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The nudge unit was so successful at finding clever policy insights that it was part-privatised and has been advising other governments.
It is clever policy: figuring out how to unlock superannuation funds for infrastructure projects that can generate a return, and using proven model to do it.
Mr Osborne's most clever policy since becoming Chancellor was to bring in a £500-a-week cap on the amount a family can claim in benefits, in line with the £26,000 annual average wage.
Behind this argument, however, is a very clever policy two-step that's less about who pays taxes now and more about who is going to pay to reduce the deficit in the coming years.
There are those who say Ferguson's immediate successor at Old Trafford was always going to be on a hiding to nothing, and that the clever policy would have been to wait until one or two others had tried and failed.
EZRA KLEIN ably deconstructs the "very clever policy two-step" involved in the meme that the 47% of Americans who currently pay no income taxes are "takers" (as Paul Ryan puts it) who refuse to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives" (as Mitt Romney puts it in the video above).
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A few weeks ago, when the loyalty pledge was first mooted, it looked like a clever insurance policy for the Republicans.
Perhaps a charismatic Labour leader with clever policies can rebuild an alliance across uncertain geographies of disillusioned former industrial workers, the aspirant working and middle class, and a discontented Scotland.
The £500-a-week cap is the cleverest policy the Coalition has cooked up so far.
"You want a dexterous, mobile, clever foreign policy.
He's had a clever selection policy and a great attitude.
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