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Clive Crook is the FT’s chief Washington commentator.
For ten years, before moving to the United States in 2005, he was deputy editor of The Economist, and before that the magazine’s economics editor, Washington correspondent and economics correspondent.
Previously he was an official in HM Treasury. He was born in Yorkshire, raised in Lancashire, and educated at Bolton School, Magdalen College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics.
In addition to writing for the FT he is a senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly and a columnist with National Journal.
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Only a move to the middle can salvage Obama’s presidency
One day Obama is the pragmatic outsider, the next he is the ardent liberal complaining about corporate jets, writes Clive Crook
A bold bid to reset the presidency
Obama cannot lead effectively unless he is honest with the country about what it will take to get borrowing under control, says Clive Crook
Time to be bold, Mr President
Obama must disappoint his party’s progressives – not by being timid, as he probably will be, but by being bolder than they would like, writes Clive Crook
A lost chance to jolt ailing America
Ben Bernanke’s Jackson Hole speech was a decent warm-up act for President Obama’s speech next month but a missed chance to jolt America, says Clive Crook
The unelectable appeal of Rick Perry
The Republican party has moved too far right to have a candidate that can thrill its base and appeal to the electoral centre as well, writes Clive Crook
Fed must fix on a fresh target
Move to a nominal gross domestic product regime and let the markets know, in Fed-speak, that this is what you are about, writes Clive Crook
America can fix its inner workings
Less big vision and more humdrum pragmatism, preferably all round, would make Washington more effective, writes Clive Crook
Demented faith or godless mammon
Two narratives of America’s identity help explain why the country is so perplexing to outsiders and to Americans as well, writes Clive Crook
To the intransigent go the spoils
President Obama has stood aside and let things happen. Whatever comes next in the debt deal, his presidency is in trouble, writes Clive Crook
Washington is drowning America
The debt-ceiling impasse is representative of the dysfunction in Washington where many areas of policymaking have all but shut down, writes Clive Crook
