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		<title>Accessible and insightful fiscal analysis with Ray Stevens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American musician Ray Stevens has produced this superb analysis of the Obama Budget Plan: I&#8217;m sure Ray has much to teach politicians and the public in the UK and Europe too, particularly about ethics and decency in the public finances. For more on that subject, see Jörg Guido Hülsmann&#8217;s brilliant book The Ethics of Money Production ]]></description>
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		<title>ConservativeHome&#8217;s Platform: Steve Baker MP: The EU is not yet beyond ridicule</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via ConservativeHome&#8217;s Platform: Steve Baker MP: The EU is not yet beyond ridicule: I enjoyed delivering a brief polemic against EU spending in yesterday&#8217;s debate on the 16th consecutive failure of the EU budget to pass audit. Over 90% of EU spending was &#8220;materially affected by error&#8221; but I shared three stories which were apparently ]]></description>
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		<title>Who will make a speech like this for our time?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/12/who-will-make-a-speech-like-this-in-our-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. We will keep in mind and remember that Barry Goldwater has faith in us. He has ]]></description>
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		<title>Central banking and the economic consensus condemned</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/11/central-banking-and-the-economic-consensus-condemned/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Cobden Centre: The absurd tragedy of our situation, explained brilliantly here (albeit in a US context), is astonishing. For a more formal corrective, see this primer]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the day: politics, debt and public choice</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/04/thought-for-the-day-politics-debt-and-public-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/04/thought-for-the-day-politics-debt-and-public-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A joke doing the rounds by email at the moment1: While walking down the street one day a Member of Parliament is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St Peter at the entrance. &#8216;Welcome to heaven,&#8217; says St Peter, &#8216;Before you settle in, it seems ]]></description>
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		<title>Churchill&#8217;s Wit</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/churchills-wit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One kind Christmas gift was Churchill&#8217;s Wit: The Definitive Collection. I am particularly savouring this gem (1906): For my own part I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities which he excites among his opponents. I have always set myself not merely to relish but to deserve thoroughly their ]]></description>
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		<title>Not rearing pigs</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/not-rearing-pigs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently sent me this celebrated letter on the absurdity of bureaucracy. If you have not seen it, enjoy: Rt Hon David Miliband MP Secretary of State. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Nobel House 17 Smith Square London SW1P 3JR 16 July 2009 Dear Secretary of State, My friend, who is ]]></description>
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		<title>Satire from John Redwood MP » The Finance Director of UK PLC sends out the annual figures</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/satire-from-john-redwood-mp-%c2%bb-the-finance-director-of-uk-plc-sends-out-the-annual-figures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/satire-from-john-redwood-mp-%c2%bb-the-finance-director-of-uk-plc-sends-out-the-annual-figures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to report our most successful year ever. We made more progress to achieving our twin goals of increasing our losses and building up our levels of debt than ever before. Indeed, I am especially proud to be able to announce that in just two years we will be able to borrow more ]]></description>
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		<title>The Credit Crunch Explained</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/the-credit-crunch-explained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An explanation of the financial crisis for everyone: Linda is the proprietor of a bar in Cork. In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers &#8211; most of whom are unemployed alcoholics &#8211; to drink now but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting ]]></description>
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		<title>Tory Bear T-shirt: Who is Dan Han?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/tory-bear-t-shirt-who-is-dan-han/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/04/tory-bear-t-shirt-who-is-dan-han/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evoking &#8220;Who is John Galt?&#8221; a phrase popularised by the cult novel &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221;, Tory Bear makes available a new T-shirt: &#8220;Who is Dan Han?&#8221;: Tory Bear &#8211; right-wing political gossip: Who is Dan Han?.   Get yours here]]></description>
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