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<title><![CDATA[Clive Crook - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14515.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Clive Crook]]></description><category domain="14515">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Crushing Defeat in November Would Help Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clive-crook-a-crushing-defeat-in-november-would-help-democrats/ar-AA10mOLW</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you dread the possibility of a second Trump administration, you should ask whether the Democrats' improving prospects in the midterm elections are an entirely good thing. The party is much less popular than it should be, given the quality of its opponents - and it needs to ask why. A...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Get Ready for Higher Unemployment]]></title>
							<link>https://prod.crainscleveland.com/opinion/opinion-fed-should-get-ready-higher-unemployment</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Announcing another interest-rate increase on Wednesday, July 27, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said that the path toward a soft landing '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' with lower inflation and no significant rise in unemployment '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' has narrowed. The question is whether there is any such path.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does It Mean to Defeat Putin?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/defeating-putin-is-the-goal-but-what-does-that-mean</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What do U.S. and European leaders see as the endgame in Ukraine? If they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re thinking about it, they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re giving little sign. And if their answer is defeating Vladimir Putin, they need to ask themselves another question: What does that mean?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Breaking His Promise to Unite the Country]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/voting-rights-biden-is-dividing-the-country-he-promised-to-unite</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over years of following American politics, I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d come to regard Joe Biden as harmless '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a back-slapper without strong conviction, given to exaggeration and the occasional outright lie, but no worse than average for a career politician and no threat to the republic. Lately...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now It&rsquo;s Parliament&rsquo;s Turn to Lead Brexit Delusions]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-27/brexit-britain-s-parliament-shows-it-s-delusional-too?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'seizing control'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of this disaster.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why People Still Support Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-28/why-people-still-support-trump</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not all about bigotry and ignorance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Better Deal Still Needs Work]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-31/the-democrats-better-deal-still-needs-work</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Less knee-jerk anti-capitalism and more big ideas would be good.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brexit Doesn't Have to Be a Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-29/brexit-doesn-t-have-to-be-a-disaster</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.K. and the EU have clear opportunities to advance their most important goals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A More Perfect Union Needs Both Nationalism &amp; Globalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-25/a-more-perfect-union-needs-both-nationalism-and-globalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular belief, the two aren't mutually exclusive.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revenge of the Deplorables]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-11/revenge-of-the-deplorables</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton lost because she refused to grant the validity of any of Trump's case.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mapping Britain's Exit From Europe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-05/mapping-britain-s-exit-from-europe</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only sensible way forward is an enhanced free-trade agreement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Brexit Actually Happen?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-29/will-brexit-actually-happen</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Financial Times's Gideon Rachman says he thinks Brexit won't happen. The referendum result doesn't mean that much, he argues.Any long-term observer of the EU should be familiar with the shock referendum result. In 1992 the Danes voted to reject the Maastricht treaty. The Irish voted...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Word of Advice for Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-31/a-word-of-advice-for-hillary-clinton</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The secret of success, somebody once said, is sincerity: If you can fake that, you've got it made.This is the crux of Hillary Clinton's likeability problem. It isn't just that she can't fake sincerity, though that's bad enough if you want to succeed in politics; it's that she can't seem...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elites Ignored Concerns of Voters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160531_Commentary__Elites_ignored_concerns_of_voters.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By Clive CrookTheories on the rise of Donald Trump too often rely on the anger, bigotry, and general backwardness of his supporters. This grounding isn't much questioned, even by commentators who think they're questioning it. The inferiority of those people (formerly known as We the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Advice for the New Old Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-08/advice-for-the-new-old-left</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Left-wing economics needn't be stupid, says Chris Giles of the Financial Times in a recent column. A left-of-center program could be both practical and coherent. You might still disagree with such a program -- but not because it's economically illiterate or bound to fail on its own...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stand Back: China's Bubble Will Burst]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-14/stand-back-china-s-bubble-will-burst</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Singapore, which I'm visiting at the moment, opens your mind to the highly improbable. Rich, ethnically diverse, cheerfully efficient, globalized in the extreme, it's a man-made economic miracle -- astonishing proof of what market forces combined with superb top-down direction can...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Germany Owes Greece]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-19/what-germany-owes-greece</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How much does it matter, if at all, that Greece's demand for a new bailout program with softer terms is being pressed by a new government, elected for that very purpose -- a government that retains solid support even as its standoff with other European Union governments drags on? How...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Piketty Owes His Readers Some Answers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-28/piketty-owes-his-readers-some-answers</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The main defect in Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" has little to do with the questions about data that the Financial Times raised this weekend. Nonetheless, they're good questions. The FT should be thanked for raising them, and Piketty owes his readers better...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Piketty's Global Wealth Tax Isn't a Joke]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-11/picketty-s-wealth-tax-isn-t-a-joke</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've complained about Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" and I still think it's been vastly overpraised, but I don't go along with every criticism others have made. As a matter of fact, I think one idea that's been roundly dismissed by fans and critics alike deserves to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scare Tactics Fail Climate Scientists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-03/scare-tactics-fail-climate-scientists-and-everyone-else</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why aren't climate scientists winning the argument on climate policy? It sure isn't for lack of effort.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just published another vast pile of material, this time focused on "impacts, adaptation and vulnerability." The IPCC says that the new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Want Success? Choose the Right Parents]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-16/want-success-choose-the-right-parents</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gregory Clark's startling new book, "The Son Also Rises," asks you to rethink everything you thought you knew about social mobility. His research, if it's correct, isn't good news. It says that socio-economic status is mostly a matter of nature not nurture, and suggests that trying to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Needs Better, Not Fewer, Speeches]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-29/obama-needs-better-not-fewer-speeches.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The standard complaint about President Barack Obama -- that he'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s better at giving speeches than running the government -- was a cliche even before the opening of 2013, his worst year in the White House. After the epic incompetence of the health-care rollout, even his friends are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble With Populism? It Isn't That Popular]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-19/the-trouble-with-populism-it-isn-t-that-popular.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In modern politics, populists struggle to win elections. Why? Because they underestimate the people. To be more exact, the difficulty lies with an excess of populism -- which is what Krugman and others recommend for the Democrats and what the Tea Party wants to impose on Republicans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Stupid, Too]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-22/democrats-are-stupid-too.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even many Republicans agree that they lost the battle over the shutdown and the debt ceiling. The Tea Party walked the country to the edge of economic ruin and their party to the edge of political catastrophe until Republican leaders in Congress flinched. Maneuvering themselves into that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Moral Case for a Syria Strike]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-04/the-moral-case-for-a-syria-strike.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beyond a reasonable doubt, the forces of Syria'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on a large scale and should be punished. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s where I end up. But the case isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t cut and dried.Sometimes, standing on principle doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get you very far. The problem is, which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Science and Politics Don't Mix]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-20/why-science-and-politics-don-t-mix.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard University and author of such popular science books as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Blank Slate,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' recently wrote an essay for the New Republic in defense of science. From left and right, he notes, from intellectuals as well as from anti-intellectuals,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Have Sympathy for the IRS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/irs-foul-up-shows-how-bad-laws-breed-good-scandals.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Much to my surprise, I find myself sympathizing with the Internal Revenue Service. Tenderness toward that agency isn'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'t my default position. I'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'m a British expat living in the U.S., with retirement savings locked up in the U.K. and other cross-border entanglements -- these small...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[War By Drone]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/war-by-drone/262940/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Seems Stone-Deaf to His Problems]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/obamas-speech-in-cleveland/258551/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I would have been less disappointed with Obama's Cleveland speech if it hadn't been trailed so elaborately as a big event. The speech had some good points, but this was no "reset". There wasn't really anything new, and it didn't help that he talked too long and kept repeating himself....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Seeds of the EU's Crisis Were Sown 60 Years Ago]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-23/the-seeds-of-the-eu-s-crisis-were-sown-60-years-ago.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clive Crook</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The arc of Europe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s postwar history is turning toward tragedy. It isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just that much of the continent has fallen into a new Great Depression, or that in some countries things will get worse before they get better. It isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t even that the whole mess was avoidable....]]></description>
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