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• Cameron should know that money in pockets, not austerity, brings growth | Simon Jenkins

  
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  David Camerons idea for lifting Britain harks back to 1930s Bank of England dogma. What we need is a cash injection David Cameron is right. The government must tackle the deficit while securing growth. The G8 in Washington agrees with him, so do Europes finance ministers, so does the IMFs Christine Lagarde, so ...
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• It’s worse than that: He’s dead Jim

  
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    So, even our double dip recession is now offically worse that first thought. Initial figures suggested that the UK economy had shrunk by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012, but now it looks closer to 0.3% as office of national statistics reveal that the contruction industry performed worse than initially ...
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• Why the Chancellor should want more inflation

  
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  Here’s something that sounds like good news: inflation is falling. The latest figures put the CPI rate at 3 per cent – 0.5 per cent lower than last month – while the RPI figure meanwhile has fallen by 0.1 per cent. The fall in the CPI figure is particularly stark – CPI inflation is now [...]
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• UK inflation drops from 3.5% to 3%

  
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  Sir Mervyn King will not have to write letter of explanation as CPI inflation comes within a percentage point of target A sharper than expected drop in inflation spared Sir Mervyn King the embarrassment of writing a 10th successive quarterly letter to the chancellor about Britains high cost of living. Figures from ...
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• UK inflation since 1948

  
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  Inflation in the UK stands at 3%. Get the full data over time - and see how it compares with pay • Get the data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian UK inflation stood at 3% in April 2012 , the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed today - down from 3.5% in March. More ...
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• Probe into Bank of England actions

  
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  Filed under: News Sir Mervyn King is to come under increased scrutiny after an independent review was announced into the Bank of Englands actions at the height of the financial crisis. The move, announced by the banks non-executive arm, comes after the governor admitted he and his colleagues were "late to ...
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• Things That Make You Go Hmmm – Such As The "Grexit"

  
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  From Grant Williams, author of Things That Make You Go Hmmm Despite the attempts of politicians to keep a lid on speculation about a ‘Grexit’ in the forlorn hope that if they don’t talk about it, nobody will worry, there have been a staggering amount of column inches devoted this week to various roadmaps for ...
  1 week ago

• Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Such As The "Grexit"

  
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  From Grant Williams, author of Things That Make You Go Hmmm Despite the attempts of politicians to keep a lid on speculation about a ‘Grexit’ in the forlorn hope that if they don’t talk about it, nobody will worry, there have been a staggering amount of column inches devoted this week to various ...
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• Bank of England governor says if Greece has to exit euro it could be like the 1930s all over again:

  
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  The Bank of England has cut its growth forecast for this year to 0.8% from 1.2%, saying the eurozone “storm” is still the main threat to UK recovery. The eurozone was “tearing itself apart” and the UK would not be “unscathed”, said its governor Sir Mervyn King. He also confirmed that the Bank has been ...
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• Bank cuts growth forecast for UK

  
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  16 May 2012 Last updated at 05:49 ET The Bank of England has cut its growth forecast for this year to 0.8% from 1.2%, saying the eurozone crisis is still the main threat to UK recovery. The rate of inflation will not fall as quickly as previously thought, and will remain above the governments 2% target "for the next ...
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• Bank cuts growth forecast for UK

  
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  16 May 2012 Last updated at 05:49 ET The Bank of England has cut its growth forecast for this year to 0.8% from 1.2%, saying the eurozone crisis is still the main threat to UK recovery. The rate of inflation will not fall as quickly as previously thought, and will remain above the governments 2% target "for the next ...
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• News That Matters

  
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  Ft.com JPMorgan Chase is investigating whether London-based traders hid the extent of losses on credit derivatives positions, according to people familiar with an internal probe following last week’s revelation of $2bn losses . The investigation comes as Jamie Dimon, chief executive, took to US television ...
  2 weeks ago

• EUROPICIDE! Theyve Pointed The Liquidity Pistol At Their Collective Heads, Cocked It, Now Hear The Trigger Pull...

  
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  And now that BoomBustBlog foretold reality comes to bite UK ass, as reported by Reuters/CNBC:  Inflation-Wary Bank of England to Halt Money-Printing Press The Bank of England looks set to call a halt to its asset-buying program, despite the economy having slipped into recession and renewed risks rising from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• EUROPICIDE! Theyve Pointed The Liquidity Pistol At Their Collective Heads, Cocked It, Now Hear The Trigger Pull...

  
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  And now that BoomBustBlog foretold reality comes to bite UK ass, as reported by Reuters/CNBC:  Inflation-Wary Bank of England to Halt Money-Printing Press The Bank of England looks set to call a halt to its asset-buying program, despite the economy having slipped into recession and renewed risks rising from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• EUROPICIDE! They’ve Pointed The Liquidity Pistol At Their Collective Heads, Cocked It, Now Hear The Trigger Pull…

  
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  And now that BoomBustBlog foretold reality comes to bite UK ass, as reported by Reuters/CNBC: Inflation-Wary Bank of England to Halt Money-Printing Press The Bank of England looks set to call a halt to its asset-buying program, despite the economy having slipped into recession and renewed risks rising from the euro ...
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• A week in radio: The Today Programme Lecture

  
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  Mervyn Kings lecture on the economy might have made headlines, but as radio it was dreary stuff The Today Programme Lecture (Radio 4, Wednesday) is a curious beast. The last thing regular listeners might want from the flagship news programme is an off-shoot as starchy and formal as a lecture. And if they did want ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mervyn King: "Nobody told me house prices were going up!"

  
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  From the BBC : The governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, has rejected blame for the financial crisis. His comments came in an interview on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, following his delivery of the annual Today Programme Lecture on Wednesday. "My main point is that it was my officials who were to blame ...
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• News That Matters

  
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  By www.thetrader.se   Ft.com Eurozone unemployment has surged to a record level, highlighting the region’s weakening economy in the face of fiscal austerity measures and its increasing divergence from the US. Joblessness across the 17-country region hit 10.9 per cent of the workforce in March, the highest ...
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• News That Matters

  
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  By www.thetrader.se (Read more…)   Ft.com Eurozone unemployment has surged to a record level, highlighting the region’s weakening economy in the face of fiscal austerity measures and its increasing divergence from the US. Joblessness across the 17-country region hit 10.9 per cent of the workforce in March, the ...
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• Frontrunning: May 3

  
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  Chinese dissident seeks exile, strains U.S.-China ties ( Reuters ) Sarkozy and Hollande lock horns on TV ( FT ) UK in furious rejection of EU bank plan ( FT ) EU Fails to Reach Deal on Capital ( WSJ ) China energy use may be capped for 2015 ( China Daily ) Buffett Trails S&P 500 for Third Straight Year ( ...
  3 weeks ago

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