2011 June 06

Bruce Cockburn – “Call it Democracy” – maybe the only song ever about the IMF

Posted on June 6 2011

Hat tip: James

A little note about the IMF – to be read very soon after you hear George Osborne on the same subject

Posted on June 6 2011

The following comes from the SturdyBlog by Alex Andreou. Alex is not a professional economist any more. He’s now an actor, so no doubt the Tories
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Off the deep end

Posted on June 6 2011

So true: This gets at the heart of the current pundit problem. If you say that one of our two major parties has gone completely
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Number 10 rattled, so now they’re calling in the IMF

Posted on June 6 2011

From the First Post Daily: Tory bloggers, tweeters and old-fashioned news print columns today swallowed the line put out by Downing Street yesterday that the
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Private firms won’t offer the NHS value for money

Posted on June 6 2011

An article in the Daily Telegraph today by Max Pemberton sheds more light on NHS privatisation (with hat tip to Sunny Hundal for drawing this
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The NHS – a stunningly cost effective supplier of high quality healthcare

Posted on June 6 2011

Paul Krugman drew my attention to a US report on comparing the quality and cost effectiveness of healthcare systems in seven major countries. The report he referred
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Adam Smith wasn’t an economist

Posted on June 6 2011

The Adam Smith Institute’s reaction to yesterday’s letter calling for a Plan B for the economy is amusing. Using a strategy used by many on
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Changing course is very unwise, as they might have said on the Titanic

Posted on June 6 2011

The attention given to the letter to the Observer yesterday drawing attention to the need for a Plan B for the economy given the obvious
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