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	<description>A blog on the Whitehall Village and Public Management, edited by Colin Talbot</description>
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		<title>Re-Centering the State? Pulling Arms-Length Bodies back into the Centre</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/26/re-centering-the-state-pulling-arms-length-bodies-back-into-the-centre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the National Audit Office examines the British governments attempts to reorganise &#8220;arms-length bodies&#8221; in the UK. One of the central conclusions is that the reorganisation is dragging many of the functions of these bodies back to &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/26/re-centering-the-state-pulling-arms-length-bodies-back-into-the-centre/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=2031&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Wine in New Bottles? Logging the Name Changes in Government</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/25/2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is often more continuity between themselves and their predecessors than any new Government cares to admit. One way they seek to disguise these continuities is to change the names of things, with minimal change to the actual thing itself, &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/25/2026/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=2026&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Implement That</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/20/implement-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch out for the word &#8220;implementation&#8221; in 2012. It&#8217;s the new in-word in Whitehall. &#8216;Delivery&#8217; is out &#8211; far too New Labour. Instead, &#8216;implementation&#8217; is the new buzz-word &#8211; it has already started to make an appearance in public, for &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/20/implement-that/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=2021&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership in the Civil Service: Those that Can, Do Policy. Those That Can&#8217;t…..</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/20/leadership-in-the-civil-service-those-that-can-do-policy-those-that-cant/</link>
		<comments>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/20/leadership-in-the-civil-service-those-that-can-do-policy-those-that-cant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today (20 Jan 2012) the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) published a scathing attack on the re-organisation at the top of the Civil Service that took place over Christmas. For new readers: with the retirment of Sir (now Lord) Gus &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/20/leadership-in-the-civil-service-those-that-can-do-policy-those-that-cant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=2019&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous SNP Hubris Over Referendum</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/10/dangerous-snp-hubris-over-referendum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1st Posted on Huffington Post (UK): 9/1/12 18:43 GMT Does the SNP really want a free, democratic, Scotland? If so they are everything they can to ensure it may, just, become independent but is unlikely to be a genuine democracy. &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2012/01/10/dangerous-snp-hubris-over-referendum/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=2018&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Top Ten (most read) WhitehallWatch posts of 2011 (so far)</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/22/my-top-ten-most-read-whitehallwatch-posts-of-2011-so-far/</link>
		<comments>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/22/my-top-ten-most-read-whitehallwatch-posts-of-2011-so-far/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. The Riots: It may be the Under-Class that did it, but it&#8217;s the Uber-Class that lost it 2. Public Service Reform White paper delayed&#8230;. Again 3. Localisation of the Bill 4. Teaching Public Administration to Tyrants? The LSE, Libya&#8230; &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/22/my-top-ten-most-read-whitehallwatch-posts-of-2011-so-far/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1999&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cuts in the City: How Manchester Fared in 2011</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/22/cuts-in-the-city-how-manchester-fared-in-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/22/cuts-in-the-city-how-manchester-fared-in-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight (Thursday 22) and tomorrow the BBC Radio 4 PM programme will carry items by reporter Andrew Bomford about how greater Manchester has fared over the past year in the face of a sluggish economy and large public spending cuts. &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/22/cuts-in-the-city-how-manchester-fared-in-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1995&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academy Schools Funding System Fails &#8211; quelle surprise</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/08/academy-schools-funding-system-fails-quell-surprise/</link>
		<comments>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/08/academy-schools-funding-system-fails-quell-surprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been predicting for some time that some of the big structural changes to public services are likely to destabilise the financial systems in health, education and local government. So it comes as no surprise that tens of millions &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/08/academy-schools-funding-system-fails-quell-surprise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1990&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Are Not &#8220;All In It Together&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s official</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/05/we-are-not-all-in-it-together-its-official/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inequality across the OECD is rising, including in Britain, even before the impact of the current crisis has even worked its way through, an important new OECD report shows. Neo-liberal ideologues argue that any curtailment of inequality inevitably leads to &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/12/05/we-are-not-all-in-it-together-its-official/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1989&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>George Osborne&#8217;s Autumn Statement: We&#8217;re All Doomed</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/29/george-osbornes-autumn-statement-were-all-doomed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Osborne&#8217;s &#8220;Autumn Statement&#8221; is certainly not a Pre Budget Report, as he promised it would not be. Instead, it is much more like a mini-Budget or even, given the timescales involved in many announcements, a mini-Spending Review. Like all &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/29/george-osbornes-autumn-statement-were-all-doomed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1920&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership of the British Civil Service: All Change?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/21/leadership-of-the-british-civil-service-all-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I gave evidence &#8211; alongside Professor Lord Peter Hennessy and Professor Tony Dean &#8211;  to the Public Administration Select Committee in Parliament on the changes taking place at the top of the UK Civil Service. The uncorrected minutes &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/21/leadership-of-the-british-civil-service-all-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1918&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Confusion and Denationalisation at the centre of the Health and Social Care Bill</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/12/confusion-and-denationalisation-at-the-centre-of-the-health-and-social-care-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reprint below an excellent briefing by Professor Allyson Pollock and colleagues on key clauses of the Health and Social Care Bill. It addresses two critical issues: The removal of  legal responsibility from the Secretary of State to prove health &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/12/confusion-and-denationalisation-at-the-centre-of-the-health-and-social-care-bill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1915&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence Session: PASC to question academics and journalists about Head of the Civil Service role</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/11/evidence-session-pasc-to-question-academics-and-journalists-about-head-of-the-civil-service-role/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public Administration Select Committee - Announcement EVIDENCE SESSION: PASC TO QUESTION ACADEMICS AND JOURNALISTS ABOUT HEAD OF THE CIVIL SERVICE ROLE Tuesday 15 November 2011 Committee Room 16 Witnesses: 9.45am      Professor the Lord Hennessy, Professor Colin Talbot and Professor Tony Dean &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/11/evidence-session-pasc-to-question-academics-and-journalists-about-head-of-the-civil-service-role/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1908&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Deficit and Tax Evasion</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/10/greek-deficit-and-tax-evasion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One issue that keeps coming up around the Greek crisis is the degree of tax evasion. In the slide below I report the average Greek budget deficit per year on a decade by decade basis since the 1960s (figures on &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/10/greek-deficit-and-tax-evasion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1900&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theresa May: déjà vu all over again</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/08/theresa-may-deja-vu-all-over-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[I appeared briefly on Newsnight commenting on this - the item is about 20 mins in]. A British Home Secretary faces a media firestorm over a major blunder in one of the Home Office’s Executive Agencies. A senior agency official &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/08/theresa-may-deja-vu-all-over-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1887&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Big Fat Greek Government?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/07/my-big-fat-greek-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Greek crisis has given neo-liberals a a great opportunity to criticize ‘big government’ Hellenic style &#8211; they see the problem as a Big Fat Greek Government (apologies to the film of nearly that name). But as usual the truth &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/11/07/my-big-fat-greek-government/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1885&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, or a Free Market</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/31/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch-or-a-free-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recent post suggesting three simple reforms to financial markets provoked a bit of a squall on Twitter. The Free Market Fundamentalist Tendency especially seemed incensed that any restrictions on markets was a good idea. Most of the criticisms were &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/31/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch-or-a-free-market/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1880&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three ‘Simples’ Principles for Controlling Run-Away Finance?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/30/three-%e2%80%98simples%e2%80%99-principles-for-controlling-run-away-finance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about what sort of moral principles ought to apply to finance, including banking. The sort of thing I’ve been thinking about are some fairly simple things that would appear obvious to most of us, but apparently &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/30/three-%e2%80%98simples%e2%80%99-principles-for-controlling-run-away-finance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1877&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Managerial Revolution&#8217; is Over: They Won?</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/28/the-managerial-revolution-is-over-they-won/</link>
		<comments>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/28/the-managerial-revolution-is-over-they-won/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Income Data Services, which totted up pay, bonuses and various share awards, says the average FTSE 100 executive director pocketed a 49 per cent rise in the last financial year to bring their remuneration to £2.7m a year. Chief executives &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/28/the-managerial-revolution-is-over-they-won/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1873&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paperless Assets and Assetless Paper &#8211; Why Only Government Can Make Capitalism Work</title>
		<link>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/12/paperless-assets-and-assetless-paper-why-only-government-can-make-capitalism-work/</link>
		<comments>http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/12/paperless-assets-and-assetless-paper-why-only-government-can-make-capitalism-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Talbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has offered a very interesting twist on the western financial crisis. To summarize, he argues that the problem in the developing world is the translation of real, physical, assets into trabeable paper. This allows &#8230; <a href="http://whitehallwatch.org/2011/10/12/paperless-assets-and-assetless-paper-why-only-government-can-make-capitalism-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whitehallwatch.org&amp;blog=5561180&amp;post=1871&amp;subd=whitehallwatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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