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Small Is Beautiful

14Apr09 – 13:08

Let us move on from the irrelevance that is "smeargate" and write something serious about the economy, for no matter how irritating I might find the duplicitous machinations of the Tory spin machine and it's pretense that the Tories are polishing their halo's, politics should be about issues. So, today I'm going to talk about [...]

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Economic Roundup, Friday 10th April 2009

10Apr09 – 13:13

Firstly, infuriating your correspondent is the behavior of the Barclays top brass, having taken a gigantic pay cut, Bob Diamond appears to supplementing his income with an extra £4.7 million as a result of a dividend issued by Barclays Global Investors on the back of the sale of iShares to CVC. Since CVC is getting [...]

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