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no romance without finance: sad donkeys everywhere!

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 12/06/2011 - 21:46

With all due respect, Duncan, isn't there a bit of a taste of Sad Donkeyism here? Think about it: if the confidence fairy is so sensitive that the £6bn in-year cuts and a lot of rhetoric was enough to chase her off, perhaps it wouldn't be so hard to reverse the effect. Either way it would surely be worth having a go.

We Can't Risk The Confidence Of The Markets

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 10/04/2011 - 14:06

We mentioned that home buyers' risk appetite appears to shift in May, 2010. Via Mike Konczal, it appears that some sort of shock to business confidence occurred about the same time.

Revised

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 27/02/2011 - 18:24

So, those Q4 GDP numbers were all because of the snow and they were anyway going to get revised up. Oops. The first revision has them down even further.

Goons

Submitted by Alex on Wed, 19/01/2011 - 19:22

Multicultural and really keen on house points watch: sorry we didn't pick this up earlier, but there's only so much time I can spend reading the Daily Telegraph's blogs. Katharine Birbalsingh's piece defending EMA cuts is quite astonishingly offensive, fact-free, and just generally unpleasant.

Importing Bullshit: Clay Yeager edition

Submitted by Alex on Tue, 28/12/2010 - 11:55

We've noted before that the coalition is terribly prone to people with an eye-catching initiative, especially if it can be represented as American, and that this leads them to deal with some seriously odd people, like the creepy Straussian neo-con Larry Mead, who thinks that the real problem with fascism is that it forced us to "solve every problem with freedom".

MRA4: Season's Greetings from Liam Fox!

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 13:35

At this special time of year, let's spare a thought for those less fortunate than ourselves.

Specifically, let's all give thanks that we aren't spending Advent systematically destroying nine perfectly good aeroplanes we spent several years of our lives building, in the certain knowledge that we'll be looking for a job in the New Year.

Thanks, Coalition!

A Question Regarding the Governor of the Bank of England

Submitted by Alex on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 13:29

Is Mervyn King the UK's most disastrous public servant?

More on the Economic Dodgy Dossier...

Submitted by Alex on Fri, 22/10/2010 - 16:56

So, we all remember when George Osborne had the OBR secretly leave out 550,000 public sector workers from its calculations, change its forecast methodology, and all in all reduce its estimates of job losses by 175,000.

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