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• in Politics
  What Mitt Romney Really Said
  When Mitt Romney described the 47 percent, he was saying what he thinks about Democrats. He’s not alone...
  by jimmyzuma / on Sep 20, 2012
• in Politics
  Americans Need Jobs
  Unemployment is stuck at 9.5% and Americans are hurting. The federal government needs to stop playing politics long enough to address the issues.
  by thinkster / on Aug 25, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “economic policy”

 

• "Fiscal Implications Of The ECB’s Bond-buying Programme" by Paul de Grauwe and Yuemei Ji

  
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  Paul De Grauwe There is a lot of confusion about the fiscal implications of the government bond-buying programme – the OMT, or Outright Monetary Transactions – that the ECB announced last year. This confusion arises mainly because the principles that guide the solvency of private companies (including banks) ...
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• EU, US leaders launch trade talks, France digs in on culture

  
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  The United States and the European Union launched talks on Monday to create one of the world’s most ambitious free-trade zones, as France again underscored its determination to protect its movies and culture. A trans-Atlantic free trade agreement was first considered three decades ago but was knocked down by France ...
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• G8 summit: Cameron has misjudged by putting Syria on the agenda | Simon Jenkins

  
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  Discussing Syria is likely to result in discord between Russia and the west which could sour the atmosphere of the summit For once a G8 summit has a good idea on the table. David Camerons call for todays Ulster meeting to agree action against tax havens is original, sensible and needs international concord to push ...
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• G8 summit: Politics live blog

  
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  Andrew Sparrow s rolling coverage of the G8 summit in Lough Erne, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, including discussions on Syria and reaction to the revelation about the British spying on other governments at the G20 Andrew Sparrow        
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• Worst graph ever?

  
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  I just downloaded the Queensland government’s paper announcing, but not spelling out, a 30-year electricity strategy to be developed in the course of this year. I started with healthy scepticism about this, but scepticism turned to bemusement when, on page 5, I ran into one of the worst graphs I have ever seen. ...
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• All eyes on Mark Carneys first move as Bank of Englands new governor

  
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  Mervyn Kings successor will be watched keenly for his decisions on interest rates, quantitative easing and key appointments George Osborne will doubtless lay the compliments on thick when he says a public goodbye to Sir Mervyn King in his annual Mansion House speech this week. Unrivalled record of public service; ...
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• Why privatise student loans? | Andrew McGettigan

  
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  Selling off student loans just doesnt make sense – its short-termist and contemptuous of citizens The Guardian recently saw a copy of a report produced by Rothschild to conclude a feasibility study for the government. For much of 2010 and 2011, they were tasked with finding a way to "monetise" the growing book of ...
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• If Cameron is to defuse Leighs criticisms, he must get on the front foot over renegotiation

  
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  By Paul Goodman Follow Paul on Twitter . Cynics will say that now Edward Leigh has his knighthood in his pocket (so to speak), he will feel free to be as openly critical of the Government as he likes.  But I think this would be to mis-read the significance of his sweeping dismissal on this site today of the ...
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• Give us back our public spaces so we can have access all areas | Will Hutton

  
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  Places such as Londons Canary Wharf would be more vibrant if we werent so restricted in what we can do there Canary Wharf is a daring development: more bankers now work in its offices than in the City of London. It has, with the Olympic Park, pulled Londons centre of gravity decisively eastwards. It is a tribute to ...
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• Give us back our public spaces so we can have access all areas | Will Hutton

  
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  Places such as Londons Canary Wharf would be more vibrant if we werent so restricted in what we can do there Canary Wharf is a daring development: more bankers now work in its offices than in the City of London. It has, with the Olympic Park, pulled Londons centre of gravity decisively eastwards. It is a tribute to ...
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• This austerity U-turn by Ed Balls is a mistake

  
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  The shadow chancellors pledge to match coalition cuts smacks of a failure of nerve. Perhaps Ed Balls should re-read his celebrated Bloomberg speech of 2010 Has the Labour party thrown in the towel? Are rightwing commentators correct in claiming that recent speeches by Ed Miliband and Ed Balls amount to surrender? ...
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• Do low taxes on the rich leave the middle-class with lower wages?

  
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  Raising taxes on the rich often gets proposed as a way of combating the rise of financial inequality. But how important is tax policy, really? Andrew Fieldhouse, a federal budget policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute and the Century Foundation, has a new paper out of EPI that does a great job of ...
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• Deputy governor Paul Tucker quits Bank of England

  
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  Tucker, who lost out on the governor job to Mark Carney, will leave the central bank in the autumn Paul Tucker, the deputy governor of the Bank of England who lost out on the top job to the Canadian Mark Carney, has announced that he will leave Threadneedle Street in the autumn. In a statement released on Friday ...
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• Deputy governor Paul Tucker quits Bank of England

  
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  Tucker, who lost out on the governor job to Mark Carney, will leave the central bank in the autumn Paul Tucker, the deputy governor of the Bank of England who lost out on the top job to the Canadian Mark Carney, has announced that he will leave Threadneedle Street in the autumn. In a statement released on Friday ...
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• Deputy governor Paul Tucker quits Bank of England

  
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  Tucker, who lost out on the governor job to Mark Carney, will leave the central bank in the autumn Paul Tucker, the deputy governor of the Bank of England who lost out on the top job to the Canadian Mark Carney, has announced that he will leave Threadneedle Street in the autumn. In a statement released on Friday ...
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• IMF sets first help for Zimbabwe in over a decade

  
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  The International Monetary Fund announced Thursday it would work with Zimbabwe for the first time in more than a decade, as the troubled country headed toward court-ordered elections next month.
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• "How A Greek Drama Became A Global Tragedy" by Simon Wren-Lewis

  
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  Simon Wren-Lewis Maybe that title is too strong, but there is an arguable case that what happened to Greece in 2010 was crucial in the move to austerity not just in the Eurozone, but in the UK and US too. As most reasonable people now recognise that the global move to austerity was a terrible mistake, ...
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• Time for Invercargill to buy the smelter?

  
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  Rio Tinto has written down the value of Tiwai Point to next to nothing : The Australian majority owners of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, Rio Tinto, have written more than half a billion dollars off the value of the ageing plant, leaving it with a value on its books of just $14.8 million, from $606.9 million ...
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• Extra million people in absolute poverty since coalition came to power

  
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  Department for Work and Pensions data shows median income is at lowest level for a decade due to pay freezes and austerity Britain has suffered a "lost decade" in living standards after a second year of sharp falls in inflation-adjusted pay pushed incomes back to levels last seen in the early 2000s, according to ...
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• Extra million people in absolute poverty since coalition came to power

  
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  Department for Work and Pensions data shows median income is at lowest level for a decade due to pay freezes and austerity Britain has suffered a "lost decade" in living standards after a second year of sharp falls in inflation-adjusted pay pushed incomes back to levels last seen in the early 2000s, according to ...
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