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Did you read with Tim Montgomery? Welcome to the latest edition of the Times Opinion

Podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery, editor of The Times's opinion pages.

And this week I'm joined by parliamentary sketch writer and Trennerman

and two of our economists Danny Finkelstein and David Aronovich.

The Coalition Government Finkelstein and David Aronovich.

The coalition government appears to be utterly hopeless at

counteracting Ed Miliband's idea that the energy market should become properly

regulated.

This week we had yet another lame attempt to lower bills, which as anyone who listened to Ed Davies' statement in the house on Monday knows, won't be lower at all only less high.

And even that isn't for sure. How can the government get back on the front foot when it comes to

energy bills? Was Boris right to say that greed can be useful? Yes, I think he

was. Capitalism is accused of making people greedy, but this is a misunderstanding, people

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