Government Borrowing

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• Banking on a green industrial revolution

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Idea of a national investment bank to steer economy towards low carbon future gains ground George Osborne is floating the idea of a green investment bank to get new technologies out of the lab and into new wealth-creating businesses. Vince Cable wants a national investment bank for infrastructure, financed with a ...
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• Horsemen of the economic apocalypse | Frank Field

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  If we dont convince the market how serious we are about cuts soon, there simply wont be any recovery For some time now it has been possible to see the four horsemen of the apocalypse on the horizon. Most economic commentators ignore their existence and the potential damage that could be inflicted on our economy if ...
  3 days ago

• Brown and Cameron clash over budget deficit

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  PM warns Britain should be careful not to withdraw support for the economy too soon as Tory leader presses for immediate action over ballooning budget deficit Steve Bell
  6 days ago

• Dont despair – Gordon Brown may be on a winner

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Labour has good progressive policies but they need to be delivered with conviction Its 10pm on 6 May 2010 and the polls have just closed on election night. The news begins with a sensational item. Nick Robinson says that a BBC exit poll shows that a last-minute surge by Labour has left the result in the balance. If ...
  1 week ago

• Does the Declining Dollar Affect You?

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 605
  Current State of Affairs for the Dollar It was designed to break your heart. And its falling value has an impact on all our lives. (Photo: flickr.com) Under both the Bush and Obama administrations, U.S. government spending – financed by government borrowing – has skyrocketed, resulting in a prolonged ...
  1 week ago

• Public finances: Broke but not bust yet

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  With the biggest deficit ever for the month, the Red October headlines are easy to write. Interpreting yesterdays public finance figures is, however, more difficult. What really matters is the medium term, and – as the last two years of turbulence have shown – all we can safely say about this is that it is a ...
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• Public finances analysis | Larry Elliott

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Companies are still having trouble getting finance, and that represents a big handicap to a strong and sustained recovery Dire public finances. A fresh contraction in lending to hard-pressed businesses. And a warning to Alistair Darling from the wests leading think tank that he should avoid pre-election giveaways in ...
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• UK budget deficit much worse than expected for month

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  National debt soars to 59.2% of GDP, the highest since records began in the 1970s Britains budget deficit blew out to the worst ever October reading for an October last month, suffering a much bigger than expected shortfall of £11.4bn, official data showed today. The Office for National Statistics also said that ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. Needs to Borrow Less than Expected: Geithner

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 434
  From MarketWatch.com: The U.S. governments borrowing needs will likely be much less than originally expected, as bank have been repaying funds received during the crisis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told news channel CNBC. "We are likely to have to borrow substantially less than we ...
  2 weeks ago

• Major League Reckoning

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 592
  Now there’s a real decoupling. Friday’s unemployment figures came out in America. They showed that 8.2 million Americans have lost their job since the GFC began in 2007. The official unemployment rate (the one that under-measures actual unemployment) is at 10.2% and growing. Stocks rallied on this news. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pound tumbles after Fitch issues triple-A rating warning

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Ratings agencys reminder of longer-term issues facing the UK destabilises foreign exchange markets The pound fell sharply today after ratings agency Fitch warned that Britain was "potentially most at risk" of losing its triple-A sovereign debt rating. Britains ballooning budget deficit has caused similar warnings ...
  2 weeks ago

• Myners tells investors to rein in banks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • City minister says pay curbs on Lloyds and RBS are a model • Calls on shareholders to force banks to recognise new reality Lord Myners, the City minister, urged shareholders this morning to follow the governments example and clamp down on executive pay across the banking industry, arguing that restrictions on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Darling under pressure as he spends £38bn more on banks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Treasury to spend £6bn to buy more shares in Lloyds • £25bn from the taxpayer will take state holding in RBS to 84% Alistair Darling could spark a row with opposition MPs tomorrow as he tries to disguise the extent of the governments latest bailout of the banking system amid widespread public anger at the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bankers and protesters speak out in Chicago

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  At the American Bankers Association conference, demonstrators and community bankers express views on the industry Andrew Clark Glenn Osten Anderson
  4 weeks ago

• Macro for Dummies

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 592
  “He who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.” The quote comes from Ben Franklin. But it was recalled to us neither by America’s president, nor Britain’s Prime Minister. Instead, the Telegraph in London reported it from the mouth of Cheng Siwei, a “top member of the Communist hierarchy.” What goes around ...
  5 weeks ago

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