2012 May 28

The Brechtian view

Posted on May 28 2012

I’ve just noticed, in the light of what I have just written on Greece that my Green New Deal friend and colleague Colin Hies appears to
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Note to the IMF: it is a universal truth that parents unable to feed their children will steal

Posted on May 28 2012

It is a universal truth that parents unable to feed their children will steal. Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, appears not to know this.
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Cameron does have a higher purpose – and that’s what we should be worried about

Posted on May 28 2012

Gavin Kelly, the chief executive of the Resolution Foundation and a former senior adviser to prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, writing in the FT
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Now if Spain can do this to finance a failed bank why can’t we do it to finance a National Investment Bank?

Posted on May 28 2012

This comes from this morning’s FT Alphaville email: Spain is considering directly injecting its own government debt into BFA-Bankia to help fund the stricken lender’s â‚¬19bn nationalisation,
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