aimed at sustaining global aggregate demand at a time when deflationary trends are still severe in advanced economies could lead to a double-dip recession in advanced economies. Indeed, it could severely damage the growth prospects of emerging-market economies that have so far recovered more robustly.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Failure to adopt coordinated policy measures aimed at sustaining global aggregate demand at a time when deflationary trends are still severe in advanced economies could lead to a double-dip recession in advanced economies. Indeed, it could severely damage the growth prospects of emerging-market economies that have so far recovered more robustly.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Creating the Next Crisis</title>
    <description><![CDATA[With the Obama administration rejecting what it once supported – the breakup of megabanks that are too big to fail – we are setting ourselves up for another boom based on excessive and reckless risk-taking at the heart of the world’s financial system. This can end only one way: badly.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With the Obama administration rejecting what it once supported – the breakup of megabanks that are too big to fail – we are setting ourselves up for another boom based on excessive and reckless risk-taking at the heart of the world’s financial system. This can end only one way: badly.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Life Made to Order</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The recent announcement by Craig Venter that his team had created a synthetic form of life elicited predictable accusations of "playing God," as well as concerns about the very real risks connected with the release of new or genetically modified organisms. But those risks seem decisively outweighed by the hope that synthetic biology offers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The recent announcement by Craig Venter that his team had created a synthetic form of life elicited predictable accusations of "playing God," as well as concerns about the very real risks connected with the release of new or genetically modified organisms. But those risks seem decisively outweighed by the hope that synthetic biology offers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Who Lost Europe?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Europe urgently needs a short-term growth strategy to supplement its financial-support package and its plans for fiscal consolidation. But the greatest obstacle to implementing such a strategy is the EU’s largest economy and its putative leader: Germany.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Europe urgently needs a short-term growth strategy to supplement its financial-support package and its plans for fiscal consolidation. But the greatest obstacle to implementing such a strategy is the EU’s largest economy and its putative leader: Germany.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[America's fiscal and monetary policies are so accommodating in large part because the nature of US economic recoveries has changed since 1991, with output and employment taking much longer to return to their pre-recession levels. But such policies do not stimulate faster recovery, and US politicians should focus instead on modifying America's outdated social safety net.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[America's fiscal and monetary policies are so accommodating in large part because the nature of US economic recoveries has changed since 1991, with output and employment taking much longer to return to their pre-recession levels. But such policies do not stimulate faster recovery, and US politicians should focus instead on modifying America's outdated social safety net.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Raghuram Rajan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Raghuram Rajan</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Future of Europe</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The thought of France and Germany fighting each other again seems impossible, and the development of the EU has greatly enhanced Europe’s attractiveness and soft power in the world. Unfortunately, that historic achievement is now being called into question.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The thought of France and Germany fighting each other again seems impossible, and the development of the EU has greatly enhanced Europe’s attractiveness and soft power in the world. Unfortunately, that historic achievement is now being called into question.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Football is War</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The notion that international sporting competitions inevitably inspire warm fraternity – an idea advanced by Baron de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic games – is a romantic fiction. With the World Cup upon us, we should recall Arthur Koestler's maxim that there is nationalism, and there is football nationalism – and that the latter is the more deeply felt.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The notion that international sporting competitions inevitably inspire warm fraternity – an idea advanced by Baron de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic games – is a romantic fiction. With the World Cup upon us, we should recall Arthur Koestler's maxim that there is nationalism, and there is football nationalism – and that the latter is the more deeply felt.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Can Emerging Markets Save the World Economy?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Whereas industrial countries are experiencing bouts of severe financial instability, emerging economies, once considered much more vulnerable, have been remarkably resilient, proving to be important engines of global growth. But emerging economies do not operate in a vacuum, and sustaining their strong performance requires the accommodation of industrial countries.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Whereas industrial countries are experiencing bouts of severe financial instability, emerging economies, once considered much more vulnerable, have been remarkably resilient, proving to be important engines of global growth. But emerging economies do not operate in a vacuum, and sustaining their strong performance requires the accommodation of industrial countries.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mohamed A. El-Erian</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mohamed A. El-Erian, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Financial Re-Regulation and Democracy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It has taken almost two years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and more than three years since the beginning of the global recession brought on by the financial sector’s misdeeds, for the US and Europe finally to reform financial regulation. But banks that wreaked havoc on the global economy continue to resist reform – with support from some who should know better. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It has taken almost two years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and more than three years since the beginning of the global recession brought on by the financial sector’s misdeeds, for the US and Europe finally to reform financial regulation. But banks that wreaked havoc on the global economy continue to resist reform – with support from some who should know better. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The EU is now obsessed with closing the competitiveness gap that has emerged between eurozone countries. But this approach risks leading in the wrong direction, because competitiveness is a relative concept: restoring competitiveness in some countries, such as Greece and Spain, would require others (Germany in the first instance) to accept deterioration in theirs.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The EU is now obsessed with closing the competitiveness gap that has emerged between eurozone countries. But this approach risks leading in the wrong direction, because competitiveness is a relative concept: restoring competitiveness in some countries, such as Greece and Spain, would require others (Germany in the first instance) to accept deterioration in theirs.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daniel Gros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daniel Gros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Lame Ducks in Love</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Just as the US recently pressed European leaders to rescue the euro, owing to fears that a collapse could weaken the dollar, so American policy makers in the 1960's sought to prop up that era's second-leading international reserve currency, the British pound. With the renminbi as a reserve option, the euro and the dollar would be freed from their forced marriage.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Just as the US recently pressed European leaders to rescue the euro, owing to fears that a collapse could weaken the dollar, so American policy makers in the 1960's sought to prop up that era's second-leading international reserve currency, the British pound. With the renminbi as a reserve option, the euro and the dollar would be freed from their forced marriage.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Haiti’s State-Building Challenge</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The $5 billion in short-term aid for Haiti, and the $10 billion pledged for its long-term reconstruction in March, is a vote of confidence in the potential of collective international action. But the question is not only one of money; it is about whether Haiti’s agony is to be addressed as a long-term quest for institutional stability and sustainable development.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The $5 billion in short-term aid for Haiti, and the $10 billion pledged for its long-term reconstruction in March, is a vote of confidence in the potential of collective international action. But the question is not only one of money; it is about whether Haiti’s agony is to be addressed as a long-term quest for institutional stability and sustainable development.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Athens, China</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Many factors may be pushing China’s economy in the direction of overheating, and one of the most worrying fueled the crisis in the eurozone: mushrooming public debt. But, while the problem in the eurozone is member countries’ sovereign debt, in China the threat stems from local government borrowing.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Many factors may be pushing China’s economy in the direction of overheating, and one of the most worrying fueled the crisis in the eurozone: mushrooming public debt. But, while the problem in the eurozone is member countries’ sovereign debt, in China the threat stems from local government borrowing.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Fan Gang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Fan Gang</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Earth Moves in Britain</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The coalition negotiated by David Cameron’s Conservatives with the third-place Liberal Democrats (which should give the government a comfortable majority in Parliament) is not so novel as some people think. But if it works and lasts, nothing will be quite the same again.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The coalition negotiated by David Cameron’s Conservatives with the third-place Liberal Democrats (which should give the government a comfortable majority in Parliament) is not so novel as some people think. But if it works and lasts, nothing will be quite the same again.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Flight to Quality</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Since the early fall of 2007, growing excess demand for safe, liquid, high-quality financial assets has accompanied growing excess supply for the goods and services that are the products of ongoing human labor. In such circumstances, the right economic policy to pursue is well-established: if the market wants more such assets, give the market what it wants.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Since the early fall of 2007, growing excess demand for safe, liquid, high-quality financial assets has accompanied growing excess supply for the goods and services that are the products of ongoing human labor. In such circumstances, the right economic policy to pursue is well-established: if the market wants more such assets, give the market what it wants.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Development Aid in Five Easy Steps</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The rich world says that it lacks the money to do more to provide the development assistance that could save millions of lives each year in impoverished countries. But what rich countries lack is imagination, not resources.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The rich world says that it lacks the money to do more to provide the development assistance that could save millions of lives each year in impoverished countries. But what rich countries lack is imagination, not resources.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Time to Constrain Government</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The EU is currently providing a unique update to Lenin’s dictum that nothing so destabilizes a country as a run on its currency. But the fiscal problems that triggered the crisis are not limited to Greece – or even to the other countries on the eurozone’s periphery – and can be solved only by placing constitutional restrictions on legislators' budgeting authority.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The EU is currently providing a unique update to Lenin’s dictum that nothing so destabilizes a country as a run on its currency. But the fiscal problems that triggered the crisis are not limited to Greece – or even to the other countries on the eurozone’s periphery – and can be solved only by placing constitutional restrictions on legislators' budgeting authority.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Boskin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Boskin</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The crisis in Greece and the problems in Spain and Portugal have exposed the euro’s inherent flaws, and no amount of financial guarantees – much less rhetorical reassurance – from the EU can paper them over. While the euro is likely to survive the current crisis, not all of the eurozone’s current members may be there a year from now.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The crisis in Greece and the problems in Spain and Portugal have exposed the euro’s inherent flaws, and no amount of financial guarantees – much less rhetorical reassurance – from the EU can paper them over. While the euro is likely to survive the current crisis, not all of the eurozone’s current members may be there a year from now.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Price of Clarity</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The greater the distance between the language of elites and ordinary people, the greater the risk of unrest. To the extent that complexity in finance or politics creates new opportunities to deceive, impedes understanding, or blurs lines of accountability, we should aim to reduce it.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The greater the distance between the language of elites and ordinary people, the greater the risk of unrest. To the extent that complexity in finance or politics creates new opportunities to deceive, impedes understanding, or blurs lines of accountability, we should aim to reduce it.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Over the past four decades, NASA has matured, which also has made it so process-ridden and cautious – so responsible – that it has lost much of its energy and innovativeness. The Obama administration's proposed budget for the organization should help revive its performance - and holds important lessons for other industries and governments.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Over the past four decades, NASA has matured, which also has made it so process-ridden and cautious – so responsible – that it has lost much of its energy and innovativeness. The Obama administration's proposed budget for the organization should help revive its performance - and holds important lessons for other industries and governments.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The End of Fiscal Sovereignty in Europe</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The current crisis in the eurozone vividly underscores the importance of fiscal discipline – a point that the common currency's creators understood well. Today, EU leaders and member states must recognize that achieving the combination of discipline and flexibility needed to protect the collective interest and sustain the eurozone implies a loss of full fiscal sovereignty.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The current crisis in the eurozone vividly underscores the importance of fiscal discipline – a point that the common currency's creators understood well. Today, EU leaders and member states must recognize that achieving the combination of discipline and flexibility needed to protect the collective interest and sustain the eurozone implies a loss of full fiscal sovereignty.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Good Policies for Great Countries</title>
    <description><![CDATA[What makes a country great is not the size of its territory, population, army, or economy, but how it uses its power to shape the world beyond its borders. The question today is what China, India, Brazil, and others are prepared to do with their growing strength.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[What makes a country great is not the size of its territory, population, army, or economy, but how it uses its power to shape the world beyond its borders. The question today is what China, India, Brazil, and others are prepared to do with their growing strength.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Richard N. Haass</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Richard N. Haass</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[If the young European elites being trained at the College of Europe to occupy positions within the EU’s institutions no longer believe in the EU’s future, something is really wrong. For if they don’t believe in Europe, who will?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If the young European elites being trained at the College of Europe to occupy positions within the EU’s institutions no longer believe in the EU’s future, something is really wrong. For if they don’t believe in Europe, who will?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Return to the Abyss</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A practical definition of a financial crisis is an event that forces policy officials to spend a long weekend trying desperately to announce a new bailout package in order to avoid national and global panic before the markets open on Monday. By that standard, the global crisis is far from over; On the contrary, we have now reached its most dangerous stage.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A practical definition of a financial crisis is an event that forces policy officials to spend a long weekend trying desperately to announce a new bailout package in order to avoid national and global panic before the markets open on Monday. By that standard, the global crisis is far from over; On the contrary, we have now reached its most dangerous stage.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In February, 14 distinguished climate scientists, economists, and policy experts came together to discuss how to tackle global warming. The group’s report, “The Hartwell Paper,” outlines a new direction for climate policy after the collapse of last year’s attempts to negotiate a global climate deal.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In February, 14 distinguished climate scientists, economists, and policy experts came together to discuss how to tackle global warming. The group’s report, “The Hartwell Paper,” outlines a new direction for climate policy after the collapse of last year’s attempts to negotiate a global climate deal.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Nutritional labels on packaged foods have their roots in governments’ efforts to deal constructively with the public outrage that followed the publication of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle. Governments today should respond to public outrage at financial institutions by requiring similar labeling for investment products.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Nutritional labels on packaged foods have their roots in governments’ efforts to deal constructively with the public outrage that followed the publication of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle. Governments today should respond to public outrage at financial institutions by requiring similar labeling for investment products.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert J. Shiller</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert J. Shiller</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[With the Shanghai Expo now underway, the world watches and wonders whether China will follow Japan’s path and emerge as a fully modern yet peacefully inclined country. There is growing reason to doubt that it will. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With the Shanghai Expo now underway, the world watches and wonders whether China will follow Japan’s path and emerge as a fully modern yet peacefully inclined country. There is growing reason to doubt that it will. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The Greek crisis is yet another manifestation of the political trilemma of the world economy: economic globalization, political democracy, and the nation-state are mutually irreconcilable. We can have at most two at one time. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Greek crisis is yet another manifestation of the political trilemma of the world economy: economic globalization, political democracy, and the nation-state are mutually irreconcilable. We can have at most two at one time. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Brazil, Russia, India, and China recently held their second annual summit in Brasilia. Journalists have continued to lavish attention on the “BRICs” since Goldman Sachs coined the term in 2001, but the category still makes little sense for long-term assessments of global power relations.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Brazil, Russia, India, and China recently held their second annual summit in Brasilia. Journalists have continued to lavish attention on the “BRICs” since Goldman Sachs coined the term in 2001, but the category still makes little sense for long-term assessments of global power relations.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Powerlessness of the Powerful</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Elites are under siege in every corner of the world – from “Tea Party” activists in America, nationalist demagogues in Europe, and red-shirted demonstrators in Thailand. While every country's protests reflects local conditions, what unites the worldwide upsurge of populism is suspicion of globalization and, paradoxically, the relative powerlessness of the elites who are under attack.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Elites are under siege in every corner of the world – from “Tea Party” activists in America, nationalist demagogues in Europe, and red-shirted demonstrators in Thailand. While every country's protests reflects local conditions, what unites the worldwide upsurge of populism is suspicion of globalization and, paradoxically, the relative powerlessness of the elites who are under attack.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[It is not too late for the EU to implement the institutional reforms needed to make the euro work, and thus live up to the ideals, based on solidarity, that underlay the common currency's creation. But if Europe cannot do so, then perhaps it is better to admit failure and move on than to extract a high price in unemployment and human suffering in the name of a flawed economic model.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is not too late for the EU to implement the institutional reforms needed to make the euro work, and thus live up to the ideals, based on solidarity, that underlay the common currency's creation. But if Europe cannot do so, then perhaps it is better to admit failure and move on than to extract a high price in unemployment and human suffering in the name of a flawed economic model.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Abuse of History and the Iranian Bomb</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Saturated with their often tragic history, Jews tend to pay great reverence to the past. But the past, when not handled with care, can be the enemy of the future and distort perceptions of current challenges, which is certainly the case with Israeli leaders' insistence on comparing the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran to the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Saturated with their often tragic history, Jews tend to pay great reverence to the past. But the past, when not handled with care, can be the enemy of the future and distort perceptions of current challenges, which is certainly the case with Israeli leaders' insistence on comparing the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran to the destruction of European Jewry in the Holocaust.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Great Escapism</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Ever since Huck Finn took his friends down the Mississippi River on a raft, American men have created and consumed fantasies of setting out with their males friends for parts unknown, or of traveling in an all-male group to have adventures closer to home. The male-escape scenario is hard to spot emerging from any other country, but the US version seems to have universal appeal.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ever since Huck Finn took his friends down the Mississippi River on a raft, American men have created and consumed fantasies of setting out with their males friends for parts unknown, or of traveling in an all-male group to have adventures closer to home. The male-escape scenario is hard to spot emerging from any other country, but the US version seems to have universal appeal.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>All for One Tax and One Tax for All?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The IMF recently proposed a new global tax on financial institutions loosely in proportion to their size, as well as a tax on banks’ profits and bonuses. The proposal has been greeted with predictable disdain and derision by the financial industry, but, as a diagnosis of the problem that needs to be fixed, the Fund gets more right than it does wrong.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The IMF recently proposed a new global tax on financial institutions loosely in proportion to their size, as well as a tax on banks’ profits and bonuses. The proposal has been greeted with predictable disdain and derision by the financial industry, but, as a diagnosis of the problem that needs to be fixed, the Fund gets more right than it does wrong.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Obama the Centrist</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Despite the frequent cries of US Republicans that Barack Obama is trying to bring European-style socialism to America, it is now very clear that Obama wishes to govern from only one place: the center. On policy after policy, you could close your eyes and imagine that the president is a moderate Republican named George H.W. Bush, Mitt Romney, John McCain, or Colin Powell.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Despite the frequent cries of US Republicans that Barack Obama is trying to bring European-style socialism to America, it is now very clear that Obama wishes to govern from only one place: the center. On policy after policy, you could close your eyes and imagine that the president is a moderate Republican named George H.W. Bush, Mitt Romney, John McCain, or Colin Powell.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Britain Votes and Reality Waits</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Whatever the outcome of Britain's general election on May 6, the next government will face a daunting challenge. It is not just that tough measures will be need to rein in public spending for years to come, but, more worryingly, that many voters seem to be in denial about that fact. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Whatever the outcome of Britain's general election on May 6, the next government will face a daunting challenge. It is not just that tough measures will be need to rein in public spending for years to come, but, more worryingly, that many voters seem to be in denial about that fact. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Another Failed British Experiment</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It appears highly likely that Britain's upcoming general election on May 6 will reprise the stalemate of 1974, when neither major party gained a parliamentary majority and the country's serious economic problems went unaddressed. The only question is whether the third party, the Liberal Democrats, will take advantage of its position this time around.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It appears highly likely that Britain's upcoming general election on May 6 will reprise the stalemate of 1974, when neither major party gained a parliamentary majority and the country's serious economic problems went unaddressed. The only question is whether the third party, the Liberal Democrats, will take advantage of its position this time around.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Making of China’s Trade Deficit</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US Congress recently issued its loudest call ever to classify China as an exchange-rate manipulator, accusing Chinese leaders of maintaining the renminbi’s peg to the dollar in order to guarantee a permanent bilateral trade surplus. And yet, at around the same time, in March, China recorded its first monthly trade deficit in six years.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US Congress recently issued its loudest call ever to classify China as an exchange-rate manipulator, accusing Chinese leaders of maintaining the renminbi’s peg to the dollar in order to guarantee a permanent bilateral trade surplus. And yet, at around the same time, in March, China recorded its first monthly trade deficit in six years.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Fan Gang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Fan Gang</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Why China is Right on the Renminbi</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Chinese officials have been on the receiving end of a lot of gratuitous advice when it comes to the renminbi – and they have been wise to disregard it. In managing their exchange rate - including the recent decision to resume gradual appreciation against the dollar – they have gotten it exactly right.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Chinese officials have been on the receiving end of a lot of gratuitous advice when it comes to the renminbi – and they have been wise to disregard it. In managing their exchange rate - including the recent decision to resume gradual appreciation against the dollar – they have gotten it exactly right.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Road to Post-Crisis Growth</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Although economic recovery in advanced countries remains fragile 18 months after the global financial crisis erupted, developing countries appear to have weathered the storm. Reasons for this remarkable  resilience abound, and they offer guidance for advanced and developing countries alike. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although economic recovery in advanced countries remains fragile 18 months after the global financial crisis erupted, developing countries appear to have weathered the storm. Reasons for this remarkable  resilience abound, and they offer guidance for advanced and developing countries alike. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Britain’s No-Win Election?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[With Labour trailing the Conservatives slightly in opinion polls, the British election on May 6 could well produce a “hung” parliament, in which neither major party obtains a majority and the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power. Moreover, all parties are promising big constitutional changes, the fate of which could depend on the parties' bargaining over a share of power.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With Labour trailing the Conservatives slightly in opinion polls, the British election on May 6 could well produce a “hung” parliament, in which neither major party obtains a majority and the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power. Moreover, all parties are promising big constitutional changes, the fate of which could depend on the parties' bargaining over a share of power.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Connectivity for All</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The information-and-communications-technology revolution is surely the most powerful single force for economic development in the world today. In particular, universal connectivity can mobilize the powerful links between education and reduced fertility, faster economic development, and lower environmental degradation.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The information-and-communications-technology revolution is surely the most powerful single force for economic development in the world today. In particular, universal connectivity can mobilize the powerful links between education and reduced fertility, faster economic development, and lower environmental degradation.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Heal Thyself Online</title>
    <description><![CDATA[An interesting phenomenon is happening in health care in the US, quite apart from all the noise about changes to the country’s system of health insurance. Just as people once moved from institutional, mainframe computers to personal computers, they are starting to make the same move from institutional to individual tools with their health.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[An interesting phenomenon is happening in health care in the US, quite apart from all the noise about changes to the country’s system of health insurance. Just as people once moved from institutional, mainframe computers to personal computers, they are starting to make the same move from institutional to individual tools with their health.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Eternal Life of America’s Megabanks</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The world economy faces a major problem: the largest US banks are “too big to fail,” meaning that if one or more of them were in serious trouble, they would be saved by government action – because the consequences of inaction would be too scary. Unfortunately, the Obama administration’s proposed approach to ending “too big to fail” – now taken up by Congress – will not work.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The world economy faces a major problem: the largest US banks are “too big to fail,” meaning that if one or more of them were in serious trouble, they would be saved by government action – because the consequences of inaction would be too scary. Unfortunately, the Obama administration’s proposed approach to ending “too big to fail” – now taken up by Congress – will not work.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>India’s Wary Rise</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Some countries – for example seventeenth-century France or China today – are naturally at ease with the concept and the reality of strategic power. India, by contrast, is clearly in a different category - a rapidly rising economy that regards the exercise of global political power with the trepidation of America in 1920.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Some countries – for example seventeenth-century France or China today – are naturally at ease with the concept and the reality of strategic power. India, by contrast, is clearly in a different category - a rapidly rising economy that regards the exercise of global political power with the trepidation of America in 1920.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Pig’s Breakfast</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Greek debt crisis, some, like the French, have called for a European economic government, while others, like German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, have called for an IMF-style European Monetary Fund. But saving the euro really requires a return to the fiscal discipline demanded by the EU's Stability and Growth Pact before the French and Germans abandoned it.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the wake of the Greek debt crisis, some, like the French, have called for a European economic government, while others, like German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, have called for an IMF-style European Monetary Fund. But saving the euro really requires a return to the fiscal discipline demanded by the EU's Stability and Growth Pact before the French and Germans abandoned it.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Howard Davies</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Howard Davies</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Dear Leader Nuclear Weapons Company</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Neither the recently signed US-Russia treaty to reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons, nor upcoming global nuclear arms talks, will have much impact on today’s most perilous threat: the nuclear honeymoon between an Iran determined to acquire nuclear weapons and a North Korea willing to sell Iran much of that capacity for hard currency.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Neither the recently signed US-Russia treaty to reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons, nor upcoming global nuclear arms talks, will have much impact on today’s most perilous threat: the nuclear honeymoon between an Iran determined to acquire nuclear weapons and a North Korea willing to sell Iran much of that capacity for hard currency.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Return of Industrial Policy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Industrial policy is back, openly embraced by governments in countries like Britain and France, and by prestigious organizations like the Word Bank and McKinsey. The standard rap against industrial policy – that governments cannot pick winners – is largely irrelevant: what determines success in industrial policy is the much less demanding capacity to let losers go.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Industrial policy is back, openly embraced by governments in countries like Britain and France, and by prestigious organizations like the Word Bank and McKinsey. The standard rap against industrial policy – that governments cannot pick winners – is largely irrelevant: what determines success in industrial policy is the much less demanding capacity to let losers go.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Health of American Politics</title>
    <description><![CDATA[When the US Congress approved Barack Obama’s plan to extend health-care coverage to nearly all Americans, it marked the most important social legislation the country had seen since the 1960’s. It also showed that America’s political system is not as broken as critics who draw analogies to the fall of Rome or other empires would have us believe. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When the US Congress approved Barack Obama’s plan to extend health-care coverage to nearly all Americans, it marked the most important social legislation the country had seen since the 1960’s. It also showed that America’s political system is not as broken as critics who draw analogies to the fall of Rome or other empires would have us believe. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>No Time for a Trade War</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The battle over China’s exchange rate is heating up again, with the US Treasury soon to assess whether China is a “currency manipulator.” But the concept itself is flawed – all governments take actions that directly or indirectly affect the exchange rate – and China's multilateral trade surplus is significantly smaller than that of Saudi Arabia or the combined total for Japan and Germany.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The battle over China’s exchange rate is heating up again, with the US Treasury soon to assess whether China is a “currency manipulator.” But the concept itself is flawed – all governments take actions that directly or indirectly affect the exchange rate – and China's multilateral trade surplus is significantly smaller than that of Saudi Arabia or the combined total for Japan and Germany.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The IMF Does Europe</title>
    <description><![CDATA[With the IMF playing a central role in the eurozone’s blueprint for a bailout of Greece - and presumably in other distressed European countries - the Fund has come full circle. Once upon a time, in its early days after World War II, the IMF had scores of programs across the Continent, and now that it has landed again, the key question is whether it has a plausible exit strategy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With the IMF playing a central role in the eurozone’s blueprint for a bailout of Greece - and presumably in other distressed European countries - the Fund has come full circle. Once upon a time, in its early days after World War II, the IMF had scores of programs across the Continent, and now that it has landed again, the key question is whether it has a plausible exit strategy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Jerusalem and Beyond</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The policy of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government on Jerusalem is ill conceived. And yet, while Netanyahu might not be a great peacemaker, the Obama administration, by portraying the announcement as a deliberate attempt to frustrate the upcoming indirect talks with the Palestinians, exaggerated the incident for its own purposes. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The policy of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government on Jerusalem is ill conceived. And yet, while Netanyahu might not be a great peacemaker, the Obama administration, by portraying the announcement as a deliberate attempt to frustrate the upcoming indirect talks with the Palestinians, exaggerated the incident for its own purposes. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The past decade has proven again and again that empowering women worldwide holds the key to solving massive, seemingly intractable issues that have otherwise stymied policymakers. The tensions and conflicts around immigration in Europe could be yet another issue for which the empowerment of women holds a hidden solution.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The past decade has proven again and again that empowering women worldwide holds the key to solving massive, seemingly intractable issues that have otherwise stymied policymakers. The tensions and conflicts around immigration in Europe could be yet another issue for which the empowerment of women holds a hidden solution.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Taking Hope in the Long View</title>
    <description><![CDATA[If all goes well in China and India in the next generation – and if nothing goes catastrophically wrong in the North Atlantic core of the global economy – the next generation will reach a milestone. For the first time, more than half of the world's people will have enough food, shelter, clothing, and medical care that their chief concern will be avoiding boredom.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If all goes well in China and India in the next generation – and if nothing goes catastrophically wrong in the North Atlantic core of the global economy – the next generation will reach a milestone. For the first time, more than half of the world's people will have enough food, shelter, clothing, and medical care that their chief concern will be avoiding boredom.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>India Shines On</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In many rich OECD countries, the financial crisis and recession have made government intervention popular again. In India, by contrast, even when you might think that government should be expected to deliver more, expectations are not high.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In many rich OECD countries, the financial crisis and recession have made government intervention popular again. In India, by contrast, even when you might think that government should be expected to deliver more, expectations are not high.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Is the Euro Overvalued?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Although prices in the euro zone seem high relative to those in the US, much of the difference reflects Europe's value-added tax. In fact, far from being overvalued, the euro is set to strengthen against the dollar, owing to complementary pressures on Europe to import funds, and on surplus countries to diversify their foreign-exchange holdings.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although prices in the euro zone seem high relative to those in the US, much of the difference reflects Europe's value-added tax. In fact, far from being overvalued, the euro is set to strengthen against the dollar, owing to complementary pressures on Europe to import funds, and on surplus countries to diversify their foreign-exchange holdings.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[A long period of sluggish growth as a result of bloated government debt would be the equivalent of an extended bout with cancer after the heart attack that our economies have just survived. Prevention begins by curbing trade friction and developing sensible post-crisis monetary and fiscal exit strategies, sooner rather than later.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A long period of sluggish growth as a result of bloated government debt would be the equivalent of an extended bout with cancer after the heart attack that our economies have just survived. Prevention begins by curbing trade friction and developing sensible post-crisis monetary and fiscal exit strategies, sooner rather than later.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Boskin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Boskin</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The renminbi's exchange rate has once again become a target of the US Congress, but revaluation by China would only push up US inflation, as Vietnamese, Indian, and other low-cost producers fill the export gap. Only serious efforts by both sides  to fix their domestic fundamentals, including over-consumption in the US, will imbalances be reduced in a sustained way. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The renminbi's exchange rate has once again become a target of the US Congress, but revaluation by China would only push up US inflation, as Vietnamese, Indian, and other low-cost producers fill the export gap. Only serious efforts by both sides  to fix their domestic fundamentals, including over-consumption in the US, will imbalances be reduced in a sustained way. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Fan Gang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Fan Gang</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The rumor mill is heating up with gossip that the IMF's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, will leave in order to oppose Nikolas Sarkozy in the 2012 French presidential elections. If he does, his successor should be chosen solely on the merits, not on the basis of nationality - even if that nationality happens to be Asian rather than European.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The rumor mill is heating up with gossip that the IMF's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, will leave in order to oppose Nikolas Sarkozy in the 2012 French presidential elections. If he does, his successor should be chosen solely on the merits, not on the basis of nationality - even if that nationality happens to be Asian rather than European.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[At the height of the crisis, the combined effect of fiscal stimulus and massive monetary easing had a big impact in preventing a credit freeze and limiting the downward spiral in asset prices and real economic activity. But that period is over, because counter-cyclical policy cannot undo the damage that excessive leverage caused to balance sheets in the financial and household sectors.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[At the height of the crisis, the combined effect of fiscal stimulus and massive monetary easing had a big impact in preventing a credit freeze and limiting the downward spiral in asset prices and real economic activity. But that period is over, because counter-cyclical policy cannot undo the damage that excessive leverage caused to balance sheets in the financial and household sectors.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>To Russia with Social Media</title>
    <description><![CDATA[How can Russia - or any country - create its own Silicon Valley? The answer is not lots of money in proximity to a great university or two, but rather a culture that rewards thoughtful innovation and considers mistakes the price of learning.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[How can Russia - or any country - create its own Silicon Valley? The answer is not lots of money in proximity to a great university or two, but rather a culture that rewards thoughtful innovation and considers mistakes the price of learning.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Funding a Global Health Fund</title>
    <description><![CDATA[World leaders will come together at the UN in September in order to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, three of which involve bringing primary health services to the entire world’s population. The key step to saving millions of lives each year - at a very modest cost - is to expand the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria into a Global Health Fund.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[World leaders will come together at the UN in September in order to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, three of which involve bringing primary health services to the entire world’s population. The key step to saving millions of lives each year - at a very modest cost - is to expand the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria into a Global Health Fund.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The OAS will have to decide on March 24 whether to re-elect Chilean diplomat and politician José Miguel Insulza as its Secretary General. But the OAS is facing a broader challenge in the threatened departure of the so-called ALBA countries - Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay - which are seeking to establish a rival organization.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The OAS will have to decide on March 24 whether to re-elect Chilean diplomat and politician José Miguel Insulza as its Secretary General. But the OAS is facing a broader challenge in the threatened departure of the so-called ALBA countries - Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay - which are seeking to establish a rival organization.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jorge G. Castañeda</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jorge G. Castañeda</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Paid to Fail</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In a report just filed with the US court that is overseeing the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, a court-appointed examiner described how the firms' executives deliberately pursued an aggressive investment strategy, took on greater risks, and substantially increased leverage. In this way, they literally destroyed the company - but, worse still, they were paid to do so.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In a report just filed with the US court that is overseeing the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, a court-appointed examiner described how the firms' executives deliberately pursued an aggressive investment strategy, took on greater risks, and substantially increased leverage. In this way, they literally destroyed the company - but, worse still, they were paid to do so.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Lucian Bebchuk</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Lucian Bebchuk, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Euro Zone’s Default Position</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Like the over-leveraged euro-zone countries today, Kazakhstan binged on easy loans from global investment banks in recent years, before its banks defaulted on their loans in 2009. If European leaders are smart, they will recognize that a Greek default is similarly inevitable - and that it may be just what the European (and global) financial system needs.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Like the over-leveraged euro-zone countries today, Kazakhstan binged on easy loans from global investment banks in recent years, before its banks defaulted on their loans in 2009. If European leaders are smart, they will recognize that a Greek default is similarly inevitable - and that it may be just what the European (and global) financial system needs.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Boone</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Boone, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>States of Risk</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Unsustainable private-debt problems must be resolved by defaults, debt reductions, and conversion of debt into equity. If, instead, private debts continue to be excessively socialized, the advanced economies will face a grim future: serious sustainability problems with their public, private, and foreign debt, together with crippled prospects for economic growth.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Unsustainable private-debt problems must be resolved by defaults, debt reductions, and conversion of debt into equity. If, instead, private debts continue to be excessively socialized, the advanced economies will face a grim future: serious sustainability problems with their public, private, and foreign debt, together with crippled prospects for economic growth.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Kremlin Temptation</title>
    <description><![CDATA[France’s recent sale of four powerful Mistral-class warships to Russia has evoked comparisons with Germany's go-it-alone strategy toward the Kremlin. Indeed, European leaders may ultimately be doing the same thing, but they are all doing it separately, as competitors vying for Russian favor rather than as partners within a supposedly tight-knit Union.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[France’s recent sale of four powerful Mistral-class warships to Russia has evoked comparisons with Germany's go-it-alone strategy toward the Kremlin. Indeed, European leaders may ultimately be doing the same thing, but they are all doing it separately, as competitors vying for Russian favor rather than as partners within a supposedly tight-knit Union.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Last year, Japanese voters chose the Democratic Party of Japan in order to change the country. Instead, they have mostly seen the same old political scandals - and, worse, the same inaction on restoring the country's fiscal and economic health.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Last year, Japanese voters chose the Democratic Party of Japan in order to change the country. Instead, they have mostly seen the same old political scandals - and, worse, the same inaction on restoring the country's fiscal and economic health.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Why are we willing to calculate costs and benefits when it comes to addressing traffic safety and terrorism, but not when devising policies to deal with climate change? A constructive dialogue about the smartest policy responses to global warming requires replacing our fixation on far-fetched, Armageddon scenarios with realism about the true costs of confronting this challenge.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why are we willing to calculate costs and benefits when it comes to addressing traffic safety and terrorism, but not when devising policies to deal with climate change? A constructive dialogue about the smartest policy responses to global warming requires replacing our fixation on far-fetched, Armageddon scenarios with realism about the true costs of confronting this challenge.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[On February 19, the IMF published a policy note that reversed its long-held position on capital controls and effectively ended the era of border-free global finance. Taxes and other restrictions on capital inflows, the IMF’s economists wrote, can be helpful, and they constitute a “legitimate part” of policymakers’ toolkit.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[On February 19, the IMF published a policy note that reversed its long-held position on capital controls and effectively ended the era of border-free global finance. Taxes and other restrictions on capital inflows, the IMF’s economists wrote, can be helpful, and they constitute a “legitimate part” of policymakers’ toolkit.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Chinese-American relations are, once again, in a downswing, in part because of China's overconfidence in foreign policy, combined with insecurity in domestic affairs. This is represents a serious miscalculation on China's part, one that previous generations of Chinese leaders would never have allowed to occur.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Chinese-American relations are, once again, in a downswing, in part because of China's overconfidence in foreign policy, combined with insecurity in domestic affairs. This is represents a serious miscalculation on China's part, one that previous generations of Chinese leaders would never have allowed to occur.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her until she was dead. The death is a tragedy, but there is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Last month, at the Sea World amusement park in Florida, a whale grabbed a trainer, pulled her underwater, and thrashed about with her until she was dead. The death is a tragedy, but there is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The Netherlands' recent decision to withdraw its forces from NATO operations in Afghanistan reflects more than mere domestic frustration that no partner country was willing to relieve Dutch troops, as promised. A military alliance without a clear common enemy, or a clear goal, becomes almost impossible to maintain. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Netherlands' recent decision to withdraw its forces from NATO operations in Afghanistan reflects more than mere domestic frustration that no partner country was willing to relieve Dutch troops, as promised. A military alliance without a clear common enemy, or a clear goal, becomes almost impossible to maintain. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Even with large deficits, economic growth in the US and Europe is anemic, and forecasts of private-sector growth suggest that in the absence of continued government support, there is risk of continued stagnation – of growth too weak to return unemployment to normal levels. if these forecasts are right, a premature “exit” from deficit spending is not worth the risk. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Even with large deficits, economic growth in the US and Europe is anemic, and forecasts of private-sector growth suggest that in the absence of continued government support, there is risk of continued stagnation – of growth too weak to return unemployment to normal levels. if these forecasts are right, a premature “exit” from deficit spending is not worth the risk. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[It is too simplistic to explain the current wave of concern about the euro in terms of Greece’s problems. The euro’s current problems are, instead, a reflection of Europe-wide and global problems that have remained unresolved for the past 30 years. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is too simplistic to explain the current wave of concern about the euro in terms of Greece’s problems. The euro’s current problems are, instead, a reflection of Europe-wide and global problems that have remained unresolved for the past 30 years. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Middle East’s Hair Trigger</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Across the Middle East region, a fatalistic conventional wisdom is taking hold: war is unavoidable. With the days of Pax Americana in the region over, avoiding a regional explosion will require mobilizing the major international actors that favor diplomatic solutions for the Arab-Israeli conflict and for Iran’s quest to become a legitimate partner in a new regional system. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Across the Middle East region, a fatalistic conventional wisdom is taking hold: war is unavoidable. With the days of Pax Americana in the region over, avoiding a regional explosion will require mobilizing the major international actors that favor diplomatic solutions for the Arab-Israeli conflict and for Iran’s quest to become a legitimate partner in a new regional system. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Investors who have bet against Japan in the past have been badly burned, grossly underestimating the Japanese people’s remarkable flexibility and resilience. But, while Japan’s ability to trudge on in the face of huge adversity is admirable, the risks of crisis ahead are surely greater than bond markets seem to recognize.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Investors who have bet against Japan in the past have been badly burned, grossly underestimating the Japanese people’s remarkable flexibility and resilience. But, while Japan’s ability to trudge on in the face of huge adversity is admirable, the risks of crisis ahead are surely greater than bond markets seem to recognize.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Ever since the first Tea Party convention was held last month in Nashville, Tennessee, with Sarah Palin as one of the keynote speakers, the political and media establishments have reacted with a combination of apprehension and disdain. But those who deride and dismiss this movement do so at their own peril. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ever since the first Tea Party convention was held last month in Nashville, Tennessee, with Sarah Palin as one of the keynote speakers, the political and media establishments have reacted with a combination of apprehension and disdain. But those who deride and dismiss this movement do so at their own peril. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The Harvard economist Robert Barro, writing in The Wall Street Journal, recently made an intelligent argument against America’s fiscal stimulus. But Barro misreads how his own evidence applies to the current situation in the US, and he wrongly dismisses the importance of the timing of government borrowing.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Harvard economist Robert Barro, writing in The Wall Street Journal, recently made an intelligent argument against America’s fiscal stimulus. But Barro misreads how his own evidence applies to the current situation in the US, and he wrongly dismisses the importance of the timing of government borrowing.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Explosive growth in money supply and credit have inspired some China watchers to regard the country’s economy as a bubble, if not to predict a hard landing in 2010. But that judgment seems premature, at best, given the reasons behind the credit growth and the government's recent moves to address signs of overheating.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Explosive growth in money supply and credit have inspired some China watchers to regard the country’s economy as a bubble, if not to predict a hard landing in 2010. But that judgment seems premature, at best, given the reasons behind the credit growth and the government's recent moves to address signs of overheating.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Fan Gang</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Fan Gang</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Chinese officials and private investors around the world have been worrying aloud about whether their dollar investments are safe. But, while trepidation about the dollar’s future is driven by several different but related concerns, the bottom line is that these fears are exaggerated. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Chinese officials and private investors around the world have been worrying aloud about whether their dollar investments are safe. But, while trepidation about the dollar’s future is driven by several different but related concerns, the bottom line is that these fears are exaggerated. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Corporate Political Speech is Bad for Shareholders</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US Supreme court recently struck down limits on companies’ freedom to spend money on political elections, fueling fears that shareholders’ interests will trump those of other groups, such as consumers and employees. But corporate political spending can also be detrimental to shareholders' interests by weakening rules governing corporate governance and investor protection.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The US Supreme court recently struck down limits on companies’ freedom to spend money on political elections, fueling fears that shareholders’ interests will trump those of other groups, such as consumers and employees. But corporate political spending can also be detrimental to shareholders' interests by weakening rules governing corporate governance and investor protection.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Lucian Bebchuk</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Lucian Bebchuk</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Perhaps our most meaningful creations are the thoughts and changes that we leave in other people – traces that used to disperse and disappear over time after someone’s death. But now Facebook and other such tools, provide a place for those memories to gather. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Perhaps our most meaningful creations are the thoughts and changes that we leave in other people – traces that used to disperse and disappear over time after someone’s death. But now Facebook and other such tools, provide a place for those memories to gather. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Today’s campaigners against action on climate change are in many cases backed by the same special interests that sought to discredit the science linking smoking and lung cancer, sulfur oxides with acid rain, and CFCs with ozone depletion. What is amazing is that, although these attacks on science have been wrong for 30 years, they still sow doubt about established facts. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Today’s campaigners against action on climate change are in many cases backed by the same special interests that sought to discredit the science linking smoking and lung cancer, sulfur oxides with acid rain, and CFCs with ozone depletion. What is amazing is that, although these attacks on science have been wrong for 30 years, they still sow doubt about established facts. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[With Greece and other troubled euro-zone economies having surrendered monetary policy to the European Central Bank, the crisis brewing in Europe seems tailor made for the "new IMF" to ride to the rescue. But EU leaders will try hard to keep the IMF out for entirely self-interested reasons, which is bad news for Greece – and for anyone who cares about global financial stability.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With Greece and other troubled euro-zone economies having surrendered monetary policy to the European Central Bank, the crisis brewing in Europe seems tailor made for the "new IMF" to ride to the rescue. But EU leaders will try hard to keep the IMF out for entirely self-interested reasons, which is bad news for Greece – and for anyone who cares about global financial stability.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Simon Johnson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Simon Johnson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Most economists think that macroeconomic disruptions, such as the current recession, can be understood in terms of aggregate indicators like total employment, the price level, and the money supply. But this view is misleading, particularly in the current economic situation – and, worse, it misleads us into counterproductive economic policies.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Most economists think that macroeconomic disruptions, such as the current recession, can be understood in terms of aggregate indicators like total employment, the price level, and the money supply. But this view is misleading, particularly in the current economic situation – and, worse, it misleads us into counterproductive economic policies.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bradford Cornell</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bradford Cornell</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[If Greece does not restore fiscal sustainability and competitiveness, a partial bailout by the EU and the ECB will become necessary in order to avoid the risk of contagion to the rest of the euro zone. That is why a credible IMF program that ties financial support to the progressive achievement of fiscal and structural reform goals is the right solution.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If Greece does not restore fiscal sustainability and competitiveness, a partial bailout by the EU and the ECB will become necessary in order to avoid the risk of contagion to the rest of the euro zone. That is why a credible IMF program that ties financial support to the progressive achievement of fiscal and structural reform goals is the right solution.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[If Barack Obama proceeds with plans to give the US Federal Reserve more regulatory power, pressure for greater public accountability will persist. To protect the Fed’s independence, which is a global public good of the highest importance, he should cut back the Fed's authority to its core monetary-policy role.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If Barack Obama proceeds with plans to give the US Federal Reserve more regulatory power, pressure for greater public accountability will persist. To protect the Fed’s independence, which is a global public good of the highest importance, he should cut back the Fed's authority to its core monetary-policy role.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Howard Davies</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Howard Davies</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[As George W. Bush and Tony Blair learned the hard way, the public does not take kindly to being misled about the nature of potential threats. A similar shift in global public opinion is occurring with respect to climate change, owing to a stream of revelations about climate scientists' sloppy, if not tendentious, practices.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As George W. Bush and Tony Blair learned the hard way, the public does not take kindly to being misled about the nature of potential threats. A similar shift in global public opinion is occurring with respect to climate change, owing to a stream of revelations about climate scientists' sloppy, if not tendentious, practices.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The world of traditional power politics was typically about whose military or economy would win. In today’s information age, however, politics is also about whose “story” wins: governments compete with each other and with other organizations to enhance their own credibility and weaken that of their opponents.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The world of traditional power politics was typically about whose military or economy would win. In today’s information age, however, politics is also about whose “story” wins: governments compete with each other and with other organizations to enhance their own credibility and weaken that of their opponents.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The French parliament wants to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa – the full, face-covering garment worn by some orthodox believers – in public places. But, while no woman should be forced to cover herself up, nor, in a pluralist society, should anyone be forced not to.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The French parliament wants to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa – the full, face-covering garment worn by some orthodox believers – in public places. But, while no woman should be forced to cover herself up, nor, in a pluralist society, should anyone be forced not to.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Chile Stays the Course</title>
    <description><![CDATA[When Sebastián Piñera – the moderately conservative tycoon who was recently elected president – takes office on March 11, Chile will experience what some political scientists consider a watershed in every successful transition to democracy: the rotation of power among political parties. But, in substantive terms, Piñera represents continuity more than he does change.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When Sebastián Piñera – the moderately conservative tycoon who was recently elected president – takes office on March 11, Chile will experience what some political scientists consider a watershed in every successful transition to democracy: the rotation of power among political parties. But, in substantive terms, Piñera represents continuity more than he does change.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Carlos Gervasoni</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Carlos Gervasoni</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Muddling Out of Freefall</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama wanted to bridge the divides among Americans that George W. Bush had opened. But now those divides are wider than ever, and Obama's attempts to please everyone, so evident in the last few weeks, are likely to mollify no one.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Barack Obama wanted to bridge the divides among Americans that George W. Bush had opened. But now those divides are wider than ever, and Obama's attempts to please everyone, so evident in the last few weeks, are likely to mollify no one.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was an unmitigated disaster for the EU, exposing its marginalization on the world stage. But there is one thing that could revive the EU, give it much enhanced global respectability, and make it an “interesting” place, as well as ensure a return to the international limelight: Turkey’s admission as a full member.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference was an unmitigated disaster for the EU, exposing its marginalization on the world stage. But there is one thing that could revive the EU, give it much enhanced global respectability, and make it an “interesting” place, as well as ensure a return to the international limelight: Turkey’s admission as a full member.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean-Pierre Lehmann</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean-Pierre Lehmann</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[It is a difficult moment to be optimistic about the future of the world economy. A policy agenda in the US that is overloaded, largely domestically focused, and partially paralyzed will mean a lack of attention to global issues that require cooperation and compromise, including the international dimensions of financial reform. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is a difficult moment to be optimistic about the future of the world economy. A policy agenda in the US that is overloaded, largely domestically focused, and partially paralyzed will mean a lack of attention to global issues that require cooperation and compromise, including the international dimensions of financial reform. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Can Greece Avoid the Lion?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Even as the EU and the IMF lay the groundwork for a giant first-round bailout, debate is swirling about whether Greece can avoid sovereign default. The problem is not only the numbers, but also credibility: thanks to decades of low investment in statistical capacity, no one trusts the Greek government’s figures, and Greece’s default history hardly inspires confidence.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Even as the EU and the IMF lay the groundwork for a giant first-round bailout, debate is swirling about whether Greece can avoid sovereign default. The problem is not only the numbers, but also credibility: thanks to decades of low investment in statistical capacity, no one trusts the Greek government’s figures, and Greece’s default history hardly inspires confidence.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kenneth Rogoff</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kenneth Rogoff</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Treason of the Magistrates</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Justice in democratic countries is supposed to be independent, but some prosecutors and investigating magistrates conveniently forget this. Indeed many among them are deeply enmeshed in politics, pursuing agendas – and vendettas – of their own. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Justice in democratic countries is supposed to be independent, but some prosecutors and investigating magistrates conveniently forget this. Indeed many among them are deeply enmeshed in politics, pursuing agendas – and vendettas – of their own. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Guy Sorman</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Guy Sorman</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Iran’s Revolutionary Echoes</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Iran’s continued unrest, now extending through the 30th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the Shah, raises the question of whether the Islamic Republic is about to fall. As in 1979, millions of Iranians have taken to the streets, and the divide between Iran’s society and its government is much greater today than it was under the Shah 30 years ago. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Iran’s continued unrest, now extending through the 30th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the Shah, raises the question of whether the Islamic Republic is about to fall. As in 1979, millions of Iranians have taken to the streets, and the divide between Iran’s society and its government is much greater today than it was under the Shah 30 years ago. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Said A. Arjomand</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Said A. Arjomand</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Japan’s Secret Shogun</title>
    <description><![CDATA[With the post-general election honeymoon over, the Japanese public has become increasingly aware that Ichiro Ozawa, Secretary-General of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, is the puppet-master of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s cabinet. Ozawa's role underscores how much the DPJ has in common with its predecessor in government, the Liberal Democratic Party.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With the post-general election honeymoon over, the Japanese public has become increasingly aware that Ichiro Ozawa, Secretary-General of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, is the puppet-master of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s cabinet. Ozawa's role underscores how much the DPJ has in common with its predecessor in government, the Liberal Democratic Party.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Masahiro Matsumura</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Masahiro Matsumura</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Avatar and Empire</title>
    <description><![CDATA[James Cameron’s film Avatar is notable for two revealing themes: the raw, guilty template of the American unconscious in the context of the “war on terror” and late-stage corporate imperialism, and the film's very critical portrayal of America – for the first time ever in a Hollywood blockbuster – from the point of view of the rest of the world.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[James Cameron’s film Avatar is notable for two revealing themes: the raw, guilty template of the American unconscious in the context of the “war on terror” and late-stage corporate imperialism, and the film's very critical portrayal of America – for the first time ever in a Hollywood blockbuster – from the point of view of the rest of the world.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Naomi Wolf</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Naomi Wolf</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Islamic Case for Religious Liberty</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Orthodox Church recently said on an American television broadcast that he feels “crucified” in Turkey, upsetting many Turks. Sadly, his Holiness is right, but his complaint is not with Islam; it is with the Turkish Republic's rigid nationalism and secularism.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of the Orthodox Church recently said on an American television broadcast that he feels “crucified” in Turkey, upsetting many Turks. Sadly, his Holiness is right, but his complaint is not with Islam; it is with the Turkish Republic's rigid nationalism and secularism.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mustafa Akyol</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mustafa Akyol</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>China’s Cyber-Warriors</title>
    <description><![CDATA[China deploys tens of thousands of “cyber police” to block Web sites, patrol cyber-cafes, monitor the use of cellular telephones, and track down Internet activists. But China's real threat to cyberspace comes comes from the way in which it uses its know-how to engage in cyber intrusion across international frontiers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[China deploys tens of thousands of “cyber police” to block Web sites, patrol cyber-cafes, monitor the use of cellular telephones, and track down Internet activists. But China's real threat to cyberspace comes comes from the way in which it uses its know-how to engage in cyber intrusion across international frontiers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Brahma Chellaney</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Brahma Chellaney</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Unbearable Lightness of Change</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s first year in office has been a sobering exercise in the limits of presidential power. It also carries lessons about how the resilient and impersonal forces of history can constrain any leader’s drive for change. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s first year in office has been a sobering exercise in the limits of presidential power. It also carries lessons about how the resilient and impersonal forces of history can constrain any leader’s drive for change. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Shlomo Ben-Ami</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Back to the Future in Finance</title>
    <description><![CDATA[While former US Fed Chairman Paul Volcker provided the central inspiration for Barack Obama’s recent proposal for overhauling banking, he has also been a prominent critic of the dangers of currency volatility. Returning to fixed exchange rates would run counter to almost every argument of modern economics, but, at a moment when we are looking to the past for financial solutions, it is no longer unthinkable.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[While former US Fed Chairman Paul Volcker provided the central inspiration for Barack Obama’s recent proposal for overhauling banking, he has also been a prominent critic of the dangers of currency volatility. Returning to fixed exchange rates would run counter to almost every argument of modern economics, but, at a moment when we are looking to the past for financial solutions, it is no longer unthinkable.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Year of US-China Discord?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In 2009, Forbes magazine named US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao the "world’s most powerful people." In 2010, we will discover that neither has the power to keep US-Chinese relations on track. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 2009, Forbes magazine named US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao the "world’s most powerful people." In 2010, we will discover that neither has the power to keep US-Chinese relations on track. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Bremmer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Bremmer, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>America’s Employment Dilemma</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Some countries – China, for example – implemented job-creation policies a year ago that relied on boosting demand for goods and services, and are now reaping the benefits in higher employment. Other countries, like the US, did not, and now face the need to fight unemployment directly, through government job programs or tax credits to businesses that hire new workers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Some countries – China, for example – implemented job-creation policies a year ago that relied on boosting demand for goods and services, and are now reaping the benefits in higher employment. Other countries, like the US, did not, and now face the need to fight unemployment directly, through government job programs or tax credits to businesses that hire new workers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Africa’s Diaspora to the Rescue</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Official statistics for 2009 are likely to show that migrants’ remittances fell sharply, as the global recession severely eroded job opportunities abroad. That makes it all the more important that African countries, many of which have paid a strong groundwork for sustainable growth, have a financial system in place that can leverage remittances effectively as the global economy recovers.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Official statistics for 2009 are likely to show that migrants’ remittances fell sharply, as the global recession severely eroded job opportunities abroad. That makes it all the more important that African countries, many of which have paid a strong groundwork for sustainable growth, have a financial system in place that can leverage remittances effectively as the global economy recovers.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Sanou Mbaye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Sanou Mbaye</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Rebuilding Haiti will cost perhaps $10-$20 billion, and will require much of the coming decade. Getting started now will save countless lives and prevent a further tragic downward spiral of a society that stands at the very brink of survival.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Rebuilding Haiti will cost perhaps $10-$20 billion, and will require much of the coming decade. Getting started now will save countless lives and prevent a further tragic downward spiral of a society that stands at the very brink of survival.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Although the strength of the US economy in 2010 is still uncertain, it is important to look ahead to its likely performance in the coming decade. Adding up all the key components of GDP, annual economic growth is likely to be about 1.9%, or roughly the same as the average rate over the past ten years.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although the strength of the US economy in 2010 is still uncertain, it is important to look ahead to its likely performance in the coming decade. Adding up all the key components of GDP, annual economic growth is likely to be about 1.9%, or roughly the same as the average rate over the past ten years.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The Chinese government's imprisonment of the writer Liu Xiaobo is a blatant attempt to criminalize democratic thought, and the real criminal in this case is, of course, the Chinese state. But the world’s democracies are guilty as well, for they appear to have lost their willingness to stand up for their beliefs.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Chinese government's imprisonment of the writer Liu Xiaobo is a blatant attempt to criminalize democratic thought, and the real criminal in this case is, of course, the Chinese state. But the world’s democracies are guilty as well, for they appear to have lost their willingness to stand up for their beliefs.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ma Jian</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ma Jian</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When the captains of business and industry meet in Davos for the World Economic Forum this month, the devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti will be near the top of their agenda. It should be, for there is much they can do to help.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When the captains of business and industry meet in Davos for the World Economic Forum this month, the devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti will be near the top of their agenda. It should be, for there is much they can do to help.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Kanayo F. Nwanze</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Kanayo F. Nwanze</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Sub-national governments – states, countries, cities, provinces, towns, and special districts – play different roles from country to country, but usually deliver important public services. In many countries, their fiscal position has collapsed under the combined weight of mismanagement and the global economic and financial crisis.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sub-national governments – states, countries, cities, provinces, towns, and special districts – play different roles from country to country, but usually deliver important public services. In many countries, their fiscal position has collapsed under the combined weight of mismanagement and the global economic and financial crisis.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Boskin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Boskin</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The great strength of Barack Obama's economic policies - in health care, fiscal stimulus, and stabilizing the banking system - has been not to allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good. But, with the time for crisis management coming to a close, he now needs to aim higher if he is to fulfill his promise of a more economically just society.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The great strength of Barack Obama's economic policies - in health care, fiscal stimulus, and stabilizing the banking system - has been not to allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good. But, with the time for crisis management coming to a close, he now needs to aim higher if he is to fulfill his promise of a more economically just society.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Compensation practices at financial firms have been accused of being a primary cause of the recent global financial crisis, and restricting bankers’ pay is said to be the answer. But, before instituting such invasive regulation, we should examine more closely whether past compensation structures really were at the heart of our recent problems.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Compensation practices at financial firms have been accused of being a primary cause of the recent global financial crisis, and restricting bankers’ pay is said to be the answer. But, before instituting such invasive regulation, we should examine more closely whether past compensation structures really were at the heart of our recent problems.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Steven N. Kaplan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Steven N. Kaplan</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[France’s return to NATO’s integrated military structure after a 43-year absence earlier this year brought to an end one of the exceptions françaises. It also helped frame the growing debate over whether to develop European defense more effectively or to seriously reform the Atlantic alliance.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[France’s return to NATO’s integrated military structure after a 43-year absence earlier this year brought to an end one of the exceptions françaises. It also helped frame the growing debate over whether to develop European defense more effectively or to seriously reform the Atlantic alliance.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Camille Grand</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Camille Grand</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[After three decades of sustained growth and a remarkably successful policy response to the recent global crisis, Chinese self-confidence is soaring. But the lessons that China's government may draw from the crisis may not be the best guides for the long term.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[After three decades of sustained growth and a remarkably successful policy response to the recent global crisis, Chinese self-confidence is soaring. But the lessons that China's government may draw from the crisis may not be the best guides for the long term.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Recalling Hillary Clinton’s famous Democratic primary television advertisement, Barack Obama, it turns out, is exactly the sort of president that most of us would want to have in the post for that 3 a.m. phone call about an international crisis. He is not afraid to act, but he is prepared to think first.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Recalling Hillary Clinton’s famous Democratic primary television advertisement, Barack Obama, it turns out, is exactly the sort of president that most of us would want to have in the post for that 3 a.m. phone call about an international crisis. He is not afraid to act, but he is prepared to think first.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[If inflation has succeeded recession as today’s main problem, as many conservative economists contend, governments should withdraw their stimulus policies as soon as possible. But the fact that there is no evidence of higher prices in the pipeline in Europe and the US means that there is no real evidence of economic recovery – and thus that officials there should increase spending.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If inflation has succeeded recession as today’s main problem, as many conservative economists contend, governments should withdraw their stimulus policies as soon as possible. But the fact that there is no evidence of higher prices in the pipeline in Europe and the US means that there is no real evidence of economic recovery – and thus that officials there should increase spending.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[On Christmas Day last year, one of China’s best-known human rights activists, Liu Xiaobo, was condemned to 11 years in prison. For his bravery and clarity of thought about China’s future, Liu deserves the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[On Christmas Day last year, one of China’s best-known human rights activists, Liu Xiaobo, was condemned to 11 years in prison. For his bravery and clarity of thought about China’s future, Liu deserves the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Václav Havel  et al</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Václav Havel  et al</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Engineering Financial Stability</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The severity of the global financial crisis that we have seen over the last two years has to do with a fundamental source of instability in the banking system, one that we can and must design out of existence. To do that, we must advance the state of our financial technology. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The severity of the global financial crisis that we have seen over the last two years has to do with a fundamental source of instability in the banking system, one that we can and must design out of existence. To do that, we must advance the state of our financial technology. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert J. Shiller</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert J. Shiller</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Google's threat to leave China probably stems from a combination of – or rather, a changing calculus around – its business interests and its values. The censorship issue has long grated at the company, but so have the constraints on any foreign company's ability to make serious long-term profits.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Google's threat to leave China probably stems from a combination of – or rather, a changing calculus around – its business interests and its values. The censorship issue has long grated at the company, but so have the constraints on any foreign company's ability to make serious long-term profits.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Following Al Qaeda's failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, Barack Obama and Gordon Brown jointly proposed a conference in London to propose solutions for the previously overlooked crises in Yemen. But, unless they grasp the fact that Yemen’s problems go well beyond Al Qaeda’s presence in the country, the conference will do more harm than good.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Following Al Qaeda's failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, Barack Obama and Gordon Brown jointly proposed a conference in London to propose solutions for the previously overlooked crises in Yemen. But, unless they grasp the fact that Yemen’s problems go well beyond Al Qaeda’s presence in the country, the conference will do more harm than good.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mai Yamani</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mai Yamani</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Traditionally, sovereign risk has been concentrated in emerging-market economies. But ratings downgrades, a widening of sovereign spreads, and failed public-debt auctions in countries like the UK, Greece, Ireland, and Spain provide a stark reminder that unless advanced economies begin fiscal consolidation, investors, bond-market vigilantes, and rating agencies may turn from friend to foe. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Traditionally, sovereign risk has been concentrated in emerging-market economies. But ratings downgrades, a widening of sovereign spreads, and failed public-debt auctions in countries like the UK, Greece, Ireland, and Spain provide a stark reminder that unless advanced economies begin fiscal consolidation, investors, bond-market vigilantes, and rating agencies may turn from friend to foe. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Iran’s clerical regime governs by a simple formula: he who is the most frightening, wins. But cultivating fear in others also makes one more susceptible to fear, and nothing is more frightening to the Islamic Republic's leaders than the social dynamism unleashed by the democratic movement brewing inside the country.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Iran’s clerical regime governs by a simple formula: he who is the most frightening, wins. But cultivating fear in others also makes one more susceptible to fear, and nothing is more frightening to the Islamic Republic's leaders than the social dynamism unleashed by the democratic movement brewing inside the country.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mehdi Khalaji</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mehdi Khalaji</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[There is now intense debate about how the pay levels of top executives compare with the compensation given to rank-and-file employees. But, while such comparisons can tell us much about the dynamics of inequality, the distribution of pay among top executives also deserves close attention, because it may very well point to serious corporate governance problems.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There is now intense debate about how the pay levels of top executives compare with the compensation given to rank-and-file employees. But, while such comparisons can tell us much about the dynamics of inequality, the distribution of pay among top executives also deserves close attention, because it may very well point to serious corporate governance problems.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martijn Cremers</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martijn Cremers, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Europe’s Fearful Natives</title>
    <description><![CDATA[More than ever before in recent decades, fear is becoming the dominant force in European politics. And it is not an abstract, undefined fear: it is above all the fear of the non-European “other,” perceived by a growing numbers of “white” Europeans as a threat to their identities and ways of life, if not their physical security and jobs.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[More than ever before in recent decades, fear is becoming the dominant force in European politics. And it is not an abstract, undefined fear: it is above all the fear of the non-European “other,” perceived by a growing numbers of “white” Europeans as a threat to their identities and ways of life, if not their physical security and jobs.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[With the right international support, Sudan could move decisively towards peace and democracy in the coming months. But, if the international community fails the challenge, conflicts and tensions that have already cost hundreds of thousands of lives will continue and worsen.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With the right international support, Sudan could move decisively towards peace and democracy in the coming months. But, if the international community fails the challenge, conflicts and tensions that have already cost hundreds of thousands of lives will continue and worsen.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Lakhdar Brahimi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Lakhdar Brahimi, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Two Cheers for China’s Climate Obstruction</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Since the Copenhagen climate summit’s failure, many politicians and pundits have pointed the finger at China’s leaders for blocking a binding, global carbon-mitigation treaty. But the Chinese government’s resistance was both understandable and inevitable.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Since the Copenhagen climate summit’s failure, many politicians and pundits have pointed the finger at China’s leaders for blocking a binding, global carbon-mitigation treaty. But the Chinese government’s resistance was both understandable and inevitable.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Bjørn Lomborg</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Bjørn Lomborg</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How to Undermine an Alliance</title>
    <description><![CDATA[2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Japan-United States Security Treaty. But, instead of celebrating an agreement that has helped stabilize East Asia for a half-century, the treaty is now at serious risk, as much from Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's indecision as from his government's deep strains of anti-Americanism.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Japan-United States Security Treaty. But, instead of celebrating an agreement that has helped stabilize East Asia for a half-century, the treaty is now at serious risk, as much from Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's indecision as from his government's deep strains of anti-Americanism.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Yuriko Koike</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Yuriko Koike</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Americans and Europeans blithely assume that China will become more like them as its economy develops and its population gets richer. But a world order centered on China will reflect Chinese values rather than Western ones - that is, if China can continue its rapid economic growth and maintain its social cohesion and political unity. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Americans and Europeans blithely assume that China will become more like them as its economy develops and its population gets richer. But a world order centered on China will reflect Chinese values rather than Western ones - that is, if China can continue its rapid economic growth and maintain its social cohesion and political unity. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Although the global economic crisis did not affect Latin America as dramatically as it did other regions, the continent's political and institutional weaknesses and perils worsened. The greatest cause of concern is that the military question – supposedly resolved after the transition to democracy, the end of the Cold War, and efforts to achieve regional integration – has reappeared. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although the global economic crisis did not affect Latin America as dramatically as it did other regions, the continent's political and institutional weaknesses and perils worsened. The greatest cause of concern is that the military question – supposedly resolved after the transition to democracy, the end of the Cold War, and efforts to achieve regional integration – has reappeared. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Juan Gabriel Tokatlian</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Juan Gabriel Tokatlian</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When people speak of military power, they tend to think in terms of the resources that underlie the hard-power behavior of fighting and threatening to fight – soldiers, tanks, planes, ships, and so forth. But in today’s world, there is much more to military resources than guns and battalions, and more to using them than fighting or threatening to fight.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When people speak of military power, they tend to think in terms of the resources that underlie the hard-power behavior of fighting and threatening to fight – soldiers, tanks, planes, ships, and so forth. But in today’s world, there is much more to military resources than guns and battalions, and more to using them than fighting or threatening to fight.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Energy lies at the heart of the world’s most pressing global governance challenges. Yet at both the global and national levels, energy governance is far from being able to bring about the desperately needed transition to a system of secure and sustainable provision of energy services.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Energy lies at the heart of the world’s most pressing global governance challenges. Yet at both the global and national levels, energy governance is far from being able to bring about the desperately needed transition to a system of secure and sustainable provision of energy services.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ann Florini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ann Florini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[With China's economy still roaring ahead and success following success in foreign policy, the Chinese government, under the Communist Party, has every reason to feel confident. So why did a gentle former literature professor named Liu Xiaobo have to be sentenced to 11 years in prison, just because he publicly advocated freedom of expression and an end to one-party rule?]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With China's economy still roaring ahead and success following success in foreign policy, the Chinese government, under the Communist Party, has every reason to feel confident. So why did a gentle former literature professor named Liu Xiaobo have to be sentenced to 11 years in prison, just because he publicly advocated freedom of expression and an end to one-party rule?]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ian Buruma</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ian Buruma</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Underlying the failure of the climate change summit in Copenhagen last month is the failure of the idea that carbon-emission rights can be allocated fairly. Perhaps it is time to try another approach: a commitment by each country to raise the price of emissions (whether through a carbon tax or emissions caps) to an agreed level, say, $80 per ton.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Underlying the failure of the climate change summit in Copenhagen last month is the failure of the idea that carbon-emission rights can be allocated fairly. Perhaps it is time to try another approach: a commitment by each country to raise the price of emissions (whether through a carbon tax or emissions caps) to an agreed level, say, $80 per ton.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Many gold buyers want a hedge against the risk of inflation or possible declines in the value of the dollar or other currencies. But gold is an exceptionally poor hedge against both of these risks, particularly compared to the alternatives, such as inflation-protected government bonds and currency futures, that are available to investors.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Many gold buyers want a hedge against the risk of inflation or possible declines in the value of the dollar or other currencies. But gold is an exceptionally poor hedge against both of these risks, particularly compared to the alternatives, such as inflation-protected government bonds and currency futures, that are available to investors.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Martin Feldstein</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Rising Sons of North Africa</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Across north Africa - in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia - preparations for dynastic successions appear to be underway. But none of these countries rulers, or their heirs apparent, will admit it, fearing public opposition and, more apparently, resistance from rivals who have much to lose.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Across north Africa - in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia - preparations for dynastic successions appear to be underway. But none of these countries rulers, or their heirs apparent, will admit it, fearing public opposition and, more apparently, resistance from rivals who have much to lose.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Wolfram Lacher</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Wolfram Lacher</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, stocks were risky and collateralized securities were safe. That time is over, as the collapse of the US mortgage securitization market has exposed the once-vaunted American financial system's underlying lack of trustworthiness.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Once upon a time, stocks were risky and collateralized securities were safe. That time is over, as the collapse of the US mortgage securitization market has exposed the once-vaunted American financial system's underlying lack of trustworthiness.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Hans-Werner Sinn</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Hans-Werner Sinn</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Rapid changes in the global economy and international politics are raising, once more, an eternal issue in Russia: the country’s relations with Europe, and with the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole. Of course, Russia partly belongs to this region. Yet it cannot and does not want to join the West wholeheartedly – at least not yet. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Rapid changes in the global economy and international politics are raising, once more, an eternal issue in Russia: the country’s relations with Europe, and with the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole. Of course, Russia partly belongs to this region. Yet it cannot and does not want to join the West wholeheartedly – at least not yet. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Sergei Karaganov</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Sergei Karaganov</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When the problems riddling Afghan society are listed – violence, insecurity, corruption, religious fundamentalism – one dominating factor is usually left out: the influence of customary law. But Afghanistan cannot begin to solve its many problems until it criminalizes the privatized violence of this antiquated code.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When the problems riddling Afghan society are listed – violence, insecurity, corruption, religious fundamentalism – one dominating factor is usually left out: the influence of customary law. But Afghanistan cannot begin to solve its many problems until it criminalizes the privatized violence of this antiquated code.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Carol Mann</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Carol Mann</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>China’s Excess-Capacity Nightmare</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In sector after sector, Mao Zedong's dream of attaining higher industrial output in China than in the West has finally been realized. For Chinese central planners, however, the country's hypetrophied industrial base has become a cause for alarm rather than celebration.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In sector after sector, Mao Zedong's dream of attaining higher industrial output in China than in the West has finally been realized. For Chinese central planners, however, the country's hypetrophied industrial base has become a cause for alarm rather than celebration.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mark DeWeaver</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mark DeWeaver</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[When South Korea takes over the G-20 chairmanship from the United Kingdom on January 1, it will gain considerable agenda-setting power over global economic policy. At the top of its agenda should be financial-sector reform, greater progress on global rebalancing, and institutional efforts to boost the G-20's legitimacy and strengthen the influence of emerging-market members.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[When South Korea takes over the G-20 chairmanship from the United Kingdom on January 1, it will gain considerable agenda-setting power over global economic policy. At the top of its agenda should be financial-sector reform, greater progress on global rebalancing, and institutional efforts to boost the G-20's legitimacy and strengthen the influence of emerging-market members.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Investment Strategy after the Crisis</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Investors have been hit hard by the current crisis, and lessons are being learned and strategies revised. But the central lesson for investors is that they should not assume that all times are “normal” times, and that risks to the system as a whole are abnormal.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Investors have been hit hard by the current crisis, and lessons are being learned and strategies revised. But the central lesson for investors is that they should not assume that all times are “normal” times, and that risks to the system as a whole are abnormal.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Who Should Be Bailed Out?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As governments around the world develop policies to deal with failing financial institutions, they should be sure to pick their beneficiaries wisely. In particular, they should study and avoid the mistakes made in the AIG bailout in late 2008.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As governments around the world develop policies to deal with failing financial institutions, they should be sure to pick their beneficiaries wisely. In particular, they should study and avoid the mistakes made in the AIG bailout in late 2008.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Lucian Bebchuk</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Lucian Bebchuk</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>In Regulation We Trust?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A free society requires a high degree of trust to reduce the burden of monitoring and control, and trust requires internalized standards of honor, integrity, and fairness. But, with the steady encroachment of market logic in areas traditionally governed by non-market norms, the language of trust has been replaced by the regulatory language of "accountability" and "transparency."]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A free society requires a high degree of trust to reduce the burden of monitoring and control, and trust requires internalized standards of honor, integrity, and fairness. But, with the steady encroachment of market logic in areas traditionally governed by non-market norms, the language of trust has been replaced by the regulatory language of "accountability" and "transparency."]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Mexico’s War of Choice</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Three years ago this month, Mexican President Felipe Calderón donned military fatigues and declared a full-scale war on drugs, ordering the Army into Mexico’s streets, highways, and villages. Like George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, it was a war of choice, and it should never have been waged, because it can never be won.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Three years ago this month, Mexican President Felipe Calderón donned military fatigues and declared a full-scale war on drugs, ordering the Army into Mexico’s streets, highways, and villages. Like George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, it was a war of choice, and it should never have been waged, because it can never be won.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jorge G. Castañeda</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jorge G. Castañeda</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Companies spend a lot of time and money watching customers, trying to figure them out, but so little time listening to them. They can use a wealth of new technologies to learn what their customers want, but, just as important, they need to listen in order to make customers feel listened to.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Companies spend a lot of time and money watching customers, trying to figure them out, but so little time listening to them. They can use a wealth of new technologies to learn what their customers want, but, just as important, they need to listen in order to make customers feel listened to.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[As the price of gold has risen in recent weeks towards $1,200 an ounce and above, today’s “gold bugs” argue that the price could top $2,000. But the recent price surge looks suspiciously like a bubble, with the increase only partly justified by economic fundamentals.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the price of gold has risen in recent weeks towards $1,200 an ounce and above, today’s “gold bugs” argue that the price could top $2,000. But the recent price surge looks suspiciously like a bubble, with the increase only partly justified by economic fundamentals.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[If machines can and do become conscious, will we take their feelings into account? The development of a conscious robot that (who?) was not widely perceived to have moral standing and interests worthy of consideration could lead to mistreatment on a large scale.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If machines can and do become conscious, will we take their feelings into account? The development of a conscious robot that (who?) was not widely perceived to have moral standing and interests worthy of consideration could lead to mistreatment on a large scale.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Agata Sagan</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Agata Sagan, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Too Big to Reform?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The overriding conclusion that emerges from any analysis of the global financial crisis is that nothing will ever be the same again: the relationship between the state and the markets needs to be rethought. A new “social contract” between finance and the people, through their governments, is required.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The overriding conclusion that emerges from any analysis of the global financial crisis is that nothing will ever be the same again: the relationship between the state and the markets needs to be rethought. A new “social contract” between finance and the people, through their governments, is required.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Howard Davies</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Howard Davies</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The time has come for India to recognize that with power comes responsibility, and to act like the indispensable nation that it has become. The period when India was forgotten is at an end, and with it the period when India could forget about the world.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The time has come for India to recognize that with power comes responsibility, and to act like the indispensable nation that it has become. The period when India was forgotten is at an end, and with it the period when India could forget about the world.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Currency undervaluation is currently the Chinese government’s main instrument for subsidizing manufacturing and other tradable sectors, and therefore promoting growth through structural change. The massive global current-account imbalances that have resulted are the price that China and the world economy must pay for WTO rules that prohibit direct industrial policies.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Currency undervaluation is currently the Chinese government’s main instrument for subsidizing manufacturing and other tradable sectors, and therefore promoting growth through structural change. The massive global current-account imbalances that have resulted are the price that China and the world economy must pay for WTO rules that prohibit direct industrial policies.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Approaching the end of his first year as president, Barack Obama has taken a bold step in deciding to increase the number of American troops in Afghanistan to over 100,000. He must know that Afghanistan will be the major test according to which future historians will grade his foreign policy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Approaching the end of his first year as president, Barack Obama has taken a bold step in deciding to increase the number of American troops in Afghanistan to over 100,000. He must know that Afghanistan will be the major test according to which future historians will grade his foreign policy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Swimming With Sharks in Mexico</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As the saying goes: when the tide goes out, you find out who has been swimming naked. Few countries have emerged as naked from the receding waters of the global economic crisis as Mexico.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As the saying goes: when the tide goes out, you find out who has been swimming naked. Few countries have emerged as naked from the receding waters of the global economic crisis as Mexico.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Denise Dresser</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Denise Dresser</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Road to Prosperity and Sound Markets</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Edmund S. Phelps</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Edmund S. Phelps</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Return of Monetarism</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Over the last 30 years or so, many central bankers supposed that all they needed to do was keep their sights fixed on price stability. But we now know that they must also attend to financial stability, and that their ability to set interest rates cannot be used to achieve both aims simultaneously.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Over the last 30 years or so, many central bankers supposed that all they needed to do was keep their sights fixed on price stability. But we now know that they must also attend to financial stability, and that their ability to set interest rates cannot be used to achieve both aims simultaneously.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Sylvester Eijffinger</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Sylvester Eijffinger, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Defusing Russia’s Energy Weapon</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As Winter approaches, many people in Central and Eastern Europe remember the chill caused last winter by Russia's deliberate cut-off of gas supplies. Until the EU establishes a common energy policy and a single market for natural gas, Russia will be tempted to use new blockades to continue the divide-and-rule policy that the world has witnessed since Vladimir Putin came to power.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As Winter approaches, many people in Central and Eastern Europe remember the chill caused last winter by Russia's deliberate cut-off of gas supplies. Until the EU establishes a common energy policy and a single market for natural gas, Russia will be tempted to use new blockades to continue the divide-and-rule policy that the world has witnessed since Vladimir Putin came to power.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Uffe Ellemann-Jensen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Uffe Ellemann-Jensen</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Too Big to Live</title>
    <description><![CDATA[If we have learned one lesson from the financial crisis, it is that the bigger the bank, and the more risk-taking that big banks are allowed to engage in, the greater the threat to our economies and our societies. That is why we need a multi-prong approach, including special taxes, increased capital requirements, tighter supervision, and limits on size and risk-taking activities.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If we have learned one lesson from the financial crisis, it is that the bigger the bank, and the more risk-taking that big banks are allowed to engage in, the greater the threat to our economies and our societies. That is why we need a multi-prong approach, including special taxes, increased capital requirements, tighter supervision, and limits on size and risk-taking activities.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph E. Stiglitz</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph E. Stiglitz</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Cycles of Economic Discontent</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Every ten years or so, we think that a particular model of growth is so broken that it cannot be resurrected. The world needed to be rethought in 1979, 1989, 1998, and 2008, with each wave of collapse breeding a greater degree of disillusion about particular institutions.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Every ten years or so, we think that a particular model of growth is so broken that it cannot be resurrected. The world needed to be rethought in 1979, 1989, 1998, and 2008, with each wave of collapse breeding a greater degree of disillusion about particular institutions.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Harold James</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Harold James</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Why Are Good Policies Bad Politics?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[From the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year, the policies followed by the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Bush and Obama administrations have been sound and helpful. But they have also been politically unpopular with Americans, owing to opponents' extraordinary intellectual and political dishonesty, which the press refuses to see.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[From the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year, the policies followed by the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Bush and Obama administrations have been sound and helpful. But they have also been politically unpopular with Americans, owing to opponents' extraordinary intellectual and political dishonesty, which the press refuses to see.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>J. Bradford DeLong</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Industrial Policy Returns from the Grave</title>
    <description><![CDATA[One of the worst responses by officials to the financial crisis and deep recession has been to revive “industrial policy.” Governments' use of subsidies, mandates, regulation, and capital investment to pick industrial winners and losers failed in the 1970's and 1980's, and it is just as bad an idea today.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One of the worst responses by officials to the financial crisis and deep recession has been to revive “industrial policy.” Governments' use of subsidies, mandates, regulation, and capital investment to pick industrial winners and losers failed in the 1970's and 1980's, and it is just as bad an idea today.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Boskin</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Boskin</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[All those who have made it their job to praise stability in the Western Balkans should assess public-opinion surveys revealing widespread pessimism in the region. Stability alone can no longer be the EU’s only objective in the region, and the hope that these countries can muddle through on their own is a dangerous illusion.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[All those who have made it their job to praise stability in the Western Balkans should assess public-opinion surveys revealing widespread pessimism in the region. Stability alone can no longer be the EU’s only objective in the region, and the hope that these countries can muddle through on their own is a dangerous illusion.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Ivan Krastev</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Ivan Krastev</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[China is making a big push to encourage greater international use of its currency, the renminbi, and is implicitly targeting 2020 as the date by which it should become one of the world's leading currencies. That is an ambitious goal, but US history suggests that it is not impossible to achieve.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[China is making a big push to encourage greater international use of its currency, the renminbi, and is implicitly targeting 2020 as the date by which it should become one of the world's leading currencies. That is an ambitious goal, but US history suggests that it is not impossible to achieve.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Barry Eichengreen</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Barry Eichengreen</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The selection of Herman van Rompuy as President of the EU’s Council of Ministers, and of Lady Catherine Ashton as its foreign policy chief, underlines the extent to which the EU's member states are in the driver’s seat. As a result, Europe is in danger of becoming politically irrelevant, a successful customs union with a Swissified foreign policy and a group of fractious, vision-free leaders.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The selection of Herman van Rompuy as President of the EU’s Council of Ministers, and of Lady Catherine Ashton as its foreign policy chief, underlines the extent to which the EU's member states are in the driver’s seat. As a result, Europe is in danger of becoming politically irrelevant, a successful customs union with a Swissified foreign policy and a group of fractious, vision-free leaders.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Chris Patten</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Chris Patten</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>From Community to Security in Asia</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s just concluded visit to Asia may catalyze Asia and its leaders to reflect on just what sort of regional community they are building. Like Europe, Asia should use the existing umbrella of Pax Americana to accelerate economic, security, and political integration.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s just concluded visit to Asia may catalyze Asia and its leaders to reflect on just what sort of regional community they are building. Like Europe, Asia should use the existing umbrella of Pax Americana to accelerate economic, security, and political integration.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Fidel V. Ramos</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Fidel V. Ramos</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Green Buildings’ Bottom Line</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Politicians have spent years bickering over who should bear the costs of reductions in carbon emissions in order to fight climate change. But policymakers should embrace one of the cheapest ways of cutting the pollution that lies at the root of the problem: making buildings more efficient. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Politicians have spent years bickering over who should bear the costs of reductions in carbon emissions in order to fight climate change. But policymakers should embrace one of the cheapest ways of cutting the pollution that lies at the root of the problem: making buildings more efficient. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mark L. Clifford</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mark L. Clifford</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The world’s major challenge in combating climate change is to devise a strategy that encourages growth in the developing world, but on a path that approaches safe global carbon-emission levels by mid-century. The way to achieve this is to decouple the question of who pays for most mitigation efforts  from the question of where, geographically, these efforts take place.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The world’s major challenge in combating climate change is to devise a strategy that encourages growth in the developing world, but on a path that approaches safe global carbon-emission levels by mid-century. The way to achieve this is to decouple the question of who pays for most mitigation efforts  from the question of where, geographically, these efforts take place.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Spence</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Spence</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[It is hard for international observers to grasp the political paralysis that grips the US, and that seriously threatens its ability to solve domestic problems and contribute to international problem solving. Indeed, America’s governance crisis is the worst in modern history, and it is likely to worsen in the years ahead.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is hard for international observers to grasp the political paralysis that grips the US, and that seriously threatens its ability to solve domestic problems and contribute to international problem solving. Indeed, America’s governance crisis is the worst in modern history, and it is likely to worsen in the years ahead.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jeffrey D. Sachs</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey D. Sachs</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[Global trade has contracted in 2009 at a rate not seen since the Great Depression, and those paying the heaviest price are those who can least afford it. So, when trade ministers from the 153 World Trade Organization members gather in Geneva later this month, the issue of how the WTO and the global trading system can help the poorest countries will be high on the agenda.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Global trade has contracted in 2009 at a rate not seen since the Great Depression, and those paying the heaviest price are those who can least afford it. So, when trade ministers from the 153 World Trade Organization members gather in Geneva later this month, the issue of how the WTO and the global trading system can help the poorest countries will be high on the agenda.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Pascal Lamy</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Pascal Lamy</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Incredible Vanishing Asset</title>
    <description><![CDATA[More and more markets picked up two related concepts: time-based pricing and more efficient use of so-called “vanishing assets” – or capital goods that generate revenue only as they are used. Airlines and hotels were among the first to use time-based pricing, but now consumers can be targeted by anyone from a manicurist to an airport massage booth.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[More and more markets picked up two related concepts: time-based pricing and more efficient use of so-called “vanishing assets” – or capital goods that generate revenue only as they are used. Airlines and hotels were among the first to use time-based pricing, but now consumers can be targeted by anyone from a manicurist to an airport massage booth.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Esther Dyson</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Esther Dyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>How Much is Enough?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that in 100 years – that is, by 2030 – growth in the developed world would, in effect, have stopped, because people would “have enough” to lead the “good life.” Instead, the accumulation of wealth, which should be a means to the “good life,” has become an end in itself because it destroys many of the things that make life worth living. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that in 100 years – that is, by 2030 – growth in the developed world would, in effect, have stopped, because people would “have enough” to lead the “good life.” Instead, the accumulation of wealth, which should be a means to the “good life,” has become an end in itself because it destroys many of the things that make life worth living. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert Skidelsky</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert Skidelsky</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[The Cold War was won as a result of military "containment" of Soviet expansion, the Soviet bloc's own internal weaknesses, and efforts to provoke a crisis of confidence among communist leaders. The same combination of factors should be considered when confronting regimes like those in Iran and North Korea.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Cold War was won as a result of military "containment" of Soviet expansion, the Soviet bloc's own internal weaknesses, and efforts to provoke a crisis of confidence among communist leaders. The same combination of factors should be considered when confronting regimes like those in Iran and North Korea.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Richard N. Haass</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Richard N. Haass</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[In early June 1989, Václav Havel was released from jail, full of what now seems an almost prophetic certainty. Four months later, Havel's sense of Czechoslovak communism's imminent demise was proved correct.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In early June 1989, Václav Havel was released from jail, full of what now seems an almost prophetic certainty. Four months later, Havel's sense of Czechoslovak communism's imminent demise was proved correct.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Michael Meyer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Michael Meyer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Palestine after Abbas?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[President Mahmoud Abbas’s withdrawal from the Palestinian Authority's presidential election scheduled for January 24, 2010, has produced no political scramble to pick a successor. The reason is simple: the PA presidency has become irrelevant.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[President Mahmoud Abbas’s withdrawal from the Palestinian Authority's presidential election scheduled for January 24, 2010, has produced no political scramble to pick a successor. The reason is simple: the PA presidency has become irrelevant.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Daoud Kuttab</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Daoud Kuttab</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Taming the Stock Option Game</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Standard pay arrangements give executives broad discretion over when they sell shares and exercise options awarded to them as part of compensation plans. But such discretion is both unnecessary and counterproductive, while removing it would enhance the performance of firms – and thus value for shareholders.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Standard pay arrangements give executives broad discretion over when they sell shares and exercise options awarded to them as part of compensation plans. But such discretion is both unnecessary and counterproductive, while removing it would enhance the performance of firms – and thus value for shareholders.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Lucian Bebchuk</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Lucian Bebchuk, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Turning North Korea Around</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As formal negotiations over the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula look set to resume, talk of a “grand bargain” remains unfortunately just that – talk. To speed the process, the US and other powers need to pursue constructive engagement with North Korea to encourage economic transition and integration with the global economy.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As formal negotiations over the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula look set to resume, talk of a “grand bargain” remains unfortunately just that – talk. To speed the process, the US and other powers need to pursue constructive engagement with North Korea to encourage economic transition and integration with the global economy.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>John Delury</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>John Delury</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[What is uncanny about the current US debate about Afghanistan is the degree to which it displays continuity with the debate about the Vietnam war, and the Obama administration knows it. Lyndon Johnson knew that the Vietnam war could not be won even before his administration escalated it, but he also feared, rightly, that American presidents who lose wars also lose elections.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[What is uncanny about the current US debate about Afghanistan is the degree to which it displays continuity with the debate about the Vietnam war, and the Obama administration knows it. Lyndon Johnson knew that the Vietnam war could not be won even before his administration escalated it, but he also feared, rightly, that American presidents who lose wars also lose elections.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jonathan Schell</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jonathan Schell</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[While the US recently reported 3.5% GDP growth in the third quarter, suggesting that the most severe recession since the Great Depression is over, the American economy is actually much weaker than official data suggest. The story of the US is one of two economies – a smaller one that is slowly recovering and a larger one that is still in a deep and persistent downturn.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[While the US recently reported 3.5% GDP growth in the third quarter, suggesting that the most severe recession since the Great Depression is over, the American economy is actually much weaker than official data suggest. The story of the US is one of two economies – a smaller one that is slowly recovering and a larger one that is still in a deep and persistent downturn.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Nouriel Roubini</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Nouriel Roubini</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Ghost in the Recovery Machine</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The IMF, along with many national leaders, seem ready to give full credit to what the Fund calls "strong public policies" for engineering what might be the end of the global economic recession. But, in terms of the certainty of the outcome, formulating economic policy is more like psychotherapy than engineering.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The IMF, along with many national leaders, seem ready to give full credit to what the Fund calls "strong public policies" for engineering what might be the end of the global economic recession. But, in terms of the certainty of the outcome, formulating economic policy is more like psychotherapy than engineering.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Robert J. Shiller</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Robert J. Shiller</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>When Doctors Kill</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the “slippery slope”: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. There is no evidence for this claim, but recent revelations about what took place in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina point to a genuine danger from a different source.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the “slippery slope”: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die. There is no evidence for this claim, but recent revelations about what took place in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina point to a genuine danger from a different source.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Peter Singer</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Peter Singer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The IMF Needs Fresh Thinking on Capital Controls</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The IMF has slapped Brazil's wrist for daring to impose a 2% tax on short-term capital inflows. But such capital controls make a lot of sense, because “hot” inflows make it difficult for financially open economies like Brazil to maintain a competitive currency, depriving them of what is in effect the most potent form of industrial policy imaginable.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The IMF has slapped Brazil's wrist for daring to impose a 2% tax on short-term capital inflows. But such capital controls make a lot of sense, because “hot” inflows make it difficult for financially open economies like Brazil to maintain a competitive currency, depriving them of what is in effect the most potent form of industrial policy imaginable.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dani Rodrik</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dani Rodrik</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Anti-Hunger Imperative</title>
    <description><![CDATA[There are plenty of summits to choose from this year, but the World Summit on Food Security deserves not to be lost in the crowd. This meeting in Rome from November 16-18 provides badly needed political momentum to three linked issues that rank among the most challenging of the current era: food security, biodiversity, and climate change.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[There are plenty of summits to choose from this year, but the World Summit on Food Security deserves not to be lost in the crowd. This meeting in Rome from November 16-18 provides badly needed political momentum to three linked issues that rank among the most challenging of the current era: food security, biodiversity, and climate change.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jose Manuel Barroso</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jose Manuel Barroso</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Twilight of France’s Republican Aristocracy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[No tumbrils have appeared in Paris’s Place de la Concorde, but something like a revolution is underway in France. Recent weeks have seen the trial of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and the conviction of former Defense Minister Charles Pasqua – and now even former President Jacques Chirac has learned that he is not immune from prosecution. ]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[No tumbrils have appeared in Paris’s Place de la Concorde, but something like a revolution is underway in France. Recent weeks have seen the trial of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and the conviction of former Defense Minister Charles Pasqua – and now even former President Jacques Chirac has learned that he is not immune from prosecution. ]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Guy Sorman</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Guy Sorman</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[If geography is destiny, South Korea was dealt a weak hand, and it has had a difficult history of developing sufficient "hard" military power to defend itself. But South Korea has the economic and cultural resources to produce significant soft power, allowing it to design a foreign policy that will give it a larger role in global governance.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[If geography is destiny, South Korea was dealt a weak hand, and it has had a difficult history of developing sufficient "hard" military power to defend itself. But South Korea has the economic and cultural resources to produce significant soft power, allowing it to design a foreign policy that will give it a larger role in global governance.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Joseph S. Nye</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>More Walls to Fall</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, at a time when the nuclear arms race was threatening humanity's existence, world leaders demonstrated resolve, faced up to opposition and immense pressure, and the Berlin Wall came down. It remains to be seen whether leaders will do the same when it comes to addressing today's existential threat - climate change.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, at a time when the nuclear arms race was threatening humanity's existence, world leaders demonstrated resolve, faced up to opposition and immense pressure, and the Berlin Wall came down. It remains to be seen whether leaders will do the same when it comes to addressing today's existential threat - climate change.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Mikhail Gorbachev</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Mikhail Gorbachev</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Eternal Wall</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Walls designed to keep people in or out – whether they are in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel, or Korea – are always the product of fear. Ultimately, they represent the realities that lay behind their construction – realities that, unfortunately, later generations may be unable or unwilling to change.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Walls designed to keep people in or out – whether they are in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel, or Korea – are always the product of fear. Ultimately, they represent the realities that lay behind their construction – realities that, unfortunately, later generations may be unable or unwilling to change.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Dominique Moisi</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Dominique Moisi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Women of Europe’s Dream</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As impressive as Europe’s history has been since the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community in 1957, by no means should it be assumed that the EU cannot unravel. Much will depend on who becomes European President, and, despite their many differences, former Irish President Mary Robinson and French Finance Minister would both be excellent choices.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[As impressive as Europe’s history has been since the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community in 1957, by no means should it be assumed that the EU cannot unravel. Much will depend on who becomes European President, and, despite their many differences, former Irish President Mary Robinson and French Finance Minister would both be excellent choices.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Jean-Pierre Lehmann</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Jean-Pierre Lehmann</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A New World Architecture</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The world is facing a choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization: internationalist liberal capitalism and authoritarian state capitalism. The former, represented by the United States, has broken down, and the latter, represented by China, is on the rise.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The world is facing a choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization: internationalist liberal capitalism and authoritarian state capitalism. The former, represented by the United States, has broken down, and the latter, represented by China, is on the rise.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>George Soros</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>George Soros</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Forging a European Worldview</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Some complain that the EU lacks a “worldview.” In fact, the EU ‘s problem is that it has too many of them: shared histories are an insufficient basis for shared policies.]]></description>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Some complain that the EU lacks a “worldview.” In fact, the EU ‘s problem is that it has too many of them: shared histories are an insufficient basis for shared policies.]]></itunes:summary>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<itunes:author>Aleksander Kwasniewski</itunes:author>
	<dc:creator>Aleksander Kwasniewski</dc:creator>
	
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