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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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Economic Roundup, Friday 3rd April 2009

03Apr09 – 13:08

Clearly the most important issue of the economic world this week is the decision by your correspondent's employer to up the prices in the canteen, here are a few less important issues:

First up, we learn that not every traditional Building Society has been able to weather the credit crunch as we saw from the collapse [...]

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Economic Roundup Friday 27th February

27Feb09 – 14:22

This week your correspondent has come across the wonderful term pessimism porn, it's available free and it's all over the internet.

Let's start out with a little banker bashing, first focus of our ire is former RBS chief Sir Fred Goodwin. Fred the shred, ruthless costcutter failed to live up to his reputation when it came [...]

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