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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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Torynomics = Fail

06Mar09 – 00:58

The latest news is that the Bank of England has begun quantitative easing and right on time Iain Dale has chipped in with his viewpoint and the favourite Tory comparison to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe and of course 1920's Germany. He says:
No one has ever shown, to my knowledge, any instance where printing money has led [...]

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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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Causes of the Global Financial Crisis

26Feb09 – 20:44

Hopi Sen is reckons there's just not enough discussion on the causes of the current economic crisis being led by politicians. I'm happy to oblige with my own bit of muddle headed opinion.
It's basically all about the US, the UK and (to a lesser extent) Europe acting as the great demand in the sky. The [...]

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Stability and the Anglo Saxon Economy

16Feb09 – 15:29

Chris Dillow reckons that, based on the effects of the recession so far on various countries, Britain and the US, the Anglo Saxon countries, are doing better than the eurozone. He goes on to suggest that this indicates that the Anglo Saxon model (as in debt, lightly regulated financial services and such)is not as unstable [...]

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