Reuters – World Bank urges keeping fiscal stimulus till 2012. Countries should not rush to end fiscal incentives to help their economies cope with the
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Darling to go on spending despite credit-rating risk | Business | The First Post. Yesterday, the credit agency Moody’s warned that the top debt ratings
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I will be twittering during the PBR as other blogs are picking up my tweets during the broadcast As soon as the speech is over
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Letters: Less is more in Copenhagen | Environment | The Guardian . Alistair Darling’s package of public spending cuts could prove to be recklessly tight
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Labour opens new front in battle with the City | Politics | The Guardian . Two policies I’ve helped promote look like getting prominence in
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FT.com / UK – TUC seeks tax relief cuts for the wealthy. The chancellor could raise £10bn a year by capping the amount of tax
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A Tory think tank called Reform has laid bare the reality of Tory thinking on public service cuts. As the BBC reports: At least one
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I wrote the following blog in June. With right wing think tanks proposing to cut 1 million government jobs it seems timely to republish it.
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I note that my Guardian blog on how to tax banker’s bonuses has been well read. However, the reality is that, as I note there,
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