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Economic Roundup, Friday 24th April 2009

24Apr09 – 13:32

Your correspondent is rather glad that this weeks budget and it's accompanying stories have displaced lobby hack confessionals detailing such things as "the dark poisonous heart that beats and the centre of NO. 10" and "..the cold, dead eyes of Damian McBride..". Admittedly, one wonders if headlines such as THEY'VE RUINED BRITAIN!! are really that [...]

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Thoughts on the Budget

23Apr09 – 23:00

Looking beyond my instant reaction to the Tories instant reaction to the budget, my reaction to the budget..is..well..errmm, well it's all a bit timid isn't it. There's a few nice things, a few not so nice things, a populist left wing totem (which I admit I rather like) and that's about it.
A few observations:

I think [...]

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High Tax and Entepreneurship

22Apr09 – 16:29

Lots of Tories are talking about the new 50% tax rate and how it's going to be a restriction on entepreneurship. I happen to believe that this viewpoint is a pile of steaming horse dung, some might say that this is because I'm an socialist dinosaur who doesn't understand "aspiration" and "wealth creation".
So, instead, I'll [...]

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On Graphs and Budget Speeches

22Apr09 – 09:56

Duncan has some sound advice for news channels reporting on the budget.

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Tory Green Policy, It’s Awful

16Apr09 – 22:43

The Conservatives are making some very bold statements about their new Green plans, a more detailed PDF can be found here, the guts of the plans come in the form of ten policies which they call on the government to adopt. They believe that these policies will bring a total of £30 billion in private sector [...]

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File Under “Monumentally Stupid”

03Feb09 – 17:32

The Tories don’t have many good policies for dealing with the recession and what few policies they have seem to vary from the reasonably sensible to the very stupid. Heading up the sensible camp are loan guarantees, entirely sensible although not particularly original (hence the government coming up with something similar). Far more fun is the stupid end of the scale my favourite being the creation of an Office for Budget Responsibility.

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