But the Obama administration has been eager to show it wants to clean up Wall Street.

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Switzerland, where critics on left and right are collecting signatures for a referendum on the issue on November 25th, benefits because it genuinely wants to clean up its reputation.

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He wants to clean up Parliament, make it more independent of the executive and promote the virtues of the House of Commons to a cynical public.

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If it wants to stay there, it should start playing nice with natural gas, especially the clean kind.

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President Barack Obama often points to the advances being made in China in touting his own clean-energy ambitions, arguing that the U.S. must move swiftly if it wants to keep abreast of its primary Asian competitor.

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If the United States wants to avoid being permanently relegated to the backwaters of the global race for clean energy investment, it needs a new clean energy competitiveness strategy that, like those of its competitors, prioritizes large and sustained public investment in clean energy technology.

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