UK economy

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• Tracking changes in unemployment

  
  Economics — Authority: 140
  The Guardian’s pre-budget report coverage has this nifty and informative interactive chart that tracks changes in UK unemployment over the last 30 years. 
  3 hours ago

• New figures show extent of wealth inequality in the UK

  
  Economics — Authority: 140
  The Office of National Statistics have released updated figures on the distribution of national wealth . The richest fifth have nearly two thirds of the wealth. More startling is that the poorer half of us speak for just 9p in every £1 of privately held wealth. Private household net wealth in Great Britain ...
  3 hours ago

• Google Wave: Pre Budget Report 2009

  
  Economics — Authority: 140
  Our wave tonight was on some aspects of the UK government’s last pre-budget report before the 2010 election. A pdf file of the wave can be downloaded at the bottom of the blog. If you are now on Google wave and want to contribute please email and we can add you to the existing economics waves. The PBR focuses ...
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• Pre-Budget report: Government efforts to attack deficit reassure gilt markets

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Britains precious top-notch credit rating has been reaffirmed as markets warmed to Government efforts to address ballooning public debt.
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• Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme has helped……15 people

  
  Westminster Blog — Authority: 558
  I’m not officially working today (am at home, in recovery from gastric flu). But I’ve just been passed something so fascinating I couldn’t help passing it on.You may not remember but something called the “Homeowner Mortgage Support Scheme” was one of the flagship ideas in Gordon Brown’s Queen’s Speech in ...
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• Pre-Budget report: Line-by-line summary

  
  Westminster Blog — Authority: 558
  This post will refresh automatically every two minutes (latest statement at the top)UK gross domestic product forecast now expected to fall by 4.75 per cent in 2009, a bigger reduction than the 2.25 per cent to 3.75 per cent originally forecast from April’s BudgetChild benefit and some disability allowances to rise ...
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• SPEND, SPEND, SPEND...

  
  A Tangled Web — Authority: 540
  Today, this most economically incompetent of Governments has determined that the way to resolve the UKs massive budget deficit is... to spend more of the cash we dont have. Chancellor Alistair Darling will announce that Labour will carry on trying to spend its way out of recession, postponing swingeing Whitehall ...
  2 days ago

• Pre-Budget speeches since Labour came to power

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  
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• Why it matters if the British economy drops out of top 10

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Finance Blog — Authority: 683
  By 2015, the UK economy may no longer be one of the 10 largest in the world, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research. In 2005, the UK was fourth. Since then, China, France and Italy have leapt ahead, though the CEBR rightly takes the Italian figures with a pinch of salt. As [...]
  3 days ago

• Pre-Budget Report: state of the UK economy

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Alistair Darling must address the Britains huge debts in his Pre-Budget Report. We look at the state of the UK economy through graphs of a number of key indicators.
  3 days ago

• Britain risks falling out of worlds top 10 economies

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Britain could lose its place as one of the worlds top-ten economies in the next five years, a new report warns.
  3 days ago

• The Future of Cadbury’s Chocolate

  
  Boris Johnson — Authority: 483
  Ever since the Aztecs first worshipped the cocoa bean, mankind has experimented with various ratios of solids, fats, sugar and milk, and Cadbury has got it right.The chocolate bar-barians at the gate are Americans.If the Americans can afford to buy Cadbury, then let them.  Sentimentality over an undoubtedly great bar ...
  4 days ago

• UK economy to drop out of world’s top 10

  
  Topblank — Authority: 165
  UK economy to drop out of world’s top 10
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• MILKING THE CASH COWS...

  
  A Tangled Web — Authority: 540
  Those who work hard and are successful in the United Kingdom are the cash cows that face a really tough 2010/2011.  Next year, Britains middle classes and the rich will face the biggest squeeze on their living standards in decades, shows research produced by accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers for The ...
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• Aggregate Demand - Teacher Revision Presentation

  
  Economics — Authority: 140
  Many thanks to Geoff for updating his popular revision presentation for AS students on Aggregate Demand Launch interactive version Download slides handout
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• DARLINGS PONDERS THEFT

  
  A Tangled Web — Authority: 540
  Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, wants to levy a so called "windfall " tax on bank bonuses this Wednesday, with the money raised earmarked for schemes to get young people back into jobs. However, last-minute wrangling may still result in the measures being blocked or watered down. Ministers are worried ...
  5 days ago

• BERNIE AND GORDON...

  
  A Tangled Web — Authority: 540
  Oh dear - what WILL Gordon say? Browns decision to strip the Bank of England of its supervisory role caused major problems for the British economy, the head of the American Federal Reserve said yesterday.  Ben Bernanke  -  regarded by many as the worlds most powerful banker  -  claimed the UK was ...
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• Google Wave on Foreign Direct Investment

  
  Economics — Authority: 140
  Our wave this week looked at some of the policies designed to encourage FDI flows and the benefits and costs of FDI for the UK economy What counts as FDI? * Net foreign ownership of domestic assets According to the International Monetary Fund, “direct investment reflects the aim of obtaining a lasting ...
  1 week ago

• RBS board to quit if chancellor vetoes £1.5bn in bonuses

  
  Earthman, Come Home — Authority: 432
  RBS board to quit if chancellor vetoes £1.5bn in bonuses : Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
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• UK Economy in 2010 - Essential Revision Presentation

  
  Economics — Authority: 140
  Many thanks to Geoff for producing this superb 49-slide analysis and evaluation of the prospects for the UK Economy in 2010… Launch interactive version of the “UK Economy 2010: Green Shoots or Red Letter Debt” Download pdf handout of presentation slides
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