2013 October 04

A ticking tax timebomb waiting to undermine the Tories

Posted on October 4 2013

This amusing in the Guardian: Hundreds of thousands of families losing child benefit payments this year need to “get off their backsides” and fill in extra forms
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Mythbusting: austerity does not lead to faster growth

Posted on October 4 2013

This is another page from the excellent Class mythbuster publication: Disclosure: I am on the Class advisory board

France takes on Amazon. It’s time we did too

Posted on October 4 2013

As the FT reports this morning: France’s parliament has passed a law preventing internet booksellers from offering free delivery to customers, in an attempt to
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This time the crisis is deliberate, planned and coolly calculated

Posted on October 4 2013

An FT email this morning has this headline: Melodramatic? I don’t think so. I’m beginning to get those September / October 2008 feelings all over
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Is the neo-feudalists party over? Not yet. Not by a long way.

Posted on October 4 2013

Neo-feudalism is a term is a term that literally means new feudalism. It was introduced onto this blog, I think, by regular commentator Ivan Horrocks.
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